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Hey, you've reached Dipper! I'm not here right now, but leave a message and I'll get back to you soon!

...

But if this is paranormal-related? Hang up now, call back, let it ring exactly twice, then hang up again. Don't leave a message. I'll get back to you even sooner.

I'll take very detailed notes on what your message is.

I'll take very detailed notes on what your message is.

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Our parents' names. Like I said. We didn't listen. It's like the vendors but you don't get something back, you don't learn anything, it just takes.

[They learned something, but only cause Antimony had been there with her blinker stone at the time.]

It's not worth investigating until we have a way to actually look at it safely and extensively.

The CORE back home had the ability to power things. Do you think the one here could do the same?

[This question is purely ancillary, to avoid the darker questions their curiosity might raise.

He's already told them what they wanted to know.]

I think it's what powers all of Wonderland. But it's probably not like the core you're used to. This is Wonderland magic not monster magic.

[Interesting.]

You don't think it could be useful at all?

I didn't say that. But it can't be useful unless we can find a way to interact with it without vomiting and losing our memories.

So we wouldn't know if someone walked into it or anything. They'd probably just disappear from existence entirely.

[Whoops. Bring it back.]

The thought terrifies me...

[That's a weird way of putting it.]

No we'd know because the core would get sick again and start breaking Wonderland. The Red Queen trapped herself and the Jabberwocky in there and then events started going screwy. And also, again, you'd have to be able to actually walk and not be paralyzed by vomit feelings until the door just closes on its own.

Why would someone walk into it?

The core got "sick"? Wonderland started "breaking"? How does that work?

Is it alive?

[* Can you touch it?
* Can you eat it?
* Can you kill it?

They do not acknowledge his question in the slightest.]

[...Dipper likes that they're at the point that Frisk assumes he knows everything, but the fact is, he has no idea.]

I wouldn't be surprised. But basically events started lingering longer than they were supposed to and stuff. And then tears appeared in reality and we could get over to the mirror side without our mirrors helping.

[Tears in reality.

Erased from existence.

The similarities are glaring, practically scalding.]

What do you mean, "tears in reality"?

Like... I don't know how else to describe it? Just these holes. And if you jumped through them, you ended up somewhere else. Sometimes on the Mirror Side.

Somewhere else in Wonderland, then. Not out of existence of anything like that.

[Still, it's a parallel they find disturbing in its closeness to the tale they're remembering.]

Yeah I guess. Where's all this coming from?

Nothing important.

[What a reassuring answer!]

That's convincing.

I was just thinking about this CORE compared to the one at home. That's all.

So how does it compare?

[You know how much Dipper loves exposition give him the goods.]

Well for one, the CORE at home doesn't ERASE your memories if you walk into it. It's full of swappable parts. It kind of smells like ozone inside.

[Thanks Chara. They hadn't realized ozone had a smell until they pointed it out.]

It's this massive generator, I think. It powers most of the Underground. But it's also really dangerous. If it's not maintained carefully the CORE could overload and destroy everything. Or worse.

That part's not so different. I mean, probably, it's never actually gotten that far.

That kind of implosion could potentially ERASE everyone from existence. I mean, a lot of bad things happened to people who tampered with the CORE back home.

Yeah. This is why I'm staying firmly on the side of be careful and don't mess with it unless you can do it safely.

I guess that makes sense.

Thanks for the information.

Sure, any time. [He lives for this stuff.]

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