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[shenunigans]

[Dictated:]
Anyone wonder how far things have gone back home while we're all here? It's kind of that all consuming feeling of desperation when you're on vacation and they're airing the crucial episodes of whatever the fuck it is that you can't miss. Ever think like maybe [Your girlfriend isn't your girlfriend. But was she ever your girlfriend? Who knows.] All the cool shit happens when you aren't there to see it?

Yeah. It's kind of like that. There are not enough elephants in this damn castle to make that less of a thing.

[Action:]
[As emphasised by his wordy question, Dave is pretty damn bored. He thought this would be better than being on the meteor somehow, but it's turning out to be pretty crap. He's been helping around from time to time, but shenanigans are in order to keep the stir crazies at bay. If you happen to be in the less populated areas of the castle for one reason or another, you may witness a Dave who thinks he's all alone, talking at a camera he's set up.]

Sup, I'm Dave Strider and you're watching jackass. [He'll salute the camera at that point and turn to perform one of a wide variety of tricks on his skateboard. Sometimes he does good and sometimes he... doesn't.

Cool kids can't be cool 24/7. Such is life.]

Comments

Dictated

[cyan_maid]

[It's fun to journal on expeditions! Not like there's much to do while travelling.]

Time doesn't move at all while we're here. When we go back, things pick up right where they left off.

Dictated

[shenunigans]

What about alternate timelines? I find it pretty hard to believe all of them have stopped because a couple of people are here. What if the timeline we're in is the only one that paused, and how do you explain people coming and going from different points?

Time isn't a single line, Jane. Time is a clusterfuck.

Dictated

[cyan_maid]

Now that I wouldn't be sure about. I'm not a Time player by any stretch of the imagination! I just know what I've been told, and what I've experienced.

Dictated

[shenunigans]

The details don't really line up, is all. There's gottaa be something going on if people are coming in from different times.

Dictated

[cyan_maid]

Maybe the castle can reach out and take anybody from anytime it likes? Though if it could, that does sound very silly.

Dictated

[shenunigans]

Probably one of those things better left unquestioned. Like what's in hotdog meat or why superman wears underwear on the outside of his clothes.

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[shenunigans]

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[shenunigans]

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[eat_me_beat_me]

Yeah, Dave, time doesn't move while we're stuck here. We'll go back and it'll be the exact moment we left. And, uh, we don't remember it, either.

[shenunigans]

How can there be only one timeline when we all pop up from all over the past and future?


..I should probably mention that time travel and shit is a thing I'm good for back home, huh? Unless you knew that. From a past me. In a different timeline.

[eat_me_beat_me]

I don't know shit about time travel. At least beyond what the Doctor's told me about it. All I know is that we all come from different times and go right back to the moment we left so no one knows we even left. It's why we don't age, either.

[shenunigans]

I feel like I should probably stop thinking about it before they barge into my room and start beating the shit out of me.

[eat_me_beat_me]

Wait what? Until who kicks the shit out of you?

late who's late not me

[psych0p0mps]

[Sure he's been given the answer already, but she just wants to pop in and provide an expert opinion.]

As far as we can tell, when the castle gets tired of us we're sent back to the exact moment we left without remembering anything we learned here. But of course we have no way of knowing that for sure. And not everybody who leaves actually makes it back where they were.

[shenunigans]

So I guess that would mean there actually are alternate timelines since people pop up from the future and the past like it ain't no thing?

[psych0p0mps]

That's one possibility, yes. But it's also possible that we're all from the alpha timeline, and our experiences here are erased whenever we're reinserted into it. We don't age, we don't stay dead - basically, we remain physically unaltered for as long as we're here.

... Or it could even be a combination of the two, which would account for anybody who's left for the Dead Zone and/or died out there.

[shenunigans]

Right, right. I can dig that, that makes a hell of a lot more sense. Trust you to lay it down for me, timesis.


Only one question, though. The fuck is the deadzone?

[psych0p0mps]

You haven't heard of it? [Jegus Dave how long have you been here like 8 months???]

It's the area outside the castle where supernatural powers and complex machines stop working. The castle's resurrection policy doesn't apply, either. If you die out here, it's pretty much permanent. ... Again, as far as we know.

dictated;

[goingrogue]

Trust me, you're not missing a thing. I just returned from home and everything happened just as I was told it was. It's like you were never even here-- You don't even remember being here at all until you wake up and it's like BAM. Now you have to pick up here where you left off, only chances are you passed out for some time.

Or, you know, something like that.

dictated;

[shenunigans]

Guessing you went home for a while then, huh? I kinda wondered where you were at.. [He trails off in thought before picking up.] You miss much back home?

What I wanna know is why people pop up from the future if shit is on pause. Or, like. If there's alternate timelines or some shit. You get me?

dictated;

[goingrogue]

Yuuup, I took a nice tumble and ended up knocked out for over a month. I suggest you be wary of not only stairs, but pirate ships as well. Espesh the inflatable kind. I hope you didn't miss me too much or gotten into too much trouble. [ There's a lilting tease in her tone. ] Next time I'll be more prepared and find you a babysitter in advanced... How do you feel about Jane? I bet she'd be the best babyistter. Oh, or maybe Nepeta.

I don't really have the answer to that, but I'm not sure it's alternative timelines. Everything that happened to me had already happened to Jane, but now I guess I'm ahead of her. I don't really get it myself, but I'm no time expert either. I only barely even got the void thing down.

dictated;

[shenunigans]

Great, I'll add that to by big list of things to look out for. Maybe I should start spreading awareness for you, we could have a fundraiser in your honor and then we could all wear ribbons so we never forget the dangers of inflatable pirate ships. Ever.

Lady, trouble is my middle name. Just ask anyone. Except Harley. Or other Lalonde. Anyone else though, that'd be sweet. [He can't help letting out a soft snort.] I'm alive, ain't I? Should've seen me holding my own in earthquakeaggedon.

Like I said to Jane, it's probably one of those things that blows up in your face when you think too hard about it.