USER: #DC143C - QUESTION FOR EVERYONE

[lonered]

[ USER: #DC143C ]

Hey. So...

...

Question for anyone. Or for everyone I guess.

How sure are you that you're still alive? Back where you're from I mean.

Like on a scale from 1 to 10. Where 1 is "I definitely died" and 10 is "I'm definitely still alive" and everything in between.

Thanks in advance. I know it's a weird question. I just... I gotta know.



[He's asked some folks, but the results so far are mixed. And Keith needs to figure out one way or another if this is just some weird unexpected afterlife, and he's at a solid 2.5 on his own scale so he's wondering.]

Comments

[flamebringer]

The name is unfamiliar. Admittedly, the concept of multiple worlds is unfamiliar as well. I'm still wrapping my head around it.

[lonered]

It's a lot to get used to. I guess I'm lucky to have some experience with alternate realities. It makes this a little less jarring.

[flamebringer]

I don't suppose you would have any extended knowledge on the topic that you would be willing to share, then.

How does one even cross between these alternate realities, for starters?

[lonered]

in my case, there was a tear between the universes caused by some sort of trans-reality comet. Something about the material that it was made out of.

On the other side, there were other versions of people we knew, but the entire universe was different. History had happened differently. Everything was all twisted up.

[flamebringer]

[most of that goes right over her head, but she rereads it a few times in an attempt to catch it.]

Then it's possible you and I could be "other versions". Versions of our selves that had narrowly escaped death at the last moment. In our own worlds, or in some other version of it, we could truly be dead.

[lonered]

Maybe. The whole alternate reality thing is a real mess sometimes. I can't pretend to understand it.

Either way, I still plan on trying to find a way out of here, to find out for sure one way or another.