aefenglom | text | 001 - Emphatic Welcome

Name: Papyrus | Username: CoolSkeleton95
Date: Aguril 1st
Format: Text

SO YOU'RE IN A NEW WORLD, LOOKING AT A WATCH,
WONDERING WHAT TO DO WITH YOURSELF...
WELL!
THE FIRST THING YOU CAN DO, IS READ THIS WELCOME MESSAGE:

HELLO!!!
I HEARD THERE'S MORE PEOPLE POPPING OUT OF MIRRORS TODAY,
AND MAYBE THAT MEANS YOU.
IF IT DOES, WELCOME TO AEFENGLOM!
A HOME AWAY FROM HOME.

YOU MIGHT HEAR SOME DOOM AND GLOOM FROM PEOPLE, ABOUT THE CWYLD, AND THE FULL MOONS...
BUT, ONLY SOME OF IT IS TRUE.
AND THOSE PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT THINGS LIKE THE COLOR OF THE SKY, SO WHAT DO THEY KNOW ANYWAY.
THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE PRETTY MUCH CONSTANTLY WORKING HARD TO KEEP EVERYONE SAFE AND HAPPY.
SO, DO YOUR BEST NOT TO WORRY TOO MUCH, AND LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE!
IF YOU'RE A WITCH, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DO ALL KINDS OF MAGIC.
AND IF YOU'RE A MONSTER, THE BRIGHT SIDE OF THE MOONS WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT TO YOU!
AND I GUESS SOME MONSTERS HAVE A KIND OF MAGIC TOO? BUT IT'S NOT -MAGIC- MAGIC.
WHATEVER!!
THE IMPORTANT THING IS, YOU NOW FEEL WELCOMED.
YOU'RE WELCOME!

[If anyone doesn't want to wade through the capslock, let me know and I can drop it when tagging you.]

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[ well at least she generalized it ]

assuming they can figure anything out
assuming they want us to know. could cause panic.

I THINK NOT KNOWING COULD CAUSE PANIC, TOO...
IF IT SEEMS LIKE THEY'RE BEING SECRETIVE, I COULD LET THEM KNOW THAT.

[Repeatedly. He has loads of experience heckling his brother for being secretive.]

i don't know what they know or don't know
i don't think they know

but i also have trust issues

WELL, I'M GLAD YOU TRUST ME ENOUGH TO TELL ME YOU HAVE TROUBLE TRUSTING.
THAT'S STILL A KIND OF TRUST!
AND I'LL TELL YOU IF I HEAR SOMETHING MORE CONCLUSIVE, ABOUT THE TIMING, AND WHAT BRINGS US HERE...
SO FAR ALL I KNOW IS GUESSWORK.
'MAYBE THE WORLD IS PULLING PEOPLE HERE' AND THAT SORT OF THING.
THEY WERE LOOKING FOR WHERE SOME PEOPLE DISAPPEARED TO...
BUT ALL THEIR TRACKING MAGIC BREAKS DOWN WHEN THEY FOLLOW THE TRAIL TO THE MIRROR ROOM.

you know, you're right. i guess i never thought about it that way.

it's all pretty strange. and i don't know enough about magic to really guess, i suppose. but if people are coming in *and* vanishing? and it's all related to the mirrors, it seems... i don't know. fucking weird.

OH, YOU'RE PROBABLY BUSY THINKING ABOUT OTHER THINGS, LIKE SURVIVING.
THERE'S DIFFERENT SORTS OF TRUST.
AND... HESITATING TO TRUST SECRETIVE AUTHORITIES, WHO OUTS PEOPLE FROM THEIR HOMES TO MAKE ROOM FOR COMPLETE STRANGERS (US), JUST BECAUSE THEY HAD SOME MYSTERIOUS MAGICAL MISHAP...
WELL, YOU WOULDN'T BE THE FIRST.

ANYWAY!!!
YEAH, IT'S REALLY FUCKING WEIRD.
I HOPE THEY FIGURE IT OUT SOON.
AND... A WAY TO UNDO IT?
I'M HAPPY I MET EVERYONE HERE... BUT, I MISS MY BROTHER AND FRIENDS.
SOMEONE I KNOW DID SHOW UP TODAY, BUT SOMETHING'S STRANGE, AND WE REMEMBER DIFFERENT THINGS.
AND NOT IN THE USUAL WAY PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT MEMORIES.

you know it definitely sounds way more ominous put that way, i like it

i don't have much to go back to but i know other people do
and you should be able to get that chance

different memories? what do you mean?

UH, YOU'RE WELCOME... TO SHARE IN THE HAUNTING IMAGE THAT OVERSHADOWS ATTEMPTS TO BEFRIEND THEM, IF YOU LIKE IT?

[It's been hard to go talk with them for much of anything besides business, since he started thinking of it that way. Not impossible! He still does! But it's harder.]

WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S STRANGE.
I REMEMBER CERTAIN THINGS HAPPENING, AND CERTAIN PEOPLE GOING MISSING...
BUT SHE REMEMBERS MUCH HAPPIER THINGS HAPPENING?
IT MIGHT BE AN ELABORATE JOKE...
BUT THAT'S REALLY NOT HER STYLE OF JOKING!

[Admittedly, Papyrus doesn't know Alphys in the same way she knows him - she's met him in person, he knows her only as an online semi-friend. But he's been scheming to make friends with her for a while, and may have been paying more attention to her patterns than she his.]

oh thanks

weird. really, really weird. could it be like... a parallel universe?

SOMETHING LIKE!
WHICH... I GUESS ISN'T A BIG SURPRISE.
YOU'RE NOT FROM THE SAME WORLD AS ME, RIGHT?
BUT WHO WOULD HAVE THOUGHT THERE COULD BE PARALLEL WORLDS SO CLOSE...
THAT THEY'RE FULL OF THE SAME PEOPLE, WITH ALMOST THE SAME PASTS??

[Well, comic books are full of that kind of thing. And maybe he's heard ideas like that from certain scientists in his life. But it's still confounding.]

there are science fiction books about that. i guess it's closer to science fact. magic fact? either one.

but man, that must be... super weird

SCIENCE-MAGIC FACT??
MAGIC DID IT, PROBABLY...
BUT IT KEEPS HAPPENING, SO SCIENTISTS COULD TRY TO STUDY IT.

WHICH IS FORTUNATE! BECAUSE SHE'S A SCIENTIST.
WE DON'T KNOW EACH OTHER ALL THAT WELL...
OR, I DON'T KNOW HER AS WELL AS SHE KNOWS ME...
...
YEAH, IT'S SUPER WEIRD!
I HARDLY KNOW WHAT TO SAY.

do they have just regular scientists here? or are they all magic-scientists. i guess we don't really know...

that's. complicated. to put it mildly.

but i'm sure you'll get it figured out

BEATS ME.
NOT EVERYBODY HAS MAGIC HERE...
BUT WHEN MAGIC TECHNOLOGY IS AN OPTION, WHY WOULD ANYONE USE THE NON-MAGICAL STUFF?

IT'S NOT THE WORST COMPLICATED I'VE EVER BEEN THROUGH.
I'M ALSO SURE WE'LL FIGURE SOMETHING OUT!
EVEN IF THAT SOMETHING IS AWKWARDLY AVOIDING EACH OTHER TO AVOID AWKWARDER CONVERSATIONS.

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