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[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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If you manage to find anyone else in that kind of situation I'd like to hear about it.

[Because seriously. Amestris can't be the only weird world, can it?]

As for me, I haven't heard anyone else talking about it. But I haven't been asking, either.

I'm asking because I haven't heard about it either - what with all the worlds that are represented here, it's rather improbable that it's only happened to us, isn't it? I mean, there seem to be many people from the same overall world here; they all recognize the same names as far as countries, cities and major landmarks go. But I have yet to hear of anyone whose world has a near-mirror, as we do. It's odd.

[Blake's thumbs jab out an answer immediately.]

No. Alternate dimensions are crap made up by the same kind of people who send magazines pictures of Bigfoot.

THE ARCADE I'M FROM HAD TWO PACMAN CONSOLES ONCE. IT WAS KIND OF AWKWARD FOR EVERYBODY.

Ah, is that so? You'll have to tell that to the alternate versions of people I know, I'm afraid; they're around, believe me.

[RALPH WHAT IS A CONSOLE

...WHAT IS A PACMAN FOR THAT MATTER]

Did they ever interact with each other? Or do you adhere to the idea where if that were to happen, the world would end?

THEY INTERACTED. IT WAS CONFUSING BECAUSE IN GAME CENTRAL YOU WOULD SEE PEOPLE TALKING TO ONE OF THE PACMANS OR THE GHOSTS BUT THERE WOULD BE THIS LONG AWKWARD PAUSE BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE TALKING TO THE ONE THEY KNEW AND AT ONE POINT PEOPLE ALMOST STOPPED TALKING TO ANYONE FROM PACMAN AT ALL. SOME COLLECTOR BOUGHT THE OTHER CABINET FINALLY. WE STILL AREN'T SURE IF ALL THE CAST IN OUR PACMAN ARE ORIGINALS BUT THEY'RE REASONABLE CHARACTERS SO IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER I GUESS.

Oh yeah? You got anything but their word for it?

[WAIT.]

So the ones you know now might not be the ones you knew originally, but random people from a different world entirely?

Or a different version of the same world, I suppose, if we're being technical, but the point stands.

There are some things you don't lie about if you know what's good for you, and other things that you can't.

YEAH. THE PLUGS WEREN'T VERY CLEAR BACK THEN. THIS WAS AGES AGO. PROBABLY BEFORE YOU WERE EVEN CONCEPT ART. LIKE I SAID, THEY'RE ALRIGHT PEOPLE AND THEIR GAME WORKS JUST FINE.

[NO NO NO THIS IS AN EXISTENTIAL CRISIS DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT]

And everyone is perfectly fine with this?

IT WAS KIND OF SAD THAT THE OTHER GAME GOT SOLD TO A COLLECTOR AND NOT ANOTHER ARCADE. WHAT ARE THEY GONNA DO? ROT IN A CORNER. YEESH. I HOPE THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN TO THIS GAME.

What, were you waterboarding them or something?

[.....................................]

...truly a shame, yes.

DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION?

I'm sorry...? I'm not familiar with the term - "waterboarding"?

Well, it's certainly given me something to think about, let's put it that way.

I ACTUALLY MET SOMEONE FROM THE ARCADE HERE A COUPLE MONTHS AGO. SHE SAID THAT SHE KNEW ME BUT I NEVER MET HER IN MY LIFE. BUT SHE'S GONE NOW. BACK WITH THAT OTHER ME PROBABLY. IT KIND OF GIVES YOU A HEADACHE TO THINK ABOUT DOES'NT IT?

[Gee, this is relevant to her interests.]

What kind of evidence did you get?

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I've interacted with people who were decidedly not who they should have been, and others who remember the same landmarks and a different version of myself, only their world changed drastically at some point and it skewed the timeline.

It does, yes. There's someone here who knew a different version of me entirely; obviously I think that's doing his head in more than it's doing mine, but it's been a surreal experience.

IT'S PRETTY WEIRD. ESPECIALLY IF THEY DON'T KNOW THEY'RE IN A GAME. I THINK IF I MET ANOTHER RALPH, I WOULD WONDER WHERE ON EARTH SOMEBODY DUG UP ANOTHER COPY OF FIX-IT FELIX JR.

[OKAY, LET'S...TRY TO TALK TO THE WEIRDO ON HIS OWN LEVEL, SHALL WE...]

Unfortunately, I'm not familiar with that particular title myself - is it difficult to find?

WELL WE JUST TURNED THIRTY YEARS OLD THE DAY I GOT HERE. NOT MANY GAMES LAST THAT LONG. KIDS GET BORED YKNOW?

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