Been waffling on this forever.

[88miles]

Wait, what? No, back up here. This is.....heavy. You're sure me being here won't....I don't know, create a paradox or something? Being here with lots of people from not only different times, but different worlds sounds. Like it would. I'm sure Doc would agree. If he were around, I mean. You sure this is such a good idea? I mean. I get it. You're all excited about this. And '30 years' almost. But seriously. As much as I'm usually all about jumping in headfirst to things, this could be heavier than you're anticipating. Just saying.

[After all, who knows how the rules might work here. If they are anything like what he is familiar with back home with time travel or what. Could be similar enough to worry him or different enough to calm or terrify him all the more for all he knows at this point. Running a hand through his hair out of nervous habit as he glances around.]

Okay. Got to admit though. I'm curious? Definitely.

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Coool, a Marty McFly!

[beyondthenorms]

[He sounds like a total newb when it comes to different worlds. But he's a time traveler already? Really?]

Both of those things together gets to be too much, at times. You never really get used to it, but we as human beings can adapt in one way or another.

[Even, from her perspective, enhanced human beings.]

I've debated making a journal for him forever.

[88miles]

[Hey, alternate timelines and all, he's used to that. Other entirely different worlds, he knows of in theory from the likes of Star Trek and everything but it's another to actually experience it.]

I guess so. Just kind of -- roll with it, right? I'm used to that.

[Any of Doc's friends kind of has to be, to be honest.]

[thisischristmas]

[this strange man is laying an arm 'round Marty's shoulders and clapping the far side]

Ohhhh no no no, no need to worry! This lovely place is a nexus, think of it as the crossroads for billions upon trillions of realities and planets and cultures all from different timezones, and everyone took the wrong exit on the motorway. You're hardly time-traveling, people are just . . . a tad misplaced!

Now if you meet yourself then by God do not touch just don't, speaking alone could endanger the fabric of space and time itself, touch you'll create a paradox and either cease to exist or kill us all. [he pats Marty's shoulder and pulls away] Lighten up!

[88miles]

[wait what who are you. Eleven getting all up in personal space.]

Lighten up. Sure. What could possibly go wrong given that explanation and warning......

[Talk of paradoxes reminds him of Doc and how frantic he had been over Jennifer in the future once they realized she'd been found and taken home. Marty has some vague experience in that sort of thing at least but even so. It's still kind of concerning, really.]

Ahh. :)

[beyondthenorms]

[To be honest, she knows her friends have met someone from Star Trek. They told her so. Dr. Bones McCoy was only at Home Nexus for a short time though.

She doesn't even realize just who she's talking to. It's been too long since she's last watched Back to the Future 1 or 2.]

Well that's part of what you should do. Freaking out over every little thing doesn't really do much good.

Make sure you don't go world traveling alone either. If possible!

[thisischristmas]

[it's his calling card, really]

That's the spirit! Though, let's not incur Murphy's Lawful wrath, eh? [yeah, he doesn't get it. kids these days, they're just so grim!]

I take it you've mucked about hist'ry a time or two. [he grins at his own "joke," practically vibrating with energy] The essence of the time vortex is coming off you in sparks.

[88miles]

Essence of the time vortex? Uh....well, you could say I've seen a lot of history.

[And. Unintentionally ended up in alternate timelines and all. As reliable as the Delorean is, it can still be rather difficult to deal with sometimes. But well. This guy is obviously familiar with the concept at least? Marty can't really deny it if he can tell, somehow.]

[88miles]

I guess so. This is just....really heavy. Trust me, I wouldn't go alone. I'd have Doc with me at least. Not that I actually really plan on going to one of these.....'games', exactly. But still.

[Trying to be reassuring? Whether for himself or her is unclear but all the same.]

[beyondthenorms]

[She beams, happy for him.] Good, you have someone from your universe. That's even better!

And I understand what you mean. Where I've lived in for seven plus years gets really overwhelming at times but it really does help to endure it with other people who care.

[She frowns a bit.] Some of these game places I've seen are just messed up. Stick to the freeplay areas like SixWords and Bakerstreet. They're great.

[88miles]

Y-yeah, familiar faces and all that. Usually helps in crazy settings.....

[Even alternates. But hey, he can try roll with it. Until she mentions seven years because wow. Yeah, that is a long time. He doesn't want to be stuck anywhere that long.]

I think bakerstreet or...musebox things are probably going to be the extent of this. Which is probably something I should be grateful on.

[beyondthenorms]

[In seeing his expression, she smiles to him, confident.] Not all worlds are like my home. There are plenty of nicer, more normal ones out there. [That aren't sentient. Not that he needs to know that. She doesn't want to break the guy's brain.]

Yep, those are pretty much your best options for both you and Mun to have good times...

My mun's musebox though, it's not safe, and that's all I'll say about it. [Notice how against enabling she is, Mun. You big pain, you. The less details she'll say, so much the better.]

I'm Mari Broderick, by the way. I come and go around this place sort of frequently.

[88miles]

[There's a slight nod, trying to let himself be reassured a bit with her smile and encouragement.]

Right. Mine was totally normal. More or less. Disregarding the whole time-travel thing with the Delorean. I don't know what to think on her musebox, but it's got to be better than some of those places or memes sometimes. Can't speak for yours, of course. But ah, Mari. Right, I'm Marty.

[beyondthenorms]

Nice to meetcha, Marty.

My old home was normal too. Then a really intense and crazy week happened over there, eleven years back... It's a long story. [It really is. That, and she doesn't really like thinking about the chain of events that happened--along with the mistakes she's made. And her first near-death experience... There were good memories of awesome people she first met, but there are some really bad ones too.]

My mun is the type who likes to put my friends and myself through a lot. Excitement, drama, and all that stuff. Really, you don't want my mun chatting with yours.

[She sighs.] Not that I can do much to stop mine at this point.

[alterheuristics]

If it hasn't happened already, you're probably fine.

[ says the woman who skipped over the savior of humanity's conception with his father. ]

[88miles]

I know all about long stories. Trust me.

[More in relation to the time travel and alternate timelines in comparison, but all the same. He runs a hand through his hair and gives a sigh himself.]

You'd think we'd all have had plenty of drama and excitement already to last a lifetime and then some. Or, I know it feels like I have with everything back home. Let alone all....all of this.

[88miles]

Probably. Hopefully. Seems okay so far anyway.

[He's had more than one near-death experience already, close calls with the Doc before. It just makes him a bit more paranoid with the potential dangers and consequences of alternates and all of this.]

[beyondthenorms]

With the muns, enough is never enough. [She rolls her eyes a bit at that.] Apparently, she's gotten a friend of mine and myself into the Twitter RP as well, which is not as awful as what we had to put up with at her musebox.

So, what got you to do time traveling with your friend? [She pauses.] You guys didn't seriously butterfly-effect anything, did you?

[88miles]

Twitter? Like a bird? Or another thing like this? [He's from 1985 okay. And he wasn't in 2015 long enough to really get a huge look on what they had available then, more concerned with his son and finding Jennifer at the time and all.]

It worked out in the end. Barring alternate timelines. [Thanks to Biff finding the sports almanac.]

[alterheuristics]

[ she's had a few herself, though the only danger that came from time traveling itself was ending up in the middle of the highway. but the method of time travel she's familiar with has always been a one-way trip, so there's been less talk of possible paradoxes. she might be interested in comparing notes on time travel, if she were familiar with him or his series, but she's a year shy of its release.

sarah gives him a quick visual once-over and shrugs. ]

You don't look like you're about to blow up or disintegrate to me.

[88miles]

Blow up? Uh, no. I mean. I've had some close calls. And there was the one time I almost disappeared because my father was....hopeless but.

[But he probably shouldn't go into detail on that. Timelines and all. But at least she seems a bit more understanding than completely out of her depth in getting what he means.]

[alterheuristics]

[ pardon her phrasing, her world and version of time travel is a little more violent. ]

Wait, so you've traveled through time more than once? Back and forth?

[ this is a somewhat new development. every time she'd heard of time travel before, it had been a one-way trip. and kyle was the only one she knew who'd done it more than once. ]

[beyondthenorms]

It's a thing on the internet. The logo is bird shaped, hence the name. It's like a cross between blogging and... phone texting.

[She blinks.] Sounds really complicated.

[88miles]

Internet? I have....no idea on that. Okay, I recognize 'phone', but.

[Most of that. Just went right over his head.]

[88miles]

Yeah. Kind of had to to figure alternate timelines and all that. Doc would be able to explain it all a lot better than me though.

[Marty initially hadn't even intended on time traveling, simply wanted to get the hell away from those guys that came and shot his friend. Getting back to this own time proved more complicated.]

[alterheuristics]

Yeah, I know all about those.

[ in theory, anyway. kyle would be able to fill him in on more about that than she could. ( and if it makes marty feel any better, he talked to a version of himself and it actually helped save the world ). ]

Who's Doc? [ she'd kind of like to meet him. ]

[88miles]

Doc is this scientist guy I met. Has lots of ideas and inventions. I help Doc with some of his inventions, testing them out and helping look after Einstein, his dog. He's the one that came up with the idea for the Flux Capactitor. The thing that makes time travel possible. Or, back home for us anyway. I guess it could work differently in other times or...worlds.

lol as I reply Back to the Future 2 is on TV.

[beyondthenorms]

Do you have computers in your timeline? Internet for you would be a future form of communication, learning information, and watching TV, or movies on them.

[If she has to simplify what computers are, she can do that. She's quite good at it.

No familiar bells ringin in her head yet. Still no idea who you are, dude.]

oh timing.

[88miles]

Uh...Computers, yes. But not so much watching television or using the internet with one. Yet?

[Not that a lot of people had access to said computers back then in 1985. But still.]

Hehe yeah.

[beyondthenorms]

[She finds Marty interesting. Also, she hasn't sensed any bad vibes from him, so she doesn't mind at all being friends with him. And introducing him to some of her friends.]

Ahhh, okay! So your own time is somewhere in the 80's...or is it early 90's? I was born in 1984.

[alterheuristics]

Yeah, it does. Don't know what the Flux Capacitor is, but what we used was called Time Displacement Equipment. Something you can build if you can get the parts for it, but you need tech from the future to actually operate it.

[88miles]

85, actually. Last I checked anyway. Outside the time travel, I mean.

[Going a good thirty years to the future, or way back into the past, alternate timelines. But there's still that constant. That 'home' period where he is actually supposed to be alive and remembers.]

[88miles]

Time Displacement. Huh. I guess you discovered that when someone came from said future and left the equipment for you to study and figure out? Sounds like something Doc'd be curious about, I'm sure. Mostly this stuff more goes way over my head. I only know the basics on this in comparison to him being the one who made the Time Machine out of a Delorean.

[Tech from the future though. Any tech from the future could be potentially awesome and/or terrifying, if the hoverboards and hologram ads were anything to go by in his 2015 visit.]

[beyondthenorms]

Cool. [She smiles.] I still like some 80's movies and cartoons... Maybe I could see if there's a video store or something Earth Parallel I've been at.

[She pauses to explain what she means by that.] There are alternate timelines, and also replicas of the same planet. Parallel dimensions. I've met and befriended quite a few from them. A lot of the same locations and some of the same famous people exist--but there's some different circumstances that have happened.

[alterheuristics]

I'm told it went that way in another life. [ pops had had some details on what had happened at the factory, how the tech left behind had lead to the creation of what would eventually be the destruction of the human race. they'd been careful since then to destroy any future tech that had found its way to them, but with what skynet had done to john, the steps had still been taken.

talking about the creation of what got people and things from point a to point b is less painful than thinking about that, though, so she continues with that instead. ]

Something like that. We sort of built our own and waited for the last piece to come through when it was supposed to.

[ a beat. ]

Did you say a DeLorean?

[88miles]

Yup. Not sure what gave him the idea to use a car -- or a Delorean specifically. Other than the fact he could. You'd have to ask him on the details and all. I mean, I can use it but how it works exactly and all that, he'd know better on.

[Marty was mostly around to help care for Einstein and assist in things once Doc had his inventions in the testing phase, really. Likely his friend figures the errands and trails of setting it all up and gathering what is required to be done while Marty has class. Possibly because at times it can be rather dangerous, with some of his more eccentric ideas.]