[Journal Post]

[last_sundust]

Ugh. It's been 6+ months since whatever happened.

I've had to work as "Burger World", struggling with people using the old language.

And my account got hacked and I just finally got access to it.

And could someone explain to me why Japan is acting like it's an independent country and not the 51st to 54th states of America.

Comments

[last_sundust]

The impossible, Beagalltach.

[the_ebbandflow]

I'm noticing that, yeah.

Is this... I dunno, you have a sorta... What's a good word for it... You can operate multiple points of yourself at once, right?

Did one of them go rogue or something?

[last_sundust]

No.

I have many appendages. I prefer to call them nodes.

She is not one of them.

And she appears to be mortal.

Something that cannot exist has appeared.

[the_ebbandflow]

Dang, there goes an almost sensible explanation for this!

What... should be done about it?

[last_sundust]

I don't want to talk about that where she can hear.

[Event Thread]

[last_sundust]

::Kai, this is a Hirume approaching you in meatspace.::

Will this suffice?

::She's wearing glasses that give her a Karen energy.::

Re: [Event Thread]

[the_ebbandflow]

*I was in the middle of eating a salad at a cafe somewhere, so sure, this works.*

Uh... yeah, this suffices.

So what should be done about the girl saying she's actually Hirume?

Other than making sure Failnaught never knows about this.

Re: [Event Thread]

[last_sundust]

Return her to the far divergent world she comes from.

Trucks are supposed to be able to do that, correct?

Re: [Event Thread]

[the_ebbandflow]

*... lowers his fork*

I don't... think that's how that actually works.

Re: [Event Thread]

[last_sundust]

The Warlord... Haita Onni, also said this.

So much of your media indicates it to be true.

::Staring, Kai.::

[becomeanwarrior]

I have explanations but you're not gonna like any of them, I don't think.

[last_sundust]

I fairly know what's going on and I doubly don't like any of them, Warlord.

[becomeanwarrior]

Yeaaaaaah that's what I was expecting.

I don't have a, uh, solution, unfortunately. I haven't really figured out if there is even a way to shove these interdimensional, uh, 'stoaways' back to their own world.

But at least she seems... harmless?

[last_sundust]

That is exactly why she is dangerous.

[becomeanwarrior]

...Come again?

[last_sundust]

The fact she is harmless is exactly why she is dangerous, Warlord.

[last_sundust]

THIEF! IMPOSTER!

[becomeanwarrior]

You'll have to forgive me if I ask you to elaborate in detail.

[last_sundust]

A moment.

[Event Thread]

[last_sundust]

::Onni, this is Hirume, parachuting in from the air, wearing parachute pants.::

Do you understand the concept of a doppelganger, Warlord?

Re: [Event Thread]

[becomeanwarrior]

[ What in the goddamn- oh. Oh it's just Hirume.

That... was unexpected. ]

...I do, but I feel like the difference between you and her is... rather notable?

Re: [Event Thread]

[last_sundust]

She is a highly divergent doppelganger that somehow has the same... quantum as me, for lack of a better term. A mortal woman who somehow is the same essence as The Truly Divine.

I think you can gather the issue at hand, considering her claims.

Re: [Event Thread]

[becomeanwarrior]

Wait, same quantum-

You're saying she can replace you?

Re: [Event Thread]

[last_sundust]

Exactly.

And her world is far too far to have had this happen naturally.

Re: [Event Thread]

[becomeanwarrior]

... [ He does eventually narrow his eyes, pacing a bit in place. ]

True...the discrepancies between her world and ours are too stark, even just by what little she's said.

...Which means this is a move made by Echo and her coven, unless there's some other reality-warping influences I haven't catalogued.