First Quest (Video, username 'westandreamcatcher')

[lightnovelexperiences]

[So.

The camera picks up an idyllic looking sandy Mediterranean beach, near a patch of grass and forest. It shakes a fair bit, like a cell phone cam in an unsteady - or nervous - hand.]

This is... this is uh. Deedee. ...'s player. Don't... if you know my real name from before the Badgernet crash don't throw it around.

I uh.

I'm on the fucking Shores of Awakening. I'm on fucking Mundus.

And taller and y'all hear how high my voice is. I can feel my tails.

I woke up alone face-down on the sand here. Felt it burn. I uh.

Please advise.

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[turingcompletionist]

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK NO

are you even fucking listening to yourself

you are advocating mass suicide here, you stupid asshole, of people who are already on fucking life support

they didn't ask to get stranded in my game, shithead, and for some of them, that might already be the only life they have left, because fuck knows people don't always read the warning labels and some dumb bitches have probably already removed some of their neurohelms

i know your world is a fucked up terrible place and i'm goddamn sorry that it's the way it is, but you need to fucking check yourself, because this is NOT the same situation you guys are facing in the fucking least

PM to Dr. Durante

[have_hat_will_travel]

Thank you for calling out that shit, by the way.

Re: PM to Dr. Durante

[turingcompletionist]

No problem. I'm trying to keep and open mind and remember that their situation is not like Mundus, but Jesus fucking Christ.

[axmeowder]

You seem very angry. However I have no idea what you're talking about.

[turingcompletionist]

there are at last count well over a thousand people from earth currently stranded on mundus.

you are advocating for people from earth to kill themselves for the benefit of those people already on mundus, yes?

you are advocating for over a thousand people to commit suicide, even though that won't send them back to earth. not for anything they HAVE done but for something you fear they MIGHT do.

that is fucked up, dude.

[axmeowder]

Deedee's player didn't say any of that. I was advising their situation. Don't go putting words in my mouth.

[turingcompletionist]

i was just going by what you seemed to be implying.

WERE you telling deedee to kill himself? because that's what it sounded like.

[axmeowder]

[ Ah, okay. So it is "he." Azra wasn't sure. ]

I asked if he wanted the advice. It's what I would do in his situation. But there's a huge difference between one person and a thousand people.

later i/o spoilers

[turingcompletionist]

[It's not actually, but sadly neither Dr Durante nor Deedee herself know that yet, so she's going to be accidentally misgendering her for a while, sorry :C]

right. sorry. well, unfortunately it's not just him. we've literally been getting new notifications every second of a new person who's been found to be in deedee's situation.

if it helps (which maybe it won't) there's been two people in his situation on mundus for years and they've been living quiet lives and not taking advantage of anyone.

[axmeowder]

Two people is a very small number. We have two off-worlders here we accepted into our group and world.

One thousand is a much larger and scarier number.

[lightnovelexperiences]

statistically, especially given that these are, you know, #Gamers, there's probably at least a few Azra should axe questions.

[axmeowder]

My advice in this situation is to group up, determine who is trustworthy, and work to defend the world from people like that until you can make it home or the world has accepted you.

If you still want my advice.

[lightnovelexperiences]

thanks for the vote of confidence we can, I guess.

[axmeowder]

A thousand people is a huge number. Not only in terms of people displaced from your world but in terms of potential threat to where you wound up.

[turingcompletionist]

... ah fuck. i hate that you have a point.

i/o spoilers

[turingcompletionist]

we were hoping to KEEP it at two and someday get them back to earth, but since their original bodies died, it's been a lot harder than we liked.

it's. uh. multiple thousands now. like i said, we're getting new notifications every second.

Locked to Durante

[lightnovelexperiences]

given that everyone who got an express ticket to her world is at best Kirito and at worst Naofuckthatguy Iwatani, and that she started offering advice on how to get past soul backups on the cloud, I assume yes.

I'm cutting her as much slack as I can, cause, you know, she's modeling her fuckin "I Was Raphtalia And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt" t-shirt, but like

dead dove, do not eat. I don't know what I expected.

Re: Locked to Durante

[turingcompletionist]

yeah, seriously.

and i know that i'm like. super fucking emotionally compromised when it comes to this shit, for reasons i already told you about, but jesus fucking christ.

[lightnovelexperiences]

in her defense, she's right, I hadn't mentioned that. didn't know at the time.

[turingcompletionist]

yeah, okay. sorry about that.