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Hi, it's *Hyun-ae again, sorry if I'm using this too often. I just got kind of used to communicating via text while I was just an AI, you know?

Anyway, the things I've been seeing during this - pseudo-Jaunt? Whatever it is that's going on with all these memories and illusions and stuff - have gotten me really thinking about my future. I've spent the last few hundred years obsessed with my past and trying to recover from it, and it's sort of kept me from thinking enough about where I want to go now that I *am* free from that ship. My dad said I could be anything I wanted to be, so it's about time I started becoming something.

The short version is, I want to help. The last Jaunt kind of blew by while I was still getting my bearings, but even if I had been more involved, I don't really think there would have been anything I could do. I don't really have much in the way of useful skills - I can't fight, I don't really know much about politics or investigating stuff... I missed out on my chance to get a proper education while I was alive, so sometimes it feels like I'm basically dead weight. But then again, just because I don't have any skills doesn't mean I can't learn new ones, right? I've been thinking about psychic powers in particular. Like, a couple months ago I didn't even think that kind of thing was real, but now I can create portals, change my clothes, store objects in pocket space... I'm capable of things I couldn't even imagine, and I'm learning them faster than I possibly could have expected.

So, that's what I want to focus on. I want to learn some more special abilities that I can use to make some kind of more concrete contribution next time there's a real Jaunt. Maybe some more ways to access important information, or protect people... I'm honestly even willing to learn how to fight, although I don't think this frame was really built for it physically. I'm open to ideas, and if you have some kind of skill to teach, I'm willing to learn, and I swear I'll figure out something I can to do make it up to you later.

Thanks for listening! Can you let me know if you have any ideas? I'm at a pretty crazy crossroads in my life right now, so I'm willing to consider just about anything. I'm an AI, so I'm good at processing lots of information really quickly, but that also might mean I'm not any good at magic and stuff, I honestly don't know.

hatefuldays

This is *Hyun-ae again! Sorry I wasn't really able to contribute anything to the Jaunt, but it sounds like things turned out pretty well.

So, I was thinking about how all of us were apparently taken from various worlds or alternate universes, and was wondering: Do we have any sort of compiled list of what worlds we've discovered? Liminal Space and Jaunts are both crazy, but there's a whole extra layer of this experience where we're basically all getting a chance to discover dozens of other worlds and universes through each other! We can't see them directly, but there's still got to be plenty of interesting stuff we can learn just by talking about where we're from and how those places differ or how they're the same.

I was going to follow that up with "so let's assemble a list of all those worlds and what we know about them", but the more I think about it, the harder it seems like it's going to be to even figure out where to start. Like, for example, I know we've got a lot of people from "Earth" or some variant of it, so how can we tell which ones are parallel Earths and which ones are the same planet? It gets even hairier when you factor in that there's different periods of time represented, so saying "this person and that person are from the same Earth/different Earths" is practically impossible most of the time.

So as a compromise, if any part of this sounds useful, interesting, or cool, tell us a bit about where you're from! It's not like there's too much for us to be doing while we're stuck in Liminal Space, so why not? I don't have a specific format in mind, but maybe some basics like...

* Homeworld name
* Other people you know are from the same world as you (to keep this organized)
* Local year when you left
* Whether or not you know what Disney is (this seems to be some kind of divide, at least for Earths)

I'll go first! I'm from the Mugunghwa, which is a generation ship sent from Earth to another planet where it was going to start a new colony. The trip was on the order of thousands of years long, so in between, the ship was basically its own isolated society. My situation's a little complicated timeline-wise, but it was 4989 AD when I was warped here, which might or might not be why I've never heard of Disney before. Magic and monsters don't exist (as far as I know), but it seems like our tech was pretty advanced compared to most people I've talked to - space travel tech has gotten pretty advanced by the 60th century, and human-comparable AI is a thing.

...If I'm going to talk about the ship for culture exchange purposes, I guess I should probably talk at least a little about what happened in the later years of the ship's society... So, I spent a very long time in cryostasis and accordingly don't have a firsthand account of what happened, but a few millenia after the ship's voyage began, there was a coup and a family managed to instate themselves as a new royal family. They blamed a bunch of things they did on rebels as an excuse to take more power for themselves, and pushed society back to Joseon Dynasty ideals - stability, strength of family lines, male superiority. A couple hundred years down the road, you end up in a world where scientific research is dead in the water and women aren't allowed to learn how to read.

...Eesh, sorry to end that on a dark note. But, well, that's how it was, and why I'm so glad to be here now. There's probably some kind of fancy moral you could come up with to summarize the whole incident, but I'm honestly not far enough away from it to look at it objectively and come up with one, so I guess I'll leave that to you.

[ Private to Malin ]

Status report! It took a while, but I managed to get the hang of making portals! A couple other things, too - I experimented a bit, and I can psychically change outfits and stuff. It's still so wild that this is just something I can do by thinking about it.

Thanks for all your training~

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.

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