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Sameth has taken over a table and covered it with the pieces of various kitchen gadgets. He never knew there could be so many kinds of wafflemakers or ways to make sandwiches.

At the moment, he has an all in one egg sandwich maker taken apart and he's trying to figure out the non-stick coating.

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"How did you meet with your partners? Do those data monsters live in your world?"

Edited 2020-04-20 23:36 (UTC)

"No, they live in the other world. We first met them when we were abducted from summer camp and dragged into that world."

"Their world abducted you?" That's awful and complicated.

"Yeah. Prophecy stuff," Yamato says. "We spent about nine months there, on that first trip."

"Prophecy, those always seem to cause trouble."

They're not as common in his world as others but he's heard some stories in Milliways.

"There's only one prophecy in my world -- apart from ones in myths and legends -- so I couldn't say how much trouble they generally cause."

"We don't really have any in the Old Kingdom but other worlds have them a lot and they always seem to cause complications."

"I haven't even read most of the prophecy in my world, just bits and pieces here and there."

"Is there a lot to read? I know in the Old Kingdom we have books of knowledge like the Book of Death but they're rare. And not everyone can actually read them,"

And the Book of Remembering, they don't have prophecies in them but he knows they're not the same for everyone.

"It covers the walls of a pretty labyrinthine temple, so yeah, a lot. And none of it is in order anyway, or at least not any order I can decipher, so that doesn't help."

"In a temple, has anyone copied it down?"

"Not in its entirety. Apparently in at least one other world it's in a book, though."

"Do multiple worlds connect to yours? There's only Ancelstierre and the Old Kingdom in mine and possibly Death but that's not the same."

"Yeah, there are eight worlds in total in my, er, world."

"Eight, how hard is it to go from one to another?"

"It's not something most people can do. You need to be able to open a Gate and pass through it, and even then the Gates aren't exactly cooperative."

"They want people to stay where they're from." That makes sense to Sameth, its not easy going into Death for that reason.

"More like they're machines that are operating on default settings and can't be changed," Yamato says mildly. "If we take a Gate from Earth to the Digital World, it always connects to the File Island Gate. And no matter what Gate we take to get back, it always connects to the Gate we came from."

"That makes sense. There are places like that in the Old Kingdom but its mainly connected to your bloodline if you can enter. Though everyone can use the gate between the Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre."

"Are the Old Kingdom and Ancelstierre separate worlds, then, or are they more like -- different places with different rules?"

"Separate worlds, the seasons move differently depending on where you are and there's no Charter in Ancelstierre."

"That's pretty cool. And it's the first I've heard of a world that functions similarly to mine."

"Considering Milliways, I would have expected it to be more common."

"You'd be surprised. Worlds with a bunch of planets seem pretty common, but worlds with a bunch of different dimensions -- at least ones that aren't just splits in the timeline -- don't seem to show up all that frequently."

"No or worlds where the magic is inherent to how the world works,"

He's often had times of having trouble explaining how the Old Kingdom and the Charter fit together.