001: Group Introductions - TEXT

[tarnishedavenger]

[During a lull in the party, Armstrong taps out a quick message to the network. Not that private one, he doesn't trust it. They can answer whenever they like, so long as he gets an answer. The trick would be wording it.]

So, we're all in this for now. You've had your welcome cake, but you can't meet everyone in a party, no matter how hard you try. But, since we've all been encouraged to sign up with Jorgmund, I figured now would be a good time to get some introductions done. Talk about any specialties we might have.

Share information that we feel comfortable sharing. This isn't to pressure anyone or to force out any dark secrets.

[Not where watchful eyes can see, at least.]

Besides, I prefer doing this to making a cute information sharing game.

So, please, make your own threads within this post to keep everything organized.

Comments

[likeits1999]

...I'm really gonna have to think about how to explain space cause I have never ever had to explain space before.

[ He is well and truly floored by this responsibility. ]

Okay so like. Um. There's Earth? And that's a planet, right?

And then there's... other planets. Real far away. And there's a bunch of them and they go around the sun and stuff?

And there's like, lots and lots of them out with the other stars and junk and there's gotta be aliens out there someplace.

Fuck I am so sure I am screwing this up probably.

[valkywhee]

I know what space is!

[Questionable, but go with it.]

But the only planet is Remnant, and maybe the moon counts for half. I've never heard of Earth. I mean, I've heard of dirt. But who names a planet that? Kevin, is your planet named Dirt?

[That was not really the point of the explanation, Nora.]

[likeits1999]

[ And thus the Kevin train is derailed. ]

No dude it's like. You call dirt that cause dirt is made out of the ground?

[ His upward inflection veers higher than usual along with his growing confusion, he's half trying to figure out what you would call dirt on Mars right now. ]

[valkywhee]

But that means you'd call dirt something different on every planet. That doesn't make sense.

[Oh god someone save these idiots.]

[likeits1999]

[ Kevin chews this over for a minute. ]

Dude, no, I got it.

We should ask somebody who's from space! They would know!

[valkywhee]

[jeopardy theme]

But...if there are lots of planets in space, that makes you all from space.

[wheyoftheadept]

technically, yes

in some realities, there are multiple planets. planets are chunks of dirt and rock with atmosphere and other things that can support life. Usually planets orbit "stars," which is a lot of matter that is very much hot and on fire, because warmth is necessary for most life to exist.

these "star systems," which is what you call a star that has planets orbiting it, hang in a vast void of nothingness called 'space.' space has almost no matter but a lot of forces like gravity, ask a physicist for details. gravity keeps all the planets and stars hanging together in orbit. if it stopped working, inhabited planets would float away from their stars and freeze to death

so yes, technically, everyone from a metaplane that has space is from space and everyone is an alien if you look at it the right way

[likeits1999]

Whoah. Whoah.

Dude. It turns out that being from space is so, so much more boring than I thought.

[wheyoftheadept]

i mean only because you're super used to your corner of space

there's a dude here whose people don't have mouths they eat with their feet??? the blue centaur guy.

space: it's big and weird

[valkywhee]

[Nora makes a disgusted noise.]

Ugh, I know what space and planets and stars and gravity are. There's just only one planet where I'm from.

[wheyoftheadept]

considering that basically none of us are from the same metaplane i figured it was better not to make assumptions.

in other metaplanes, there are multiple planets; a cosmos full, in mine.

[likeits1999]

[ With great boneheaded skaterbro seriousness: ]

...Nora, I never thought about it but I think we are all from space.

I'm... I'm really not sure how I feel about this? It seems weird? And wrong?

[valkywhee]

Maybe you're from space. I'm from Remnant.

[Despite Kevin talking about it, Nora doesn't really have a concept of other planets with life on them, so clearly Remnant is the center of the universe.]

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[googledox]

[He wasn't going to chime in because he didn't want to have to explain space and planets to anyone unless it's actually important, mostly because he hates having to explain anything to anyone who doesn't have at least a little familiarity with a concept.]

[But an opportunity to zip in and dropkick the idea that humans are at the center of the universe? When he's already had to field uncomfortable comments from Jorgmund abut how *~exotique~* he is?]

Everyone is "from" space. All planets exist in space. Like Saturday said, that means humans are also all from space and you're the aliens to sentients from other worlds.

Also, dirt is dirt, "earth" on the other hand is a word usually particular to the planet Earth to describe soil, presumably named as such after the planet due to the soil being drawn from it, or vice versa. My native language has a different word for soil, and some worlds pick names for soil similar etymologically to "soil," in that they have no basis on the name of the planet.

We didn't name dirt on Colu "Colu" after Colu, nor did we name dirt "Colu" first and then name the planet after it, of all the stupid -

[No, don't make fun of their entymology. Robbie might find it rude.]

It's a little on the nose, either way.

[valkywhee]

[They have green people where she's from, so Nora doesn't bat an eyelash.

Also she spaces out somewhere in the middle of the dirt explanation.]

Uh, okay, cool, thanks.