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[explosivecombat]

[Well. The previous night's sleep was absolutely hideous, for reasons that Kimblee really doesn't want to discuss, especially not with the network as a whole; however, the lack of contact with people is possibly the last thing he wants.

So. Polling the audience time again. Let's do this thing.]

While I know that this world has a tendency to pull some strange sorts of mayhem when it comes to bringing people here, have any of the rest of you found people from a different version of the world you came from? I'm not talking about different points on the timeline - though if any of you have experienced anything particularly strange on that front, I'm interested in hearing about that as well. What I'm referring to are instances of the world being identical up to a point, and the subsequent differences led to the timeline of your world and the timeline of this alternate version being entirely different.

From what I understand, this can lead to things such as another version of you living out an alternate version of your life; an example of what things might have been, if you made different choices. I know that it's a popular theory, philosophically, but have any of you received irrefutable evidence that that's the case in whatever reality you came from?

Because I have.

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[enjoymyatelier]

Ah, so that has happened to someone else? I thought it was a bit strange that nobody else seems to have had that experience... well, no one aside from the other individuals from my world that are present here, of course.

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[explosivecombat]

What a roundabout way of saying that it's happened to you, Lord El-Melloi - but I do appreciate your input, don't misunderstand me.

What happened, in your case?

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[enjoymyatelier]

Well, I do have to admit it was somewhat exciting. It's really been bothering me since someone brought it up to me, since by all rights there should be more world variants represented here than there are.

In my case, I encountered someone from a universe where the world's supply of magic dried up at some point in the recent past, and so they somehow managed to use technology to replicate thaumaturgical constructs such as, say, the Holy Grail War. I have absolutely no idea how that's even possible, and to be honest I rather don't like the idea... but I suppose it makes sense on some level.

With that said, I doubt the person I encountered would be terribly different if I were to encounter a version of her from my world rather than that other one, as she was a long-dead emperor and there was a clear point of divergence between our worlds, so that seems unusual in and of itself.

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[explosivecombat]

[...there is really only one thing to say to that, isn't there.]

...So this sort of thing is just an accepted phenomenon in your world, then?

[Mages.]

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[enjoymyatelier]

Oh, most certainly. The existence of infinite parallel worlds is actually proven fact, as there's an individual who has learned to travel between them.