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_{[When Dirk awakens and can't move at first, he finds himself panicking. This isn't something that normally happens, so it's a huge relief when he actually is able to move. Immediately, he's able to tell he's not where he should be. His memory is a little hazy due to the fact he's still waking up, but he knows that the last thing he was doing, which certainly wasn't sleeping. Who could sleep when their home was under attack?

The letters he finds answers a few of the initial questions he has, but it leaves a billion more unanswered. His world was destroyed? Given the state it was in, he isn't surprised, but he was supposed to get into the game first. He's pretty sure this isn't it. This is horribly disconcerting, because he can't help but wonder about his friends. Did they make it to safety? Are they here?

After another few moments, he's aware he's not the only person in the room either. Well then.]}

...Who are you people.

Network; open.
I'm not entirely sure what is going here, so perhaps someone can shed some light on this situation.
How is it that I've arrived here?
I'm finding the information provided by the welcoming committee highly doubtful for a multitude of reasons that I don't have time to get into at this time.
With that, I'll cut to the chase; in the off-chance that it's actually correct, that my world was destroyed, I must ask.
Does anyone know Roxy Lalonde, Jake English, Jane Crocker and their whereabouts?

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I look forward to it. You don't know how excited I am to the thought of finally knowing what makes trolls shake in terror. Other than cleaning supplies.

I don't think I want too.

Dave, don't you know those pails are serious business.

_[eyeroll.]

Look at it this way. You lucked out with the universe you got.

I've luckily avoided all possible conversation about pails and what they entail. I'm not really interested in knowing the terror of what they could actually mean.

I guess? I mean, I can't really say much about it. [It kind of doesn't exist anymore via meteors from the Reckoning.] It's not like it made our session anymore winnable. [To be honest, he wasn't expecting to be alive either.]

You really aren't missing out on much. You could go your entire life without knowing the deets and you'd be better off that way.

We haven't even started playing yet. As long as I'm here we don't stand a chance, either.

[He'd be saying something completely different had he continued down his own timeline.] Considering I saw what happened when one meets the face of a troll in a literal sense. I really don't want to know.

As far as I know, time doesn't move anywhere else. Mostly because they're out to convince us all our universes are gone, but what a load of shit that is. Even if time moved outside, it wouldn't make much of a difference. People here arrive at different points, so you couldn't properly guess as to why and how. Maybe one of your session mates will arrive with some sparkling new information about what's going on at home. Wish I could just casually drop all the spoilers, but I still had three years worth of traveling before I made my dramatic arrival.

If that's the case, you definitely don't want to see what they use the things for.

That makes this place even more of a hell. But in a way, that's good. If I can get back home I can make things right. Too many things are riding on my shoulders, because we have no choice but to succeed. But for now? I'd be thrilled just knowing my friends are okay.

[Oh. This Strider has everything under control. Guess that's not surprising.]

If they're not here, then consider them completely fine. They're usually better off back where they're supposed to be than being here. Let's be frank. Here really fucking sucks.

_{[He tries, really.]}

Yeah. Just when I think it can't get suckier it does, and I've only been here today. Although it means if there's a way to get out of here permanently, anyone would hypothetically be prepared to handle anything.

Might as well tell you how it is than let you get surprised. Shit happens usually every month since the caretakers take turn being enormous douchebags. If Jason is in charge, welp, be ready for a large amount of vitriol from everyone else. Just a rule of thumb. No one likes Jason. Well, no one really likes any of them, but Jason is everyone's least favorite for obvious reasons.

We're still trying to figure the whole getting out thing though.

I'll keep that in mind. Someone mentioned something about everyone being cut off from the network and the food supply last month. I didn't hear details other than that but I imagine that can't be the worst they're capable of.

If a weakness can be found and exploited, that could give us a way out.

Oh. I guess that's what happened last month. Nice to know. [Dave was in Jason's pod, but he never found out what happened to the people who were still in the tower.] Last month, the three head honchos grabbed a bunch of us and put us in separate pods. So I guess while everyone was doing the whole survival thing, we were getting all friendly with the three little assholes. [Look who's not going into detail unless you ask. And he still might not even if you do.]

Some of the people who've been here longer found one. We've already ruled out that trying to exploit it is a really terrible fucking idea.

_{[Dirk is silent for a moment, studying Dave for a moment before finally speaking.]}

What happened?

_{[If it's something as bad as he's assuming it is, he doesn't actually expect Dave to tell him. But if he does, it'd give Dirk a general idea of what he's contending with.]

Do you have any suggestions, then?}

We played a game. Dax did absolutely jackshit because apparently he's the nice one, apparently Riki whatever the fuck he wanted to do, which wasn't even playing at all. He was just basically weirding out his entire pod as far as I know. [It was like a room shaped like a star but still had 90 degree angled corners...Dave didn't get to witness it, but others got to. Yay.] Jason did whatever he could to win, because he's a cheater with no remorse. [He's not going to talk about how he surgically stuck everyone together or what Ruana did after.] I forgot all about Ruana. She's not your friend either.

[Dave. The most vague.]

Not at the moment. We've been trying to see if any of the other floors were better than trying to take our chances with the elevator.

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