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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[wotchesyou]

[ Tonks is not going to be helpful at all. She stares back as though she doesn't understand much of what Quorra has just said. She stares back that way because she doesn't understand much of it. ]

I'm sorry but what did you just say?

[isoalgorithm]

[Quorra isn't completely oblivious to the lack of understanding, so she decides to simplify things a little.]

Am I dead?

[wotchesyou]

I'm not so I don't think you are either.

[isoalgorithm]

[Quorra blinks at her a couple of times.] Strange.

You are a User, aren't you? [She's never seen a program with such colorful hair before.]

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.]

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[heartbetween]

...Okay. I don't know what the hell you just said, but. You're in Anatole right now, this device is a Forge, and no, this is not an afterlife, though several of the residents have died in their own worlds. It's most likely that no one from your world is here.

One second.

[Clicky noises as he digs up an old text file]

Here.

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[isoalgorithm]

[Quorra's quiet a minute, her eyes darting back and forth across the screen as she absorbs the new information. It doesn't take her that long.]

That's very enlightening. Thank you.

But it still doesn't explain why.

[Voice]

[break_onthru]

Outdated, you say?

[Sorry. It's just that the Forge is the single most advanced piece of technology he's ever come across.]

Hmm. That must be soooome world you're from.

[isoalgorithm]

I'm from the Grid. It's a digital world, inside a computer, constructed by a User. He created us. Well - most of us.

[She doesn't think she should say much more than that about what she is, so she doesn't.]

This place doesn't feel digital, though. [She'll need to get outside, try to rezz her lightcycle or try to use her disc. But she's understandably nervous about all that.]

[Voice]

[break_onthru]

[Yeah he understood roughly 12% of that. The User bit, actually. Sounds kind of like a deity. And the Grid might be some wacky dimension, of which Break understands plenty.]

Welllll, you will find this place isn't quite like anything you're used to, that's for sure.

Oh! How terribly rude of me~! Please allow me to introduce myself. I am Xerxes Break. And who might you be, my fair lady?

Voice

[isoalgorithm]

That's okay. I was...very used to the Grid. [Her tone suggests that's not much of a good thing, either.]

I'm Quorra.

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[bakudan_shounen]

[He's going to stare for a moment before being unhelpful]

You're... a program?

[isoalgorithm]

[And she'll stare right back.]

Yes. You're not?

[bakudan_shounen]

No! I'm a human!! How the hell are you a program?!

[isoalgorithm]

Well, how are you a human? [She seems faintly amused by the reaction.]