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[fracturedsoul]

So, from what I've been able to figure out, it looks like people arrive in this city pretty regularly -- once a week exactly.
We have to play along with this place's rules and fight each other or we'll be punished, we have to go to school or we'll be punished, and so forth.

Since I'm new here, naturally I'm rather out of the loop, so there's a lot I have yet to learn.
For now I'd like to get to know my fellow prisoners, if that's all right with you.
So if you don't mind, tell me -- What is your name, which school are you at, and where were you before you came here?

I'm Dirk, at Fortitude, and I'm from Houston. Pleasure to meet you all.

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[inamber]

whatever

so whats your last name
is it eerilyspecific
cause holy shit dude youre really particular

its a bit more complicated than that
another version of yourself here usually means its weird to see another you running around
like if there was two dirks youd be surprised right well its like that
most people are surprised

but other dave and me know each other from home
its a long story and you wouldnt get it
but yeah were a special case
so dont base anything off of us

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[fracturedsoul]

You're gonna want to sit down for this one, because it just so happens my last name is Strider, too.

Yeah, I'd be surprised, but it turns out that's already a thing that happened before I got here.
A bunch of people met someone named Dirk Strider who looked and typed exactly like I did.
Don't know if he was some alternate universe me or if this place made me forget about it, though.

Let me guess, Sburb shenanigans?
And I've been here less than a day, I don't have enough information to base anything off of anything.

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[inamber]

shit can you hear that
my jaw hitting the ground with a mighty crash
rapidly accelerating the longer its falling
and finally colliding
cracking the earth to its molten core
shit man what the fuck

no stupid shit aside thats cool
so youre one of the people in another session then
im totally left out of the loop here so i dunno what the other kids were up to but
i know theres more than our session going on
but i dont have any other family
so who the fuck are you
dont tell me this place like
totally took my bro from when hes younger or
something
shit
thatd be wild bananas
nevermind the fact that my bros name isnt

fuck what is my bros name
i dont remember
ok whatever enough of this shit
just tell me who you are or if theres another family of striders somewhere in the best city in america

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[fracturedsoul]

Hey, I told you to sit down. I'm not paying to cover any damage caused by your absurdly flexible snake jaw.

You have a brother, while the other Dave has a sister.
Even though you knew each other before you wound up here thanks to paradox space and its ever-present desire to fuck our minds senseless.
And you just said you don't have any other family.
So you two knowing each other before you arrived really meant "We knew alternate versions of each other before winding up here"? That does sound like quite the mouthful, but it's a pretty important distinction.

I'm an only child, for the record, and I don't foresee that changing any time soon. Or ever, really.
Maybe in some other world that's different, but I don't know.
So I can't answer that for you. Better get that memory back soon if you want to know for sure.