un: phoenixevolution

[manufactured]

Through curiosity both morbid and not - what were you in the middle of before bring brought here, and how urgent do you consider returning to it?

Just going by the way things have been around here lately, I won't precisely be surprised if answers trend towards "having a crisis", "dying horribly", or "watching someone else die horribly"; even so, it isn't as though I'm going to judge for such things either way.

Comments

un: leopardprint

[greatestcool]

You really think that many people were going through something terrible before being brought here? I wasn't doing anything special at all.

[manufactured]

I imagine it isn't uncommon. Though how terrible most of that ends up being is dependent on the world of origin, I believe.

[greatestcool]

Yeah, sounds like it. My world's pretty boring compared to everyone else's, so it makes sense that I wasn't dealing with anything terrible.

What about yours? Is your world pretty crazy?

[manufactured]

I wouldn't have put it in so many words before coming here, simply because the state of things is what it is. It's the only world I was familiar with, after all.

It's a bit much, however, yes.

[greatestcool]

Fair enough! I'm pretty sure none of us were expecting other worlds to exist.

What's it like?

[manufactured]

There was a viral outbreak several years ago that spread rather quickly, all things considered. And people being what they are, it was rapidly adapted and engineered to be well-suited to biological warfare. It was a rather effective way to end up with hordes of the undead in places, among various other things that used to be humans or animals but aren't anymore.

I wouldn't call it an apocalypse; it isn't on that scale yet. But there are certainly places we don't go anymore, just as a rule.

[greatestcool]

[oh my god zombies, that's so cool—]

Whoa, sounds rough. It's good that it's not apocalypse-levels, at least? It's kind of crazy to think about; my world definitely doesn't have zombies running around.

[manufactured]

Whereas the idea of one that doesn't is strange to me. It's been that way for a while now.

That said, I doubt your world is completely unremarkable. Rather few are.

[greatestcool]

I really do wish I could tell you otherwise, but nope. My world doesn't have monsters or zombies or magic or anything cool like that. It's about as standard as you can get. It's also way behind on technology compared to this place.

[manufactured]

I think most are, to be fair. What do you have as far as that goes?

[greatestcool]

Not much. Technology's looking like it's going places in the future, but there's not a ton that's readily available for most people. If it means anything to you, it's 1994.

[manufactured]

My world didn't start collapsing until 1998. There's hope for you yet.

[greatestcool]

[don't make him laugh this hard when he's pretending to be a normal person!!!!]

Wow. Okay, if I go home and experience four years and there are zombies, I promise you'll be the first to know.

[manufactured]

Charming.

And who might you be...? So I know who plans on sending me that information.

[greatestcool]

I'm Ryuunosuke Uryuu, nice to meet you.

[manufactured]

Albert Wesker. The pleasure is mine.

[greatestcool]

I'll be sure to remember it!

So what are the zombies in your world like?

[manufactured]

That depends on a number of things. What they're infected with, who they were before the infection. Genetic makeup is a factor as well, in some cases.

[greatestcool]

Really? Sounds like you've seen a lot of them. Do you study them or something?

[manufactured]

Something like that. I'm a virologist; I've worked for multiple pharmaceutical corporations.

It's my job to know these things.

[greatestcool]

That sounds like it'd be pretty interesting in a world with a zombie outbreak. I'm guessing you're not in the same line of work here, though.

[manufactured]

I was in that line of work before the outbreak. Needless to say, it's taken a bit of a turn.

I'm not, however. Considering doing something in the scientific field, but it's a touch difficult to know where to even start here.

[greatestcool]

That's understandable. Hopefully you can figure it out at some point! Sounds like your work was pretty fascinating back home, though.

[manufactured]

You want to know if I ever studied the undead directly, I assume.

[greatestcool]

Absolutely. Who knows what you could learn from them?