[Automatically he lifts a hand to push Karkat's back down as he continues right on talking. Luckily, it's in a productive-ish manner for once.]
Fuck if I know. There was a delay with you, so maybe everyone else will come stumbling in eventually. Or maybe it really is just us for some reason. I'm not even sure if this is still connected to the set of universes we came from or if this is something else entirely and this Time Trapper dude they talk about here is just powerful enough to override the mechanics of the reality we come from.
[And that's something that seems pretty critical to figure out, because he can't tell if the rules regarding time travel still apply. One of the guys he'd talked to had mentioned there being literally no negative consequences for altering the past back where he came from, but Dave's not gonna bet his place as the alpha-self based on some stranger's first-grade understanding of how time travel works.
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Fuck if I know. There was a delay with you, so maybe everyone else will come stumbling in eventually. Or maybe it really is just us for some reason. I'm not even sure if this is still connected to the set of universes we came from or if this is something else entirely and this Time Trapper dude they talk about here is just powerful enough to override the mechanics of the reality we come from.
[And that's something that seems pretty critical to figure out, because he can't tell if the rules regarding time travel still apply. One of the guys he'd talked to had mentioned there being literally no negative consequences for altering the past back where he came from, but Dave's not gonna bet his place as the alpha-self based on some stranger's first-grade understanding of how time travel works.