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[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

*A certain being is sitting with his back against the well, reading a book with a plain red cover. He's humming tonelessly to himself as he flips pages and in general he seems exceedingly bored. A better distraction than the interminable tome would be welcomed.*

Comments

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Trees aren't exactly fast, are they? But he's your enemy, and having a stupid enemy is better than a smart one.

[dee_lorean81]

Not in my experience -- the expression is supposed to be "make like a tree and leave." [she nods, making a face] But yeah, that's fair enough. He caused enough problems being dumb. I don't want to think about what he could have done if he'd been smarter.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

That version does indeed work much better.

Really, though, having access to time travel sounds dangerous in general. Not that there aren't events I would like to erase.

[dee_lorean81]

[nods wisely] Yeah, it is dangerous -- and I'm staying that as a time machine. Second time I was used, Marty accidentally drove me into the 1950s and almost erased himself and his siblings from existence.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Precisely the sort of issue I was imagining. Few people would truly wish to have never been born.

[dee_lorean81]

Marty definitely didn't. He especially didn't want his own mom hitting on him. Apparently she thought he was cuter than his dad. He managed to fix it, buuuut. . .kind of thing that scars a guy.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

That would be rather unnerving, yes. Although I can still think of worse things.

[dee_lorean81]

Unnerving and painful -- apparently being erased from existence hurts like hell. [she tilts her head] Well, I guess you could -- you kind of specialize in worse thoughts, don't ya?

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Yes, I suppose it would.

I specialize in hunger and dark water and vengeance and self-destruction. Not exactly happy thoughts.

[dee_lorean81]

I would think erasing yourself from existence would fall under the latter. Though as far as I know, none of your followers can go back in time and accidentally cause their mothers to get crushes on them.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Even in the Neath time rarely works that strangely. Perhaps in Irem?

[dee_lorean81]

Heh, well, I'm sure everybody's grateful for that. . .that's the place that's from the future, right? But sort of kind of exists down there already?

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Yes, it will be. Or possibly was.

[dee_lorean81]

Or maybe will have been?

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

Something of the sort, at any rate.

[dee_lorean81]

[shakes head] I'm a literal time machine and even I can get lost with the tenses sometimes.

Happy Halloween

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

You need to make some new ones, I think.

Happy Halloween!

[dee_lorean81]

[Dee frowns] I would, but -- not sure English would ever be able to REALLY express just how complicated time and moving through it is. Any human language, honestly.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

A shame, that.

There's probably something in the Correspondence, but I'd rather you not light your tongue on fire by mistake. You seem decent enough.

[dee_lorean81]

Yeah. . .and me either, thanks. I already light my tires on fire every time I go through time, and that's enough for me.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

That sounds painful. Is it painful, or do you not feel things when like that?

[dee_lorean81]

Eh. [she waggles a hand] I can sort of feel stuff, but pain doesn't really seem to be a thing. Though I haven't tested that theory out TOO much. But the flaming tires -- it's really just kind of hot for a second. Maybe because it happens so close to actually time-traveling, which -- you start out really hot, and come out really COLD. Kind of cancels each other out.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

That's rather lucky, now isn't it.

I don't suppose you've discovered what causes the cold, have you?

[dee_lorean81]

Yeah, I guess. I mean, it's weird too, because if I'm conscious. . .but then again, I don't really have nerve endings as a car. . . [she shrugs]

Not yet. It just seems to be a side-effect of breaking the space-time barrier. It could be because you need a lot of energy to force yourself through, which generates a lot of heat. . then all of it, including the heat, gets used up during the travel? Only takes an instant, but. . .it's complicated stuff.

[thelightontheedgeofsleep]

The universe is always complicated. Especially when you'd rather it not be.