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[sword_redemption]

[The feed that opens is staticky, coming as it is from the outer edges of the network's range, and bears a face that should be familiar to many. Upon closer inspection though, one might notice this Wing is a little rougher around the edges compared to recent newer arrivals. His glyph too, is a brilliant Vectorian gold edged with a strong violet glow. A touch of concern marks Wing's face as he looks right and left before speaking into the feed. The jet is clearly wary of his surroundings.]

Haveners! It's been quite a long time. I wish happier news brought me to this, but alas, the recent disruption of the Lamdba affects us all.

[Behind Wing, over his shoulder, there's a stealthy, disturbingly flesh colored shape slithering down the slope on all fours.]

We hope--

[There's a flash of steel and white and red behind the jet: Drift doing what he does best, which is, apparently, slicing things into sushi, the two--the whatever-it-is and Drift--disappearing offscreen in a grunting flail.]

[The sound of combat rings out off screen, grabbing Wing's attention. The feed is jostled as he almost ends it--clearly Wing is tempted to join the fray--but he seems to change his mind at the last moment.]

Please. Please be wary if you leave the Haven. The wastelands is strewn with foreign debris and creatures stranger than ever roam the land!

[Yeah, and on that note... Drift appears--victorious, of course--holding what appears to be a severed head--actually two, one a smaller, almost vestigial one like a goiter from the neck of the main one--into the camera's range. ]

Anyone else running into these , for example?

[Stay classy, Drift.]

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[Video]

[sword_redemption]

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[Someone doesn't have Wing's couth to actually have the mental debate before turning on the video feed.]

Wing?

[But. What. How. Huh? this is a kink he didn't know he had: two Wings.]

Re: [Video]

[knight_light]

[Sorry, Drift, he can't help but be mildly amused and rather weirded out by this.]

Yes.

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

[Well, they can agree on the 'weirded out' part.]

But.

[Too many buts. ]

Are you a clone or something?

[Tact? Drift??!]

Re: [Video]

[knight_light]

[He laughs] No, more likely an alternate.

You may find yourself talking to...yourself here soon too. [Sorry, he just can't leave that as a shock. It's bad enough he'a having trouble tracking down his roommate to warn the Drift who's been here the last few months.]

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

Is that, uh, is that happening now?

[Is this a thing? Alternates? Does it mean he and Wing weren't good enough or had made the wrong choice?]

Me? [Hahahahaaaaaaaaaa.] I hope he had a better start here than I did.

[Then again, it's hard to have a worse one!]

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[knight_light]

[He shrugs.] We'd not be the first to find versions of ourselves from alternate realities here.

[Really, he doesn't think it has anything to do with who good or not you two were.]

I couldn't say, he arrived before I did. [You'll have to ask him.]

[perma-Video]

[sword_redemption]

Well, I mean, weird stuff's happened here before, but, you know, not this that I remember.

[He got turned into a little anime girl once. He...doesn't like to talk about it. But it was weird.]

Oh. Wow. That must have been...I bet he was glad to see you, though.

[Drift was. Well, with his Wing and frag this is confusing!]

[knight_light]

I've not been here long, but I'm not sure anything would surprise me too much, especially not after this.

[He smiles] He was.

Mind if I ask where the two of you have been? I was told something about seeking to start a new settlement somewhere? [He's curious if that was successful.]

[sword_redemption]

Yeah, this place has...uh, things. That are weird.

[He's thinking of the time Liege Maximo had him and Perceptor go capture gross Badlands spiders and milk their venom. W...weird. ]

Us? Oh. We've been out in the wastelands. You know, just us and nature. Freedom. That kind of thing.

[Wing could explain it better. But if this is Wing and he knows Drift, he should not expect much better in 'coherent storytelling'.]

[knight_light]

[And to be honest, this is his first "big" happening, he's not really seen anything truly weird until now. But you know Wing, he not only rolls with the punches, he manages to dance out of the way and make it look easy.]

[Nope, that's about what he expected. If he wanted a coherent story he'd have asked his other self.]

It sounds like it's been a good thing for you, then. I'm glad.

[sword_redemption]

[He could make it look a little less easy maybe, so at least Drift doesn't feel like a waddling hippo around him?]

It has. Me and Wing and Barricade and a few others. It wasn't easy, but then again, it isn't easy here.