{Unified Universe Project} [Voice]

[adstring_npc]

[There's a genial voice over the network. Those who have been here before will recognize it as belonging to Professor Andrew Johnson.]

I'm not sure I'm understanding. You guys are upset about being stuck here, but then when we get a great many of you home, you're upset? Don't you all want to get home too? Talk to me. We're trying to do what we can. But if you keep changing your minds... Well, there's really not much we can do to redirect the process, since we can't figure out how to target and send specific people home. But we could stop everything and try to figure out directing.

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[siriuslymagical.livejournal.com]

OI! You guys must have a way to bring people here, right? Can you do me a favor, mate, and bring my friends here. It's getting kind of lonely being the only Marauder here.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

Wait, you want more of your people here now? And I just said we can't target...

[Voice]

[siriuslymagical.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do! I actually like it in this place. The only thing that's missing are James, Remus and Peter.

Now, don't you muggle scientist people know what you're doing or not? You brought us all here in the first place.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

It was an accident getting you here in the first place. It was an accident getting any of us here.

I'll add it to the list of side-projects. James, Remus, Peter. And you're Sirius Black.

[Voice]

[siriuslymagical.livejournal.com]

Well, you guys are very good at making accidents happen then. Seeing as people "accidentally" show up here all the bloody time.

Yup! James Potter, Remus Lupin, and Peter Pettigrew.

I appreciate it mate.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

There's no need to get profane. It's a process we haven't figured out how to shut down yet.

Roger. Mate.

[iceandivory.livejournal.com]

If memories really are erased when one disappears, then what we want or have left unfinished here means little.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

It matters while you're here, doesn't it?

[breakingurface.livejournal.com]

I hope ya didn't do those last few on purpose, man.

[al_truism]

Not... everyone wants to go home, sir.

Not everyone has something to go back to.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

We can't target people specifically. We're just trying to get people home, but it looks like maybe we need to stop our efforts for a little bit and figure out how to select people one at a time.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

I'll add that to the list of things we need to reconsider. I'm sorry about your brother. I hope he had something to go back to. I just can't target. If I could, well, the missing people would be different for the most part.

[Voice]

[breakingurface.livejournal.com]

Mighta been a good idea in the first place, yanno.

[No venom, there, he knows he's trying his best.]

[Voice]

[al_truism]

... yes.

Is there... are you going to end this place? Is there nothing you can do to send us somewhere else instead?

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

I, and I think all of us, were under the impression that people just wanted to get home.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

I don't know. If we can order who goes when, maybe we can leave those who want to stay here, and they can shut things off. But we still don't even know why people are arriving.

[Voice]

[al_truism]

I-I understand.

And... still no way to restore memories?

[Voice]

[breakingurface.livejournal.com]

Might wanna read the network more if you're still gettin' that impression.

Some of us to could stand to go home, but there's a lotta people here who really don't.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

Restore memories? We'd need some way to store them first, and extract them, and even identify wanted ones. It's not like people just forget. It's...

Do you know what a whiteboard is? With markers? You write on it, and then you erase it when you want to write again. We're all whiteboards. When the things are erased, we're still what we were, but it's gone. We're pretty sure just wouldn't have memories to be restored.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

I spend a lot of time working on the problems of getting home. I don't really pay much attention to the network.

Do you have a list of those who don't want to go?

[Voice]

[breakingurface.livejournal.com]

Givin' yourself a hell of a blindspot doin' that.

Nah, but I could probably get one.

[Voice]

[al_truism]

... I felt it was worth it to ask. Thank you for being honest with me.

All we've been getting from the scientists is double-talk, it's... comforting to have someone who's actually trying to help us out.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

The people who watch the network spend all day doing that. I can't afford that much time. And I admit I like a quiet evening or two to myself.

Please do. That could be helpful for both groups.

[Voice]

[adstring-npc.livejournal.com]

You're welcome.

I've talked to several of you guys before. I've just been busy recently, I'm sorry about that.

[Voice]

[breakingurface.livejournal.com]

Better work with them, then? I dunno, people like Negi can spend all day watchin' the damn thing and still find time to be in everyone's business.

M'on it. What'd you say your name was?