video- bat signalling

[magician_king]

Okay, I guess I'm a little overdue for this-

[Here goes nothing.]

My name is Quentin Coldwater. I'm a magician. I used to teach at Brakebills, and for a while, I lived in Fillory. I've got a pretty good grounding in physics and mathematics, and interuniversal travel. Normally I would consider myself able to claw my way out of this shit, but no dice this time.

Is there anyone here who knows anything about any or all of the above?

[He pushes his glasses up the bridge of his nose, a nervous habit.]

I would like to get the fuck out of here, if anyone has any, uh, inroads on that one. Novel, I'm sure, but we've all got to start somewhere. Cheers.

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[ibiza]

Be there? It's not like he was watching from the sidelines with chips and guac, the two of us were all over you. Not you. I don't even know anymore.

[ She shakes her head, holding up her hands in defeat. ]

This is just too weird for even me.

[magician_king]

Well, when it was me and Janet, he was drunk enough that he wasn't hugely engaged.

[And it's not like this is one of the worst memories of his life he's casually reminiscing.]

We're obviously from worlds that are twigs from the same branch of the parallel universe tree, that's all. Your Janet is you, Margo. Your Alice survived the fight with Martin.

Uh- if that's the case, were we able to kill him?

[darknstormy]

The guy you slept with?!

[ Seth was stuck on that. Close to a year and this was the first he'd heard it. Margo always assured him that her friends were that, just friends. Okay, that was mainly Eliot because he was the closest to her. Apparently the right questions weren't asked. They'd had a fucking threesome.

Seth had questioned her affection for Eliot but admittedly didn't believe that Margo would ever have any interest in Quentin or Josh. The two were a complete opposite on the spectrum of what she seemed to appreciate. Penny would've been a better fit but there weren't any signs there. Now Seth questioned everything.

Add insult to injury, he had no idea if his private response cloaked her admission.

Had everyone just learned what he had?

He ended the transmission instead of waiting for any kind of response. ]

[magician_king]

So you're dating this guy?

[To Margo.]

He seems nice. A little high strung maybe?

[ibiza]

[ She lets out a heavy sigh. This is something she's going to have to fix. Margo raises her eyebrows at Quentin. ]

He's amazing. Back to you, we were told there were different timelines. We supposedly died in all of them, but... Could that be what this is? Another loop?

[ Margo gives a shake of her head. ]

And yeah, we killed the Beast, but Alice niffined out in the process.

[magician_king]

No way. Alice killed Martin in mine too, and that was Jane's end game. She destroyed the watch after it happened and closed the loop. There wouldn't be different iterations of that event.

Besides, what could she have done in steering our lives that'd make you so different from- and freakishly similar to- our Janet?