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[techknowlogical]

WHO: Koushirou and whoever makes the mistake of responding
WHAT: IMPORTANT QUESTIONS
WHERE: Some secluded corner of the ruins
WHEN: Now-ish but ambiguously whenever you reply

[Although texting is certainly his preferred way of communicating, it's still a little nerve-wracking. But figuring things out is way more important than some unnecessary nervousness, and so he's finally decided to take a break from other things he's working on to ask some questions.]

Hello everyone. In the interest of discovering why and how we arrived here, I had a few questions for those willing to answer them.

The first is what each of us was doing before we found ourselves here, and if it happened in any sort of noteworthy location. Any details could be important, so whatever you remember is likely valuable.

The second is if anyone here is familiar with or experienced in traveling between dimensions or worlds, outside of this one.

The third is if anyone, while here, has attempted any methods of reaching or contacting a dimension or world outside of this one, and what the results were.

[He's... Not expecting much on the last one, honestly, but might as well ask. The first two might result in something useful, though, or at least he hopes they might.

And before he ends the post--]

Thank you for your time.

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[omniavincit]

It fell into the wrong hands and things snowballed. It's an insane amount of power. [ The power to rewrite the past, to tip the balance of war. To erase people from existence.

Give him a second with the next sentence. ] That's right. More research could've been done on that front beforehand. [ But thinking things through was never COST's strong suit. ]

[techknowlogical]

[Ah, that makes sense. He can easily see how something like that could happen, and although making time travel impossible is a drastic solution sometimes a drastic solution is the only choice.]

That's understandable. Even someone who thought they were doing good could accidentally cause a lot of harm.

[Let alone someone with malicious intentions.]

Do you think that the solution is permanent, or that time travel may simply be rediscovered in your world eventually?

[omniavincit]

Aren't most people convinced they're doing good? [ Even the army COST had been fighting—they thought they brought peace. But again, that might be too much detail to share.

He warms to whoever this is, worrying over the fate of worlds and times not his own. ] Nothing's permanent. [ It looks ominous, there in text, but it's true. Time travel itself was built from the bones of a long-dead god. ] Least of all here.

Tell me about your world.

[techknowlogical]

[He's not sure if he'd agree on the 'most' part, at least when it comes to the enemies he's dealt with, though then again he's not used to dealing with humans. It's probably pretty true in that case.

In addition to the genuine concern for the status of other worlds, Koushirou's fascinated by the idea of having to rediscover completely 'lost' technology, and he'd like to ask about a million more questions. But he's at least a little better at social cues--especially through text--than he used to be, so he decides to let the subject change for now.

But answering that question in turn in a little difficult, both in terms of how to describe it to someone from another world--what's important and what isn't?--but also how much he actually wants to say. There isn't a lot of reason to be secretive, but he also isn't sure explaining everything immediately is the best idea either.]

It's 2005, presuming we're using the same calendar system.

[Which is probably a safe-ish guess, considering they're both from locations they recognize, which would be unlikely without a lot of general similarities.]

I'm not sure what else may be relevant to tell you, generally. There is no time travel, but another dimension is widely known of although travel to and from that world can be difficult. There are also several other dimensions that are less well known.

[omniavincit]

Earlier than me. [ William offers, mostly for the stranger's sake. He's not sure how much point there is in trying to pin down exact years. ]

But you know about them. [ In person, his tone would be somewhere between teasing and probing. Without the frank interest, the light in his eyes, it may come across differently. ] How were they discovered?

[techknowlogical]

[It's an interesting note for sure, but not much of a surprise or anything. If they don't have time travel in Koushirou's world, he thinks it would be very unexpected if William were from an earlier point in time.

He considers for a moment how much to answer the question, but decides there isn't a lot of reason not to just be honest.]

They have all been accidental discoveries, usually through unintentional travel to one of them. Much like finding ourselves here.