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[ There's only text. That's all she feels comfortable with right now - the swirl of confusion and emotion in her head makes her doubt her ability to speak publicly right now, provided that function of her cell phone really existed like the "Greeter" had said. And, deny it though she may, she was on the edge of panic. Kurisu didn't want conversation right now. She wanted answers.

Science always helped to calm her insecurities. ]

Hello. I just arrived. A few questions:

1. What determines who is "pulled" to this place? Does it involve deletion from the victim's original world line? If so, how do we retain our memories of that past time? Compressing memory data into a transportable size for just one person requires extremely powerful machinery; the concept of doing so for a whole city is unrealistic at best.

2. On that note, how many newcomers exist in this space? How long are we expected to live here?

3. What is known about the disappearance and reappearance of the [ the hesitation she takes before writing the next word is obviously not noticeable by the time she posts this, but boy, was it there when she wrote it-- ] "monsters" overnight?

4. Is there any public data on the mechanism of the Core at all?

[ the post sits for a few moments, and then the following is edited on. Honestly, she doesn't know what she's hoping for. The chances of any of them being here were infinitely small - quite literally, if anyone from any world and any timeline could be snatched. But where the hell would she be without hope right now, anyway? She bites her lip, invisible behind the wall of hastily-chosen words. ]

5. Is there anyone from Akihabara here?

Please answer. thx.

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1. The anecdotal evidence of things that the pulled have in common are these:

*Able to survive in this environment with its particular environmental features, the darkness notwithstanding.

*Possess the cognitive ability to not only communicate with others, but to comprehend and psychologically withstand the drastic change in situation.

*Possess the motor skills to use the NetVice.

Casting a somewhat wider net, it appears that mostly human-like creatures are pulled here (though there are those who are not), and often many from the same world are pulled here, perhaps due to ease of bringing them through from theirs. Many claim to have arrived here post-mortem as well. Truly, considering the relatively small amount of newcomers and the short amount of time our current records exist from, it would be irresponsible to draw any conclusions about trends aside from the ones given.

2. The population is transient, so it is difficult to tell. It seems to be growing by small amounts every time the Core brings new people in, but many people arrive and disappear quickly, and even if a person has existed here for years it is not a determining factor on whether or not they will continue to remain. However I would say there are around 200 - 300 any given day.

We are not only expected to live here indefinitely, but we are expected to become self-sufficient within a month's time no matter how radically different our previous environment was. However, there are various charities set up by other newcomers to assist.

3. They appear every night after sunset and disappear in the daylight. No matter how many are destroyed the night previous, they reappear just the same the next day. Populations of new ones may appear around mass deaths, and it has been reported that monsters that appear as an individual who died in the Port previously have appeared. That being said, this information is hearsay at best, not from my own direct dealing.

4. No. The public information about the Core has never been very useful, as any research into it has been kept very private due to a worry from Afterglow Inc. that an attack or change in the Core's operation would cause another island-wide disaster. However, in the latest months even books with a mention of the Core have become increasingly unavailable, and in spite of the resurgence of Newcomers it has not been mentioned in the newspapers.

5. I am Japanese, but not from Akihabara. Be appraised though you may meet someone from that area, that they may be from a reality similar, but not identical to yours. It is unfortunate.

[ wow, it really worked. And she got some useful information, too. She just has to put her emotions on the backburner and work through this situation logically... ]

Thank you for the information.

So there's no public information on a device that can warp space and time. I should have expected that. I wouldn't even believe this was possible if I wasn't experiencing it. Is Afterglow Inc. in control of the Core?

I'm familiar with the concept of alternate realities and how small the chances are, but I had to ask. I have some friends who were in trouble.

[ a bit of a longer pause before her next message. She wasn't sure if she wanted the answer to this, but if she didn't ask... ]

Is it possible to tell if you've arrived post-mortem or not?

Perhaps they have yet to reveal themselves. More may come - it seems that the Core is bringing new people in once again.

As far as I know, there is no way to differentiate who may have died before arriving here. Mostly people do not arrive ill or injured in any way.

Maybe. I don't want to get too hopeful. If what I've been told is true, the chances are infinitesimally small.

[ so she has no way of knowing if Okabe succeeded or not...? She's so frustrated she wants to scream. But, of course, she doesn't. Kurisu just types more. ]

I see. Thank you.

Fortunately, there is hope beyond statistics.

There is a community here, albeit rough around the edges. We take care of one another as best we can.

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Hi! All excellent good questions, my dear. Shame there's not a whole lot available for the public right now, but I'll do what I can. 1. So far the only thing that determines a person's world is a connection to the Core, so as long as the Core touches your world, someone from that world can be pulled here. I've theorized that the stronger the connection to a world, the more people from that world are brought here. As far as I know, life continues on in your world after your pulled, but if you happen to be pulled back to your own world, you will arrive back at the precise time you left, so there's no loss of time. 2. It's hard to get an exact count with the amount of people leaving changing all the time, but it's well over three hundred, at the least. You're in the middle of an arrival cycle right now, so the number's increasing all the time. 3. Just that they only come out when it's dark. It's hard to say if they're a product of the Core's radiation or if they're just something that appeared on this island. 4. No public data that's entirely reliable, but I can send you a summary of what I know to be fact.

Edited (/edits a billion times because I can) 2012-03-12 19:52 (UTC)

[ and now she had two. This is a good start. ]

I had a feeling.

How does the Core connect to worlds?

And you can be pulled back to your world, as well? And there are cycles of arrival...

It sounds like it's being used manually.

I'd appreciate a scientifc summary plz.

[Attached is a a text file of Washu's findings thus far.]

Haven't figured that one out yet. All I know is whatever it is, it's holding open a number of doors to other universes and supporting those pathways without collapsing in on itself- nothing manmade could possibly be that powerful or else they'd know how to close those doors off or reverse it.

[ Wow. This information is actually pretty solid. Well, nothing about it is soothing at all, but the mere presence of actual facts makes her feel a bit better. ]

What are Voids?

I agree with you. The fact that it can connect to multiple timelines and worlds is in line with what I already know; however, it's improbable that it could connect to everything at once and bring multiple people here without causing parodoxes or severe memory loss.

It might not be manmade, but it's not natural, either.

They can nullify special abilities and render a person completely human. Not very fun to be around, I might add. Or collapsing in on itself- that's my chief concern. There's only so much something like that can take before it completely unravels and takes every universe it's ever touched with it- and that's whether it's manmade, natural, or something else entirely.