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[Dipper is staring down at the screen with an expression of utmost concentration.]

When did I get a phone?

[It seems like the kind of thing he’d remember. And yet, here it is, and he has no recollection of how it got here. He leans in and squints, puzzling over the strange mystery phone until he notices the little light that signals it’s recording. His eyes widen again and he pulls away.]

Oh… it’s on! Um… hi. I’m Dipper. I’m not sure who I just called, but… [He hesitates, looking conflicted for a moment, before he leans in intently.]

Okay, this is going to sound crazy, but hear me out. I think I’m trapped in some weird alternate dimension! It reminds me a lot of the story of Alice in Wonderland, and I keep getting this weird feeling around the mirrors! Like I’m being watched or… something. [He looks around for a moment, distinctly uncomfortable, then smiles at the camera again.]

Anyway, I’m pretty experienced in dealing with the supernatural, and I’ve never seen anything like this. [He’s been doing it for a whole… start of the summer. He frowns, brow creasing, and adds in a mutter:] I don't think the Author ever even came here... [He shakes his head, than in a more normal voice, adds:]

Are you here too? [Whoever's listening.] Maybe we can compare notes!

[He sounds so hopeful. This place is even weirder than Gravity Falls, and he didn’t think he’d ever be able to say that about anywhere. Surely someone’s been paying attention. Right?]

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[Newsflash, Wirt: Adults suck at solving anything. You need preteens for mysteries. That’s just how it goes. But pause to focus on the important part here.]

You have a brother? [A part of Dipper is sympathetic. If he was here with Mabel and she left… well. He’d be pretty mad. Still...] Did he also dress up as a gnome for Halloween? [If that’s still the excuse we’re going with.]

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Yeah, Greg. We showed up here together, but he, uh. Vanished a couple weeks ago. Everyone's been saying it means he went back to where we came from.

[Supposedly. The verdict is still out on whether he went all the way home or just back to the Unknown, but it's not something Wirt can prove either way, so he'd rather not spiral back into that.]

And no, he was an elephant actually. He put an upside-down teakettle on his head and ran around making elephant noises. [Noises that he's absolutely not going to replicate now.] He's been wearing it ever since, but he's only six, so it wasn't as weird as it could be or anything.

[Not that Greg would have cared either way. It's a needless explanation.]

Yeah, six year olds are pretty weird. [And it's not good when they go missing. Not good at all. Dipper frowns and starts chewing on a pen thoughtfully.]

How do they know he went back? [Because Dipper's new here and when someone goes missing his first instinct is to suspect foul play.]

Well...I worried about that a lot too, since a lot of people were saying that's just how this place works, and that's not really an answer. Th-That's just believing something because you want it to be true, since you can't really prove it.

[He's still not really on board with that, but luckily he did get a better answer, at least specific to Greg.]

People don't always show up at the same time here though? O-Or from the same time, is what I mean. We have a friend, Beatrice, and from me and Greg's perspective, she's a few days in our future. It's not much but...she'd been travelling with us. So...i-it's kind of complicated, but if Greg didn't go back to the point we came from, Beatrice would remember him going missing. But, since she said we were there the whole time, we must go back at some point, to close up the loophole.

[He makes a vague circular gesture with two fingers, to suggest "closing the loop"...but then he realizes it might not have been explained to Dipper at all, so he quickly adds:]

That happens to everyone here. Apparently time stops for us and starts up again when we get sent back? I-It's kind of like pressing pause on a cassette player. And then we don't remember when we go back, so...no one knows we're even gone.

That's... I'm not sure if that's good or bad. [This place is cool enough that he wants to hang out for a while and explore it, but he doesn't like being away from Mabel and the rest of his friends and family. He's glad they won't miss him, but that won't stop him from missing them if he can't find a way to go back at will.

Bad, then. He doesn't want to be trapped. Even if it could stretch out his summer vacation for a really long time. He does like the idea of not going back to school for more than a summer.]

It's bad, I think? Anything that involves us getting spirited away to another dimension is probably not...great. I-It's like this place is trying to say "Oh, yeah, you've been kidnapped, but it's totally okay because nobody knows you're gone!" and that's just like, super messed up.

[Then he realizes that oh, right - this kid is still new, and maybe he shouldn't freak him out.]

...Uhh. B-But, people have left before? Not of their own free will or anything, but at least we're probably not stuck...forever? [Not the most confident argument, but at least he's trying.]

....but on the other hand, that means I can explore this place pretty thoroughly and Grunkle Stan can't even be mad.

[It's not that he's happy being trapped far away from anyone he knows, separated even from his sister. But... well, he can see how much there is to explore and keep him distracted. And then he'll go home, no harm done!]

Um. ...Okay? Sure.

[He has no idea what Dipper's talking about, but at least he doesn't seem to be taking it as hard as he'd feared. Actually, he seems kind of calm about all this and it's weirding Wirt out a little.]

I guess I'll, uh. Leave you to do that. U-Unless there's anything else you needed to know?

[Not that Wirt feels like he's been much help, but offering is probably the right thing to do, even if Dipper probably doesn't want help from a possible gnome.]

There's a lot of stuff I want to know. But I don't know how much you can help me. [Not just because he's still not 100% convinced Wirt isn't a gnome. He also can just sense a mystery when he's smack in the middle of it, and he's not sure anyone knows the answers he seeks. This isn't gonna be an easy one to solve. That's what makes it so fun.]

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