[pcs] taichi

[ambiography]

shitpost maybe eventually?

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[goalsides]

[oh, hello director.]

Not this exact place, but I've been to a different world before. I was just there not long before going home and then waking up here.

[ambiography]

[so he was able to come back from it. that's definitely interesting-- she seems to consider his answer a moment, before continuing.]

You aren't the only one who's had that kind of experience, though I don't think they were quite the same.

[goalsides]

[ah. well. that definitely gets his attention and he sits up a little taller.]

What makes you say that? [this is actually the first time he's hearing this from, like, anybody period.]

[ambiography]

Because the only way to travel between realities that I have heard of doesn't allow a traveler to go back, and requires-- very specific circumstances. This... shouldn't be anything like it.

[goalsides]

[he has many, many questions suddenly.]

Well...the first time we were sent there was an accident. Or we thought it was. We weren't prepared for it or anything, a rift opened up and all of us were pulled into it and sent to the other world. We managed to go back to our world through a gate, but after we took care of some stuff, we had to go back through another rift to the other world. When we left through another gate, we thought it was over for good until we learned how to open portals on our own.

That was a few years ago though. Since then, it's a little hard to travel back and forth. Most of the time we don't. But we always figure out a way back when we need to.

[ambiography]

Not quite the same, then... I've never known of being able to establish portals to another world entirely. Other planes, yes, but only the ones already part of that reality.

[it's a fascinating prospect, really, one she'd love to study under different circumstances.]

Was it tied to your original world in any way? Or somewhere completely different?

[goalsides]

It was completely different as far as I know. After we fixed some things time synced up to be the same as our world, but for a while it was one day there for every one minute back home.

But I guess it was kind of tied to home because things that were happening would affect both worlds. They were still two totally different places though. Rules there didn't apply the same back home and vice versa.

[ambiography]

The way I understand the universe to work, that shouldn't be possible... but neither should being here, so I guess that's that.

[this place is already just. so much.]

[goalsides]

It's complicated. I've been looking around and I haven't seen any signs of a gate that was opened or anything. How we got here is still a mystery.

[ambiography]

And so is how we get back, if we can't find how we arrived in the first place.

[goalsides]

Usually that's through another gate. Sometimes we found them ourselves, and sometimes they opened on their own. If there's a gate here, it's probably under construction, I bet.

[ambiography]

Then it all comes right back around to waiting.

[which is not, in this situation, ideal.]

[goalsides]

For now. But just because we're waiting doesn't mean we can't start looking for other solutions, right? Nobody really knows how we got here, but I've been hearing a few things from other people about things around campus.

...don't get too close to the construction, by the way. Apparently it'll make you black out.

[ambiography]

So I've heard. From what I know, the dorm buildings aren't too different from each other either, but I'm not discounting the possibility that one might be more useful than the others.

[goalsides]

I dunno. The inside of fall's dorm looks pretty different than ours, and what I've heard about winter's is even different from that. So I don't think I'd discount it yet either.

[ambiography]

Well- yes, the decor is varied, but at their cores they have the same purpose. It's the other rooms that I'm less certain of.

[goalsides]

Do we have any idea what the other rooms could even be? It's not like I think of "coffeehouse" when I think of spring or anything.

[ambiography]

None so far. I haven't heard anyone describe them, yet, and if ours is any indication... guessing will be hard at best.

[goalsides]

I might start asking around again to see if people will share. If not, then we'll figure out something else. It can't be that bad.

[ambiography]

In time, maybe they will. It should be fine.

[it's just kind of a pain to be unable to actually finish assessing this place entirely.]

[goalsides]

Until then, what do you plan to do, Director?

[ambiography]

The same thing I've done so far. Keep an eye on what I can, talk to the rest of you, and see if there's-- well, anything at all that we can figure out.

[-at least after tomorrow there'll be more chill, here.]

[goalsides]

Good enough.

[...but hm.]

Can you tell me a little more about your experience? It does sound different than ours.

[ambiography]

We've studied the planar system, in my world. There isn't only one component to it-- we live on what is known as the Prime Material Plane, but there are thirteen in total, from the Astral Plane of the dead to the Elemental Planes. Any given world is an entire system, but while you can travel between the planes, it is... difficult, at best, to leave a world in its entirety and travel to another system. Under most circumstances, it's impossible.

If you're able to meet those-- particular circumstances, there's no telling where you might end up on the other side.

[goalsides]

So it's probably advised not to leave to go to another system at all. What kind of qualifications do you need to do something like that?