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[eatsyourscience]

[Early in the morning, not long after the Midnight Channel broadcast, Souji decides he has some 'splaining to do. He fires up the old network device, but isn't really sure how to go about this.]

I can't explain the armor, but these broadcasts...they come from my world.

[It's not easy to tell from his tone whether or not he's affected by what he saw, especially for people who don't know him well. In reality, it's hard for him not to feel agitated in response to it. He spent a year hyper-alert to this thing, after all, and even after the time he's spent in Wonderland, it's become a habit to react this way.]

I don't think you should worry about what it shows you. It's probably not real.

[Probably.]

This sort of thing used to happen sometimes. Where two events got mixed together. It's been over a year though, I think.

[He can't think of anything else to say that would actually be helpful. He had thought of offering to explain the broadcasts, but he's alarmed by the fact that he can't remember what they're called. After a couple seconds of dead air, he shuts off the feed.]

Comments

[formercheerio]

How do you know it's not real?

[ It looked very real to Quinn ]

[eatsyourscience]

The broadcast shows people what they're thinking about. It shows you what you're expecting to see....

[Or it's supposed to. But Wonderland is good at screwing things up.]

[formercheerio]

How does it know what we expect to see?

[eatsyourscience]

...Magic. Or something like that.

[formercheerio]

I'm going to go with something. [ Why was everyone so focused on it being magic? ] Have you seen them before?

[eatsyourscience]

Yeah. It was something that happened in my world whenever it rained. People the town was thinking about--mostly people who were on the news recently--would show up in the broadcast.

[formercheerio]

But what if the person isn't even here? Or hasn't been on the news.

Wow that was totally not the right icon for this situation. :|||||

[eatsyourscience]

Events aren't always exactly like the things they're based on.

aha oops

[formercheerio]

So basically anything could happen?

[eatsyourscience]

...Yeah. Pretty much anything. It twists our memories around so they aren't how they're supposed to be, and it usually makes them worse in the process.

[formercheerio]

So if someone got hurt then they might be okay?

[eatsyourscience]

The people on the TVs? Yeah. I think so. The person I saw isn't even here, so I don't know how Wonderland could make something bad happen to her.

[formercheerio]

[ That seems to satisfy her. She's not even going to think about what could happen because of Wonderland ]

Then they'd better be okay. What I saw was too ridiculous to happen anyway.

[ Well... partly. It was ridiculous in her head, anyway ]

[eatsyourscience]

That's not necessarily going to keep it from happening, but it does make it less likely.

[formercheerio]

No, either Wonderland can somehow make something bad happen to them or it can't. And it's not going to. [ He said he didn't know how so it couldn't. Ever ]

[eatsyourscience]

Things really aren't that black and white.

[formercheerio]

Well they're going to be.

[eatsyourscience]

...If you say so.

[He can understand needing to think of it that way in order to cope with things.]