61st Transformation [text]

[exeggutorhead]

So we're all from different worlds, right? Whole planets full of millions of people.

So what are the odds that people who know each other show up all the time? They've got to be astronomical, but we can almost EXPECT it to happen.

I'm from one of those worlds that isn't one with Europe and America and all that. And almost everyone who's ever shown up and heard of my country? Either I've known them or someone else here has. And every single one of them has been from the same time period of a few years. Nobody I only knew from, say, a hundred years ago ever shows up.

[Random Joe Notinvolved from Amestris should by all rights appear so why doesn't that happen? This is something he thinks about on and off, but after his conversation with Jimmy the other day, it's itching at his mind again.]

Has anyone else noticed something like this?

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[exeggutorhead]

[Oh, it's you....actually, this is good because come to think of it, he has a question for Alphonse specifically. He can at least be civil for through text for two seconds.]

Seems like almost everyone around here is from that one, or something like it. Amestris has been an outlier the whole time I've been here, even if there are sometimes a lot of us.

There's only been one person who I couldn't find out if anyone knew him. Do you know some snotty teenager named Russell?

[armoredsoul]

Russell Tringham? He was impersonating Brother in Xenotime to get his research funded by the man who owned the town's land. I'm surprised you didn't know about that, honestly; they were trying to make the Stone with red water.

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[exeggutorhead]

[...DAMN IT. So much for Russell being the missing Joe Notinvolved. Also, uh. Locking this.]

Oh THAT one. Yeah I heard about that, but if Lust told me what their names were I didn't exactly commit them to memory. I heard more about the fat moron doing the funding.

[And also all about how THE REAL ELRICS SHOWED UP AND SCREWED UP EVERYTHING.]

He didn't tell me his last name, either, he wasn't here long. Gone before Lust showed up.

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[armoredsoul]

He wasn't the brightest bulb in the box, no. I'm surprised we were what caused the whole thing to go under, honestly.

Huh. Does that sort of thing happen often? People only being here for a few days or weeks?

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[exeggutorhead]

It wasn't because of any competence on HIS part, I can tell you that.

It used to happen more, but there used to be a lot more people showing up in general. People would show up on the network for the first time to ask questions and then nobody'd ever hear from them again. Or they'd only last a month or so.

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[armoredsoul]

Interesting. I wonder why that sort of thing tapered off like that. It almost reminds me of a volatile reaction starting to stabilize.