Something I've always found interesting about reading what goes on in here is how many people ask questions here, and how many people answer them ( Read more... )

[She sounds quite level.]So I've been asking around about that new game that debuted that makes people forget who they are and sticks them someplace new. You all know what I'm talking about? The horror game ( Read more... )

I realized I passed a year spent here a while ago. I didn't really think about it at the time. It's been quite a while since I've been home now, except for a short visit a while ago. It's been months since then at this point ( Read more... )

( private text to Franz; )

[It is sort of hilariously awful how things can spin so terribly out of control so quickly under the right circumstances. The Port usually seems to set those circumstances up, too ( Read more... )

[The feed opens to a couple seconds of silence, broken after a moment by a couple of brisk tapping noises before Rin speaks. She sounds distant, maybe with the edge of something else: wistful, yes. But only a little.]I wonder sometimes about the people who leave from this place, or the people that die here... the ones who were hardly here at all ( Read more... )

You know, I think the future has been pretty amazing in a lot of ways so far. For one, the technology is amazing. For another, people haven't all killed each other yet and from at least skimming the history books of how things went, that's pretty amazing - although I guess things could still go all pear-shaped in pretty short order. Kudos to the ( Read more... )

I know that along with me there are several others who have passed through what I will term "interim worlds" between arriving in the Port, as opposed to what's apparently the majority experience in the newcomer population, jumping directly from their home world to the Port ( Read more... )

[After Darkness falls...

Sounding tired but probably more cheerful than she ever has before:]

Aaaah... man!

Okay, okay. I guess I wasn't gone for very long, huh...? What a difference, some people disappear and they think months have gone by here too, mine was practically right on the nose... but that makes it nice and easy ( Read more... )

[the video feed comes on, seeming to point at nothing for a moment - there's a quiet, nearly inaudible clack as Rin sets her NV down on the desk in Minako's boarding house and steps away from it for a minute, getting something ( Read more... )