The long awaited Limbo DLC | Glowfic Constellation

"That doesn't sound familiar."

"It's not a game, it's a movie, so that makes sense."

"Is it just Nintendo? Is it just Earth? Do you have, uh, um, dangit this was such a long time ago for me..."

"Sonic?"

"Pong."

"I'd bet against Pong."

"Portal, with GladOS."

"What about games from other worlds - like, uh, Slog, that's a fairy game -"

"I don't have everything memorized but none of those are sounding familiar. It's also possible I just don't know them by that name."

"Sonic is an echidna."

"A hedgehog. He has an echidna friend."

"If you say so. He's blue and fast."

"Maybe? I don't really know for sure. Sometimes people put on all blue clothes along with things that make them faster and say 'gotta go fast' that could be related."

"Sounds like it."

"Does your world have... a name."

"Terraria. It's called Terraria. My specific world is a subset of all of Terraria there's a lot of variations."

"Doesn't ring a bell."

"We could look in the library. I bet the librarian will let us cut in line for a computer, for this."

"That would be interesting. This is all pretty surprising. If you have a game that matches my world... I'm not sure what to think then."

The group troops over to the library. It's more crowded than the museum, and there is indeed a line for the computer. The librarian is not in immediate evidence so somebody suggests that Akira just give everybody in line a sandwich or something to get them to get out of the way and let them in front.

Sure, she can do that... Does everyone want their choice of a burger, a hot dog, and a slice of pizza enough to give up their place in line?

Two exceptions, but there are six computers operational and four people are willing to be kicked off the ones they're actively using, so effectively yes. Someone is really kind of moaning over the pizza. It sounds sort of like "in life I was heinously lactose intolerant".

That sounds like it works then. She'll wait for the people she's with to do something with the computer watching carefully as they do it.

They look up all the games they've mentioned. And Terraria.

Mario Kart looks a lot like she remembers. It's maybe a little more cartoony but not too much.

Pokemon is neat she hasn't seen that before just heard people talk about it.

Sonic still isn't looking familiar but she's slightly more confident she's heard people referencing it.

Pong... doesn't seem like something she would expect there to be a whole world for.

When she sees the clips of Portal a Portal Gun appears in her hand and a Companion Cube appears next to her. "Huh, I didn't remember these being inspired items. People don't tend to use these that much."

Terraria is two dimensional which confuses her a bit but aside from that weird limitation it is a very nearly perfect match to her world... well to the central template of Terraria not her variant.

"You have portal guns and people don't use them? What, do they suck in real life?"

"If you weren't appearing shit out of nowhere I'd think this was a prank. Why would there be a Terraria universe!"

"They're just not very useful by the time they're available. It's hard to target them accurately when you're fighting and you have to switch out to them from your weapon. I think people might use them more in parts of Terraria less focused on fighting."

"Will we be able to make those? I want a portal gun."

"For those of us from -"

"You shoot it at surface A and then again at surface B and you can walk into either and come out the other."

"Dang. Range limit?"

"Good question, in the game you never have that much space to work with..."

"Yeah, they're on the list they aren't dangerous as far as I can tell. The cubes are they stab you when it's dark. I haven't ever found a range limit. I was thinking of trying to use one to get through the concordance."

"The companion cube stabs you??"

"Oh that's a great idea, you wouldn't have to go through yourself, just let them know - it'd have to be Hell, I guess - and they could prop something up for you to shoot -"

"Not like, badly but I'm trying to err on the safe side with my list."

"I'd be happy to have help planning out the details. I don't really know if the portal will stay open after the concordance ends but it seems like it would be a really useful thing to test. Even if it only works during the concordance I think letting people go back and forth might have benefits."

"One demon in Limbo would do a lot."

"That makes sense and I bet if we can get one we could get more than one."

"You're also doing a lot already, to be clear, just, it would be nice if we could have an economy that wasn't entirely composed of the handful of us distributing presents, with like farms and manufacturing."