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[victoriaautmors]

My thanks to those who aided me the other day. I regained enough strength to find shelter for myself and I think...

...No...I know I am still convalescing. Pain is evidence that this is truly not a dream. Then what?

What is this place?

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[finitevus]

Were you not awake through your orientation with the Warden?

[victoriaautmors]

I know that I have been "drafted" and that I am in a place called Econtra...but this is not enough.

[finitevus]

Econtra is in another world, an alternate reality amongst countless others. In my own world, and many others, these differing realities are called 'zones'. In this world, the planet we reside upon is called Earth, and holds, historically, commonality with other people's recollections of their own Earth, as I understand.

This Earth was invaded by creatures called Entropi, an energy based life that subsists on the energy present within biological life. That is my supposition based upon the lack of any animal life in this area. I do know they feed upon energy from secondhand reports.

Econtra itself is a compound, and this is the second one. The first was destroyed, so I'm told, when the slain Entropi raised up toxic poisons from the soil and destroyed any habitability of the previous installation. This new center of operations is sometimes referred to as Neocontra.

Shall I explain more?

[handofjustice]

Pain? Are you injured?

This is Econtra, or Neocontra as some call it. Whoever runs this place has the power to pull people in from other dimensions.

[victoriaautmors]

Sick.

Other dimensions?

[handofjustice]

What are your symptoms? I work at the clinic here.

Yes. Different worlds. Dimensions. Some of them are vastly different. Some of them very alike, so you often get alternate versions of people.

[victoriaautmors]

I will be fine, thank you for your concern.
Alternate versions...hmm...

[goggles_win]

Prison/military/insane asylum. With a touch of Twiglight Zone.

[victoriaautmors]

Sounds accurate enough but that does not answer my question. A healthy man's heart stops and he wakes up in another world? It is not a riddle but I'd like to hear your thoughts.

[goggles_win]

What happened to you?

I'm not sure, but I think its like when the consulo pulls people here at the point of death it stops time for them in the process of dying. Or maybe it heals some of the damage along the way. You're not the first person to show up who should have died.

[victoriaautmors]

This consulo sounds...tragically indiscriminant.

[n_early_lost]

Dying?

How?

[victoriaautmors]

Not unusual I hear. It does not matter.

[n_early_lost]

Dying? Unusual, save for Entropi attacks. The cuffs do not allow for violence outside of attacks.

[victoriaautmors]

I meant dying as arriving...What are the Entropi?

[barbecued]

Ryuzaki.

[victoriaautmors]

That's right.

[barbecued]

Either I'm another you, or you're another me.

[victoriaautmors]

...Is that so?