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.]

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[glaciers]

What happened that was stranger than this?
A totally colorless town surrounded by a gray ocean and a forest and devoid of native people.

[lonered]

Finding a giant partially sentient blue lion robot warship underground in a cave, flying away in it through an intergalactic wormhole to land right in the middle of an alien war that'd been raging for 10,000 years, finding 4 more lions of various colors so we could join them together to form a giant fighting robot warrior.

Then there was the time we had to get swallowed by a giant alien creature so we could harvest some of a mineral that it made in its digestive track.

The time that we went to another reality and a guy who looked exactly like my closest friend was Swedish for some reason.

[glaciers]

[There's a long pause as he just squints at all of that.]

Alright. That's fair.

So
What's space like?

[lonered]

Big. Like... really inconceivably big. But it's beautiful too. The different planets and systems.

And mostly it's full of good people who deserve to live in peace and freedom.

[glaciers]

I guess there aren't any limits on space.

I'm glad to hear it's mostly good people.

[lonered]

It is. And that's why the war is important. People deserve to be able to just live their lives.

[glaciers]

Is the war why you think you might be dead?

[lonered]

In a general sense, yeah. I was mid-battle.

[glaciers]

Hopefully whatever happened, you're still alive.

[lonered]

Thanks. But I mostly want to get back to make sure whatever brought me here didn't somehow interfere with what was going on.

[glaciers]

I'll let you know if I figure out how to leave.

[lonered]

Thanks. And likewise.

The name's Keith. By the way.

[glaciers]

I doubt it'll be easy, but that's no excuse not to try.

I'm Shouto. I don't know how easy it'll be to remember the code associated with me though.

[lonered]

No excuse at all.

Honestly I can't even remember my own.

[glaciers]

At least we don't have to remember ours.

[lonered]

I guess so. I feel like we should probably know them though. Like to tell people how to contact us. Or something.

[glaciers]

Copy pasting seems to work pretty well.

[lonered]

I was thinking more in person, you know? "Hey if you need me, I'm some long complicated string of numbers on the network."

[glaciers]

That does make it harder. Do you have anything to write with?

[lonered]

Nope. Haven't needed a pen since I wound up in space, honestly.

[glaciers]

I guess you'll just have to type it until you memorize it.

There should be a better way than that.

[lonered]

Yeah I'm sure I"ll remember it soon. Seems important.

Probably. This whole thing should be a lot easier, but I don;'t think our comfort is our abductor's top priority.

[glaciers]

We were put in the bottom of a well. Our comfort means nothing.

[lonered]

Honestly it's kind of nice to talk to someone who isn't concerned about painting the jerks who kidnapped us in a negative light.

[glaciers]

Is somebody trying to say they had a good reason to bring us? If that was true, they'd say something.