Intro - What better time than during a grabbag!

[wayoutsidethebox]

So, this thing seems unhackable, which is pretty impressive because nothing's unhackable. As far as I can tell, there's nothing to hack, which makes even less sense. If we're all connected, there should be a server.

[The girl - woman, early twenties it seems - is sitting cross legged on the bed of a small room, staring at the laptop.]

I'm wondering if this is some kind of alien technology. I took a look around, saw some posts and most of it... sometimes, crazy isn't a strong enough word. So, I could be talking to a lot of psychos here but help me out. Different worlds? Universes? Something out of a sci-fi Harry Potter Lord of the Rings?

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[ifbymyhands]

Just call me Kano, everyone else does it anyway. And hey, don't worry. "Exciting how" differs in a lot of ways.

[wayoutsidethebox]

Kano. That's doable.

But now I ask anyway. Exciting how?

[ifbymyhands]

Everything from high school drama to apocalyptic wastelands. Different worlds, different stuff.

[wayoutsidethebox]

Ugh, I didn't finish my own high school, I don't want a rehash of it here.

Different worlds, though.... that could be all kinds of cool.

[ifbymyhands]

Mine wasn't all that great, either. I'll spare you the details.

Right? And if there's something you wish were real, it probably is.

[wayoutsidethebox]

Mine was pretty normal, just...not for me, I guess. Bigger and better things and...smaller vans.

I wish I got to meet the Avengers. Still waiting for that to happen.

[ifbymyhands]

Celebrities or something? I think I've heard the name before, but that was ages ago.

[wayoutsidethebox]

Heroes. Real life, sometimes very hunky, superheroes. They were so cool.

[ifbymyhands]

Sounds pretty interesting already.

[wayoutsidethebox]

That part is super interesting. You should have seen it!

..I didn't actually see it live, which sucks. If the Make-A-Wish foundation is listening, I hope that's at the top of the list.

[ifbymyhands]

Or that virus that grants wishes could come back.

[wayoutsidethebox]

With the word virus, I feel like it'd have to be one of those "careful what you wish for" lessons. Like, I'd end up being a casualty of their fight of something. I'm not literally dying to meet them.

[ifbymyhands]

It could be that, too. You never know.

[wayoutsidethebox]

Well, that's pretty far from encouraging. I'm all for taking chances but too good to be true usually is.

[ifbymyhands]

Hey, I thought honesty was the best policy.

[wayoutsidethebox]

Yeah, it's right up there with not dying.

[ifbymyhands]

Is it weird to say I hope you don't, then?

[wayoutsidethebox]

I'd be wayyy more offended if you didn't. I still have a long bucket list.

[ifbymyhands]

Okay then. Well, at least you'll probably check a couple off as it is.

[wayoutsidethebox]

...I don't even know what I would list this as? Connect to the Universe Wide Web?

[ifbymyhands]

Just call it the community. That's easy enough.

[wayoutsidethebox]

'The community.' If I call it that, it still makes me feel like I should be warning everybody about cults and Kool-Aid.

[ifbymyhands]

You don't talk to your neighbours much, do you?

[wayoutsidethebox]

I spent a lot of time at my neighbours. [Because they were a coffee shop.]

Don't get me wrong, I think it's awesome that people get together as a collective. The internet can bring people together who'd never get to chat, match up people with similar ideas. It's just that the ideas worry me here.

[ifbymyhands]

What kinds of ideas? Wait, I shouldn't ask. There are always weird people around.