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[bookishnettler]

I'm sorry it's been several days, community! Schoolwork is keeping me dreadfully busy-- not that I'm complaining, of course. But I just had to come and talk about something strange that's happened. Harry and Ron don't remember this place at all! I know this happens sometimes when people leave, but they didn't forget right away, only just now. Has this happened to anybody else's friends?

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[coolblueiceman]

Not unless the community decided it likes to nest viruses inside each other now. We just finished with one... within the last 24 hours? At least, if I'm to believe the reports from everyone?

Time scale for some of us can be very odd, though; it's been maybe a month or two since I joined the community in relative time for me, yet the dates I'm seeing correspond to such a long period of time... and they're quite a bit into my future.

[bookishnettler]

Lots of people are in my future here, but... I wonder. My relative time could be different from the community's. It didn't used to be, but it would explain some things.

[coolblueiceman]

Things change, sometimes. I've seen plenty of examples with unique relative time scales, even before the community. Sometimes magic can shift their time scales, too, and that's before we get into the usual absurdly powerful magical artifacts.

[bookishnettler]

Affecting time takes a lot of highly powerful magic. Are there really very many people here who could do it, do you think? I doubt it.

[coolblueiceman]

I am in the process of protecting a world from destruction by a single artifact. I know it. Maybe not a specific person, but there are items and artifacts all over dimensional space that could cause such a thing, and I've learned the hard way that they're never fun to deal with.

[bookishnettler]

Oh, I know! I just don't think there are very many. It's absolutely fascinating that you're working with one, though. Are you a wizard yourself?

[coolblueiceman]

For certain definitions of the term, I am. I'm an Enforcer with the Time-Space Administration Bureau. It's my job to make sure dimensional space remains safe from Lost Logia, and from people misusing magic.

And the artifact in question is quite possibly the most dangerous of its kind, honestly - it's going to take a miracle to get it under control.

[bookishnettler]

Do you worry about theft?