Area Adjustment: The Portal

[snowblindmods]

AREA ADJUSTMENT

As of night 445, the portal is now working. It is now possible to activate the portal. It cannot be used to bring anyone in. It can be pointed at a certain quantum version of any location. When activated, as many people who want to can travel through the portal within sixty seconds, when it will automatically close. You cannot return through a portal. The right quantum frequency must be found first. If people died here and were not revived, then in order for them to be alive you must find a version of the world in which they were never taken. In order to avoid having two versions of yourself, you must point the time at immediately after you were taken. Of course, you don't have to do that, if you'd prefer someone dead stayed that way, or you want to go somewhere else... And, well--if everyone leaves now, they leave Norfinbury as it is. Miller is a liar, not even alive. It's very possible, left as things are, the cycle will continue on. There's the anomalies, as well--should they be left here alive or killed? And how can you shut down the computer when none of you are left on this side of the portal? You are all of you alone together. There is nobody here who will make this decision except for yourselves. Do you run now, or do you kill the town so this never happens again? Can you, in the time you have left?

Comments

[devoutish]

I'm still pouring through all the stuff that's happening in the search requests and might have missed something, but - how much of this info is ICly available?

[snowblindmods]

Angel is the one who discovered it, so it would be up to her to let people know the portal is working and how to work it. The rest is deducible or discoverable to everybody.

[devoutish]

Okay, thanks! And just for clarification, I'm a little confused about this part:

"If people died here and were not revived, then in order for them to be alive you must find a version of the world in which they were never taken. In order to avoid having two versions of yourself, you must point the time at immediately after you were taken."

I might be reading it wrong, but the first part seems to imply that when characters were taken from Norfinbury, they vanished from their worlds completely (which is why you have to find a world where they never went to Norfinbury if you want your character to see their died-when-they-were-dropped friends again), but the second part seems to imply that some version of them stuck around at home and continued living their lives there (which is why you have to send them back home at the exact right moment to avoid doubling them). Is whether or not they vanished from their worlds something that varies from character to character (and if so, is that discoverable too), or am I misinterpreting?

[snowblindmods]

If a character tried to return before they were taken, there would be two versions of them. They can return at any point after they were taken--presumably they would want to return as soon as they got taken, but there's actually nothing from stopping them from returning days, months, or years after they got taken.

[devoutish]

Aha, gotcha!

[ninjainviolet]

Sheenomaly fell into the hole in the power plant. Odds of surviving?

[snowblindmods]

None. She's dead.

[ex_this_ismydesign36]

If someone agrees to stay behind to ensure the computer is shut down, is there somewhere specific we should submit that?

[snowblindmods]

If it's decided that this is going to happen, that can be put in a search request as a final plan for escape. Make sure everyone else is cool with it/there isn't something else people want to happen, though!

[zunesareawesome]

Do canonical updates count as the time they were 'taken' or would the original pull-point of their canon when we apped count? For example, Peter physically comes from the end of GOTG2, but has the memories of Infinity War.

[snowblindmods]

It would be possible for him to find a universe to fit either situation. As to if he's going back to his original universe, who knows!