un: castiel | voice to text

[messenger]

Hello. This is Castiel.

I'm looking for any information that can be provided on Aurora, Etraya, and Echo. I'm particularly interested in the latter.

I'm certain anyone who's made attempts at gathering information about this place and those who've brought us here will have noticed there's no library.

[ calling it suspicious would be redundant, so he doesn't. ]

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un: wanda

[wundagores]

[now that castiel mentions it —]

I also thought that was strange.

[a pause. then:]

Is there anything stopping us from keeping our own records?

[an actual block, magical or otherwise? she hasn't felt anything, but.]

[messenger]

Not as far as I'm aware, but I have no need to keep them.

But if there were something stopping us, I imagine we wouldn't be able to share information over this network, either. Doesn't it record all the information we give it?

text; un: tt

[thinkerseven]

ur right! it is sus

ppl take their own notes. i personally like 2 barter 4 my information but i can give u some of the basics 4 free since im feeling awfully nice :)

anything specific u wanna know?

[messenger]

Sus?

[ it takes him a moment for him to understand what he's reading. ]

Thank you.

I would like to know everything you know about Echo.

un: Accelerator | text

[levelshift]

There isn't a lot we know about Echo. Fuck, we don't even know how much of Echo is still Echo.

If you want a library you could ask Aurora about that. We've got a bookstore, but a library's not a bad idea.

[messenger]

What do you mean?

I want information. A library would be useless if she's unwilling to provide that much.

[levelshift]

Echo apparently loses something every time they bring someone here, similar to what happens to us when we die and are brought back. It's like a Ship of Theseus thing, but I don't know if they're replacing the parts they've lost.

Have you asked her?

[messenger]

How did you come by this information? That seems incredibly dangerous.

No.

[bookofpowers]

I heard you may ask them things directly. It might be worth trying, but I would not expect a straight-forward answer.

[messenger]

I'd prefer a straight-forward answer.

[bookofpowers]

Kidnappers don't tend to give those.

[messenger]

Which is why I'm not asking.

Have you been here long?

[bookofpowers]

A few days, only.

[messenger]

I understand.

Have you made Aurora any requests of your own?

[bookofpowers]

I wasn't aware we could make requests.

[messenger]

It's been... implied.

[levelshift]

I was talking to Aurora about death, and she told me. If you don't think she's trustworthy you'll want to take this information with a grain of salt.

Then you should try.

[messenger]

Do you trust her?

[levelshift]

Yeah, I do.

[bookofpowers]

Inquiring minds might ask, just to see.

[messenger]

Why?

[ it would help the decisions he's going to have to make, if he knew there was a reason to trust her. ]

[levelshift]

She's been civil and whenever I've asked her about shit and she's been able to give me an answer she has. I see no reason not to trust her.

[And he's got a gigantic soft spot for artificial beings, especially ones created only for a specific task who've been deprived of their own agency, buuuut saying that out loud is embarrassing so he keeps it to himself.]

[messenger]

[ castiel can relate, but it doesn't exactly make him more inclined to trust. ]

I see. I'd like a little more information before I decide.

[thinkerseven]

i like abbreviations makes me type faster

echo is a tricky bastard
as u probably know aurora isnt the real boss. echo is. theyre the one who evaluates all our bullshit teammwork challenges. they design this shit like its cartoons for middle schoolers i s2g

we have multiple ppl from my world with diff relationships w/ death and the timeline. i dont think echo has any power over death bc all this bs would be moot otherwise. they do have some power over time though. probably just another dimension 2 them due 2 their ~~omnipotence~~

[messenger]

What does cartoons for middle schoolers mean?

They've raised people from the dead, though.

It is just another dimension. Even I can move through time, under normal circumstances. But they must be more powerful than me, or they wouldn't be able to contain me here.