001 ☼ Video

[isoalgorithm]

[The face that appears on the screen is, at first, upside-down, until its owner figures out to turn the device the right way up. Said face, as it comes into focus, belongs to a pale woman with wide, blue-green eyes, and she bites her lip and stares anxiously into the screen for a moment before speaking.]Is this device functional? I think I've

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voice;

[sandrocker]

[man, another robot?? or something similar, quatre is not so sure.]

If you were derezzed, I don't think you would be here.

Voice;

[isoalgorithm]

So this isn't a digital afterlife? Hm. [She fumbles with the device a little; there's the sound of footsteps as she paces around the room.]

That still doesn't explain how I got here.

voice;

[sandrocker]

Well, the Door kidnaps people through magic. But that doesn't explain much, either.

[isoalgorithm]

...I assumed I'd been imported or transferred somehow, but magic doesn't exist outside of books. Does it? [Doubtful Quorra sounds doubtful.]

[sandrocker]

I didn't think so until I arrived here.

[isoalgorithm]

Flynn used to say that 'magic' is a term people use when they don't understand something. I guess in that way this place appears to be magic, because I don't understand any of what's happened to me so far.

[sandrocker]

That is one way to look at it... - maybe there are scientific mechanics to the "magic" here.

[oh, right, she is confused about anatole. he steers back toward helping.]

It takes some time, but you'll get use to the city.

[isoalgorithm]

So I can't leave.

[She sounds oddly accepting of the fact.]

[sandrocker]

Not willingly.

[sounds apologetic.]

[isoalgorithm]

I think...somehow I already knew that, when I woke up.

Have - do you know anyone named Flynn?

[sandrocker]

No, sorry. I'll keep an eye out for him, though.

[isoalgorithm]

Them. There's two. Kevin Flynn and Sam Flynn. He's the Creator, and Sam is his son.

[sandrocker]

The creator of what?

[isoalgorithm]

The Grid. The Outlands. Other programs. My world. Everything.

[sandrocker]

[long bit of silence! he goes through several moments of stunned, confused, and awed. and then, his tone is a little more familiar than before, but you know. gotta make sure his facts are straight here.]

And you're a program?

[isoalgorithm]

That's right. [Why does everyone seem so surprised? It's gone from a User being the rare bird to the exact opposite here. That's going to take some getting used to.]