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[Someone is bored. And when someone is bored they do stupid things, and this would probably be classed as one of them. Besides, Gabriel's starting to get curious to see how people react to things.]

So like, I did something like this to someone once. For almost four months. It was pretty hilarious if you ask me. Groundhog day was a great movie, so I was feeling inspired. Pull the strings and see how they reacted. [There's zero shame, sorry Sam.]

Anyhoo. When I was doing that to my unwitting victim who shall remain nameless, stuck in my tangled web of illusion, I made sure to keep a close eye on them by disguising myself and watching. Simple right? So these staff apparently never show up but see everything anyway. Which means that they're probably one of us. I mean that's the only thing that makes sense. Pretend to be a hostage, fit in with the crowd and so on. Classic textbook.

So. Start making your excuses, I'm interested to hear 'em.

Oh before I forget. Has anyone here actually died? Not counting the captain who was dumb enough to keep coming back.

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Maybe, maybe not.

And please, I've been here [pauses and mentally counts the days.] just over three months. If there were other ways to see what was going on we'd know of it by now.

You might not know they're watching if they're using magic. It was probably magic that brought us here so why not use it to keep an eye on us?

[Sorry, Gabriel's going to just eyeroll a little right now.]

Magic leaves a trace. Magic can also backfire like a mofo. If someone's going to set a gig up like this they're not going to ruin it all by accidentally channeling the wrong background image and giving the game away.

Channeling the wrong background image?

[That was probably some Mundane reference that Magnus hadn't taught him since it definitely didn't sound like anything his boyfriend had talked about while 'talking shop' with Alec.]

Magic leaves traces but is there anyone here powerful enough to track them? Everyone here with magic of some type has had their powers deadened. If they took us to a dimension different than the ones we're from, it'll be harder for anyone back home to use those traces to find us.

Who knows?

And yes, channeling the wrong background image. Wait, don't tell me, you don't understand the reference. Fine, I'll do laymans terms.

See this wall? This wall [knocks on it with a free hand.] is created by the people who made this place. With me so far? Good. Now then, if it was magic, that would need a spell. Spells can go wrong and if they went wrong here and a door suddenly appeared instead, then we'd know it was magic. The captors of this place are too smart to use something so unstable that would basically go wrong for them.

You wouldn't need a door. Build a hotel with no exits. Make it so that magic is the only way in and out. Then you have everyone in a prison that can't be easily escaped and no worries that we'll suddenly see something that shouldn't be there. A friend of mine was trapped in a similar place a few months ago.

It's an example. I still put my money on it being something else since magic backfires too easy. And oh, your friend was trapped in a similar place for a while and you're an expert? Back home I made things like this for a living, though they were more entertaining.

Mine was an example too. Magic doesn't backfire that easily where I'm from. Either setup is possible. But magic has to be part of this or we wouldn't be here. How else would they kidnap people from other realities and throw them here?

To be honest I'm thinking it's more science than magic. It'd explain how powers are knocked out, and let's be real; those messages before sure read more like something automated than living. There's always going to be technology in some world that can transport people around too.

Would that type of technology be able to get past warding spells? [It might be possible but the idea of mixing the two really doesn't happen in his world that often.]

Advanced technology is what. It ain't that farfetched when there are people here who come from worlds that are light years away from ours. Magic has variables. Technology is constant.

I'm really hoping your wrong about that. My friends can track magic but technology would make it more difficult.

Exactly. They aren't going to make it easy to find them, and when it's all done and dusted we'll probably find some computer in the basement running the whole thing.

That's how these kinds of films tend to end anyway.

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