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[completelycrazy]

I've made some relevant updates to the bestiary now that we're on a planet with local fauna.

[So here's an attachment with the updated version!]

At the moment, I've only heard tell of the mammoth things roaming around out there. All current notes are either based on secondhand accounts or pictures that have been sent to me. I'd like some real specimens to take a look at, if anyone's game.

Apparently there's other critters too, though they seem to be rare as I haven't encountered any myself. If anyone runs into anything alive on this planet, let me know and I'll add it.

Thanks.

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[unphase]

Both, actually.
My powers are best used for defense.
And killing is frowned upon in 2997.
Other stuff can see me.
I'm technically skirting the edge of the dimension instead of going all the way in it.
My home planet is on the other side, in perfect rotational and orbital sync with Earth.

[completelycrazy]

Ok fair. I mean its frowned upon in 2025 too. Seems kinda consistently frowned upon through modern history in one way or another.
Right. Gotcha.
Sort of. This magic crap makes my head spin I gotta say. So youre from like mirror earth? Or something?
If you can hop between dimensions can you leave Hadriel?

[unphase]

Good point.
I'm from Bgztl.
While we may be "neighbors" with Earth, we're not Earth.
We have our own continents and governments and we evolved as a matriarchy.
My family was the head of a planet-wide constitutional monarchy until about three hundred years ago.
I can't leave.
I'm assuming that wherever we are, the extra dimension still exists.

[completelycrazy]

Huh that word sure doesnt have any vowels. How do you pronounce that?
Uhh that sounds like a cool place to be though. Good for you guys. What do you mean neighbors with Earth though?
Yeah I figured you wouldn't be able to just blip out of here. That'd be like way too easy. So what does it mean if the extra dimension still exists but you can't access it even though youre still able to use your ability?

[unphase]

Bg-zuh-tl.
Neighbors in that we share the same space, just in separate dimensions.
We learned of them before they did of us.
I'm assuming that we're in some sort of reality where my home planet does exist, but I can't access it.
We're not on Earth, so I wouldn't be able to go home.
There's no telling when I'd show up there, anyway.

[completelycrazy]

Thats still an alarming lack of vowels.
Hm so you can only move between those two dimensions?

[unphase]

My native language doesn't have many of them.
We're all taught the Common Tongue when we're in what you'd call kindergarten.
Yes.
I can go between the dimensions, but it's not a good idea.
People used to use the space in between as a prison.

[completelycrazy]

Oh uh ok. Weird but sure.
Wait but I thought you said you move into a parallel dimension when you phase??

[unphase]

No weirder than Welsh.
No, I said that I skirt the edges of it.
Just enough to become intangible, but not so far that I'd get stuck in between.

[completelycrazy]

Gotcha.
Well that's a neat ability regardless.
Could you get stuck between dimensions or something? Is that what you mean by prison?

[unphase]

Thank you.
It's very useful.
Potentially, yes.
The area between Bgztl and Earth is called the Phantom Zone.
It was used as a prison primarily in the 20th century.

[completelycrazy]

How was it used as a prison? Are you saying you'd phase through with someone who didn't have the same ability as you?

[unphase]

People were sent to the inner side of the dimension using a device of some kind.
Use of it died out sometime in the 21st century, though.
No one knows why.
And yes.
I'd go right through them.
It's easy.

[completelycrazy]

Oh wait no I meant could you phase WITH another person. I thought that was how someone would get throw into that interdimensional prison but you answered that for me already.
Still though can you phase other stuff?

[unphase]

Yeah, kind of.
Mostly, we evolved the same as humans.
It's only that our brains evolved slightly differently, so that we can perceive and cross over into the other dimension.
Small things, like phone-sized.
I've tried phasing my katana, it doesn't work.

[completelycrazy]

Uhh I'm not sure that makes sense biologically speaking but whatever you say. How come you got the cool stuff??
Wait you have a katana?

[unphase]

Just lucky, I guess.
Yeah, I do.
Is that weird?

[completelycrazy]

Uhh no not weird just didn't expect it thats all.
Anyway your ability sounds useful as all hell so if you happen to put it to use getting any more monster pics can you send them my way?

[unphase]

I will.
So far, I haven't seen anything else dangerous, but I'll keep an eye out.

[completelycrazy]

Thanks. Keep me posted on whatever you find even if its not dangerous.