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[boughtabookstore]

Hello to our recent newcomers. Welcome to Exsilium.

Please do not panic, we just got the place looking decent again. There is nothing you can do to return home of your own abilities. This has been tested by many people over the space of ten months now. 

There is a guide to Exsilium put together by other transports. It can be found here.

If you are a healer, doctor, or medical professional of some other kind, there is an active clinic always looking for new recruits. They can be contacted here.

If you wish to consider joining the recently formed police force, they can be contacted at [ insert an address + ooc link ].

Should you simply wish to drink yourself into forgetting this has happened, I have attached a list of places alcohol can be found here. This method is highly endorsed.

Do enjoy your stay.

[ she figures she might as well put all her organization to temporary use. her personal annotated list of places you can drink or obtain alcohol is attached as a downloadable file. exsilium newbies' guide originally posted here. ]

Comments

[fe_male]

fair point, but still. why the sudden friendliness

[boughtabookstore]

It's a new and improved method of being antisocial. Now I have somewhere to point when people want to ask me questions.

[fe_male]

friendly by way of being as afriendly as possible. clever

[boughtabookstore]

I try to think these things over.

I saw you'd returned. Welcome back.

[fe_male]

it's good to be back

[boughtabookstore]

Learn anything new from the trip?

[fe_male]

space sucks, aliens are weird, space slug whale caterpillar things are a bitch to clean up, pepper's awesome, and nothing ever really gets resolved. how's that?

[boughtabookstore]

Doesn't make a great deal of sense, but I'll take your word for it. Did you remember here while you were home?

[fe_male]

sure didn't. i feel like that would have actually made things there... complicated. although i'm glad i didn't not remember having been here before when i re-arrived with my memories of there and here both intact.

[boughtabookstore]

It does seem like it would, but I have no idea how they would manage to keep the memories side of things separated liked that. Confusing. You not remembering would have been distinctly not fun for you.

[fe_male]

i don't think it would have been any different than the first time i came here and people already knew who i was. that's still happening, by the way, and not in the fun, popular way. in the weird, unnerving way.

[boughtabookstore]

More of them? Perhaps versions of your universe are growing popular with the Initiative.

that's like, almost the most meta comment you could have made

[fe_male]

well i wonder where i should send the 'thank you for trying to make me feel more comfortable' card

i'm sure i'll think of a way to improve it for next time

[boughtabookstore]

The Large Machine, care of The Initiative.

Though I'm not sure they'll appreciate it as much as one would hope.

'have you ever considered that maybe we're not really in control of our lives'

[fe_male]

maybe next time i get near it i'll just tell it thanks in person so they don't dilute the sentiment

hehehehe yes good

[boughtabookstore]

You sound confident of getting near it again.

well, you are good, yes

[fe_male]

of course i will. the thing is going to break again at some point.

no that one was yours! you are good

[boughtabookstore]

No faith in their ability to keep that from happening?

oh whoops

[fe_male]

please

[boughtabookstore]

I see.

Good luck next time, then.

[fe_male]

you don't think it'll break again?

[boughtabookstore]

I think there's a possibility, but also that they'll be guarding closely against that possibility now that they know the problem.

[fe_male]

possibly. but honestly given that they let - or even needed - a bunch of us transports to work out how to fix the thing. idk. doesn't seem like they really know what it is any more than we do.

[boughtabookstore]

It does seem like that, but I still doubt they'll be eager to let any of us near it again. The circumstances last time were unusual.

[fe_male]

stop poking holes in my hopes and dreams