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[golonghorns]

[Here's a guy who doesn't look at all comfortable at a computer. But he's managed to set himself up with a video post anyway. Because that might be better, should Ellie somehow come across it.]

Look, I never took the brown acid, OK? So I got no idea why a giant hand would tell me I'm teaching carpentry at this school. Wood shop. Whatever. Maybe I've finally gone nuts...

[A pause. Beard stroking pause. Glaring at the camera pause.]

Look, I gotta get back to where I'm from. Nice to see somewhere in the world hasn't been overrun by infected or hunters yet. Y'all have a nice set up here. But I need to find a way back to where I'm supposed to be. I got people relyin' on me, OK? Anyone can help me out with that, I'd be somewhat obliged.

....Ellie, you happen to see this, let me know. I'm in the teachers dorms.

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[video]

[welikeike]

[Well doesn't THIS sound familiar?]

Wait, did you find yourself here by mistake?

[golonghorns]

[Blue hair. Look at all that shiny blue hair. He was going to take a while to get used to blue hair.]

That's about the size of it, sure. Wandered through some woods back home, wound up in some woods behind your... school.

[welikeike]

[Behold. This is a regular thing where he's from.]

I understand. The same thing happened to me: I woke up in the middle of the city with no recollection of how I arrived. I tried to go home, but so far, I've had no luck with that. Everyone I've spoken with told me it's difficult to return home if you didn't come by choice.

[golonghorns]

[He's probably just going to assume everyone here has way too much time to dye their hair being they aren't spending every waking moment surviving the downfall of civilization.]

Dangit.

Look, I walked here. I oughta be able to walk back, right? It only follows if I got here on foot I should be able to get back the same way.

[You would think so, anyway.]

Don't know about your situation, though. Sounds... rough.

[voice]

[raced_god]

Don't know any Ellies around here. What do you mean by 'infected'?

[Video]

[golonghorns]

If she showed up here, it would'a been about the same time I did, I figure. But she might see this message if she finds her way to this place.

Cordyceps infection. Folks who breathed cordyceps spores or got bit by someone who did. Real common... medical condition where I'm from.

[Not!Zombies, Falcon. Mushroom headed Not!Zombies.]

[raced_god]

[Ah, yes. Not!Zombies.]

What's the date where you're from?

[manforflowers]

So you need to find an Ellie?

She sounds cute!

[golonghorns]

[Oh. Good.

You know how exactly to get on one of his worst possible sides.]

She's Fourteen.

[manforflowers]

Ah, that oh-so-familiar withering glare...

Are you her father?

[tank_rockarms]

So you didn't wander back out again.

[golonghorns]

Nope. Didn't manage it in the end.

[Man, the first blue haired guy he saw. Then there's Ike. Then there's Inigo.]

Blue sure is a popular color around here.

[tank_rockarms]

Yeah, there's some places where people have blue hair. I'm the only guy from Wars World that I know who's got it, though.

The other places maybe it's more common than that. It's a good color. I like it.

[video]

[generallyfussy]

Ah, you're in the teacher's dorms! I'll bring your start paperwork over right away, sir!

[video]

[golonghorns]

[More... really cheerful people.]

Oh. Uh. Thanks... I guess.

[Look he didn't even apply for this job OK it was just kind of given to him.]

I'm on the third floor.

[action]

[generallyfussy]

[There was a rapid fire knock Joel's knock in an almost disturbingly fast amount of time.]

Sir. It's me. From the journal network. Sir. It's me.

[Video]

[trustycrowbar]

Sorry to say it's not that easy for some of us. Occasionally we have people that come into this world from others through a random coincidence of spacetime waveform shapes. Unfortunately passing through it collapses the waveform, and destroys the link.

[He stops and rakes a hand through his hair, realizing he ought to translate.]

...In other words, you stumbled over the wrong damn rock and through a hole in reality to his world, and hard to go back if that happens. Trust me, I know.

[Video]

[golonghorns]

[Now here was a sensible looking guy. Sensible haircut, sensible beard. A+. Joel was more likely to believe him than anyone with blue hair or dreadlocks. And that Falcon guy was saying his part via audio so could have both for all Joel knew.]

I'm startin' to get the impression that's the case. Can't be that everyone I meet here is crazy with the same delusion.

You're stuck here too?

[trustycrowbar]

[A pause, in which the other man purses his lips.]

Yeah. It's not a delusion, if that's any comfort; I imagine that it isn't a comfort at all, but it's still the truth. These are people from other worlds, worlds radically different from yours and mine. It only makes sense that they'd look different as well.

[video]

[mohawk_tomahawk]

[It was him. So he was meant to come here, just like Connor had.]

So, the Hands also gave you a job on the school grounds the moment you had arrived, had they?

[video]

[golonghorns]

Looks that way. Don't tell me - same thing happened to you?

[Would explain how Connor knew so much about this place.]

[video]

[mohawk_tomahawk]

Yes, I have been here for almost a year now.

[Connor had, yet again, now cruised into memory lane. Why on earth was he being so sentimental these days? Possibly because he had settled in this place, strange really.]

I vividly remember resting on my estate and awakening in the very woods where I saw you.

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[cplusplus]

Sorry, I've never heard of an Ellie before.

[And the closest thing that came up from the school database the last time he checked was 'Eli' instead.]

I'm also sorry to say, but as Mr. Freeman had said, it's a rather frequent occurrence that people from other worlds suddenly find themselves in the academy and with a position or scholarship in hand without their knowledge. I suddenly woke up with a letter of acceptance myself despite never knew this school had existed.

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[golonghorns]

She would'a arrived about the same time I did so it ain't surprising no-one's seen her.

[However, he wasn't sure what he should and shouldn't say to this one, being it was a text post and he had no idea who was on the other end of it.]

Don't seem right, somehow. That people can just wind up here by chance without a say in the matter. How long've you been here?

[cplusplus]

They could leave, but there are at least 50% chances where you'd land in somewhere you don't expect. I've been here for about a year or so, but I left in February and found myself in an alternate timeline of my home. I was there for about 2 months or so, but apparently I've been gone longer and returned in July.