Actually we just shouldn't be allowed to create NPCs

[forcechanic]

Is it normal to run into things in Jaunts that are eerily familiar once you come out of the overlay? It's not just that I had brothers... whose names were really close or the same as my actual brothers... and then they got kidnapped.

[And she's really more annoyed than upset about that. Why does that keep happening even in other universes?]

It was the Masters at the Sun Temple. At least half of them had names I learned in history class, and I'm definitely not from that world. Master Yoda even used the same training methods that the Yoda in my world used to teach my uncle. And now I'm wondering if he really did sound like that.

I can't be the first person this has happened to, right?

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[comebewe]

Thanks.

[and now time for the weirdest and most awkward version of the 'so what is your name again?' question, but apparently the whole travelling thing makes it kinda necessary]

So. Um. Who are you normally, then? We did meet you once before, but you were infiltrating then too...

[claudiometer]

Claudia Donovan. Good to meetcha.

[comebewe]

Matthew Swift. You too, even if we are not sure if this really counts as 'meeting' someone...

[claudiometer]

It's a name to put to the face, even if we're not talking in meatspace right now. Works for me.

[comebewe]

I mean more in the whole, 'hey, while I was off being another person entirely, you were also being someone else and we totally knew each other' sense of things. But that too, I guess.

[claudiometer]

Yeah, well, you've had at least one more jaunt as yourself than I have. [It's starting to grate, though she's not doing as badly as Raidou was, at least.] If nothing else, it's a conversation starter.

[comebewe]

You haven't been yourself at all?!

[claudiometer]

Not unless you count my two-jaunt stint in shiny gold nonsense not doing anything. I'm six for six on infiltrating.

[comebewe]

Fuck.

I'm sorry. That has got to seriously suck.

[claudiometer]

Eh, some are better than others. [She's not sure where this last one falls on the spectrum, only that it's not worse than frickin' Doki.]

It's wearing kinda thin, though.

[comebewe]

...Yes.

[he doesn't really have much to add, there. He just knows that being Masshuu was infinitely worse than being Matic]