"...institutionalized rape of teenagers sounds bad but it also sounds exactly like the kind of lie I'd expect evangelicals to tell about a country of -- I don't really have a word for the whole group I mean except my people, I don't just mean mentally ill people and I don't just mean trans people and I don't just mean queer people but 'people who conservatives on Twitter would call deviant freaks' is kind of rude -- and sex trafficking sounds bad except that I'm pretty sure if I asked a Cascadian they'd say 'no, we just have legal sex work.' And I'd have to learn more details about the old people and disabled people thing but I don't object to abortion being legal."

"...oh no they kill babies that are born. Severely disabled ones, usually but not always ones that are likely to die anyway. And you can request euthanasia if you're disabled-- including mentally ill-- and if you're old and you have dementia and you don't know what's going on your guardian can request euthanasia for you without your consent. And there are a bunch of situations where... well, the government isn't saying that you have to request euthanasia, but the state medical system won't cover the care you need, and treatment could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars you don't have and no one will give you a loan since there's no way you could pay it back..."

"...yeah that's not great, but I live in the United States so I can't exactly throw stones about expensive medical care that the state won't cover." 

"The age of consent in Cascadia is twelve and there aren't a lot of twelve-year-olds having sex but there are a lot of fourteen-year-olds having sex. And it's just... acceptable for a fifteen-year-old girl to have a boyfriend in his early twenties, or to have sex with dozens of them, and for them to get her pregnant. They have daycares at every school there. --Also they sell babies, if the mom doesn't want her baby she can sell it, the going rate is about eighty thousand dollars."

"...yeah, that's. Not great. I can see why they'd rather make that tradeoff than die out or ban abortion but it's not great. -- wait didn't you say most women in Gilead have kids while they're still teenagers, how does that square with it being weird and bad that Cascadia has daycares in schools --" 

"Artificial insemination, and then they give the baby to a family that's ready to take care of it. Some girls stay at home and do that, and others move in with the family they're going to have a child for. The latter is called being a Handmaid, and it's really great for girls. They get some freedom, there's a way out if they're being abused where they still get taken care of, and it's often a lot easier for a girl to have an adult relationship with her parents when she's not still living with them. --My parents converted so they could get a Handmaid. Another ex-Jew, of course."

"...huh. Cool. I think I'd want to talk to a Cascadian before I decide what I think about Cascadia but that's actually pretty cool." 

"...I mean this is pretty theoretical, right, you're going to go back home to your dimension with the people you love in it so probably you do not have to have any sort of opinion of Cascadia at all. I guess unless you want to give advice about how and whether I should rescue Sasha."

"I was assuming that was the point of telling me stuff, yeah." 

"...I'm making conversation while I get petted by a pretty girl and wait for God's plan to show up."

"....fair." 

She's just going to keep petting him and not protest that if there's a god who can do this he should have fixed a lot more things by now.

There is a weird door into a weird place. Weird doors into weird places are not actually that weird, considering Sasha's life for the last while, but they're weird enough that he can be pretty sure that this is the erogame specifically depositing him into a problem it wants solved, and not just a regular everyday occurrence in a life that is also a magic sex game. 

He... doesn't happen to have clothes on, due to the vampire-related misadventure that just ended, and he's still bleeding a little bit, but it's whatever, he's the erogamer, he gets to not have clothes on if he doesn't want to. What's through this door. 

His Sasha is going into a weird door into a weird place, and so he's going to follow.

Lev's also naked and covered in blood, which is a more normal occurrence than it should be, although it's still not something he's fully comfortable with. 

"WHY IS THERE SUDDENLY A NAKED ME IN THIS BAR."

"Why is there suddenly a naked me in this bar. — cool tattoos, by the way." 

"I'm just sort of assuming that the magic video game that has become my life dropped me here for inscrutable reasons as it sometimes does. Hi, I'm Sasha, I assume you are also Sasha?" 

"Going by Raine, but yeah." 

Naked Lev suddenly disappears. 

Clothed Lev does not know at all where to look and, for lack of a better option, has shut his eyes closed very very tightly. 

A skill has been created by a special action! Opening the door has created the skill Milliways Door!

Info/Skills/Milliways Door

Milliways Door. Lvl 1. Passive.

Any door you open has an ERO/20% chance of being a door to the interdimensional bar Milliways. (This skill does not apply to doors deliberately opened to attempt to summon a door to Milliways.) You are likely to meet alternate universe versions of yourself and your harem members, or people from a variety of interestingly kinky species and societies. First drink is free. Be careful on Valentine's Day.

Quest available: Where No One Has Come Before

Fuck an alien.

1 alien: +5000 XP, Exotic Becomes Erotic status effect
10 aliens: +10,000 XP, Tentacle Slut skill
100 aliens: +50,000 XP, Seduce Contain Protect perk,???????
1,000 aliens: ????? XP, ??????, 1 perk point
10,000 aliens: ???????????

Quest available: Narcissus

Have some fun with your alt. (Group sex counts.)

Success: +500 XP. 
Failure: seriously?

Quest available: Rod and Staff

The alternate universe Lev has never masturbated or watched porn, averts his eyes from attractive people, and attempts to avoid having crushes to protect his emotional purity. He quite desperately needs some help-- and if you work well enough you'll save more than one person. 

Success: +10,000 XP, ????
Failure: Depression status effect

"So this is Milliways, Lev and I are from different versions of the planet Earth; he's from an evangelical theocracy in the 2040s and I'm from the United States in 2019. Time is stopped while your door is closed, I have no idea where your Lev went that hasn't happened while I've been here, and we haven't really done more poking because we've been talking. Sit down?" 

He sits down. 

(There are tattoos all over him — a water lily on his ribcage, wisteria dripping down his thigh, a sun and moon on one shoulder. He has scars that Raine might recognize as having come from top surgery but Lev definitely won't. And he's weirdly, bizarrely, has-been-playing-the-erogame-and-leveling-up-BOD, beautiful.) 

Lev very cautiously opens one eye, sees the wisteria dripping down Sasha's thigh, and then immediately closes it. 

"Hi. They have drinks from other dimensions."

"I'll keep that in mind, thank you," he says sincerely. 

(Yes, yes, yes.) 

Formerly Naked Lev reappears wearing blue jeans and a plain black shirt. 

"What? Sasha, they didn't make you wear clothes?"