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I hope for your sake, User-mun, that this transition is as easy as you think it will be.

I'm also glad that there is at least one person there who will already know me, though I'm not averse to making new friends.

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"If you are heading to a game, good luck. Some of them sound dangerous - mostly to your sanity. My mun's not so sure she wants to try."

Oh it's a game, but not like the ones in the arena, more of ... well, more of a neighborhood, a reality than one of those games.

"That's good, at least. I had enough of lightcycle deathmatches for a lifetime! I've heard about these other games, but my mun thinks I might be a disruption, and I can't blame her for wanting to proceed carefully."

"If I do get uploaded to a game, I already know I'll try and search for the truth. I have so many questions and things to think about, so much I don't know."

I think everyone has questions, I know I do! Some of them, though I don't know if I want the answers to, or even know if anyone would have those answers.

"I know what you mean. What little I've been able to piece together has been painful to say the least. It just keeps getting worse from there. So many lives lost and ruined, and it all could have been prevented."

... I think you must have me confused with somebody else.

"I...I'm sorry. Maybe I said too much. I started asking questions about what happened to..."

[The pause is a bit long and uncomfortable]

"I started asking about what happened to Kevin Flynn and Tron. Nothing I found out counts as good news."

Maybe not where you're from, but there are other worlds than your own. Other outcomes.

I hadn't realized Users were quite so self-centered.

[He's got the grace to blush at that.]

"That obvious, huh? Funny, during my first trip to the system, no one really believed it when I told them. I get in here, and it's like Programs can smell it on me."

"Now that you mention it, the Gibbs-Lisberger theory did conclude that parallel dimensions were a mathamatical possibility, and my mun did say I'm from one of those alternate timelines. Most of the physics involved go flying over my head, though. It's good to know that there's a timeline where things went well."

Hey, new friends are always good. I'm sure you'll fit right in!

That's what she says, and she's told me about you. Good things, don't worry about that.

Not smell, exactly, but something like that, and I don't know who Gibbs Lisberger is, but they sound like someone you should pay attention to.

Oh, really now? [He laughs.] Good things though, glad for that. What's she been saying?

Well aside from, ah, I believe the phrase she used was 'adorably accident prone' and also 'the Grid's second-biggeset magnet for trouble' she said that you're someone she'd want on her side in a crisis.

"Two people, actually. Walter Gibbs was Encom's founder. Pretty much built the company out of a garage and spent most of his time on R&D. Lisberger was a researcher that worked with him. The laser that started this whole thing was based on their theory. They figured that you could theoretically use pocket dimensions as a way to transmit matter across long distances. Zap something with the digitizing laser on one end, mail the file to someone with a laser on the other end, play back the model, and that object or person comes out on the other side."

"Interesting theory, and I know it works, but no one factored in an entire world of sentient electronic life between the two points. Worse, in my timeline, the MCP's crash wiped out all the data, meaning we had to rebuild it all from scratch. It seems Flynn managed to crack the algorithms needed to make the laser work again, but he just didn't tell anyone. When he got in trouble, there was no one who knew where he was or how to help. It took until 2010 until my parents were able to finish rebuilding the tech."

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