hadriel | 007 [Video] | Forward-dated slightly to morning on the 4th

[So, turns out Sorrow-induced insomnia combined with generally staying inside so as not to tell everyone in the whole world everything awful that you've ever done has an upside. It's great for getting things done, especially when that thing is something he feels guilty about not having finished sooner.

He hasn't actually figured out the event is over by the time he makes this post, having been awake all night, though he does feel a little bit better than before and so offers a small smile to start the whole thing off.]

Hey, um, everyone.

[And he pauses, because he probably should've thought this announcement out a little more, but whatever.]

So I uh, finished something less fun than emojis, but probably a little more practical? I mean, it'd be better if we had a GPS system [--come on guys you totally voted for the wrong god--] but we can always add that part into it later.

Basically, um, it's a program that lets you set up an emergency message and who you want to send it to, and then just hit one button to send it. So if you're like, in danger or hurt or something and can't type or call someone but can hit a button, someone'll at least know you need help and go looking for you.

[And hopefully that could help someone, even a little, whenever the next horrible thing happens here.]

If anyone needs help like, setting it up, just let me know and I can probably get it going for you. It should be pretty simple though, so don't worry if you're not like, super tech savvy.

[And attached is a download for the program, which installs simply enough and includes a customizable message and a list of people to send it to. Once set up, a button will appear on the lock screen of the phone, and hitting it is all that's needed to send a message; any future changes to the message or receiver list can still be made through the main app.]

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Tap on the file, then wait for it to install. An icon will show up when it's done, and then you just touch that and you can enter the message you want to send and who to send it to.

[ the next message comes after a short delay. ]

That was much simpler than I thought it would be.

Awesome. Good to hear it; I wanted it to be as easy as possible.

[What with how many people here aren't good with technology, and also because the app is for strictly practical use anyway and therefore should be just as practical to set up.]

Is this sort of thing common knowledge where you come from? How to create these, what did you call them, programs?

Programs, yeah, though they're usually called 'apps' or applications when they're on a phone. It's not exactly common knowledge, but it's not rare either; I was going to school for it so I could do it professionally, but it's something you can also teach yourself on the side with enough time and patience and whatever.

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That's really quite something. The difference in levels of technology between our worlds sounds like it couldn't be more different.

Yeah, there's some huge differences between different worlds. I think Lilith and Maketh are both from worlds that way more advanced than mine, even.

I wonder what it is about our worlds that made the Door bring us here, if they're so very different.

Yeah. And I wonder why sometimes a bunch of people come from one place, or why a lot of us here are from the same general 'Earth' even if different times.

[Lots of logistics questions that usually get ignored in favor of more important things like how to survive whatever horrible thing is happening at the time.]

The place you come from is called Earth? Just 'Earth'?

The planet's called Earth, but there's seven continents with their own names and those are divided up into tons of countries that are all called different things, then the countries are also divided up into smaller sections. I'm from the continent called North America, the country's the United States, and the state is California. Then the city I live in is called Los Angeles.

But before I got here I was actually in a town called Blackwood, in the province Alberta, in the country Canada. It's just north of the United States.

That makes more sense. 'Earth' by itself doesn't seem very... descriptive.

Yeah, not really. But a lot of people here seem to come from Earth, even if they're from really different countries or times; someone else here was actually in Canada before they got here too.

The same Canada you were in?

A different part of it, and I think she's from a few years earlier in time than me, but yeah. I don't think we're from the exact same world though; there are monsters in hers that don't exist in mine, and same thing the other way.

Interesting.

There is someone here from Thedas, someone I knew back home, who remembers me but not Cecily. It makes me wonder just how many worlds are out there.

Are they from a point in time before they met her?

Yeah, me too. It's weird to think about but kind of cool, I guess.

No. From what I understand, they remember another person taking her place in the world.

Ohman that'd be weird and really kind of creepy.

It truly is.

Is there anyone from your home here?

Yeah. Besides me there's three here right now: Ashley, Emily, and Josh. Mike, Sam, and Jess have all been here before too at different times.

They've since gone back through the Door?

Yeah. Mike actually left and came back, then left again.

That happened with someone from my world as well. Sera.

I think I actually met her. It was like five months ago or something.

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007 [Video] | Forward-dated slightly to morning on the 4th

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