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

[haremtrap]

...Ground.

The word you're looking for is ground.

Voice

[otomechapilot]

(The voice that responds is bright and high, sort of a Juliet Cesario in heroine mode.)

Hey! Welcome to the network! I'm Sara.

First off, your questions.

So... The Forest Folk have been planning on revealing themselves to the public. Between the worries about that, the magical curses on the Forestfolk and the Stonefolk, and the amulet, the two big concerns are:

One, figure out how to make the reveal peaceful and prevent a war or a shouting match from ruining it, and make sure it's believed and not brushed off.

Two, figure out what the ritual to join the amulet is, so that we do it properly - which sounds like more your thing since you said you were a historian?

As for the 'lower deck' that's the ground and wow tell me about the spaceship sometime that sounds awesome.

[knightceties]

Ahahaha, not all of them are disasters! Or I guess, they're all varying levels of disasters? This one doesn't seem like it's going to explode, ahahaha.

And, if you see someone you recognize you can always try to think a message at them. If they're infiltrating they won't recognize you anyway, and if they aren't, they'll be able to message you back. The network's pretty convenient that way.

[hatefuldays]

Thank you. I was trying to talk about a city on Earth while I was headed there, and I couldn't figure out what to call it. I felt like an idiot.

[hatefuldays]

Wait, there could actually be a war? Why would that happen based on something like this?

(The outlook on organized, armed violence is a little different when you live in a community of thousands that has absolutely no way to reach out beyond its own borders. Martial law was declared once like seven hundred years ago and basically nothing since.)

[hatefuldays]

That's... actually really clever! I hadn't thought of that at all. Also, it's really encouraging to hear that I might just be overthinking things, so thanks for that, too.

[knightceties]

Haha, no problem! I mean, there might be explosions later. But I don't think so. This place seems too quiet for that kind of thing.

[otomechapilot]

'Cause some people are way too quick to call something ugly or strange a monster.

Probably less people in this world than elsewhere, because this place is like a faerie tale or a kid's cartoon, but it might still get bad.

...how big was your spaceship? How many people? It wasn't a battleship or anything, just like a civilian thing? We managed to have wars back home between like thirty fighters on each side, but my world is kind of messed up.

[haremtrap]

I kinda want to ask what other words you don't know but that's kind of a stupid thing to ask, isn't it?

[hatefuldays]

I'm sure there are more, yeah, but that was the main one that was bugging me...

...I guess there was one more, but it's even stupider than that one, and it's not even a space thing...

[hatefuldays]

It was a generation ship, intended to eventually set up a colony on another planet. There were a few thousand people on board, I guess, but when you have to keep a stable population alive on the ship for thousands of years...

[haremtrap]

What's that?

[hatefuldays]

Actually, someone else was suggesting that there might be a war if the stuff with the amulet doesn't go well...

[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. ]

[knightceties]

Whoa! Why??

[haremtrap]

Um...

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

[hatefuldays]

I don't know! I guess maybe it's because of the forest folk revealing themselves to the humans? I don't really get it...

[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.]