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alright so just kind of chilling here on the beach instead of some underwater city this info guide talks about
and you know thatd be kind of cool if it werent for one major issue
what the fuck just happened
seriously i think i just got whiplash from trying to figure out where that five minutes went so wrong
i mean the first time i got teleported randomly at least it wasnt just me
landed right on my ass confused as hell but i wasnt the only one
its easier to sit there and look like a tool when youre in a group trying to figure out what the hells going on
its lame to lay on a beach alone looking like a tool getting wet sand in places sand doesnt need to be

read over the whole welcome thing so ok cool i get it
stranger shit has happened i guess so why the fuck not
moving on to try and be somewhat productive here
sup names dave
tell me theres someone that knows me here cause itll make this shit a lot easier
or worse
idk i guess well see
like id say something is better than nothing but i can think of a lot of cases where that wouldnt really be true
so for better or worse i guess
isnt there like a saying or something that knowings half the battle
does that apply to this situation?
well it does now because i say so

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[It brings up a lot of feelings in Dirk, seeing that text on his screen. But it's not as intense as the first time, not really. For one, Dave isn't wandering randomly into his house, completely unexpected.

For another, he's met Dave and Davesprite both. And while they're still alternate versions of his Bro, he knows they aren't the same. They're just about his age, even if staying in Vatheon has added a few months to that time. Dave's got his bro here, he doesn't need to get torn up over Dirk.

So Dirk just takes a breath, and responds.]

As I'm sure you've found, there are more people who know you than who you know.
Everyone gets to sit around like a tool wondering what the fuck just happened, so don't feel too bad about losing your special snowflake privileges.
The sand is the welcoming gift this time around, but if you want to shun beach tradition, we've got ourselves a quaint little village going on.

[It doesn't take much to put two and two together and figure out who this is, and if he wasn't already warned he'd probably be having another minor panic attack over this. Too many Striders that aren't versions of him, he's not sure how to deal with this.]

i remember you
saw you in a dream bubble a long while back

[When he had to grab teen mom. But that seems like an awkward thing to say, so he's just gonna not go there. And pray that Dirk was too busy then to see how much shit he flipped at the time.]

id say im pretty sure i can take the cake for the wtf is going on meter
one sec i was on a meteor wondering how the hell we were going to stop it while passing through your session
since apparently three years and we never bothered to look into that little detail
the next jade appears out of no where looking scary as a motherfuck
next second were all in a pile at johns feet on a grassy land
then bam on my ass on a beach
pretty sure that all took place within the span of like
three minutes

[When in doubt, ignore your feelings and infodump, right? Dirk thinks it's a pretty good plan.]

Few months ago, by our world's timeline.
A few more while I've been here, for me.
As for a what the hell meter, our stories are surprisingly similar.
Only yours involves a meteor and what seems to be Jake's land, whereas mine involved Derse then the middle of fuckall nowhere.
I assume you didn't get any more of a read than I did on what the shit was up with Jade.
Looks like you told her a thing or two about that clusterfuck.

[If there's one things Striders are good at, it's ignoring feelings and pretending they don't exist.]

yeah didnt get more of a chance to figure out what was up with her other than an initial oh shit moment
didnt know it was supposed to be kept a secret from her
i mean if it involves her theres really no point in hiding something like that

It was not intentionally so much as it was taboo.
Ro-Lal and I figured we wouldn't say much until we knew what the fuck was going on.
No one's showed up from past our timeline, so no information is available.
Could tell you shit about our session, though, considering you've spent three goddamn years getting to it.

before rose hit rock bottom she did a lot of research and found out a lot about your session actually
id be more interested in hearing about you

Might want to explain "hitting rock bottom" there, bro.
last time Rose showed up here she was sharp as a tack.
Shit going down on your crazy meteor party?

she got drunk for the first time about a year ago
thought it was a one time thing because she was nervous about her first date so i didnt give her too much shit over it
would have pushed more if i had known that day was the last time id see her sober

Well that obviously bodes well for everyone involved.
I'd fucking love to know what the hell she thinks she's doing, but that will have to wait until she's here to tear a new asshole in.

Either way, you wanted to know about me.
Any questions in particular?

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