Psychic Post

[hatefuldays]

Testing, testing... is this reaching anyone? I'm just going to assume it's reaching someone and keep talking.

Okay, my name is *Hyun-ae, it's nice to meet everyone! The * is silend, it just means that I'm an AI. This is my first Jaunt AND my first time on Earth, so I have to be honest: I'm VERY confused. I've been doing okay so far just sort of being a tourist and learning to make portals (thanks, Malin!), but I'm not really sure how much longer it's okay for me to do that.

Issue 1: What should I be doing right now? The descriptions I got from other people of what Jaunts are usually like left me expecting some kind of disaster, but as far as I can tell, it's basically just been a cool festival! Am I missing something, or should I just enjoy myself until everything starts exploding or whatever?

Issue 2: How can I tell who's from Liminal Space? I've been able to spot a person or two who I already knew, but beyond that, I have basically no way of telling who's a local and who's part of our group. I might have even talked to some of you without noticing it. It feels kind of lonely.

Issue 3: This is a stupid question because I spent my entire life on a spaceship, but what's the name of... geeze, I don't even know how to describe this one. The bottom deck? The insanely broad flat area that almost everything is on. I guess the outer surface of the planet? What's the word for that? Update: It was 'ground'. It's called the ground.

Comments

[hatefuldays]

It's like... okay. What's the word for friendship, but between women instead of men?

[ The Mugunghwa wasn't the best place to live. ]

[haremtrap]

Um...

I don't think I quite get what you're asking. Wouldn't that just be "friend"?

[hatefuldays]

[ ... ]

...Yeah. Yeah, I guess it would.

Earth is a really nice place.

[haremtrap]

Did girls not have friends on your spaceship?

[hatefuldays]

I mean, I guess they did, but... I already told you a little about what it was like after I woke up in the future, right?

There's this saying, 'Namjon Yeobi' - men are honored, women are abased. It's stupid, but that was basically how everyone thought, it was just a fact of life. Relationships between women weren't important, because women weren't important.

[haremtrap]

Yeah but-

[She wasn't sure what to say. That's just too fucked up.]

I'm...You're important here, I guess. Just as much as any of us.

[hatefuldays]

Thank you for saying that. It's just... When you spend as long as I did living in that kind of society, no matter how hard you try, you start to think like them. If I don't catch myself, I still end up deferring to others and go along with whatever they say. It's been so long since there was anyone who would actually listen to me.

[haremtrap]

I think I'd go insane in a place like that.

[hatefuldays]

I remember you were excited to hear something cool about the future from me, but the sad truth is that the future I got to live in sucked. The world you came from seems way better, aside from the monster attacks.

[haremtrap]

At least the monsters attacked all genders equally. And like, we had people who could deal with the monsters. They're a bad guy you can rip the arms off of.

[Unlike the patriarchy.]

[hatefuldays]

...Is that something you can do? I mean, I'm not saying you looked weak or anything, but the way you described those things, they didn't sound like something a man can just fight hand to hand...

[haremtrap]

Well I mean I can't do that but uh, some people can.

I guess I left part of it out when I told you about the monsters. Some of the monsters are friendly, and they live inside humans and give them weird mutations that let them fight on equal footing. I've got one that gives me superhuman reflexes and senses. It's how I could instantly tell you were in a robot body and not a regular human.

[hatefuldays]

Wait, you have super powers? That's so cool!

[haremtrap]

I guess? They're not very good. My roommate could rewind time.

[hatefuldays]

That's incredible! I can't even imagine what kind of crazy place your world is!

[haremtrap]

It's hard to tell with your own world, since its all you're used to. Robots and space ships with warp drives seem just as crazy to me.

[hatefuldays]

I guess that's true. I mean, depending on how you think about it, I've done some pretty extreme time traveling myself, but going forwards instead of backwards.

[haremtrap]

Right.

Just from talking to other travelers, though, I'm starting to think my world IS the weird one.

[hatefuldays]

I mean, I've talked to at least one actual alien, so I don't know if 'weird' even means anything at this point.

[haremtrap]

It took me a while to internalize this deep wisdom.