Etcetera

Myriad Reality

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It's exactly as convoluted as we need.

@Mammalia

I don't really think so.

Myriad Reality

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What if we travelled through time by some sort of light-related shenanigans to the end of this universe, escape through the dissolving edges of reality, and travelled back through time to our starting point outside of this universe?

@Mammalia

That's a little more convoluted than we need.

Myriad Reality

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I don't plan to. Quite the opposite, actually. See, I don't want anyone coming here to look for you. Not letting you return, no matter how we do it, would inevitably leave them to follow your trail here. And the intentions for our policies are, as you may have already guessed, meant to prevent that from happening.

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Sounds to me like you have just from the way you've been speaking to me.

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In the end, all that does is extend the trail others would follow. It doesn't prevent the trail from being created in the first place.

@Unhinged

So you're letting us go?

Myriad Reality

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So, I'd be willing to bet that they'd do anything to find you and bring you home once they know something is amiss. Is this also true?

@Unhinged

You can't use us as ransoms.

Myriad Reality

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That is slightly unexpected but not entirely unwelcome.

@Mammalia

You can say that again.

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Let me explain. I've encountered similar enough situations before. You are from off world. You have people out there who care for you, yes?

@Unhinged

I would. Yes, we do.

Myriad Reality

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Then as long as you understand point one, let me iterate point two. I understand several reasons why we cannot punish you, period. So you will not be. At least, not in Dester Cor.

@Unhinged

What now?

Myriad Reality

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Yeah. That's what I'm saying. It's a bug that I only ever hear you mention, as I've never had it, nor have I heard the rest of us ever mention it.

@Revolutionary

I think it's possible that it's because I'm often logged in on more than one device—however, that doesn't necessarily cover all the strange behavior. I think it's exclusively on my phone, so it might be something with my version of Safari. It could be caching an old version of the page for no reason, I guess; Safari is super buggy, so I wouldn't put it past it.

Myriad Reality

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I know the parallel. Point is, no matter the circumstances, such a thing usually carries immense weight. Far more than any punishment for a crime our race has ever implemented. Whether it was done accidentally, or "for the greater good", or any combination of things, Is this point clear?

@Unhinged

To an extent, I suppose, but if you liken the scenario to incredibly serious trespassing, doing so unintentionally is forgiven, or at least not considered criminal in most non-corrupt legal systems.

Myriad Reality

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It's worse! We take the endangerment of our people very seriously. Even accidentally, it is far worse than murder.

@Unhinged

That, er, isn't exactly the parallel I was trying to make.

Myriad Reality

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It's not that I don't believe you (Seriously, I do believe you) but you've had it mess up like this several times before while nothing like it has ever actually happened to me.

@Unhinged

I think I might be misunderstanding the second sentence. Are you saying that this isn't the first time this has happened to me while it's never happened to you? If so, I agree; it's almost certainly a problem on my end, but it's so inconsistent that I don't really have a way to debug it.