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[cactusy]

"Tell me more about it" is the question. Everything I already know has been filtered through technonerd-speak.

[ichoosefight]

That's a pretty vague question.

There are multiple universes. Maybe a limited number, maybe an infinite number, each a little different from the others. You're not supposed to be able to travel between them, but every now and then some mad scientist or intergallactic psycho will punch a hole through space-time and then all bets are off.

[cactusy]

And you're saying you know this for a fact. You've experienced it?

[ichoosefight]

I know it from someone I trust and respect to the extent that he could tell me the sky is falling and I'd ask where he wants me to stand.

[cactusy]

What's he like.

[ichoosefight]

He's an ass. Way worse than you.

But he's also a genius, and a hero, and as bad as he is at being a human being he's brilliant at just about everything else.

[cactusy]

He alive?

[ichoosefight]

He was the last time I saw him.

[cactusy]

[There's a gap of a few minutes between this response and the next, as Shaw takes a breather to wonder why she'd expected the answer to be no.]

And is he one of those superheroes you were talking about?

[ichoosefight]

[ How... should she answer that? She said way too much. It definitely sounds like she knows him personally. Can she even try to maintain a secret identity here?

Probably no. ]

...Yeah, he is. But no powers.

[cactusy]

So-- wait, you're saying there are people with powers?

[ichoosefight]

Oh. Was that not assumed? 'Cause of the name. I mean, that's a thing people argue about.

[cactusy]

Where I'm from it's all fiction, remember?

[ichoosefight]

Where I'm from it's all widely accepted fact. It's hard for me to figure out what's strange for you.

[ ... ]

It's also weird that you don't seem to think hyper-realistic simulation technology is strange. Like, I know how that works, and I still think it's strange.

[cactusy]

I thought it was impossible too until I experienced it. No, wait, I guess--

[She pauses again, for a much shorter period this time, and when she speaks again the frown is audible in her voice.]

I knew about computers running situational simulations in theory. I didn't know people could have their consciousnesses put into them.

[ichoosefight]

See? That's weird. By normal-rando-living-in-Oklahoma standards, that's weirder than cryostasis. Cryostasis is much closer to being available to the general public.

[cactusy]

"Cryostasis" as a concept exists to part gullible rich idiots from their money.

[ichoosefight]

You don't need government clearance to freeze your wife. If you have just the basic equipment you'd need to even think about a full immersion simulation, I guarantee you you're on a dozen watch-lists.

[cactusy]

-- Okay, you know the idea of cryogenics is more than just sticking someone in a walk-in freezer, right?

[ichoosefight]

I'll be really impressed if that's stopped people in your world from trying anyway.

[cactusy]

Sure, maybe a loony with an industrial meat locker and too much time on his hands who ends up on national news when the cops raid his place, but--

-- This is getting off-topic, too.

[ichoosefight]

I'm not sure what "on-topic" is at this point, you asking the questions.

[cactusy]

If the multiverse is real and we're -- somewhere else, how do you suggest we handle it.

[ichoosefight]

Carefully.

Account for every possibility, no matter how remote. Leave no openings. Plan for your enemy to be better than you, stronger than you, smarter than you. Most importantly, no loss of life is acceptable.

It's what a hero would say.

[ She really doesn't want to have the "Batman is a stupid name" conversation. ]

[cactusy]

So... nothing that's incompatible with anything I've actually said, 'cause you made up the "everybody go kill themselves" thing in your head.