text | un: stormsend

[bruxisms]

GREETINGS. I AM STANNIS BARATHEON, ONCE RIGHTFUL KING OF WESTEROS, AND LORD OF DRAGONSTONE AND STORM'S END, THOUGH OLD TITLES MATTER LITTLE HERE.

I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS FOR ALL "REFUGEES".

[ is he using capslock because he believes that is the proper way to type? because he accidentally got his phone stuck on it? because he just wants to? the true reason will likely be lost to time, and none will ever know. ]

HAVE ANY OF YOU EXPERIENCED AN ODD OCCURRENCE WHERE YOU MEET SOMEONE THAT YOU ARE ACQUAINTED WITH, AND THEY RECALL EVENTS FAR DIFFERENTLY THAN YOU? NOT MERELY A LAPSE IN THEIR MEMORY, BUT ENTIRELY DIFFERENT EVENTS, SUCH AS A MAN STILL BEING ALIVE WHEN YOU KNOW HIM TO BE DEAD, OR HEARING THAT YOU MARCHED YOUR WIFE AND CHILD INTO BATTLE WHEN YOU KNOW THAT WOULD BE UTTER FOLLY AND RECALL LEAVING THEM SAFELY UNDER GUARD?

[ he still cannot believe that anyone would do that, least of all a man who seems to share his name, personality, and so many of his memories, yet is very much not him. ]

I WOULD KNOW IF THERE ARE OTHERS WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED SIMILAR THINGS WITH THOSE THEY KNOW. AS THOUGH THERE WERE TWO VERSIONS OF YOUR WORLD. ONE THAT SOME OF YOU RECALL, AND ONE THAT OTHERS DO.

AND EVEN IF YOU DO NOT, I WOULD ALSO HEAR OF WHAT YOU KNOW OF DRAGONS FROM YOUR OWN WORLD. AS A MEMBER OF THE SIMWE INSTITUTE, ONE OF MY TASKS IS TO STUDYING THEM, AND I WOULD HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY.

YOU HAVE MY THANKS, AND DO NOT WASTE MY TIME.

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voice; un: valiant

[illuminescent]

But my lord Baratheon, how many kings does Westeros have?

Are you brother to Jon Snow?

voice;

[bruxisms]

It should have only had one, but there are usurpers and usurpers. Regardless, it matters little now.

[ as to that other question... ]

I am nearly old enough to be the boy's father. He is one of the reasons that I ask the question in the first place. I know him well, and trust him, yet he recalls a far different version of events than I. [ and the last he saw of him, he was Lord Commander, not a king. ] I have also spoken to others, and at least three more recall the same version of events as I, while others recall Jon Snow's.

voice; private; un: manbun

[song_of_ice]

You thought he was my brother?

text; un: ironborn

[reek]

The once and always false king of Westeros.

You sound half mad. Has your Targaryen ancestry caught up to you?

[ Yes, pot meet kettle, this post speaks volumes, but Theon doesn't trust Stannis as far as he can throw him, so he'll stick to taunting him rather than sharing his own information. To him, Ramsay's explanation sadly still makes the most sense. ]

text;

[bruxisms]

WITH ALL OF HIS LIMBS, ONE WOULD THINK THAT A KRAKEN MIGHT BE ABLE TO WRITE NEW PHRASES, NOT RECYCLE OLD FALSEHOODS.

[ he is not overly fond of speaking to Theon, particularly when he offers no counter explanations and instead buries his head deeper and deeper, stubborn to the end.

now who's the pot. ]

TELL ME, TURNCLOAK. IS IT ANY MORE MAD THAN ALL OF WESTEROS BEING DESTROYED BY A "STORM", AND WAKING UP AMONG THE STARS? IT SEEMS TO ME THAT THIS EXPLANATION IS SENSIBLE AND SIMPLE ENOUGH.

text; un: iron_captian

[pricechecked]

IS THERE MORE THAN ONE WESTEROS???

[He wasn't aware of anything like this. Sure, people didn't seem to know who he was, but ignorance was kind of a greenlander trait.]

[bruxisms]

IT WOULD SEEM SO. SOME RECALL YOUR NIECE'S NAME AS "YARA" WHEN YOU AND I BOTH KNOW IT AS "ASHA".

AND JON SNOW SAID THAT I LED MY LADY WIFE AND DAUGHTER INTO BATTLE WITH ME, WHEN YOU AND I BOTH KNOW THAT NO MAN WOULD EVER BE SO FOOLISH.

[ it was that fact that convinced him something queer was afoot. for there was no sound strategy in that. ]

text; un: flowerknight

[triplerose]

Lord of Storm's End through treachery and nothing more.

[bruxisms]

YOU KNOW NOT OF WHAT YOU SPEAK, SER LORAS.

[ for it was his by rights. Robert, in his infinite wisdom had seen fit to give it to an infant. ]

[voice] un: kale

[kaleorbekaled]

[Wow, that's some very intense text. Kale chooses voice and hopes the man's voice won't boom too loudly through her phone.]

T-the dragons I know of are magical and god-like. They can only be summoned by gathering seven magic orbs called dragon balls, but if you manage it, they'll grant you a wish. They can even return dead people back to life. After they grant the wish, the balls get scattered all across the world again.

voice;

[bruxisms]

[ he replies in turn, and while his voice is a louder one, it is still ]

A shame that we did not have such items, in mine own realm.

[ he'd have wished for his lord father to come back to life and spare them all from this... ]

Our dragons were similar to the ones that I have seen here, though I only know of them from books. They perished years ago.

text, un: willem

[veneries]

I'd guess there are none who care much about news from the Riverlands. But if you say what you know, my Lord, I can say whether I know it to be true or not.

[Is it rash to post openly on Stannis' post, where all the Westerosi who he hasn't met yet will see? Yes. Yes, it is.]

[bruxisms]

[ ah... ]

INFORMATION IN EXCHANGE FOR INFORMATION.

YOUR NAME IS WILLEM?

[ colour him intrigued. ]

text; un: lady

[unprays]

It sounds fantastical, doesn't it? Like a child's story, about a place with the same name that exists twice.

But I suppose when a child's story is more believable than any other explanation, we must believe in it, Lord Stannis. I remember the events that you say you do not, and yet I know you to be a man of honor, like my Lord Father was, and do not doubt that you speak the truth. So if I do not lie, and you do not lie, then we are faced with two truths that are different.

[bruxisms]

YET NO CHILDREN'S STORY WOULD HAVE ONE GIRL OR HER SISTER FORCED TO BE WED TO THE BASTARD OF BOLTON.

[ Westeros truly was a miserable place. and Stannis was as blunt as ever. ]

YOU MUST BE LADY SANSA. YOUR BROTHER SPOKE HIGHLY OF YOU, AND IN FACT, IT WAS HE WHO LED ME TO YOUR SAME CONCLUSION AS WELL. KNOW THAT WHILE I WAS NEVER FRIENDS WITH YOUR LORD FATHER, I WILL BE THERE, SHOULD HIS CHILDREN REQUIRE IT.

[ he means against Ramsay. he had seen what the bastard had inflicted on the turncloak, and how timid Arya Stark had been. ]

text, un: souleater

[guidetoblivion]

I've only met one dragon in the places I traveled before coming here, and that was just the alternate form of an evil fairy. Though, that doesn't mean that there aren't dragons in other places, I guess.

[Given his experience with Maleficent, Riku can't help but be a little wary… though he admits seeing actual dragons here is pretty cool. Even if they kinda tried to eat him.]

[bruxisms]

YOU MEAN TO SAY THERE WAS A WOMAN WHO COULD TRANSFORM INTO A DRAGON.

[ ...imagine that. would that not be a useful power?

do not become dragonkin stannis. ]

text; un: manbun

[song_of_ice]

Have you found an answer?

[bruxisms]

I HAVE RECEIVED A NUMBER OF ANSWERS. IT SEEMS THAT WHILE IT IS NOT A COMMON OCCURRENCE, AT LEAST ONE OTHER KNOWS OF A SIMILAR SITUATION.

[ it was not Stannis's first guess, but at this point, it really is the only one that seems to have any sense. ]

Text | un: mephychan

[meinwaifu]

[Oh my god. It's like reading ur 87 year old grandad's first post on The Facebook. At least he seems to have mastered punctuation.]

The phenomenon you speak of has a very simple explanation, actually! Though I've yet to meet anyone who recalls the events of our world in such a different way, I have met those who remember the Storm occurring at vastly different points in time. If one is to believe the Natha's words, supposedly it's the result of being from two slightly different, but otherwise identical, realities.

Such things are possible, after all.

[bruxisms]

[ grammar is an incredibly important art. as to typing...

...CAPSLOCK conveys clear emotion. ]

I HAVE HEARD OF THAT AS WELL. THEN YOU MEAN TO SAY THAT SUCH CHANGES ARE NOT A RESULT OF LAPSES IN PEOPLE'S MEMORIES, BUT THE SAME IDEA AT WORK?

[ then somewhere out there, there might very well be a version of him who never became king.

what a lucky Stannis that one was. ]

text; un: crimson duelist

[verflair]

[ Ardyn once explained to him that sending a message in all capitals was like yelling over text. Now he can't not read this like Stannis is shouting at them all. ]

That may be a question better posed to the Natha than us. I can only guess that there may be worlds out there that are nearly identical and only differ in small ways.

But I can tell you of dragons.

[bruxisms]

[ it's really not that different from his usual mode of speech, sadly. ]

IT SEEMED LIKE A SMALL MATTER TO TROUBLE THEM WITH, BUT PERHAPS I MAY ASK, SHOULD I FIND NO SATISFACTORY ANSWER.

[ and then maybe the turncloak might actually believe him. ]

AND I WOULD HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY OF THEM.

text. un: rose

[tactly]

Lord Stannis. I hadn't realised you were here also.

This is Queen Margaery, in case the username does not spark any recognition in you. I do remember hearing of your foolish actions regarding your wife and child, and other such acts with them - a variety that failed to paint a pleasant picture of you. Especially with witnessing the aftermath of one with my first husband.

The worlds are strange, from what I have heard. People from all different kinds. Perhaps this is one of those instances. Different choices, different worlds, different memories.

[bruxisms]

MACE TYRELL'S DAUGHTER. I KNOW WELL ENOUGH WHO YOU ARE.

[ and even if he hadn't seen his brother try to throw her at Robert, he'd have remembered Renly's taunts to him about how he'd soon have sons, while all Stannis would ever have would be Shireen.

and speaking of Renly. ]

I HAVE HEARD ALSO DISCOMFORTING THINGS FROM YOUR BROTHER ABOUT WHAT CAME TO PASS AT YOUR VERSION OF THE PARLAY. REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MAY THINK, I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH MY YOUNGER BROTHER'S DEATH, AND MOURNED HIM IN TURN.

[ his hands were clean. ]

WHAT OTHER ACTS HAVE YOU HEARD?

[ it may not matter, but it concerns him. ]

text; un: Iceheart

[ysayle]

I've met those who've known of events that followed those that I remember, but I've not met anyone who remembers events differently as yet.

[ "Yet". Always a Yet. ]

I would say I know a great deal about the Dravanians of my world, though they are by no means the only dragons. What is it you would wish to know?

[bruxisms]

IT SEEMS AS THOUGH IT IS A RARE OCCURRENCE. THUS FAR, I HAVE ONLY SPOKEN TO ONE OTHER WITH A SIMILAR TALE.

[ and onto dragons... a much lighter topic. ]

ARE THEY INTELLIGENT CREATURES? DO OTHERS IN YOUR LAND BOND WITH THEM, OR RIDE THEM? I AM CURIOUS AS TO THEIR NATURE.

text; un: eproghuefgdzptrrw

[vorrutyer]

Heavens, I experience that every time I drink creme de meth.

[bruxisms]

I SAID NOT TO WASTE MY TIME.

THAT SOUNDS LIKE A JAPE.

[ he knows what japes are. Renly was his younger brother, after all. ]

text; un: deadlyshadows

[demonicarmor]

Is that so...? This sounds troublesome. Are you positive that what you're saying is correct, and that it's not a bout of amnesia?

[bruxisms]

POSITIVE. TWO OTHERS I SPOKE TO CONFIRM THE SET OF EVENTS I KNOW, WHILE A NUMBER OF OTHERS CONFIRM THE SET OF EVENTS THAT THE MAN I SPOKE TO RECALLS. I CAN THINK OF NO OTHER EXPLANATION.

text | un: vanguardikora

[walkingthevoid]

I know of simulated realities, but I have never heard of anyone coming so close to a true alternate reality. It sounds like you have a very unique experience, one that should be further studied.

As for dragons... I know of Wish Dragons, but they have been dead a long time. They had the power to grant us wishes and knowledge, but it was always at a bargain.

Re: text | un: vanguardikora

[bruxisms]

I HAD THOUGHT SO MYSELF. IT IS A PECULIAR THING, TO MEET OTHERS WHO YOU KNOW, BUT RECALL SUCH A DIFFERENT VERSION OF YOUR REALM.

YOU ARE THE SECOND TO MENTION DRAGONS CAPABLE OF WISH GRANTING. NO DOUBT THERE WERE MANY WHO USED THEM FOR ILL-GOTTEN GAINS.

[ he knows men all too well, after all. ]

Text; UN: duskborn

[sadustic]

mayhap you should be more concerned about making a fool of yourself over drink.

[ Allcaps and memory problems? Totally drunk. Makes sense to her. ]

anyroad, it matters little whether such idiotic soothsaying is truth if it events have not yet come to pass. if it distresses you so, do something about it. whining accomplishes nothing.

[bruxisms]

I KNOW NOT OF WHAT YOU SPEAK. I RARELY, IF EVER DRINK.

[ these are not memory problems, and tepid water with lemon is about as wild as he normally gets. ]

DID YOU NOT READ WHAT WAS WRITTEN? IT IS NOT EVENTS THAT HAVE NOT COME TO PASS. IT IS EVENTS THAT COULD NOT POSSIBLY COME TO PASS, GIVEN THEY INVOLVE A MAN I KNOW TO BE DEAD. OR A MAN WHO SAYS HE'S HIS FATHER'S ONLY SON, YET I KNOW HIM TO ALSO HAVE TWO ELDER BROTHERS.

REGARDLESS, THERE IS NO FUTURE IN OUR ORIGINAL REALMS FOR ANY OF US.

un: sand | text

[granularity]

Yup. Problem with alternate universes. I've been feeling THAT burn for the last month or so.

text;

[bruxisms]

YOU HAVE EXPERIENCED A SIMILAR THING?

[ even if his phone wasn't on perma-capslock, he'd still be capslocking because finally someone confirming this is not something unique to Westeros.

...unless the "sand" username meant he was a bastard of Dorne. ]

text, un: clubroughly

[cacoethical]

I CANT SAY ITS HAPPENED TO ME RECENTLY BUT IT DOES RATHER SEEM LIKE IN A MULTIVERSE OF THEORETICALLY INFINITE POSSIBILITY ITS SORT OF INEVITABLE DONT YOU THINK?????????

[Why are we yelling?]

[bruxisms]

[ BECAUSE MEDIEVAL FANTASY WORLD.

but really. it is a mystery for the ages. ]

SO IT WOULD SEEM. BE THAT AS IT MAY, IT WOULD SEEM THAT ONLY ONE VERSION OF EACH OF US WAS SAVED FROM THE STORM.

[ which was not a comforting thought.

though he is glad it was not other Stannis. he was a fool. ]

un: link

[courageunforgotten]

I won't say who it is but I know somebody who remembers the Storm coming a century before I do.

[There's more complexities there and he isn't quite ready to name Mipha to a complete stranger.]

I've met dragons from my world too although they were very different than the ones in the stories from this world. They were dangerous but they didn't seek people out to attack them.

[bruxisms]

I MIGHT IMAGINE SO. ABOARD THE STATION, I HAVE SEEN SOME MEN AND WOMEN WHO I BELIEVE MAY BE MY ANCESTORS. THOUGH I DO WONDER HOW THAT IS TRUE.

[ another thing to think of. all of this is rather fascinating. ]

WERE THEY CAPABLE OF BEING TAMED?

[ this is what he's really interested in. ]

text; un: Crusader08

[panzersoldat]

Highness, I personally know of this occurrence. I was a year behind all those I know. They, evidently, are from my future. I saw was because recently I fell into a dreamless slumber. I woke in the pods again and I have memories I didn't have before this. Somehow, in three days, I caught up an entire year of living.

As for dragons, where I am from, except for three exceptions, dragons don't exist. They live only in the stories and in the hearts of heroes. But there are two brothers that can summon some sort of spirit dragon. I have seen the one, but an led to understand that the other brother can do the same. But dragons, as they exist here, are purely fantasy.

[bruxisms]

THE CORRECT TERM OF ADDRESS FOR A KING IN WESTEROS IS "YOUR GRACE". BE THAT AS IT MAY, I AM NO LONGER A KING, AS THERE IS NO REALM.

[ he does not claim the title anymore. but he would still remind everyone that if there were still a realm, he would be the rightful king of it. ]

AS I SAID, IT WAS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. IT IS NOT ONLY THAT I HAVE NO MEMORIES OF SUCH OCCURRING, BUT EVENTS ARE IMPOSSIBLE. ONE THAT I KNOW HAD AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT NAME, WHILE ANOTHER WAS A SINGLE SON, RATHER THAN THE YOUNGEST OF THREE BROTHERS.

WHAT EXACTLY IS A "SPIRIT" DRAGON?

un: flashgordon

[godwins]

You mean timeline mumbo-jumbo. [ Clearly this is the scientific term. ]

or shadow worlds or alternate universes.

[bruxisms]

SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES, IT WOULD SEEM.

ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THEM?

[ the number of individuals familiar with it was something of a relief. the evidence showed that it was Stannis, rather than Theon (who seemed convinced they were going mad) was correct. ]

text; un: theEND

[winddaughter]

["And do not waste my time." Why would he do this to himself, what a moron.]

oh boy, another King--former or not

I wonder, sir, what kind of King your were

how did you look upon your people, your kingdom?

[bruxisms]

[ ...this is wasting his time. but still... ]

A WISE MAN ONCE TOLD ME A KING PROTECTS HIS PEOPLE OR HE IS NO KING AT ALL. MY LAST ACT WAS TO ASK THE ORBITERS THAT ALL TRUE MEN AND WOMEN OF WESTEROS BE SPARED.