text; un: florals

[featherpen]

WHO: Rutile
WHERE: the network!
WHEN: right now ig
WHAT: Very Deep Questions For The Network
WARNINGS: n/a

[It's not even the middle of the night or anything when Rutile goes to the network of people he doesn't really know with a very important question. The sun is still out, he just finished work, and he's very curious thanks to a mysterious watch he's found. Was given? Unclear.]

So, wait. Is time travel real?

[...that's it. That's the post.]

Comments

[higanbana]

uhhh

that's a good question actually?? i'm not sure.

at minimum it's definitely gotta be possible to like... open a passage between this world and a very similar alternate world that may or may not be at a different point in time. which isn't TECHNICALLY time travel since it's not the same world, but like. p close?

but tbh with most Impossible™ stuff these days i kinda just assume the answer to "is that real" is "probably"

[featherpen]

I see... It does sound like something that could happen.

But mostly I'm curious about it because I think I might have gone back in time? Not very far, but I'm pretty sure that happened.

[higanbana]

i mean, i'd believe it

but what's got you thinking that?

[featherpen]

I got a watch! And I put it on, and when I adjusted the time on it I ended up a few hours back.

I think. I was still in my apartment so it's hard to say...

[missingache]

If it is, then I hope no one does something stupid with it.

Otherwise we just keep getting gates to weird places each month.

[featherpen]

What would count as a stupid use of time travel? I think there's some things that it could be really nice for...

Like giving yourself more time on projects! Or for reading and art!

[missingache]

As a graphics art major... I would take that time as long as it didn't end up messing things up.

[featherpen]

Oh, yeah... This would've been way more useful last semester! Or earlier in this one, at least. I could've had more time to do things outside of school!

At least I can make up for it now, I guess.

[missingache]

Getting to have a social life because of time travel does sound like it would be nice...

[featherpen]

Right?! Not that I'm mad about having to do work, but it would be nice if I could see people more often! Make new friends, go to parties more often, stuff like that.

[missingache]

You know, I have been here for almost two years and I have yet to go to a college party.

[featherpen]

What, really?? Have you never been invited to one?

[missingache]

Nope. Kids birthday parties don't really count.

[featherpen]

The next time I have a party I'll invite you, then! Though I don't know that it will be all that wild of a college party, if that's okay with you. My apartment is pretty small!

[missingache]

I'm fine with a smaller party. Big parties are too noisy.

un: shipstowreck

[the_redventurer]

I know it's possible if you involve a seer in the past, but I haven't experienced physical time travel yet, so I don't know if that's real

[...Adol, that answer probably just brings up more questions.]

[featherpen]

Don't seers just see the future? Is that really time travel or is it just... knowing what's going to happen?

[That definitely brings up way more questions.]

I think I time traveled a bit, but I'm not sure.

UN: LOCKANDKEY

[reallysucks]

Do I want to know why this is being asked?

Frankly whether it does or doesn't I want nothing to do with it.

Seems like a waste of time.

[..................

HANG ON-]

[featherpen]

Oh, that's a very good pun.

And I think I might have traveled back in time a little bit? But it seemed too strange to be real, but I didn't want to just right it off as a dream!

[reallysucks]

Thank you, I'll be here all night, unless you stretch it out for yourself~

That sounds tedious though. How long is a little bit; you're sure it's not some kind of deja vu?

[featherpen]

A few hours? Not that long, really.

It doesn't feel like deja vu, so I wouldn't think it's that. It's much stranger.

I wonder if it's because of this watch I got.

[reallysucks]

Yeesh. That's both too long and too short. Most good time travel stories have at least a whole day going on.

You got a new watch though?

Anything happen to it in those few hours?

[featherpen]

I put it on?

[reallysucks]

[.....................................

It takes a second to realize there's nothing more.] Wait.

That's it?

[featherpen]

Yes. Well, I also adjusted the time because it was off, but that's it!

[reallysucks]

[..................................

It's a good thing this is text, or there'd be quite the audible 'smack' on the other end.]

By how much time, exactly?

[featherpen]

About eight hours!

[reallysucks]

I'm pretty sure we just answered the question of what happened then!