Now, I wouldn't call myself an expert. This is a field of study that didn't even exist in my world. But I did put together a basic compilation of this universe's current scientific literature on the subject after I arrived. That's what I shared with him.
I'm happy to answer any questions, and I can also send that along if you'd like.
[it's all sort of dense if you don't have a scientific background, though, and he really knows nothing about you other than the turtle thing]
Oh good. This would have been very awkward if this was the wrong number.
I don't know how common it would be in anyone's world but it sure isn't in mine either. When I first got here I figured the most obvious thing to do was study the Confluence, but given people have been doing that longer than I have it makes the most sense to see what anyone else has learned about it to start.
Any material to read up on would be useful. ...should I ask how long you've been here?
Yes, but it's run through the Alliance. Might be good to have some caution, if you're unregistered.
I returned on my own, so I didn’t experience this, but if you stay too long you'll evidently be pulled back. Not in a Confluence, just individually. I've heard reports between one or two weeks. And afterwards, you won't be able to use the portal again for a while.
[Yuck. Well, that'd definitely make it more difficult for him if he wanted to try it out for himself...]
Noted.
Any specific reason why? Is it because of the method used, or are we...tethered here once we've been Confluence-dumped, somehow? Either way, sounds pretty inconvenient.
As someone who's gone back, can you verify if your absence has been registered back in that time?
Seems to be a tether. Probably Confluence-related - they had interdimensional travel here before us, and we're the only ones with these issues.
It wasn’t. I went back to the same moment I left - my physical state even altered to what it was then. Lost my new clothes, gained a few old injuries again. But that may have been complicated by my personal circumstances. I was dragged out of my dimension before this, to another one, and the Confluence got me while I was traveling back. That was meant to return us to the point in time and space we left, but it was a completely different method.
So would you say that it's possible to alter time if you were coming with knowledge of things from a future point, and took a trip back to the point you'd last left off?
Which theoretically could screw up a lot of things, I know, and if there's somehow already a bifurcation in an existing timeline, then who's to say further alteration could fracture the whole thing or not?
[It mostly is, anyway; he wouldn't have brought it up if it really wasn't.]
And yes, nothing broke. Though I don't know anything about what was meant to happen after that, so I couldn't exactly try to arrange any future events.
I have to wonder if doing so would change anything now, but I guess it helps to know what's possible and what isn't. Anyway, not like I'd be able to take a trip home any time soon.
[Not that he wants to, unless he can definitely do something for his brother's future status, but with Leo here, he wonders if it will have any effect. Better to focus on the other angle for now.]
Backtracking to the subject of the Confluence, I know people have somehow managed to work out how to track or detect whenever one starts to form or something, but is there anything known about its origination? I'm definitely going to read over what you sent, of course.
That's frustrating, but I guess if it's been figured out by now then people wouldn't still be dropping in.
Aside from establishing some sort of connection between us and this world once we're pulled in, are there any other adverse effects that tend to occur?
Nearly always, but it's never the same thing twice. Could range from invaders from a pocket dimension with mind control powers to all the potatoes coming to life.
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Now, I wouldn't call myself an expert. This is a field of study that didn't even exist in my world.
But I did put together a basic compilation of this universe's current scientific literature on the subject after I arrived. That's what I shared with him.
I'm happy to answer any questions, and I can also send that along if you'd like.
[it's all sort of dense if you don't have a scientific background, though, and he really knows nothing about you other than the turtle thing]
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I don't know how common it would be in anyone's world but it sure isn't in mine either. When I first got here I figured the most obvious thing to do was study the Confluence, but given people have been doing that longer than I have it makes the most sense to see what anyone else has learned about it to start.
Any material to read up on would be useful. ...should I ask how long you've been here?
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I was able to visit my world again, back when they first started doing that, but it was brief.
[He doubts he'll return. But he doesn't want to invite questions about that.]
Sure, here you are.
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"When they first started doing that" - so it's commonly accessible? Like taking a plane trip? I was told it's only temporary though, how's that work?
[Yessss reading material.]
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I returned on my own, so I didn’t experience this, but if you stay too long you'll evidently be pulled back. Not in a Confluence, just individually. I've heard reports between one or two weeks.
And afterwards, you won't be able to use the portal again for a while.
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Noted.
Any specific reason why? Is it because of the method used, or are we...tethered here once we've been Confluence-dumped, somehow? Either way, sounds pretty inconvenient.
As someone who's gone back, can you verify if your absence has been registered back in that time?
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It wasn’t. I went back to the same moment I left - my physical state even altered to what it was then. Lost my new clothes, gained a few old injuries again.
But that may have been complicated by my personal circumstances. I was dragged out of my dimension before this, to another one, and the Confluence got me while I was traveling back. That was meant to return us to the point in time and space we left, but it was a completely different method.
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But even with the time alterations, you still carried over memories from here?
I guess it'd be better to ask other people who've used the Alliance's method of dimensional travel to see if they also experienced time alterations.
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I think so. The stories I've heard from friends were similar, in that aspect, but it's hardly a real sample size.
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So would you say that it's possible to alter time if you were coming with knowledge of things from a future point, and took a trip back to the point you'd last left off?
Which theoretically could screw up a lot of things, I know, and if there's somehow already a bifurcation in an existing timeline, then who's to say further alteration could fracture the whole thing or not?
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People back there may still think I'm dead, but I think I must have altered a bit of what happened, even so.
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I...guess that's
Wow.
Okay, so main takeaway- nothing imploded.
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[It mostly is, anyway; he wouldn't have brought it up if it really wasn't.]
And yes, nothing broke. Though I don't know anything about what was meant to happen after that, so I couldn't exactly try to arrange any future events.
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I have to wonder if doing so would change anything now, but I guess it helps to know what's possible and what isn't. Anyway, not like I'd be able to take a trip home any time soon.
[Not that he wants to, unless he can definitely do something for his brother's future status, but with Leo here, he wonders if it will have any effect. Better to focus on the other angle for now.]
Backtracking to the subject of the Confluence, I know people have somehow managed to work out how to track or detect whenever one starts to form or something, but is there anything known about its origination? I'm definitely going to read over what you sent, of course.
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Aside from establishing some sort of connection between us and this world once we're pulled in, are there any other adverse effects that tend to occur?
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Could range from invaders from a pocket dimension with mind control powers to all the potatoes coming to life.
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...I wonder if that's what spawned the sentient meatballs over in Excelsior.
Guess that's a whole other thing to unpack. There anything else I should be aware of?
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Are you living in Excelsior?
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Anyway, that'd be a trip and I don't have guild-access to their fancy transport toys.
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I'll give you a ride sometime if you really want it. Just might not be the most fun day trip.
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That would be amazing!! I'll be the judge on fun- what sort of work do you do anyway?
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If you want to actually stick around the lab and watch, I'll need to get it cleared first.
[Should be alright, he thinks, but he wants to keep this job!]
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