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[ The way Steve backs away from the phone as it records and his hands find his hips as he straightens gives off Unimpressed Vibes but he can't tell one way or another if this thing is broadcasting. He trusts it is. Pressed the livestream option, for what it was worth. He murmurs to himself for a moment, checking the set-up. ]

Alright, so not that different from making a home video, it just ... transmits right away. Very cool.

Uh, hi. Hello. I think this is "streaming" now? [ Like in Ghostbusters when the streams are crossed? Right? Damn. He's got this. ] Yeah, let's do this.

Name's Steve Harrington. Me and some of my [ doesn't even pause here, well done, ] friends got pulled into this dimension and we're kinda used to the whole other worlds thing but we've never been to the future before.

Can someone who isn't a total jackass and won't waste our time please fill us in on whatever's happened since nineteen-eighty-six? That's when we're from. Thanks. Also, does anyone know how dead people can come back to life here? Is it a magical spell or a friendly curse put on them or something? Asking for reasons.

... Yeah, okay, bye.

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Hey, at least you got the whole "other worlds exist" thing outta the way already, huh? I think that probably makes it easier...

So it was 1986 where you came from?

[ WHOA THAT WAS FOREVER AGO in his head. He wasn't even born until the 21st century, get ready to feel old, Steve. ]

You realise that, like, that's a whole more than 30 years you're asking for updates on, right?

[ The magic question is harder to answer. ]

I don't think we really know about how the dead people coming back thing works.

[ He knows it does and tries not to think about it, because then he'd have to think about his own losses too much, and...nah. ]

It's not a curse or anything as far as I know, though. You might wanna talk to Dr. Stephen Strange about it. He might have theories. He knows a TON about magic.

Hey, man. Peter? Those thirty years ago were literally last month for me, so. Thanks. I'm a dinosaur, I get it.

[ Whoa, what was that about — ]

Oh my God, does the doc have some kind of DeLorean?

Right, sorry. I know. I just meant it's gonna take a long time to explain, so if there's a narrower range of info you're looking for in that timeframe it would help. You know?

[ He IS trying to help!

The idea of Dr. Strange with a Delorean is too funny. ]

Oh, man...I wish. Nothing like that, though. He's a sorcerer. Um, like, he uses magic. And he knows about the multiverse -- the existence of other worlds and stuff. So if anyone knows about the death thing, he probably does or he knows who else to talk to.

A sorcerer. Of course he is, why wouldn't he be? Silly of me.

[ This really is Eddie's kind of paradise. ]

Can you give me, like, three big things that happened in history? Anything, really.

I know what it sounds like, but it's also really cool.

Three things. Uh...sure. I dunno how universal these three are gonna be. I'm...assuming you don’t know have superheroes in your world, so probably I should leave out stuff about Captain America and Iron Man...

[ he has a bad habit of thinking out loud. ]

Ok, so in...98 or 99 I think, the International Space Station launched! Astronauts from different countries go there and study space and stuff. That's pretty cool, right?

[ He's a huge nerd, so. ]

Uh...let's see. In 2001, terrorists bombed the twin towers in New York City. It was really, really tragic actually and kicked off a lot of other terrible things like a huge war in the Middle East. There really shouldn't have been one, but...that's what happened.

[ That's where the narrative changes a lot, probably, because of Howard Stark and then Tony and everything, so he's struggling to think of something that might be universal... ]

Oh! Um, gay marriage! That became legal in the whole US 2015!

[ maybe he shouldn't have picked that? Shit, he has no idea how Steve will feel about that one but he's already said it, so...

He drops another thing before he can dwell on that. ]

OH but I should tell you the Internet kind of started in the 80s when you're from but people as a whole got access in the mid 90s. The technological breakthroughs that gave us all cool phones like the ones we're using now came really quickly after that. I mean, relatively, when you think about the speed tech had advanced previous. It's pretty amazing how much tech changed between when you're from and when I'm from.

[ even without Stark tech, that's probably still true, right? He thinks so based on talking to other people who weren't quite from his present or this place's present. ]

For the record, it was 2023 where I came from.

[ Steve's brows go through a dance of varying interest as he listens, absorbing it all nonetheless. The history lesson was more for a broad scope of the state of the world and, boy, does he get one. This chatty guy is alright. ]

Thanks for taking the time to tell me all this, dude. Your name's Peter Parker, right?

[ Well that could have gone worse! ]

Yeah, Peter Parker. And you're Steve Harrington? Nice to meet you.

This place is pretty wild. I don't know as much of the specific history here yet.

So...how'd you find out about other worlds?

Oh, there's a parallel universe called the Upside-Down where a dark wizard is murdering people from our town.

[ Nodding. ]

It sucks a lot.

A what? Wow, that...sounds like a terrible way to find out about other worlds, actually.

[ Though is there a good way? He hasn't heard one yet. ]

So...do you guys have magic in your world or just in this upside down place?

I don't really understand how it works, there's this game called Dungeons and Dragons which kind of parodies all the shit we end up fighting.

No magic yet, but there is a girl with superpowers. The only one.

Dungeons and Dragons? I know that game. I've played it a few times. It's really cool, but...the stuff you play in your game happens in real life?

[ WHAT, that's crazy. ]

Maybe you guys shouldn't play that anymore.

[ He's trying to figure out what he can about Steve's world from this but Steve is not the most descriptive, here. ]

How'd she get superpowers but no one else has them? Is this, like, from your game?

I don't play DND.

[ He wouldn't have the patience, let alone interest. ]

All I know is that I've got superpowers now too and they suck.

Oh. Then how'd you get involved in the whole dark wizard thing?

…Wait, you go powers from the confluence? Hey, me too! What did you get?

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