mylittlejamjar | Block VIII - Maybe 42 *was* the Right Answer. [Visual]

[Minato's not looking at the scroll as he addresses it, instead looking up at the ceiling of his cloud home as he lies on his bed.]

Over the past few days, I've been thinking. Our situation here doesn't seem to be all that unique, does it? Bunch of people from different universes all gathered in one place for some reason or another... I'm sure a lot of us here have been to at least one other place like that. The Thor for me, Mayfield, Rauken, Garden, 'murder school'... I'm probably not even scratching the surface of how many of these places there are.

[He pauses for a moment to roll over and look at the scroll directly.]

I'm starting to think these places aren't just formed out of coincidence, like there's some bigger cause out there, bigger than Calice or anything else we've seen. Could all just be me being crazy, though. Never know.

Still, I kinda want to hear stories from all of these places, maybe figure something out, or at least have a good time exchanging all the stupid stuff that happens. The idea was brought up a few weeks ago, but with the holidays and everything, I didn't have time to put anything together.

Now I do. Who would be up for sharing, or at least coming and listening?

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Theft requires creativity all its own. One must be able to pilfer without being caught, or while making so pointless a theft as to there being no legal ramifications to your actions.

[Luna cares not for your fourth wall!]

So the cosmos has copyright laws?

We would not be surprised. Did not the locations you visited prior have their own strange, at times arbitrary and nonsensical set of physical truths that you could not resist no matter how hard you may have tried?

...Yeah. The Drive, and whatever it caused every month.

"Experiments", "curses", "The Drive"... here, our captor herself and Discord.

[Luna nods, as if this proves her point.]

Thus, the idea that one of us could vanish due to being a trademarked mascot...

[...except for the fact that her point is clearly in another timezone entirely.]

[...That was not the conclusion he was thinking of.]

Wait, what?

The cause does not matter, merely the effect. Not the means, merely the end. There are many different names, but everything occurs in the same ways.

Should copyright laws be involved, they are yet another wrinkle in a story we all recognize at this point.

[Yeah, you lost him.]

...Whatever. I'm starting to get the feeling we weren't meant to understand it at all.

Likely not. We simply deal with the hand that life provides.

[Though she wonders, now that she mentions it.]

Do you play cards, Minato? I know you do not speak of it, and yet something about you...

[Maybe it's that he's dating a Rainbow Dash that makes him seem like a risk-taker, a gambler.]

[Talk about tangents.]

Cards? I've played a few different kinds of poker before, but I don't make a habit of it. Why?

Mentioning hands in such a context got me to thinking that you strike me as one who places a lot of stock in gambling. Merely a stray thought; nothing to pay any heed to.

I can if I need to, but I'm usually more of the type to just take things as they come rather than try to plan out probability.

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