Update [Video]

[boldlydanforth]

"So, everyone,"

Michael is fumbling with his phone, inside a dashboard console filled with wires and steel.

There's a buzz and suddenly the camera switches to a drone, which follows him outside the lines, follows him out into the bright day, where fields of grass cover the long auspice of a valley. There are no street lights to be seen, no roads to be found, no buildings to be spotted.

"The good news is, it worked."

He slowly panned the camera behind him, taking in the complete apparent lack of buildings, well, everywhere.

"The bad news is, it runs on 240 AC, and I appear to be fresh out."

Comments

[nijistaryume]

That is so cool. You built that?

[boldlydanforth]

Well, the heart of it, yes.

The car body was just lying around the junkyard. Engine was already ripped out, too, so it's not exactly moving anywhere.

Gonna have to figure out how to go home without any electricity or... indeed, any signs of human habitation at all.

apparently didn't get a notif

[nijistaryume]

So you actually got sent someplace? What is this, an alien planet?

Re: apparently didn't get a notif

[boldlydanforth]

I guess? I ain't seen anyone, anyhow, but that doesn't mean shit.

I really should have brought a spare battery...

We'll see what I can do with solar panels but that might take a bit.

[nijistaryume]

Have they invented those there? We don't even have indoor plumbing. But if you could build a solar panel, that would be so cool.

[boldlydanforth]

they don't even have indoor plumbing, donkey...

But well, it's try and see if the panels I brought are enough or rotate wheel somehow.

Honestly I should probably just start rotating wheel.

[nijistaryume]

You brought that kinda stuff? That sounds cool. How do you keep finding those kind of adventures?

i wonder if this means i'm in the boring world cluster

[boldlydanforth]

In this case I went looking for it I'm afraid. I wanted to, you know, see just how resilient Badgernet's addressing is, and tried to do a matter transition in the same, uh, the same space?

I was kind of hoping to at least get someplace, you know, close by and similar enough to my world that I'd be able to go back with a minimum of fuss but it seems 'close' is much more related to IP address 'close' than it does house address 'close'.

I, uh, I have no idea where I am except that it's about two digits off my home address.

[nijistaryume]

So like that experiment you were working on! Which could mean this is, like, your world if your city didn't exist or something. Or maybe without civilization. Kinda scary when you think about it, but also really cool. Especially how you got the teleporting to work!

[boldlydanforth]

Yeah that came together... concerningly easy.

I even got a couple grants approved that I shouldn't have.

... Well now I'm worried that I'll be brought in for fraud or wire fraud. ...

I need evidence, don't I.

[nijistaryume]

You mean taking the research staff to another world to prove it or something?

[boldlydanforth]

Something at least that extraordinary.

... Or, of course, I could just run. Not like they can follow me, I guess. But... Pigs, pokes, not a great plan.

[nijistaryume]

Uh, maybe neither of those things. Or if you're gonna go with the first one, make sure it's not gonna backfire.

[boldlydanforth]

Yeah not looking forward to the calls from Interior, Homeland Security, Defense, and Health/Human Services once I publish.

[nijistaryume]

How come you wanna make the whole thing public anyway? I guess you probably had to to get the grant money, huh.

[boldlydanforth]

Semi-public. I highly doubt that it's going to escape my university.

... Ha, I could just bring the dean along. That'd work.

[nijistaryume]

Just be careful, 'cause you never know. If anyone starts going all Invader on places, don't say I didn't warn you.

[boldlydanforth]

Before that, I need to work on getting home...

[nijistaryume]

So all you need is power to do what you did before, huh?

[boldlydanforth]

I... Think? Barring any serious changes in physical laws I can't confirm here, anyway.

[nijistaryume]

In that case, I guess I can't really help, 'cause you already know everything you need to do. Ehe.