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Some things worth noting:

1. You can apparently be brought back to your home world and it's as if you've never left it at all. You can be there for weeks, months at a time and then one day, show back up back here and it's only been a day or so here that you've missed. I don't know if anyone else has had this experience before.

It is unpleasant.

2. I went into the tunnels to see if they were anything like the Maze I know of back in my world. There's two interesting things worth noting. The rock inside of the tunnel is different than out in the main area. Not sure if anyone's noticed this yet. It's strange.

But there's something stranger that we found in the tunnels. Deep inside, a ways in, there was a burnt computer chip. Totally useless but it was stranger than the formations almost.

That's about it. I figured it's more valuable to pool our information together rather than hog it to myself. Not going to find any answers that way. In my opinion, if there's tunnels and tunnels made out of different rock then that's got to mean there must be some sort of way out of here. Or at least another place to be found. I didn't explore the entirety of the tunnels and I don't really want to but it is possible.

If you do, run fast, take weapons, and try to remember everything. Back in the Maze, we'd send people in and they'd come back at the end of the day and record the route they took on a piece of paper.

Maybe that wouldn't be a bad place to start. It helped us figure the Maze in the end. Maybe the tunnels will be the same.

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Yup.

(You can't hear it but that 'yup' was crammed with a lot of bitterness. Who knew three letters could hold such a punch. Memory loss is kind of his thing.

It's only frustrating if you think about it.)

Trying to remember things like that is a waste of time. You're here now. That's all that matters. It's not your fault you forgot and it's not your duty to remember. I'd accept that sooner rather than later because no, I haven't gotten any memories back and I don't think I will.

(Not usually how things like that work out.)

Well they do have trees here, you know. Probably helps with that. Creating a fake livable indoor environment isn't that much of a stretch. Including fake sunlight. Whatever it is, we're stuck.

It was frustrating, to put it mildly. Yes, I'm definitely from earth. Apparently we were in a place called Mexico. Then we went to Denver. I'm just from an Earth that's mostly dead. Sun flares destroyed everything between the tropics and the rest of the world was disease ridden. So, you know. Earth just a shitty version of earth.

Gonna be totally straight with you right now- I wouldn't bother asking me many questions about the history of my Earth. My memory was swiped before I was thrown into the Maze. I really only know anything from the two past years of my life. Kind of an empty well here. Sorry. I've no bloody idea what month it ever even was.

(He's thinking about Gansey's world though. He's currently in the process of trying to just..forget his own world. Not a favorite subject. He knows well enough about the world Cashmere came from and Peter and Arya but...)

Is there "magic" in your world?
Well then you might want to avoid those tunnels for now. Have someone train you to fight at least a little bit so you don't go in completely hopeless. As for the tunnels- well. There's large man-eating bats, these things called White Walkers- I haven't seen those yet but apparently quite nasty, these strange humanoids with long tongues that- are quite alarming, other creatures that kind of look and sound like children but will gang up on you in packs and stab you to death. Mean-eating bats, trolls, and a bunch of other goodies I probably haven't had the luck of running into yet.

You're welcome.

I've absolutely no experience with magic. Monsters, yes, but the kind I always knew were technologically based. I feel like it's similar but at the same time - not.

The new birds? The jabberjays?

Animal-eye view I've found can be extremely useful.

(He knows two boys who can turn into wolves at this point. It kind of leaves him wondering idly but both those boys were private about their gift. Well. There's other ways to ask.)

Are you good with animals or something?

yeah yeah.

I feel welcome. Warm and fuzzy and shit.

Do the monsters repeat?

Two years. Jesus Christ, I'm so sorry. That's really terrible.

[ Two years ago was when Gansey first came to Henrietta. The thought of losing everything before that - England, Wales, every country he'd trawled through, every scrap of earth he'd searched. Malory. All of it, gone in an instant. He'd feel entirely lost.

No wonder this boy doesn't mind dealing with the loss of a few months. Gansey immediately stops complaining about it. Compared to what Newt's dealing with, he has no right at all.There's magic in my world, yes. Not everyone can see it, and in fact not everyone is aware of it. I spent a long time looking for it, but the wonders are there. Once you know where to look, you'll start to see them. Even if you can only observe, and not participate. My home is built upon what's called a ley line. Essentially, it's a concentration of energy, and people with magic in them tend to be strengthened there.

But that's getting off the point. That's a rather large collection of monsters designed to drive us back, don't you think? There's two ways of looking at it, I suppose. One presumes that someone is deliberately keeping the monsters there, to stop us from looking in the tunnels. The other is that the tunnels really are a dead end, and so there's nowhere else for the monsters to go. It could even be a combination of both, I suppose.

I think I'll manage.

How about this? You show me which tunnel you want to start with and how you want these maps to look. We can even go into the tunnel and if you think I'm incapable to handle it myself then we'll turn around and I'll wait for a group.

who says i havent crocheted before? maybe the loser of a psychiatrist suggested it cuz it's smth I can already do

[ is Johanna fucking with Newt? Who even knows anymore. ]

i don't think harassing people over the internet is good old fashioned conversation but ok

deal

I'm johanna

Yeah I've been thinking about knitting some scarves to go with the atmosphere myself.

I don't really know what you mean by 'repeat'. They exist like creatures tend to exist. There's a number of them here. Don't know which ones are and aren't capable of reproduction but so far most seem like blood-and-flesh sort of creatures so I imagine it's possible. They mostly get killed before they have the chance though.

Which is pretty lucky considering a mother-monster is probably more horrifying than a typical monster.

Don't apologize. It's fine. I've had two years to realize that the past isn't all there is to life. Present and future is a lot more important.

(Besides, wishing for the impossible was the most guaranteed way to be completely miserable. There's a lot of things he has to be miserable about but there's some things he refuses. Getting the memory loss conversation out of the way was important though. After all, most people here knew things that were more "common".

He had no clue about a lot of things and it was just easier to explain it upfront than later when someone was giving him a weird look for not knowing what a movie was or something of the like.

Newt would likely argue that Gansey was plenty entitled. Wasn't every entitled to their pain? Newt wasn't that kind of person to say no.)

I don't know a lot about magic. Didn't really believe it was real for a while until my roommate helped me understand it a little better. It's still strange to me but not as impossible. Do you "participate" in magic? Is that like- doing strange things? Healing people or having future sight or turning into animals?

(He actually has already met two of the latter. He's assuming this is a common thing whoops. Kid has no idea how diverse magic is.)

It's hard to say. Monsters in my world were just meant to make us squirm, put us in situations so the Creators could watch and see what we would do. Intent is a lot murkier than people here seem to want to admit. Truth is we don't know what the 'gods' actually want. It could be...many things. Two ways is pretty limited. I'd say there's much more than that.

There's also the option that the monsters are an accident. If they come from other worlds just as we do then maybe there's no rhyme or reason to them coming through anymore than there seems to be for us to come through. Maybe they're intentional. Maybe they represent different things we're supposed to do. Maybe something in the tunnels attract them and that's why they cluster there.

Who knows.

(Newt hesitates a moment, just frowning down at his screen. Eventually he makes up his mind.)

If you want, I could help you learn to fight a little. Anyone can throw a punch but that won't do shit against a troll. I'm pretty decent with things like spears. Spears are nice. You can throw them or fight and if you're good- you can defend with them too.

(Newt...isn't in the best shape to go out. He knows he isn't and winds up staring at his phone for a little bit.

But the thing is, it's not a bad idea. He wasn't a leader ~~even though he acted like one like hella~~ and he didn't want to be, more importantly. But this situation was familiar to him enough that if he didn't at least try then he'd blame himself.)

Okay, fine. We'll do that.

Do you have a good memory?

Are you good at crocheting then?

(Is he fucking with her back? Only time will tell.)

It isn't? That's how I talk to my roommate all of the time. We're best friends by now

Okay Johanna. It's nice to meet you.

(Sarcastic? Sincere? ?? ? Who knows actually?)

Pretty good, yeah.

Well. Then if you want my advice on the best approach, I'd go to the tunnels and take the same route every day. Map it out in your head and keep drawing it every single day. Each day take a new route a mile in or something.

It'd be useful to have a group only to cover more ground and compare maps. Those tunnels are pretty sprawling otherwise I'd say we might be able to cover them all with one person.

(Then again, he now knew two people who could turn into wolves and probably could cover twice as much ground as the average person.

He's pretty sure it's rude to ask this guy if he has super powers though and so he keeps quiet for now.)

I could use a good distraction. What would you grow? The plants here are weird.

Yeah I think a lot of people feel the same. I really like potatoes personally. Strawberries maybe.

I figured I could try and convince the guy to give me some more normal things. I'll ah...stress....the importance of it.

So they're capable of repressing our memories somehow. And time must pass differently here compared to back home. For you, at least.

[ There's no saying that all of them will have the same experience. Still, this changes things. ]

It's possible. But why send you back temporarily? What do they gain from that?

hell yeah im a regular fucking housewife

oh my god is your roommate the fucking asshole who promised cookies and never delivered

what a shithead

if you're a regular housewife shouldn't you know how to make cookies

and yup that would be peter. asshole extraordinaire. at least he has a nice face. we can't all be perfect

but yeah he thought for some reason I knew how to make cookies.

Right, I'll do that.

[Wait, did he miss the point?]

And we're still looking into things other than the tunnels?

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I don’t participate. Or I can’t, more accurately. I’ve spent a very long time looking for it.

[ Looking for any sign of it, even. And now, of course, he’s seen more magic than he’d imagined at all, and not all of it is so wonderful as he’d always thought. Much of it has been darker than anything he’s ever wanted. He could tell Newt so many stories.

He starts with the easiest of them. ]

I’ve met people who could see the future. I wouldn’t quite exactly call that magic, in fairness – there’s more than one argument that classifies psychic powers as more of a science than anything else, and I think I’d probably agree with them.

Healing is something I’m aware of, let’s say. But I’d prefer to talk about that when we’re actually talking.

[ Fighting is another story entirely. Gansey has never thought of himself as a violent person. Quite the opposite, in fact. The thought makes him desperately uncomfortable, but -

But, he does think they need to explore the caves. ]

Maybe? My friend tried to teach me. If we’re talking about monsters, though, it might be different. I can’t promise I’d be good.

[ He can basically promise he’d be terrible, actually. ]

But I think you’re right. I think we don’t know enough about what’s out there and if we’re going to find a way home, we need to know more. We won’t find out by staying here.

that was sarcasm

i dont need another asshole with a nice face in my life i already got cashmere thanks

you poor thing. you have been wrongly accused. is there no justice in the world

So was mine.

Damn it I was really hoping to get rid of him :(

I have been. Glad someone's sympathetic to my lawful wrongings. This place is cruel.

Jabberjays? Is that their name?

Yeah, you could say I'm good with animals. :3 I talk to 'em. Just regular animals, though, not the monster kind.

It's more related to telepathy, really, and my range is small and I'm not very strong with anything other than mammals, but yeah. The birds are smart like crows, though, so I can get them to understand me pretty well, and a few of them like me enough to do things when I ask.

It's not the most useful talent to have, where I'm from, but it's the only one I got.

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