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[ino]

[On the feed, you can see a pretty blonde girl staring at the screen. She's brushing her long hair with one hand, reaching to poke around on the screen with the other.

Finally, she lets out a little sigh, and mutters:]

Same shit, different day, I guess.

[She'll finally look directly into the camera, now, and put on a bit of a smile as she continues brushing her hair.]

So, it looks like I'm one of the few people whose age didn't get screwed around with. Anyone else out there?

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[wilder]

Huh?

...Is that why there's a bunch of kids running around?

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[ino]

Yep. It looks like some people got a little bit older, too.

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[wilder]

Wait. How does that even work?

[ino]

[she shrugs]

I don't really know the science or magic or whatever behind it. I'm guessing the Initiative probably doesn't want a bunch of children working for them, though, so I imagine it'll be fixed soon.

[if not ... then she might have to work on getting all the kidlets rounded up so they don't get hurt :T]

[wilder]

Huh. Yeah, guess not.

[ino]

Sounds like you didn't change at all, though.

[wilder]

Not at all. Guess I got lucky.

[ino]

Aw, I bet you were a cute little kid, though!

[wilder]

Heh heh, sure was!

[ino]

Ah, well. Maybe some other time.

[wilder]

Some other time? You do know how linear time works, right?

[have_hat_will_travel]

... I keep hearing about ages being screwed with, but I looked for my name in the network and didn't find anything before Saturday.

It's kinda scary.

[ino]

I'm pretty sure people can be taken here from any time in their life though, right? Something like this might happen again.

[ino]

... That probably just means you're new.

[have_hat_will_travel]

But there was someone else with my network ID. She... Was kinda weird.

But she was the only person I've seen who knows how adventurers work. So that's less weird.

[ino]

... Hm.

[maybe people can get hand-me-down devices? who knows, this technology stuff isn't her forte]

Maybe it was someone else from your world, then.

[wilder]

Yeah but why take me as a kid? I'd be pretty useless.

[have_hat_will_travel]

... I guess that makes sense?

These guys sure seem cheap though, if they didn't even give me my own ID.

If we're supposed to go save the world without even a class level to our names, can't they at least spend... Well it can't be that hard to make a new ID right?

[ino]

That's not exactly what I'm saying. The kid thing is obviously a mistake. But since any time in your timeline is possible, whatever messed up this time might mess up again.

[wilder]

Ugh. Leeet's hope not.

[ino]

Does it cost money to do that?

[she looks baffled. what even is all that stuff you're talking about man]

[ino]

Better be prepared, just in case~

[honestly, she wouldn't mind, if it were her. at this point she's so used to people turning into children and cats and the like that it's a little weird to NOT have that happening]

[have_hat_will_travel]

I dunno! This thing doesn't exactly explain how it works.

I'm just lucky I have a good Intelligence score. Actually I got good stats as a whole apparently so...

[ino]

... Right.

[that weird talk sounds vaguely familiar, but ...]

Either way, are you alright? You look kind of young to be here.

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[strategic_guile]

Until yesterday, I would have been able to agree with you, but I was soundly corrected when I woke up this morning.