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>>41481742

You're in the back of a truck and have been for what seems like hours. It's really dark back here - it's the middle of the night. Looking out from the truck you see a strange looking building. You guess this might be where you are going.

> Take an inventory.
> Try to figure out where you are.
> Try and focus on the weird red light.
> [Write in]

>>41481760
> Try and focus on the weird red light.

>>41481760
>Try and focus on the weird red light.

>>41481760
> Try and focus on the weird red light.
Sure.
Why's our dad being a bitch just cause we wouldn't let him suicide anyway?

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>>41481914
>>41481872
Close examination of the light reveals:

1. Staring at the thing gives you a headache
2. The light isn't constant, it seems to pulse at times. But that's maybe just your headache.
3. The red colour feels familiar from what you saw with the strange gun just before, but now and then you get the odd idea that maybe it isn't actually red at all.

You also note that the truck is slowing down.

> Ask your brother to take a look
> Get back in your seat
> Keep looking
> [Write in]

>>41482235
You deliberately got his wife killed. It's kind of obvious.

>>41482261
>> Ask your brother to take a look

>>41482261
> Ask your brother to take a look

>>41482276
Nonsense, we just stood our ground, then dove to the deck when things got bad!

>>41482276
We just wanted to protect dad...

>>41482261
> Ask your brother to take a look

>>41482261
> Get back in your seat

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>>41482367
>>41482294
>>41482276

He goes up to the air vent you were looking out of, and then stops.

"I'm not going to do it."

He looks at you, then dad, then the body bag.

"Look. What is wrong with you? Mum has just... A-and you... don't you feel anything at all?"

> "I-I do feel sorry, but we need to think of the situation we are in."
> "That's not mum."
> Remain silent, look down.
> [Write in]

>>41482820
>> "I-I do feel sorry, but we need to think of the situation we are in."

>>41482820
> Remain silent, look down.
It's not mum, but I guess saying that would be counterproductive.

>>41482820
>> "That's not mum."

>>41482820
> Remain silent, look down.
> Look very uncomfortable with continuing this conversation.

>>41482820
> "I-I do feel sorry, but we need to think of the situation we are in."
Feels bad man.

Ask dad what the outsider project is

Reminder that _Someone_ could have just let us die, but did not.

>>41482979
Ask anon why he's so retarded.

>"Wait... how do you know about the outsider project?" The soldier shouts angrily.

>Dad looks confused. "Look, I don't know what nonsense she's babbling..."


Because clearly he's gonna know a secret military project that no one knows about.

>>41482988
_Someone_ put us in this situation.

>>41483025
Did they anon? They might be but another prisoner of this weirdo thing.

>>41483040
We were in a good safe place earlier this very day, without having _Someone_ playing their jedi mind tricks and getting us taken away.

Without them we'd have been scanned and left to go on our way. Probably

>>41483025
How is it _someone_'s fault that other people are hostile to them.

>>41482820
>> Remain silent, look down.

>>41483115
It's not, but _Someone_ decided to join us and get us caught up in their trouble.
It's not fair to them, but it's not fair to us either, for some stranger to brainwash our family then get us caught up into its trouble.

>>41483113
Or we were completely imprisoned in our delusions. Is _Someone_ the Agent Smith equivalent...or the Morpheus?

>>41483163
Regardless, we're only in this situation because _Someone_ decided to hitch a ride, good intentions or bad.

Unless we're actually the outsider

>>41483187
>Agent Smith Quest
Has potential.

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>>41482890
>>41482962
>>41483115

Your brother looks like he was ready for a fight, but your silence catches him off balance. He falls quiet and calms down a bit. Then he takes his seat again.

"I just don't understand you tonight," he says.

The truck comes to a stop and you hear footsteps outside.

> "Sorry."
> "Let's just stay safe."
> Stay silent and hope for the best.
> [Write in]

>>41483464
> Stay silent and hope for the best.

>>41483464
> "Let's just stay safe."

>>41483464
> "Sorry."

>>41483464
> Mutter to ourselves "neither do I..."

>>41483464
>> Stay silent and hope for the best.

>>41483464
>>41483572
> Respond, "neither do I..."

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>>41483572
>>41483640
>>41483493
>>41483624

You don't think anyone heard.

You are lead out of the truck, under guard, onto... what looks to you like a glorified parking lot. Well, there's a number of differences.

In the distance, there's what seem to be huge walls blocking your view of some kind of structure, this was where the red light was from.

In an area not too far away, you see a truck and a tank parked up. There's a lot of mechanics climbing over them, for some reason.

Further away you see the shadows of what you could imagine to be fortifications, and some kind of gigantic radar dish.

And nearby, there's a man in a raincoat and beret, walking towards you. He's guarded by a soldier carrying that weird rifle you saw earlier.

(Note you might have time to do more than one of this)

> Look at the tank
> Look at the walls
> Look at the approaching man
> Just try and stick close to your family
> [Write in]

>>41484091
>> Look at the walls
>> Look at the approaching man

>>41484091
> Just try and stick close to your family

>>41484091
> Look at the tank
> Look at the approaching man

>>41484091
> Look at the walls
> Just try and stick close to your family

>>41484091

> Look at the approaching man
> Just try and stick close to your family

>>41484091
> Look at the approaching man
> Just try and stick close to your family

>>41484091
> Look at the tank
> Look at the walls

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>>41484221

The walls are really tall, but what really grabs your attention is the sign on them: '5 Miles to Anomaly'. Just standing here, you feel somewhat uncomfortable.

So you stick close to your family. Until the approaching man steps right up to you.

"Colonel!" The soldiers guarding you snap to attention.

"Ah, so you have returned? I thought we sent B team and Number 1 tank with you?"

"Oh uh, they broke down sir," one of the soldiers says.

The man frowns, then looks at you, with a broad smile.

"And who do we have here?"

> Say nothing.
> "Um, hello."
> [Write in]

>>41484753
> "Um, hello."

>>41484753
> Say nothing.

>>41484753
>> [Write in]
>>41463993
>One of the military trucks _disappears_. Then the tank just seems to _wink out_.

They didn't break down. Stop lying.

>>41484753
> Say nothing.
COMPLETE SILENCE!

>>41484945
I bet they think that's what happened, and calling them out wouldn't help us.

>>41484986
Showing you're resistant to the outsider's influence would ensure you stay alive and aren't just buried.

>>41484753
> Say nothing.

>>41484945
Seconding

>>41484986
It'll make interesting shit happened and won't hurt though.

"Why does everyone keep lying tonight?"

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>>41485081
>>41484962
>>41484913

Out of some unspoken agreement, all three of you keep quiet.

The Colonel's expression changes fractionally. Then he turns to the soldier guarding you. "Report."

The soldier says, "Uh, it was very routine sir. We set up the roadblock as you requested. Then we intercepted a vehicle. We had uh, a small malfunction with the scanners, but then the Outsider exposed itself, and we neutralised it, sir."

The Colonel waits a moment, and asks, "the scanner malfunctioned, did it?"

"Well, these things happen, sir. But the device worked in the end, sir."

"Oh, that is so then." He looks at you. "Hmm..."

You notice that dad might have something very angry to say very soon.

> "That's not what happened."
> Stay quiet.
> "Dad, stop."
> [Write in]

>>41485402
> "That's not what happened."
Sure, sure.

>>41485402
>> "That's not what happened."

>>41485402
> Stay quiet.

>>41485402
>Thats not what happened

Personally im against this choice as it's going to draw suspicion to us. Also I don't think its wise to completely throw _someone_ under a bus, as _it_ might not be dead. But I see no other way to advance the plot, so lets just get this over with.

>>41485402
> "That's not what happened."
's not.

>>41485561
How does it throw _someone_ under the buss? They already know it's an outsider, the only difference is whether it did damage before dying (or 'dying').

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>Dad is gonna think 'that's not what happened' is gonna refer to them killing his wife who was 200% human
Nope it's crazy stuff about a truck disappearing. And we'd have no other way of knowing B team was in a truck.

Also
>"Oh, that is so then." He looks at you. "Hmm..."

Contradicting this story might throw off his already-having-suspicions about us. If we were an Outsider who had bamboozled all these people, we'd never challenge our own cover story we planted in their minds.

Whereas, "scan someone else first" really did sound like something an outsider would say.

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>>41485607
>>41485561
>>41485444
>>41485419

Dad looks at you, then agrees vehemently.

"That's right. Your men MURDERED MY WIFE. I am going to..."

"Kindly shut up." There's something cold in the man's stare that makes Dad falter. And then he turns to you.

He looks at you. "Was that really what you meant? Do you want to tell me everything somewhere private?"

Dad looks at you in confused surprise.

> Agree to his offer.
> Refuse
> Deny everything

>>41485798
> Refuse
Well not with THAT attitude

>>41485798
> Agree to his offer.

>>41485798
>refuse
Dad's a lost cause but redpilling brother at least.

>>41485798
> Deny everything

>>41481742
>quest
What the fuck is this stupid trash? Get this shit off my tg

>>41485798
> Agree to his offer.

>>41485798
> Refuse
WE'RE DOING IT LIVE, HERE AND NOW

>>41486020
What's next, you'll post a picture of a frog and scream?

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>>41486020
>my tg

>>41486020
No u

>>41485798
>Agree to his offer, but don't tell him everything

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>>41486112
>>41486096
>>41485858
>>41485835
>>41485941
>>41486106

He looks at you, noting your hesitation.

"You obviously have something interesting to say, so what's the problem? Why don't we have a nice chat about all this over tea and biscuits. Or we could, not. Why does this have to be complicated?"

"What are talking about with my daughter?" Dad demands.

> Agree to go with him
> Refuse to go

>>41486503
> Agree to go with him

>>41486503
> Refuse to go
>I-it's fine, it's best if I tell everyone
I don't trust this guy AT ALL. I mean, look at his face!

>>41486503
>>41486565
I'll support this.

>>41486503
>>41486565
Backing

>>41486503
> Agree to go with him
Nothing could go wrong.

>>41486503
>Agree to go with him.

>>41463337
What did we actually say to the soldier here

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>>41486759
>>41486680
>>41486658
>>41486605
>>41486565
>>41486551

He sighs and looks away from you.

"Why don't people get it? I merely asking for your reason for hesitating."

A black bag slips over your head.

"You *actually* don't get a choice."

Something smacks into the back of your skull.

And everything goes black.

>>41486842
How annoying.

>>41486842
I didn't think we did.

>>41486842
I knew he wasn't to be trusted.

>>41486806
(I took it as blabbering something about how their meter can't possibly be showing a signal on us, it has to be ...)

>>41486842

(Okay, I need to take a short break to prepare the next session. Be back in half an hour or so.)

>>41486884
(Er, the next section)

Seriously, how did you not expect this?

>>41487143
I did, but refused anyway.

>>41483115
>How is it _someone_'s fault that other people are hostile to them.
im guessing because those things have been fucking with a lot of stuff _someone_ started it

>>41484753
The colonel is a handsome devil

Lel colonel butts

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>>41486884

You wake up slumped over a table with a roaring headache. Getting up, you are aware that you are in some kind of vehicle, that seems very slowly moving. In the chamber you are in, there's also also two benches, and something that looks like a fridge.

On the table in front of you there's a thin file, and on top is a picture of a young girl you've never seen before.

The Colonel gets in, sits down in front of you, and puts his hand over the file.

He smiles as if nothing had happened. "Well, aren't we glad all that unpleasantness is over with? Now, maybe we can get some answers?"

> Don't say a word.
> "Who's the girl?"
> "What did you do to my family?"
> [Write in]

>>41487703
> "Who's the girl?"

>>41487703
> "Who's the girl?"
> "What did you do to my family?"

>>41487703
> "What did you do to my family?"

>>41487703
>Just tell him what happened its our own fault we are in this mess for not telling him to begin with.

>>41487703
>Where's my family?
>And did you really need to hit me?

>>41487703
> "Who's the girl?"

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>>41487811
>>41487751
>>41487740

"Your family is safe. This I promise. It will soon be apparent that there is nothing that they can possibly do that is a threat to me and the project."

"Now, that is a freebie. I would like to play a little game with you, if you don't mind. An exchange of information. If you answer one of my questions, I'll answer one of yours. How does that sound? I'm sure you have lots of questions."

"Firstly, tell me, what did you see that was unusual when you had that nasty encounter with my soldiers?"

> Answer, then ask "Who are you?"
> Answer, then ask "Who is the girl?"
> Answer, then ask "What is project outsider?"
> Don't answer
> [Write in]

>>41488145
> Answer, then ask "Who is the girl?"

>>41488145
>> Answer, then ask "Who is the girl?"

>>41488145
> Answer, then ask "Who is the girl?"
She seems important.

>>41488145
>Answer, then ask "Who is the girl?"

>>41488145
> Answer, then ask "What is project outsider?"

>>41488145
> Answer, then ask "What is project outsider?"

>>41488145
> Answer, then ask "Who is the girl?"

>>41488212
> Answer, then ask "Who are you?"
I want to ask them all. Hopefully he has enough questions for that.

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>>41488277
>>41488244
>>41488212
>>41488204
>>41488195
You talk about seeing the disappearances of the truck and the tank. He relaxes, and nods.

"As for the girl, now that is a very interesting question. Visually it looks like Alice Summers, a young girl of maybe around 10 or so."

"Visually?"

"Mrs Summer's older brother remembers distinctly clearly that his little sister died aged four. And there, you see, someone made a very big mistake."

"Does this situation sound familiar?"

> Answer, then ask "Who are you?"
> Answer, then ask "Someone?"
> Answer, then ask "What mistake?"
> Answer, then ask "What is project outsider?"
> Don't answer
> [Write in]

>>41488478
>Answer, then ask "What is project outsider?"

>>41488478
> Answer, then ask "Who are you?"

>>41488478
>> Answer, then ask "What is project outsider?"

>>41488478
>> Answer, then ask "What is project outsider?"

>>41488478
> Answer, then ask "What mistake?"

>>41488478
> Answer, then ask "What mistake?"

>>41488478
> Answer, then ask "What mistake?"

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>>41488512
>>41488542
>>41488560

You tell him about your mom mysteriously appearing alive after you might have crashed the car. He nods.

"What is project outsider, you ask? Well, it is very simple and it all comes from this 'girl'. It was born of an effort to investigate little discrepancies like this. Discrepancies that suggest the existence of entities outside of our understanding."

He looks at your reaction carefully.

"Perhaps outside of causality itself. Do you think that's possible?"

> "Yes" and explain
> "No" and explain
> "I don't know"
Then ask
> "Who are you?"
> "The someone you mentioned before, it's this outsider?"
> "What mistake did this outsider make?"
> [Write in]

>>41488896
>> "No" and explain

>> "What mistake did this outsider make?"

>>41488896
> "I don't know"
>[Write in] "Those men that disappeared, are they dead, or just somewhere else?"

>>41488896
> "I don't know"
> "Who are you?"

>>41488896
> "Yes" and explain
Of course i believe it i have seen it myself
> "The someone you mentioned before, it's this outsider?"

>>41488896
>>41489021
backing

>>41488896
>>41489021
Oh, I like this question.

>>41488896
> "No, I mean your soldier were able to take it out."
> "What mistake did this outsider make?"

>>41488896
>> "I don't know"
>> "What mistake did this outsider make?"


>>41489021
They obviously got retroactively broken down by the side of the road, otherwise the reality warping wouldn't be consistent.

>>41488896
> "I don't know"
>>41489021

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>>41489021
"You don't know? What a boring answer. You could at least guess."

You shrug and ask your question.

"Well, if you want to give me a non-answer, I'll give you one back. In a sense, nothing happened to my men. The question you should ask is what happened to the two of us."

"I got a radio message from Tank unit one telling me they caught a car, and then when I got there, they had broken down before their mission even began. What do *you* think that means?"

> [Write in]
Ask
> "Who are you?"
> "The someone you mentioned before, it's this outsider?"
> "What mistake did this outsider make?"
> [Write in]

>>41489556
>Write in
So you got taken to a world where something different happened.

>> "What mistake did this outsider make?"

>>41489556
>i think it means the outsiders power is contained over a small area
> "The someone you mentioned before, it's this outsider?"

>>41489556
>Mass-delusion? Dimension-hopping? The Matrix?
> "The someone you mentioned before, it's this outsider?"

>>41489556
>>41489593
Backing.
Also, sleeping. Thanks for running!

>>41489556
>I think that means this "outsider" has time altering abilitys, but only affects a certain area or is limited in what it can do.
> "What mistake did this outsider make?"

>>41489556
It means... that they're limited. That their changes aren't global, and... maybe that they can't kill. Not directly.
> "What mistake did this outsider make?"

>>41489556
> "The someone you mentioned before, it's this outsider?"
> "What mistake did this outsider make?"

Started reading this quest today, caught up on the archived stuff.

I am super intrigued.

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You make a number of wrong guesses, but eventually hit upon the one he was thinking of.

He sighs, and runs his fingers over the woodgrain on the surface of the table.

"You'll note that only us two noticed what happened with the tank. The soldiers did not, your family did not see anything strange happen. Only us two. We intercepted your SMS messages too, you know. Your friend Katie, living hundreds of miles away, also did not see anything odd about your mother being alive. Is it not more simple that something happened to us two, than something happened to the rest of the world and conveniently left us out?

"Suppose many worlds - or perhaps many possibilities exist. One where the tank was there, and one where due to some simple freak accident the tank was not. Suppose that someone existed who was an outsider - an outsider to causality, it would be trivial to see this was the case, and to move between the two possibilities in this way."

You hazard a guess. "Is this something to do with this outsider's mistake?"

"Correct, this is very relevant. You see, for an outsider, it could have moved from one timeline to another and no one would have noticed anything. Nothing would have changed. But a very foolish someone did something different. It took the boy with it."

"Now, tell me, what was the circumstances of your mother's death?"

> Answer, then ask "why did the outsider take the boy with it?"
> Answer, then ask "why does how my mother died matter?"
> Answer, then ask "And this explains why I am special?"
> Refuse
> [Write in]

>>41490442
> Answer, then ask "why did the outsider take the boy with it?"

>>41490442
>> Answer, then ask "why does how my mother died matter?"
holy shit this is spooopy

>>41490442
> Answer, then ask "why did the outsider take the boy with it?"

>>41490442
>> Answer, then ask "why did the outsider take the boy with it?"

>>41490442
> Answer, then ask "why did the outsider take the boy with it?"

(Note to Authur: you may want to explain what 'Causality' is to your viewers.)

>>41490442
Was there any mention of this boy prior? If not:

>"What boy?"

and then

>"Why did the outsider take the boy with it?"

>>41490546
*author

Can't believe I made that mistake...

>>41490442
> Answer, then ask "why does how my mother died matter?"

>>41490546
>explain extremely basic vocabulary words common to scifi
>spoonfeed things trivially googled if someone is ignorant enough to not know it
This is an 18 and over website.

>>41490442
>Answer, then ask "why did the outsider take the boy with it?"

>>41490546
If you're 18+, you should already know what causality means.

>>41490591

Pay attention now :p
>>41488478

Also remember the rules now, only one question at a time.

>>41490663
>>41490664 here. It's great that we accidentally timed our posts within 10 seconds of each other or we'd be accused of samefagging when we tell off idiots.

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>>41490526
>>41490534
>>41490546
>>41490517
>>41490664

He listens. "Yes, that would make sense."

"Well, to hear the outsider tell it, it was pity."

He looks at you, then clasps his hands together. "Well, whatever passes for pity amongst them. I do not necessarily believe this outsider. No, I don't believe it at all. But this is the tale."

"You see, this outsider realised that the brother was sad that his sister Alice had died. Like I said, it would be very easy for the outsider to go to a world where the sister didn't die. But that wouldn't do any good, would it?"

"Because the particular brother who lost the sister wouldn't know, and the brother that the outsider took pity on would remain in his world with the dead sister. So the outsider broke the rules. The outsider wanted to save, not the sister, but the brother. So it moved the brother, so that the brother would know that the sister was still alive. Well, it did a bit more than that. I imagine that your case was similar."

"But it didn't work right, did it?"

> "You're saying that thing pitied me?"
> Answer then ask "What went wrong?"
> Answer then ask "You spoke to this outsider?"
> Refuse to answer
> [Write in]

>>41491056
> Answer then ask "You spoke to this outsider?"

>>41491056
"You're saying that thing pitied me?"

>>41491056
>Answer then ask "What went wrong?"

>>41491056

>Answer then ask "What went wrong?"

>>41491056

OH SHIT, IS THE COLONEL THE BROTHER?

>Answer then ask "What went wrong?"

>>41491056
>> Answer then ask "What went wrong?"

>>41491056
But that doesn't make sense.

If the outsider moved to a world where the sister was alive, and the outsider took the form of his sister...

What happened to the real alive sister in that world?

>inb4 the real human Mom in this world died, and the outsider is still afoot somewhere

>>41491370
I'm guessing that they made something more akin to a pocket dimension, to their own specifications, and then they filled the roles of brother and sister.

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>>41491262
>>41491227
>>41491175
You explain the whole deal with the missing face, the waking up in a strange car and so on.

"Yes, that's right. What went wrong was that the world the boy was brought to was not his own. It was a world where years and years had passed that were different. The boy couldn't accept this reality. He couldn't even accept that his sister was alive. What made this little problem worse was that to move the boy, the Outsider must have given the boy a portion of its powers."

"And with those powers, the boy could fight back."

"Tell me, did you experience any headaches? When?"

> Answer and ask "wait, is that how I fought back?"
> Answer and ask >>41491370
> Refuse
> [Write in]

How do we know the colonel isn't another outsider who has infiltrated the military?

>>41491520
> Answer and ask >>41491370

>>41491520
>Answer and ask "wait, is that how I fought back?"

>>41491520
>> Answer and ask >>41491370 (You)

>>41491520
> Answer and ask >>41491370

>>41491556
We don't.

>>41491520
> Answer and ask >>41491370

>>41491447
It's called "move" to a world, not create a world, pay attention.

>>41491520
>> Answer and ask "wait, is that how I fought back?"

I thought as much.

Pity might be part of it.

But what it is. Is reproduction.

>>41491601
That's the Colonel's speculation.

>>41491556
Technically he's more like an outsider who has joined the military, seeing as how Colonel Summers gained their powers too obviously.

>>41491622
Oh... So that's how outsiders reproduce

>>41491622
So, does that mean we're becoming an outsider, or that we were gonna have sex with mom?

Because I'm STRONGLY in favor of one of those.

Is the Colonel as Scottish as the soldiers though?

>>41491520
> Refuse
So basically, the outsider did nothing wrong, the boy similar didn't like the result and tantrumed instead of asking to be returned. Yeah, I'm siding more and more with the outsiders.

>>41491988
Bleh, meant simple, not similar. Gotta stop getting those mixed up.

>>41491934
This, we need to know the mans accent.

he thinks with our powers combined we can get him home.

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>>41491988
i dont know, im reading all this and still feel like we should PURGE THE FILTHY XENOS SCUM.

>>41492148
But the MC is a little girl
When do little girls want to purge aliens?

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>>41491560
>>41491573
>>41491582
>>41491596
"Yes, yes."

He seems irritated by this line of questioning.

"Well, how should I know? The real question you should ask is what happened to the *brother* in the new world, given that it was replaced by the old brother. Maybe the Outsider picked a world where at just that instant, the brother died. The multiverse of possibilities is infinite, after all. Or the Outsider ate him. Or he's are in limbo somewhere. I don't know and I don't care."

"In the first world he was moved to, the sister was *real*. But that's besides the point - the point is the suffering of the poor innocent brother, don't you see. The brother who just wanted to go home. That's the headaches. The brother, subconsciously at first, was using his borrowed abilities to try and go back to the world where the sister did not exist."

"It happened almost instantly. The first thing the brother did was to move to the nearest world where there was no sister. And that's when the Outsider came back, to clean up the mess."

"Did it talk to you?"

> Answer, ask whether the brother spoke to the Outsider
> Answer, ask whether the brother is an Outsider now
> Refuse
> [Write in]

>>41492177
> Answer, ask whether the brother spoke to the Outsider

>>41492177
> Lie, say no.

>>41492148
While suicide is painless, it brings many changes, and we've taken on much more than I'd please.

>>41492177
> Answer, ask whether the brother spoke to the Outsider

>>41492177
> Answer, ask whether the brother spoke to the Outsider

>>41492177
> Answer, ask whether the brother is an Outsider now

>>41492177
>Answer, ask whether the brother is an Outsider now

>>41492255
>While suicide is painless, it brings many changes, and we've taken on much more than I'd please.
Did you actually just do that anon? I wish I could slap you, but I can't.

>the mess
What mess?

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>>41492264
>>41492311
>>41492217

"As you did, so did I." He says at last.

"Well, it was surprisingly forthright. It told me everything. It apologised for how it ruined my life. Now I was happy, the cause of my misery was explained! But then it told me I couldn't be brought back. You see, it's not very easy to find a particular world. You could find *a* world where my sister didn't exist, but to bring me back to the original one was to locate a world that recreated all the trillions and trillions of tiny tiny decisions would restore the original situation. That was, it said, outside the power of any one Outsider. It said I should just settle and be happy in the new world. Or it could take me to any particular world I would choose, maybe even teach me to master my abilities."

"And that's when I got very angry."

"And that's when I found it I could hurt it."

"Did you find that out too?"

> Yes
> No

> "What did you do?"
> "Wait, are you an outsider now?"
> [Write in]

>>41492685
> No
At least, I don't think so...
>What did you do?

>>41492685
>> No
Deny. Because it means we can hurt him too, and it's best he doesn't know we're a threat.

Pretty sure we hurt it with the accelerating the car business.

>> "What did you do?"

>>41492685
> No

>>41492685
> No
> Why would you hurt it?

>>41492806
I assume because it took him to another world and he was pissed

>>41492685
> No
> "What did you do?"

We should probably start looking for an escape route right about now, Colonel Whatshisname sounds like he doesn't like outsiders, which is what we obviously are at the moment.

>>41492879
Only as much as he is.

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>>41492879
>>41492741
>>41492739
"I guess you're a coward then for not even trying."

"It was very funny how it happened. It was just explaining that getting angry was pointless. You see, an outsider, if you try to harm them normally, could just move to a world where the threat never existed. But it didn't think about its essence... To actually do damage, you just need to be able to keep up with the Outsider, to stop it from escaping. You should see the look on its face when I punched the thing that was pretending to be my sister!"

"I didn't stop for a while, until I realised that I needed it."

> "Why did you need it?"
> "You didn't ask a question."
> "Wait, you beat up a little girl?"
> Stay silent
> [Write in]

>>41492741
>Pretty sure we hurt it with the accelerating the car business.
Was that it? I had thought it had been using its powers too much too quickly, too suddenly, and that had weakened it. Then when it tried fighting against the soldiers, it got overwhelmed in its weakened state.
But yeah, it getting hurt in that situation could be the case as well.

>>41492861
Yeah, but that's just venting. I'm curious about how he's rationalized it past that.

>>41492879
We're about as much an outsider as he is.
>>41492998
We're a fuckin little girl, is he actually calling a little girl a coward for not trying to fight some otherworldly entity?

>>41492998
> "You didn't ask a question."

>>41492998
> "Why did you need it?"

>>41492998
> "Why did you need it?"

>>41492998
> Stay silent

>>41492998
...and yet, you gave the order for your soldiers to detect it and kill it.

They couldn't really kill it, could they? where'd it go?

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>>41493042
>>41493050
"I needed it because it was not one Outsider that was wrong. The existence of Outsiders is wrong. Think about it! Every shameful thought we have could manifest in some reality, and there is some entity that can watch that and judge us for it! And worse, they could toy with us at any time. They could destroy us at any time! Even make it so that we never existed. The more I thought about it, the more I realised the danger they posed. And the more I understood that I alone held the ability to end them for good."

"I had the essence of the outsider within me. I could extract more from other outsiders. I could use this essence to make special weapons, weapons good against outsiders. Cages, even, that could trap them. And trapped and tortured outsiders would lure more in."

"It took time, but I put the bits of the plan together. It was quite simple actually. If I borrowed a bit of their power I could just go to a world where any failure just didn't happen."

> "Wouldn't people notice?"
> "Wait, doesn't that make you an outsider?"
> "So what's the purpose of this facility?"
> "So where do I come into this?"
> [Write in]

>>41493380
> "So where do I come into this?"

>>41493380
> Well i want to help those fucks are going to pay for fucking with me like they did

>>41493380
> "Wouldn't people notice?"

>>41493380
> "Wait, doesn't that make you an outsider?"

>>41493380
> Every shameful thought we have could manifest in some reality, and there is some entity that can watch that and judge us for it!
Everything you think about is another world? That seems like a stretch. Also that they even are capable of judgment.

>And worse, they could toy with us at any time. They could destroy us at any time! Even make it so that we never existed.
But he just said that they just *move* humans to other worlds, the worlds still exist. Their power can't destroy anything.

>>41493527
No, we don't want to provoke him.

>>41493380
>> "Wouldn't people notice?"

>>41493380
>"So where do I come into this?"

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>>41493578
>>41493423

"Of course people notice. Every little thing I do attracts notice. I imagine it looks very alarming. Didn't you watch the news? From past experience, in a few short hours, every major nation in the world is going to launch a nuclear assault on this country. I'm already making preparations to keep moving on."

"But first I have a little experiment to do, and that's where you come in."

"You see, you were a mistake. An escapee from my trap found you before my patrols found it. But it seems like the escapee couldn't help but interfere a little... which means I can try something out."

You don't like the sound of this.

"Would you like to volunteer to advance human knowledge?"

> "Yes."
> "No."
> "What experiment?"

>>41493838
>"What experiment?"
A question for a question.

>>41493838
> "No."

>>41493838
> "What experiment?"

>>41493838
>> "What experiment?"

Is it breeding more outsiders?

I don't want to be teen pregnant by a Scot.

>>41493838
> "What experiment?"

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>>41493947
>>41493911
>>41493902
>>41494006

"Now, I'm sure you've been wondering one question. Am I, Colonel Summers, now an outsider. Or indeed, whether you are an outsider yourself?"

"That *is* a question that has been concerning me for a while. Unfortunately, with only one of me, it was one that was very difficult and unsafe to verify. However now that I've confirmed that you are a similar manner of beast to myself, I now have a test subject for, well, destructive testing."

"We don't have a lot of time, so let's begin. Of course, you don't get a choice."

He calls out, and a door opens behind you.

"Private Jenners, shoot this girl dead please."

(END OF SESSION)

>>41494043
(THANKS FOR PLAYING EVERYONE.

Sorry this one was so fucking text heavy for a drawquest. And took so long. And there was so much exposition. And maybe bits don't make sense. I hope it mostly did and you enjoyed yourselves. Phew. Got to go.

Survey question:
What do people think of Summers?)

>>41494043
Ahahah time to unlock our Slider powers.

>>41494098
>What do people think of Summers?)
This crazy dude is completely ruining our trip.

>>41494098
He was a bit of an asshole

>>41494098
Aww to be honest i was kind of hoping that although summers was a bit obsessed we would be able to work with him and go to war against the outsiders but i guess that is not going to happen.

TIME TO GO TO WAR AGAINST COLONEL SUMMERS

>>41494098
Is he Scottish like the others?


>>41494341
He was freakin' obviously the villain for a long time before that, you are dumb.

_Someone_ did nothing wrong.

>>41494098
I think he's batshit insane. Years of obsession can do that to a man.

>>41494098
Thanks, it was fun.

>>41494361
You can't place his accent. You aren't sure where he came from at all. You have the suspicion that the country he comes from might not even exist in this reality.

>>41494361
>_Someone_ did everything wrong.
ftfy

>>41494953
Well excuuuuuse me princess for trying to take you to a beautiful paradise world where nothing goes wrong ever and then sacrificing myself to save you.

>>41495120
Well, she didn't exactly manage to pull us far enough away that the clearly psychopathic colonel who'd captured her in the first place wouldn't be an issue

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>>41495283
It's not _someone_'s fault that the guy is sliding right along with them automatically. Escaping him is impossible.

You can't get off Colonel Summers' WILD RIDE

>>41495306
>You can't get off Colonel Summers' WILD RIDE
spooky

>>41495306
But this brings up an interesting point.
He's suggesting that they're moving us between universes.
But they're not. They're altering the past in the universe they're in, otherwise the two people (we know of) who are immune to this bull wouldn't be effected.

>>41496117
They are not immune. They are the exact opposite of immune.

The outsider explicitly explained it to him that it's travel.

>>41496154
Didn't mean to say immune, sorry, meant to day that they'd get seperated.

The colonel was "moving" independently of _someone_, and yet every time we were in the same universe as each other.
It'd make sense if there was only one outsider, but there's clearly not.

Also, the colonel doesn't necessarily know everything about what he's talking about. It's an extra-dimensional being beyond our comprehension, and I doubt he has a degree in applied theoretical meta-physics.

That or I'm reading far to deep into this.

>>41496292
both

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I just got caught up on these threads. Very neat quest so far, OP!

>>41498452
foul necromancer of the bump academy, not knowing the wisdom of sages.

>>41498553
>not wanting a good quest to get more exposure
Fukken wizards.