usedfeatherdance | Feather 17 [Video]

[ The video clicks on to a view of the ceiling in one of the rooms of the Blackthorn Inn. The fan is slowly circling, and the only other thing visible in the frame is an arm reaching straight up from slightly off screen, holding up a Rising Badge. ]

We've already figured out that collecting a whole set of badges doesn't actually get you anything of value, right? Or did that finally change while I wasn't looking?

[ Joshua sighs, and the arm lowers out of the feed. There's the sound of it hitting the bed, and the camera shakes just the slightest. ]

You'd think that after I spent this long collecting them, I'd feel prouder at finally winning the last one. Mmm, perhaps this isn't really for me after all.

[ After a pause, he giggles. Then he rolls over and leans over the Gear, his face finally entering the camera's view. ]

How about this? Tell me about the worst thing that happened to you at home that you're still willing to talk about. Even if it doesn't seem to compare to what others have been through. Tragedy is quite relative, after all.

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[h...uh.]

That's a weird thing to want to know. [Not that he's averse to answering, but...seriously, that's really weird.]

Why? Because I'm letting people set their own comfort levels?

[ No, Josh, that's just a problem with you. ]

Um. [How is he going to put this...] I mean...why do you want to hear about bad things? Won't it just be sad? [Information on local, relevant terrible things, he could understand. Inviting people to spill their past troubles for no apparent reason...that's a new one.]

Considering they're still alive to talk about it [ technically, now ] I can't imagine it would be too sad. And even if it is, there's things to be learned from difficult experiences.

[Well...

...eh, that sort of makes sense. Maybe information like that could be useful, and Dorumon just doesn't see how. He still can't get past the part where it hurts to hear about tragedies, though - who would voluntarily set themselves up for that? (The obvious answer passes him by.)]

He hums uncertainly, then gives a hesitant nod.] It's still weird. [Just in case there was any doubt. And as for the answer:] The world ended.

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Ended? Just like that? How?

[ His voice is full of curiosity, not disbelief.

This was something he almost did himself on a smaller scale so he is plenty interested; do go on. ]

It grew unstable, and collapsed. [It's sort of a parroted answer. Dorumon could go on about how terrible and wrong it all was, but...but.] Everything in it grew and grew, and the host couldn't maintain it anymore.

What sort of host did it have?

A computer. Its name is Yggdrasil.

A... computer.

[ If you'll pardon the phrase, Joshua needs a moment to process that. ]

Did this world not exist prior to the creation of computers?

[...of all the things, Josh? This is the one that throws you for a loop?

...understandable, actually, but it's still funny.

Meanwhile, Dorumon looks like you just asked him to solve existence.]

I...don't know. I don't think it existed before Yggdrasil came into being...? I don't think it could, unless...Yggdrasil was replaced with something just like it.

[ Well yes. People running and maintaining ~~and nearly ending~~ worlds is old hat, but a computer doing it is new and fascinating!

... Anyone actually paying attention might be wtf-ing at him a little though because seriously, Josh, seriously. ]

How long had it existed before ending?

[Oh, gosh.] I don't know. I'm not old enough. [Even if he had been around since the beginning, time is a strange thing in the Digital World. Hard to measure.]

Well, how old are you?

[...shrug.]

Young.

[Neither he nor the mun can even begin to guess, due to the Digital World lacking internal measurements of time longer than days.]

... How young?

[ Can we at least get a ballpark? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? ]

I don't keep track. [He looks like a ten-year-old, though. Take that as you will?]

[ Alright let's try this another way. ]

Was the host itself inside the world, or in a different one?

Inside...it's hidden away, though. But after coming here, I think there might be more to it.

More to it how?

[Thinking about this makes his head spin, but he'll give it his best shot.]

Like...maybe the computer that runs our whole world is like the computers in this world, and there's a world that's connected to ours...?

[ Meanwhile Josh is over here playing with his old hats. Yup. ]

So you don't know for sure the host itself resided in that world in particular?

No, Yggdrasil is in our world. It even has a body. [you spin my head right round baby right round like a record baby right round right round] But...but...

[...yeah, that's as far as he can stretch it right now. Error error. Reboot recommended.]

Is it what created the world?

As far as I know.

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