[network; video] @blacksuit; unknown maps; backdated to Night 64 [open]

[luckystarlimit]

[The feed shows a pile of papers that, on closer examination, looks like someone was interrupted in the middle of grading homework. Particularly, the camera focuses on some maps of North America with states labelled, some more successfully than others. A deliberate shot, as Cissnei's voice over the feed betrays.]

I was hoping I might find something useful in all this homework - just because the kids here learned it as standard doesn't mean there might not be a clue that would help us, right? But the only thing I've really found are these maps and, well. They don't look familiar to me. That's where you guys come in.

[She focuses the camera more closely on one of the more highly-graded papers so everyone can see how it's labelled.]

I know some people are from worlds that are more similar to this one than mine. So I thought I'd see if these maps are familiar to anyone - and if they are, if there's anything about these that strikes them as unusual or not quite what they'd expect. It's a long shot, I know, but I'll feel better for knowing I haven't ignored something that might have been important.

[And okay. Maybe she misses talking to people. Her current company has not been particularly sociable of late.]

Comments

[fifty]

I don't have a connection to this place, but I've got one to the America I'm from. It's still there but it's, like... Frozen? It feels like everything is stuck the way it was before I got here.

[luckystarlimit]

So either they've frozen your version of this place somehow or they've dampened it but can't get rid of it completely.

[Right now her money's on the latter but who knows what this place is capable of, really.]

[fifty]

It's gotta be the second one. [America's answer is immediate and certain, but there's a bit of an emotional edge to it; he needs that version to be true, because if he's caused his people to be frozen for two months he'd feel absolutely awful.] It makes sense they couldn't get rid of it totally 'cause it's sort of what I am.

[luckystarlimit]

So there are limits on what they can do. I wonder if that's just for the world you're from or if there might be other powers they can't fully take away.

[Powers being the easiest catch-all she can think of here.]