THE FRACTURED WORLD: ARRIVAL

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rrival for some goes all but unnoticed. It's a sudden shiver, the sensation of being watched... and then nothing at all. Life continues serenely as it always has. The only indication of any change comes with sleep, wrapped in dreams: vague and distant echo imagery of another life, melting away in the morning.

 

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or others, arrival is a sharp jolt. In the space of a single blink, they find themselves in an unfamiliar world, surrounded by the trappings of a life they have not lived. They are replacements, spirits taking possession of bodies belonging to people very much like themselves...

 

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nd for the rest, arrival is a procedure. Routine. Those ported in to the Fractured World wake hazily in the comfortably dim light of the Porter room, laid out on an exam table. Their wounds, if they remember having any, have been healed— and even those who remember their own deaths find themselves miraculously restored. As they regain consciousness, an automatic audio-visual presentation is triggered. Regardless of their backgrounds or physiology, all imPorts 'see' and 'hear' this message as if in their own language:

"Greetings, imPort."

The voice is calm and gently authoritative, almost certainly selected by committee.

"On behalf of the Synod and all imPorts it represents, we welcome you to the planet Earth."

A decidedly non-humanoid robotic arm holds out a palm-sized device and rather insistently demands the new arrival take it. This is the imPort's comm, used for accessing the Porter's database of information, as well as the communications Network— though it won't receive communications from outside the Porter building until carried through one of the many Gates set up in a long, crescent-shaped array on the far side of the room.

As each Gate is approached, information about the faction it leads to flashes up on the comm device's screen. Which will you choose?

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About to head out

[chenqing_player]

Wei Wuxian is aware that Jingyi is a spy even if no one else at the House of M realizes. As someone with ulterior motives himself, it is easy to spot someone who tries just a little too hard to blend in. And he has made sure the other is aware that he knows and is watching him on every occasion that he can. And despite the fact they have quite the difference in age and experience while in this world, he still remembers their home world and so the feelings he has towards Jingyi here are complicated. Which is why he hasn't ever turned him in when he knows he is leaking secrets.

Far more hardened and cold-hearted then he ever was back home because of what he has had to endure on this one, Wei Wuxian is more like the Yiling Patriarch that people feared then the man this boy once knew. And since he is aware of Jingyi's actions it means Wei Wuxian is aware he will need to strike if things take a turn for the worse for their faction, and he will not show the man mercy.

Silently and without being invited, he invades the porch. "Planning to unload more of our secrets soon?" He can already tell the man is about to take one of his trips.