How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,

[ghoulserrand]

[He normally would try to lay low in a given world. Faust, too, has suggested he's should. Brining attention onto himself is a bad, bad, very bad idea.

But he can't help it. There's working internet. And he has the power of typing and bad ideas on his side.]

Hey new world! I'm Teo! Just got here. I'm from Earth, but from my last world, I learned that's pretty common, and every Earth seems to be different from the others. Who's from somewhere new and who here's from Earth? And for those from Earth, what's the thing that makes it different?

Alternate introduction question: What's everyone's favorite thing to do here?

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[awooligan]

Hello humans, I'm from Earth
If I don't know an Earth thing it's because there are different Earths and not because I'm not from Earth
I'm definitely from Earth
Know all about it
Because I'm from there
Shoutout to all my fellow human Earthlings
Earth

[ghoulserrand]

[First time back on the internet in literally years and the first one to greet him is a troll. The not-undead or fantasy kind of troll.]

...
Okay, I'm gonna give you that one.
This does read pretty weird.

[awooligan]

Yep

Though I am from Earth, too
Oklahoma, over in the states
The weirdest thing about it is that I remember two versions of it
One's normal, but the other has a ton of magic shit going on

[ghoulserrand]

Cool.
Are you magic too?
Like, going between worlds or just in the magic world?

[awooligan]

[He hates this question......... Time to mostly ignore it.]

I didn't go between the two, they just both existed
Some things were different and some things were the same

[relictus]

What do you think you're doing?

[Wait, can anyone see this? Ugh, why can't this just (literally) magically do what he wants it to without having to tap on these little pictures-]

[ghoulserrand]

Talking to people!
Meeting more otherworlders.
In text too, isn't it cool?

[voice...]

[relictus]

[Please hold while he tries to very slowly type out a response, decides this is extremely inefficient, and switches to voice on his end.]

I don't see what's "cool" about it, no. Where are you right now?

[Stays Text]

[ghoulserrand]

It's instant communication with people!
I don't even need to talk!

[Which, now that he thinks about it, is probably exactly why Faust isn't excited about it.]

Living room.

[vamptired]

Nice to meet you, Teo. I'm Louis.

I'm also from Earth, though I've yet to discuss the differences with others. If I had to guess, the existence of revenants is probably one of them. What about you?

[ghoulserrand]

Revenants?
Like, undead?

[That'll be the fourth world with that problem.]

Mine's got zombies.
It's a full apocalypse.
Last earth I was in was the same, but those zombies were different.
Worse.
Way worse.
And it had magic, which mine doesn't.
Not quite as much as here though.

[vamptired]

Yes. We're not quite the same, but we share similarities with vampires.

It sounds like you've had a rough time of it for a while now. How are you settling in here?

[ghoulserrand]

Vampires? [He almost types that it's cool, except he remembers how very not cool the undead were.]
I hope they're friendly.
Relatively.

I've been luckier than some. [He doesn't need to go deep into horrors or anything.]

Settling seems good so far.
Nice to have electricity back.

[He pauses a beat, then quickly scrolls back up to reread.]

Wait.
Are you a vampire?
Revenant?

[text]

[daikonrose]

Hello! It's nice to meet you. I am Kyoko Mogami!

I'm also from Earth, but I wouldn't say there's anything particularly interesting to set it apart? But there are even different versions of that. If the differences aren't obvious right away, usually comparing famous landmarks or celebrities helps create a sense for how different our Earths are. There sure are a lot of them though, huh?

[ghoulserrand]

Oh! A normal Earth! That's cool.
I haven't found many yet who have things normal.
Mine used to be that before, but definitely not anymore.
It does seem weird there are so many Earths.
You'd think these places would grab more aliens.

[daikonrose]

Yes... around here, it's kinda more normal to be from somewhere cool. I don't know if that's intentional or what, but I guess there are always bound to be flukes.

If anything, this place is evidence that aliens are rare and Earth is really special for supporting life, I guess. There are definitely SOME non-Earthlings around, but I wonder how many of the are actually from a planet that's basically Earth anyway, besides having things like magic or talking cats.

[ghoulserrand]

I miss the normal world.
But I'll take this instead.

I'd say that's a lonely thought but given there seem to hundreds of Earths
I guess it's not that lonely after all.
Really would've preferred talking cats though.
That sounds fun.

[text]

[nomoresharks]

Greetings, Teo! I see you have mastered the communicators. I would mention how fascinating these devices are, but it seems you're familiar with them already.

(This is Hythlodaeus, by the way.)

[ghoulserrand]

Hyth!
Hey, man!
We had something like these before my world fell.
But it's been a long time for me and it's still pretty cool.

[nomoresharks]

There were no such devices in the star you were at before?
Given how familiar everyone else seems to be with them, I had assumed my star was the outlier in this regard.

[ghoulserrand]

No.
Well, maybe before, but that place had an apocalypse too.
It was just a lot later.
But I know some worlds don't have them.

[Text]

[pinkxeno]

I'm from Earth as well!

I guess that my Earth is different that most because humans have superpowers.

[ghoulserrand]

Cool!
Long shot, but
Do you happen to know a girl named Supergirl?
Her earth was like that too

[pinkxeno]

Supergirl?
no never heard of her
is she a pro hero?

[ghoulserrand]

Um.
I'm not sure what defines pro hero.
She was definitely a hero, just, she was also a kid, just starting out.
Thanks anyway.