I've got nothing against swimming. I'm not particularly good or bad at it. Average, I guess. They wouldn't let me be captain, though.
Washington Monument and... Well, it's kind of a long story. But to cut to the chase, the elevator inside was ready to plummet some 500 feet to the ground and I swung in and stopped it just in time.
[ Panicked, all the while, but that's just a minor detail. ]
Hopefully you'll forgive the barrage of questions, but "swung in?" Again, I have to ask. Where did you swing in from? And how do you stop an elevator from plummeting 500 feet all on your own?
[ If it were him, it'd be a quick little series of flourishes and some magical blue fire and poof! Done. But not everyone inherited demonic magic from their dad. ]
Probably not. I already had enough stuff going on after school, I would have been a pretty useless teammate. They managed without me, though.
Well, it was sort of like a blackflip and then a swing, if you want to get technical. I had a little accident with a radioactive spider, gave me a nasty bite and a whole bunch of really sweet abilities.
[ Peter couldn't go telling everyone all these details back in his world, but here? Why not, what was the harm in it? ]
The swinging part is mostly a super-strong and really sticky web-fluid that I cooked up. It's pretty good for getting from place to place, keeping things from splitting in half and catching things.
[ Yeah. He really went all out after that spider bite. ]
Now that I hear your story, I understand what you mean about 'having enough stuff going on after school.' Does that happen often in your world? Spider-bites that end in developing super abilities?
It's certainly not the norm in the world I'm from.
[ Magnus appreciates that there's a certain freedom to talk about this kind of thing here. It's made for some interesting connections.
None of them have ever involved radioactive arachnids though. ]
The way you listed those uses [ for the web fluid ] sounded a lot like more stories waiting to be told.
The world you come from sounds like a very interesting place.
Actually, it doesn't sound too dissimilar to the world we visited not that long ago. Some people had powers because of their proximity to a particular event that happened, though others had them for a variety of other reasons.
The makeup of a world like that is bound to be unique.
Let me guess: you come by a lot of those stories by helping people?
It wasn't always that way, but it's become a pretty interesting place. A lot had changed lately.
Really?! Weird. That sounds a lot like where I come from. Maybe it was like some kind of an alternate reality. Do you know if there's a way to get back to it?
[ Because of all the things he'd like to explore, a world that mimics his own would be right on the top of that list. ]
Most of them, yeah. But, sometimes it's by matter of getting myself in over my head.
Oh? I wonder what that might mean. I'm not sure how you'd return, but I wouldn't be the best person to ask. The way I understand it, that world was used as a way of keeping people from working to put things right in their own worlds.
My husband and I and others we knew traveled there intentionally, but arrived with only memories of having been there our whole lives. I gather there's a chance it's not the only world like that. If it sounds similar to your own, maybe there's a chance it was, and maybe there's a way to return.
[ ... the less attractive thought being that it was built to be similar. ]
Some of us here are getting very experienced in world-hopping. So if the subject interests you, you'll find a few knowledgeable voices around.
That one was my third such trip.
Getting in over your head, hm? I'm positive you're far from alone in that.
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[ Unless he's stumbled into some universe where giving directions is considered riveting storytelling. ]
They are both true, though
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I see. That begs the question: do you not like to swim?
I'm kidding. The more pressing query would be which monument and how?
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Washington Monument and...
Well, it's kind of a long story. But to cut to the chase, the elevator inside was ready to plummet some 500 feet to the ground and I swung in and stopped it just in time.
[ Panicked, all the while, but that's just a minor detail. ]
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Hopefully you'll forgive the barrage of questions, but "swung in?" Again, I have to ask. Where did you swing in from? And how do you stop an elevator from plummeting 500 feet all on your own?
[ If it were him, it'd be a quick little series of flourishes and some magical blue fire and poof! Done. But not everyone inherited demonic magic from their dad. ]
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Well, it was sort of like a blackflip and then a swing, if you want to get technical. I had a little accident with a radioactive spider, gave me a nasty bite and a whole bunch of really sweet abilities.
[ Peter couldn't go telling everyone all these details back in his world, but here? Why not, what was the harm in it? ]
The swinging part is mostly a super-strong and really sticky web-fluid that I cooked up. It's pretty good for getting from place to place, keeping things from splitting in half and catching things.
[ Yeah. He really went all out after that spider bite. ]
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It's certainly not the norm in the world I'm from.
[ Magnus appreciates that there's a certain freedom to talk about this kind of thing here. It's made for some interesting connections.
None of them have ever involved radioactive arachnids though. ]
The way you listed those uses [ for the web fluid ] sounded a lot like more stories waiting to be told.
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I mean, there are other people with powers and stuff like that.
[ Or people with absolutely no powers, but a lot of money and a high enough IQ to build a flying suit that gives them powers. ]
But not all of them come from spider bites. Some people are just born with them, or weird radiation causes it. There's a bunch of different reasons.
That's because there are. This whole thing has given me a whole of stories I never would have expected.
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Actually, it doesn't sound too dissimilar to the world we visited not that long ago. Some people had powers because of their proximity to a particular event that happened, though others had them for a variety of other reasons.
The makeup of a world like that is bound to be unique.
Let me guess: you come by a lot of those stories by helping people?
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Really?! Weird. That sounds a lot like where I come from.
Maybe it was like some kind of an alternate reality. Do you know if there's a way to get back to it?
[ Because of all the things he'd like to explore, a world that mimics his own would be right on the top of that list. ]
Most of them, yeah.
But, sometimes it's by matter of getting myself in over my head.
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My husband and I and others we knew traveled there intentionally, but arrived with only memories of having been there our whole lives. I gather there's a chance it's not the only world like that. If it sounds similar to your own, maybe there's a chance it was, and maybe there's a way to return.
[ ... the less attractive thought being that it was built to be similar. ]
Some of us here are getting very experienced in world-hopping. So if the subject interests you, you'll find a few knowledgeable voices around.
That one was my third such trip.
Getting in over your head, hm? I'm positive you're far from alone in that.