hadriel | 004 [Text]

[Hopefully everyone has recovered from their hangovers and energy drink comas by now, but if not he's using text to be courteous. Also because it's really late, and because this message works better in text anyway.]

So this isn't exactly a huge important development or whatever, but if your usual texting back home involved emojis I'm sure you'll be ecstatic to know that you can send them here now, too.

[There's a link to install a small program on the phones, which enables a smiling face, a scowling face, and a hand giving the finger.]

Options are kind of limited to happy, unhappy, and pissed off, but never fear. Any additional emoji requests can be submitted to Emily, who I'm sure will totally love fulfilling them for you since she's the master artist here; I just do the scripting. Definitely request as many inane emojis as you could possibly want. Make sure to ask her every time you talk to her if they're done yet, too.

[Sorry Emily. Harmless revenge is sweet.]

So yeah. Have fun.

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I guess it's kind of a good thing that I can still use my main skill here.

( good ol' hunting life. at least it's coming in handy. )

Five months, jeez. Has anyone been here longer than you, that you know of?

What's that? If it's cool to ask.

[Everyone here has such different skills; it's interesting.]

Yeah, I think there are people who've been here longer, but maybe only by a month or two? I'm not totally sure on that.

( chris we're not sure if you're ready for that answer just yet.

so you get an ambiguous one. )

I'm a hunter.

( you'll learn more about that in his network post. dwi. )

I wonder, if we could figure out when people started getting dragged here, we could parse something out that could help us get out.

( it seems like a justified-enough correlation to make, in his book. :| )

[Rude you're not the first hunter he's met Sam gosh.

But for now he assumes the normal kind of deer-shooting hunter, and just accepts that answer. As for the rest of it--]

Yeah, maybe. Assuming there's still anyone here that's been around the whole time.

( look he's not in the habit of going around telling everyone under the sun what he does for a living! it's not being rude, it's being tactful. )

People disappear, too?

( makes sense, he guesses. if people show up without rhyme or reason, they could just as easily disappear.

even if the thought is a little disconcerting. )

Yeah. And sometimes they come back.

My friend Mike has been here and left twice.

Huh.

Did he remember being here before, when he came back?

Yeah, but it was weird because he remembered being here, but injuries that he'd gotten taken care of here were back when he showed up again.

( what in the blue fuck is that all about. )

That's really weird. Really, really weird.

How could that even happen?

No idea. I mean, he didn't remember anything more happening at home or anything, so I guess he must've gone back and then immediately come through the door again but that doesn't explain the injuries unless being here's like a Matrix-style all in your mind sort of thing.

Or maybe ... a temporal distortion kind of thing?

( come on chris. ur a nerd. let's talk about time travel. )

That doesn't seem like too far-fetched of an idea, especially when you consider what comes through the Door in the first place.

Yeah, I mean I guess that's possible. As crazy as it sounds that that sort of thing is not only possible but actually might be what's happening.

[He's totally a nerd but he's also a nerd that likes his sci-fi to stay sci-fi, not reality.]

( he can't blame you there. sci-fi is great and all, but when it comes reality, there's a bit of a problem. )

What I don't get is how there's any benefit of it. You know? What do the gods get out of taking people out and bringing them back in like that?

That's assuming they have any control over it, but maybe intensity of emotion? Since they get power from emotion, if they bring someone in over and over from a really emotional point in time maybe they get an extra boost?

[He's pretty certain Mike was in the middle of the last confrontation at the Lodge before he got here, and to say that entire ordeal was intensely terrifying would be an understatement.]

( one day, he's going to hear the whole of this story. between you and emily, there's got to be some sort of something that will end up coming up in idle conversation.

or maybe he'll be welcomed into the friendzone. who knows. )

That makes a weird kind of sense. And since we don't know for sure, it's the best thing we have to go on.

( that's still a pretty messed up reason to keep bringing someone back over and over again. )

[Maybe someday you'll be part of the cool kids club Sam.]

Yeah. I mean, maybe someone else has ideas though; I know there's a few people that've left and come back or whatever.

( the first he'll have ever been a part of. )

Maybe I'll ask around. See what I can find out.

( it's worth a shot, at the very least, right? )

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