outsiders | omega extranet.

[The camera points at a man in his mid twenties who'd be utterly unremarkable if he weren't so thin and tired-looking. He's dressed like your average slacker from the early 'oughts on Earth in jeans and a hooded sweatshirt and seems mildly annoyed and a bit nervous.]

So. Uh. Hello, fellow strangers from elsewhere. I hope you're all settling in well to the dulcet tones of unidentifiable women declaring that they aren't going to be helpful. This strikes me as a great way to wind up with a bad situation turning much worse in easily avoidable ways, but we'll just assume certain people are playing dumb.

Anyway. I've explained this individually a few times, but I figured I'd put the record out there. I've run into gates that open into different realities before. I don't know much about them, I don't really know what defines a world, and I haven't totally ruled out some kind of time travel instead, because why would I? But this is a thing that happens. What I've never heard of it it happening on this scale or to no purpose. Even opening a gate the regular way, in a specific time and place, takes a lot of power. So that's weird.

And, uh, don't worry if this sounds nuts. It is. And I don't know about you guys, but where I come from I'm one of three practicing wizards in the world. There's a good chance it's not common knowledge that you missed out on.