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[hornrims]

[The habit of staying in hiding runs deep, and Richie is uncomfortable with broadcasting his face or voice over the network. In general he doesn't like the idea of the network but now he's getting desperate. It's been nearly a month that he's been here and still no sign of his brother. He had been standing right next to Seth before this. It didn't make sense.]

Right before you came here, were you with anyone? Did any of them come with you?

Has anyone been here a while before someone you knew turned up? How long did that take?

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[thechoiceisyours]

I was with six other people back home before I arrived and three of them showed up here at the same time as I did, but we were separated at first and had to find each other.

A bunch of other people from home have arrived or left since then too; I've been here almost eleven months, and some of my friends just got here with the latest group of newbies so I guess that makes it ten months after I arrived.

[People from their world seem to come to Hadriel at an alarming rate, actually, and have consistently come and gone the entire time he's been here.]

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[hornrims]

Did the people who arrived when you did come from the same point in time? One second you were there and the next you were here?

[Though it seems like there's no direct pattern, this person's answers help Richie get a better understanding of how things work. It's not out of the realm of possibility to have a group arrive together, or see someone he knows later.]

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[thechoiceisyours]

No, almost no one from my world's here from the same time. Most of us are from the same night, but different points during it. A few of us are from a year earlier.

Yeah, I'd closed my eyes for a minute and then woke up here in the arena.

[It sucked, especially after everything that happened just before.]

[hornrims]

From the same night? Shit.

Something significant about it?

[l o l]

[thechoiceisyours]

[Seriously.]

You could say that, yeah.

I mean, from what we know the Door's supposed to bring in chaos or whatever, and that night was pretty chaotic.

[hornrims]

I got brought in from somewhere chaotic too. Pretty sure not every bar turns into a vampire bloodfest at night.

[thechoiceisyours]

Uh, yeah, that sounds pretty unusual. Are vampires normally a thing in your world?

[hornrims]

Not that I knew of until now. Technically they're more like snake people.

Is your world fucked too? Seems like a common thread around here.

[thechoiceisyours]

Snake people sounds even weirder than vampires.

You could say that, yeah. It seemed pretty normal up until the day before I got here, though.

People being from fucked up worlds is definitely a thing, though.