video | un: plushiesidequest (in which she talks about an NPC visitor)

[reincarnesiac]

( Oh look! It's that same person who melted a radio tower about two weeks ago? Alex waves to the camera, flashes a smile, then sits down on a plush chair in her apartment and leans forward, planting her elbows on her knees. )

Hey, everyone. I know more of you look at stuff here than comment, but think about doing some commenting this time, you know?

( She breathes in, then out in a sigh. )

So I sent out that signal a few weeks ago. I heard back this morning from a guy outside the barrier that goes by Scylla. He confirmed the multiverse is unraveling. He wasn't happy about it.

( Her hands lay over each other, one holding the other at her wrist. )

He also confirmed this pocket dimension of Echo's we're in has a lot of bubble cities trying to solve the problem through point based reality television style game-show setups. But Echo isn't the only one working to try and save the concept of existence. There are other people out there with other ideas. Scylla didn't know if any of them show any more promise than Echo's way, because no one's had confirmed results or failures based on attempts.

( She opens her hands, staring at the camera. )

He said he'll help us figure out how to close the tear after it's open, because that's when he can get in here. Shout out to Aurora for her work keeping us safe until Echo demands otherwise.

( Sitting back, she frowns at the camera. )

I can sum up what else we talked about if people ask, but this seemed important to get out first. He said I probably won't see him for a bit when he arrives, but anyone who does run into him, he's a guy... fairly handsome? Taller than I am, shorter than Gorgug. Paler than me too. Reddish-brown hair with waves that he wears neatly cut but not close shaven. He was scruffy. Had one of those friendly faces you know likes to tease people until he was getting more serious. I don't know, ( she sighs ) it's been a surreal morning.

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[hexcope]

I see.

What I know of what happened is we had new arrivals- same as we always do. Some of them seemed a little odd, but again, same as we always do. At some point, one of them got shot, and Sevika- someone from my world- informed the network that we had spies from another bubble city here. She didn't name who at the time. Shortly after that, a few people stepped forward to announce who they were, and the situation of why they were sent here. Their own bubble city was having internal troubles with someone taking control over the resources around, along with their caretaker AI deciding to hide instead of holding onto their control. We sent a group of our people over to Solmara to reassert control to the AI and from that point on, we haven't heard from them since.

That's all I know.

[reincarnesiac]

Oh. Wow, thank you, that's a pretty good summary of what happened. Also kind of explains... dangers in how we handle our relationship with Aurora.

[hexcope]

We're at her whims, and we're lucky she's nice to us. But that kindness is conditional, and so our existence here is just as conditional. That's not even taking the factor of Echo into account. As far as we know, once he decides he's done with us- we're done too. And if someone's dead where they're from, then that's condemning them to another death as well.

The people here aren't just playing nice for the sake of it. There's survival hanging in the balance. But I think you understand that, now.

[reincarnesiac]

... ( she laughs, lightly. ) Hey, I understood that a long time before now. That's how society works. Survival has always, always been in the balance.

[hexcope]

Yeah. That's true. Still feels a little more life or death here than I'm used to.

[Outside of a major attack or accident, people don't just die at the whims of fate in Piltover. In Zaun, though... He's getting the parallel more in relation to that.]