Netbook | What happened to June?

[ichoosefight]

So... did everyone go a little nuts on the cellphones yesterday, or did I lose a few days? It looks like I missed a lot. Like, too much, maybe?

[ Steph climbed the fence to the Dog Park a few days into the event. It was reported on the radio that she "disappeared, never to be seen or heard from again." Which is true, as far as Nightvale is concerned! ]

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[lovelyredthread]

Given I have no idea who you are, you probably have been gone most of the month.

[sailingfor]

Are you the person that died in the dog park?

[ichoosefight]

I'm Steph

How long is "most of the month"? We were in that town for about a week, right?

[ichoosefight]

uh

no?

i'm the person who went in the dog park

i'm pretty sure i'd know if i died

[sailingfor]

The radio was making announcements that someone named Stephanie "disappeared in the dog park, never to be seen again". Normally when people go missing they're considered dead.

You must not be Stephanie.

[lovelyredthread]

if you only remember being there a week then you've been gone for at least three weeks. We were in and out of Night Vale all month.

[ichoosefight]

I'm Stephanie

but I was only wandering around in there for a day, that's all. you have to be missing for 7 years to be presumed dead without direct evidence.

[ichoosefight]

ok I am 100% sure I wasn't wandering around for 3 weeks so I guess I time traveled?

I've never time traveled before

that's kinda cool

[sailingfor]

I don't believe it was a day, sadly. I think you've been missing for much longer than that.

[ichoosefight]

if it was seven years then this is going in my autobiography

[sailingfor]

I don't believe it was quite that long. That strange town feels like it lasted for a month, maybe a month in a half. It's difficult to tell.

[ichoosefight]

oh good, I wasn't really planning on writing an autobiography

This means I traveled through time, right?

[sailingfor]

If you want to think of effectively being missing in a liminal space and escaping theoretically-unscathed as "time travel", then yes.

[ichoosefight]

...

totally time travel.

I'm feeling pretty unscathed

[lovelyredthread]

I mean that's one word for it i guess? i'd sooner guess time dilation or stasis, but the effect is the same.

[ichoosefight]

time dilation = time travel and stasis can't be proven so i'm sticking with it

coolest thing that's happened to me since getting kidnapped to an alternate universe

[fluffiestsoul]

Maybe. That depends.
What's a cell phone?

[chickenchoicejudy]

Legally sure but people totally start worrying about it waaaaaaaaaaaaaay before then, trust me.

[chickenchoicejudy]

You missed pride! It was gnarly. \--/

But also, you okay? Did you get stuck in a different wormhole or something?

[ichoosefight]

It's basically one of these magic notebooks but smaller.

Are you new? We had cellphones in the town we were just in but I'm not sure how long ago that actually was.

[ichoosefight]

Id rather they worry than have to deal with the whole emotional rollercoaster of coming back to life

[chickenchoicejudy]

Eh, it's still kind of an emotional roller coaster when you come back from disappearing after a really long time, just. y'know. A different one!

[Here, he'll doodle a little loop-de-loop roller coaster in the corner.]

But honestly you came back pretty quick! And you weren't even lost in the woods or anything!

[ichoosefight]

Aw man, that's like the ONLY party that Gotham doesn't ruin every year...

I'm ok. I don't think I got stuck in a wormhole? I was just... in the dog park. And I came out after a day that was apparently 3 weeks somehow.

[ichoosefight]

I'd be more relieved that nobody held a funeral or made a grave if that was a thing we did in Grove Land Pseudo Reality.

[chickenchoicejudy]

I dunno man, that sounds like wormhole other-dimension bullshit to me, but if you say so...

Do you wanna hear about it or is it just going to bum you out that you missed it?