@stephen.strange (ic: nov 30th, mid-afternoon)

[rehandle]

Good afternoon. To those of you I haven't met, I'm Dr. Stephen Strange, and I’ve been gone for a week or so. During that time, I returned to my life for a little over five years.

The details align with what Keith, one of us who's since disappeared, shared about his own return to his world. You can find that information here: Keith's return.

For anybody not yet up to speed on the topic, Fitz, another of us who's now absent, outlined a couple of working theories as to the nature of our presence here, our disappearances and reappearances, and the possible levels of involvement of the as yet unidentified organisation who handles us on arrival. I recommend reading his discussions with both Keith and myself for expansion on both ideas. You can find it all here: Fitz's theories.

He was also beginning to piece together some events, both seemingly natural and less so, and draw conclusions that might help us to unravel some of the mysteries in our lives. I didn’t follow up with him at the time, I should have. If anybody spoke with him in more detail about this I’d be grateful if you’d share. His summary of his research can be found here: Fitz's research.

As to my experience, to ensure we have as much information as possible to go toward identifying a pattern:

Once I was back within that reality I didn’t sense any disruption of time or of self and remembered nothing of my time here. I can infer that I must have returned back to the last moment I can recall before arriving here originally, but had no awareness of that having happened. Any block associated with the blue glow in our chests was absent and I had full access to all the power this place negates. There was no sign of the new abilities I have here, nor of the implant.

I woke in the bed I regularly sleep in with my chest aching.

Comments

@caroline.forbes

[gasping]

[ here to christen this thread with bullshit as per usual ]

okay, but who signed your permission slip?

[rehandle]

[ it's great to be back ]

I'm afraid I don't know.

@steve.rogers

[shield]

Hello Dr. Strange. I'm Steve Rogers. Thank you for summarizing the relevant theories and research for those of us catching up. I found Mr. Fitz's research on instability particularly helpful.

1/2

[rehandle]

[ oh look, it's the man himself ]

You're welcome, Mr. Rogers. I'm glad it could be of some use.

private

[rehandle]

And pleased to meet you. To the best of my understanding, you and I hail from the same universe.

@riku.masterson

[inherited]

Did you happen to see the bit that that guy Simon mentioned about the weird occurrences around New Amsterdam? There's an urban legends site, too.

I don't think they're legends. And they may be linked to us.

[rehandle]

I didn't. Do you know where I might find it? I've heard about the urban legends site, I'll take a look. It was set up after the dreams, wasn't it? I'd agree, that's a likely link.

Anything mysticized by or unusual to this world is well worth looking into as potentially entwined with whatever anomaly we're a part of.

@eugenides.attolis

[kleptocratic]

Clarke's gone too. Did you know that?

[rehandle]

[ oh ]

I didn't. Has she been gone long?

@katelin.philips / private

[covertness]

five years?

private forever.

[rehandle]

Give or take.

@clarke.griffin

[strove]

Minus the powers, because I don't have any, my situation matches up with yours. I didn't have any, and I didn't have any recollection of being here. It was like returning to a previous life, and seeing that I had some misconceptions. Even the amount of years—and then some. It was six, actually.

Anyway.

Hi Stephen.

[rehandle]

[ — ah. she's back, then. almost before he's had time to register her absence.

six years. given what he knows about her life, it seems as though they're both fresh back from the wars. ]

Hello Clarke.

Welcome back.

@roxas.sky

[recompleted]

so it was like nothing that happened to you here happened at all?
like it didn't matter to your original self

[rehandle]

That's right. Nothing of here remained while I was there.

@prom.argentum

[mercurio]

doctor strange! welcome back!

[!!!!]

so, what you're saying is... it's like time stopped back home?

[rehandle]

Thank you.

[ hello prompto it's nice to be back. and also, welcome to time man talk. ]

Experientially, yes. In reality, it's more that we've been removed from it.

@tony.redgrave

[redload]

so, you're one of the brains in this whole operation.

is it common for these disappearances to happen, and are you all forced to come back? or is that just a personal preference?

[rehandle]

[ that brains comment can sit undisturbed, none of his business, but as for the rest - ]

They're fairly frequent, yes. I don't know what the current figures are, but back in August there were 24 disappearances to 69 registered displaced. They come seemingly at random.

Not everyone who disappears returns, but as of yet nobody who does has had any say in that return or in how long they're away. Most people don't recall being gone. I've disappeared twice: the first time was just like going to sleep and waking up, only I was absent for two weeks and my chest was burning. The second time is this.

Neither of them involved a conscious intention to disappear or to come back.

@kol.mikaelson

[gradual]

did you really go home? or was it just a dream programmed by whoever did this to you to make you believe you went home? we've all been messed with, haven't we? we have these implants or whatever it is inside of us. btw, are you a real doctor? someone with an actual medical degree.

[rehandle]

[ it's an idea he might've put some stock in once. some time before disappearing to rocket through the temporally small but experientially ridiculously nuanced section of his life he's just lived. with it's over fourteen million futures as - what? DLC? an easter egg?

honestly, it'll only get more hilarious if it's true. ]

If they're capable of wasting that much time and money, more power to them.

M.D, Ph.D. Why?

@cassian.andor

[evasives]

[ strange is daisy's doctor friend, and they've spoken before, even if they didn't quite see eye to eye. but this medical venture of his is becoming too big for just him and jyn and their house, especially with some sliding more far reaching possibilites. ]

I did not speak to him, but I have learned about these significant outages as well. I apologize if this turn of conversation is not about your experiences with leaving and returning, but it is still relevant.

I have reason to believe we, as the Displaced, may have been here on this planet already during the September 2510 earthquake - or possible EMP. If not all of us, perhaps some of us. I think I was.

You are an actual medical doctor, correct? Daisy has mentioned so.

[rehandle]

[ oh. ]

I am, yes.

What is it you know?

@kira.solo (taps this late bc i was waiting on ID getting cleared)

[forcevisions]

Are you saying that if we ever get home, we shouldn't expect to remember any of this?

[rehandle]

For as long as our disappearances aren't of our own volition, yes.

There's a chance things might change if we achieve some level of control over our situation, but I wouldn't count on it. We haven't got anything to go on yet besides what we already know.