Jack finds himself sitting down to tea with Empress Jack, Lady Elliott, Rev. Magehammer, tiny Miss Colossal Giant and a brain in a jar. The brain says, "Howdee pardner!"

The tea table becomes a horse-drawn coach traveling the Oregon Trail. Indian Elliott and his band of braves boldly barrage the bunch with a bevy of barrows.

In a barrow, undead hordes rise from their graves crying out, "TEAAA!! EARL GREY!!! HOT!!"

Jack finds himself sitting in a very comfortable chair in a luxurious space-age room with a giant wall-sized 3D viewscreen/window into space, multiple sleek grey computer consoles and super-high-tech equipment all around. In addition, there are about 15 humans and aliens wearing uniforms around the room all staring at Jack.

A tall bald man with a commanding presence demands, "Who the hell are you, and what are you doing on my ship - in my chair!?"

Jack waves at the others he recognizes, though he doesn’t know the Brain in a Jar yet, so he only says, “Hello.” Just about the same time he’s pulled along to another point in time and space. This is all terribly strange, but with the help of his compass and some diagnostic magic he can maybe begin to make sense of everything.

The undead are rather disconcerting, he can destroy them, of course, but only in the same way he fights most things. Plain battle magic.

The sudden finality of his arrival has Jack looking around curiously, and he finds himself looking at the bald man. “I’m Jack, I travel between dimensions, and I seem to have been thrust here. Who are you, and where am I?”

He stands up from the chair and looks around a bit more.

"No undead, no brains in jars? That's good."

*Rolls, advancements & new skill*

Jack has deep intuitive insights which slip away a little as he fishes them back. They leave behind a strong impression of tremendous responsibility and potential. He was shifting through the Scriff, experiencing snippets of his divergent existences that coincide along similar metrics but differ in others - he was experiencing them as coherently his own, like a strange dream.


((If you could pick anywhere in the Star Trek universe for Jack to visit, where/when would it be?))

Jack, appearing the exact same age he was the first time he woke up in the Verse, appeared innocent in the best of ways. And totally nuts.

"What in the bloody hell are you on about, man? Counselor Chroy, is this man sane?"

A woman with large curly black hair, a loving-kind face and lavender body suit stepped forward, "He's telling the truth as he sees it. And he appears to be sane as far as I can tell. But I've never felt a mind like this before. It's, somehow... Different." She smiles disarmingly at Jack, implying different is possibly good.

The bald man says, "I'm Captain Stewart. Patrick Stewart. Who thrust you here? Are you an emissary from some planet? But first, come with me to my Ready Room, I'd be more comfortable with you off the Bridge until I know more about this mystery."

Capt Patrick signals the Security detail to stand down and for Counselor Chroy to join him with Jack. He leads Jack into a comfortable room with a conference desk in one corner and soft chairs and sauce tables on the other. There's an aquarium in the middle.

Captain Stewart walks up to a console and says, "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot." The console beeps in response. He turns his head to Jack, "What can I get for you?"

Counselor Chroy walks in behind and the door slides closed.

After his request for refreshments, Captain Stewart gestures for Jack to sit as he takes a seat in one of the other comfy chairs and says, "Now, Who do you believe thrust you here, and why?"
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Speaking directly to Jack she explains. "This place appears to have a strong technological bias, might help to explain scriff as an dimentinal anomaly."

((Possibly something like: https://tinyurl.com/25t89xpp -- to help him gain some psychic powers, if given my ultimate druthers. That or something that helps him learn technology. I'd even be happy to have him end up at Starfleet Academy for a few years to learn everything he can.))

“Oh, you’re a mind reader, that’s wonderful, I’ve always wanted to learn psionics,” Jack says to the woman and smiles at her, he’ll definitely make a friend out of that one!

He’s trying to figure out what he’ll be able to do here, but he guesses no normal magic, Order magic will probably work with his halberd, psionics if he can learn some, and dimensional trickery that he doesn’t know as Stella had alluded to.

When he is offered a drink, he stands up and walks over to look at the console, repeating the process, he says, “Please allow me, Captain. Lemonade, cold.” Repeating the process.

Once he has been seated again--likely after the Captain had to get his drink for him, since he isn’t authorized for anything, let alone using a console of any kind--he looks toward Chroy, smiling at her genuinely.

“Pleasure to meet you Captain, as I said before, I’m Jack. No-one sent me here, when I die in one world I am sent to a different universe with all of my memories intact, but I’m a peaceful person at heart, and love to learn things. I’m mostly interested in magic, but I can tell that you have access to all sorts of wonderful technology, so I think there are many interesting things to learn here too,” he says with a smile.
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Mostly.
Spiritual, Order, and home universe magics are all twice as hard, though not impossible (and made easier with rituals, amulets, magic words etc).
Toon magics are only 1.5 times as hard as normal.
Digital magics and Physical are both normal difficulty.
Psionics are 1.5 times as easy as normal.
Mental are twice as easy.
Technological are thrice as easy.



"Ha, your funny!" Chroy giggles, "You can't just learn empathy, or telepathy." you have to just be born with it, or you can't even hear me right now. she thinks and he hears.

In addition to hearing her thought directed at him, he felt what it felt like to feel the emotions of another entity, especially one as alien to her as Jack was.
*Rolls and Learn Telepathy & Empathy*



Yup



"Well, if a young lad like yourself would like to go to school and better yourself through learning, then who am I to stand in your way? We're jutting out to visit a colony on the fringe of this arm of the Galactic spiral, arriving there in a few days. Then we'll be heading in to a space station. You're welcome to tag along under the tutelage of the ship's educational division of you like. Counselor Chroy, would you kindly direct the lad accordingly? Great!"

Putting his compass away, Jack has a feeling for how things work here and smiles at them. Wait, does failing to make something work badly, is that what causes things to go terribly? In which case, he could probably use magic, but it risked the terrible repercussions? He’d need to ask Stella, but it seemed rude to interrupt when he’s talking to Counselor Chroy and Captain Stewart.

When he thinks about how telepathy and empathy work, he focuses on Counselor Chroy and replies telepathically: Like this? Oh, neat. That wasn’t so hard. Do you know any other tricks? How about..

He reaches out with a hand toward his lemonade and floats it in the air for a moment.

“Outstanding, thank you for your tutelage Counsellor,” he tells her with a bright smile. Hearing about the future from the Captain, he nods his head in confirmation. “That’s great Captain, I’ll gladly accompany you. Let me know if you have need of my magic, or want to see something. I imagine I could show you some interesting cartoon magic in my hat.”

Seams amused. "You show about as much restraint as Alfea, you sure your not one of her alternates?" she chuckled. "Try not to startle them to much with 'impossible' things."

Counselor Marina Sirtis-Chroy shows Jack to the Professor, a brilliant Android who's favorite pastime is Holodeck mysteries and teaching eager minds. Prof gives Jack a quick but comprehensive aptitude test to understand Jack's starting point, then a list of classes he can sign up for at Starfleet academy ((any you want not directly related to weapons))

Counselor Marina, "Call me Marina," with a smile, asks Jack to visit her the next day so she can interview him some more. She's curious.

Assuming he goes, she'll all him to sit down with her and make him comfortably, then she'll say, "Forgive me for saying this, but you don't seem like the typical teenager. You seem much more relaxed and confident, like you've seen things and matured quite a bit. Does your species live more than 200 years?"

Sounds interested in this. "Hey could you take me out of the compass and press me into one of the beans, so I'm touching the plant part but in the food part of the bean? Then toss the bean in the TARDIS with the Balur in it. I think I can grow it into something.... I wouldn't mind talking FTL with these folks. FTL, portal, and ship travel in general is an old hobby of mine and Alfea's it's always neat to see how other's do it."

“What’s wrong with telling people? I’m a wizard, it’s my job to share knowledge.”

He only talks to Stella away from others, he likes to share knowledge, but he isn’t going to show them his weapons and all he can do. That’s just tactically unsound. But he can tell them what he is, and where he’s from. Pretending not to be what he is, is just counter-productive.

Talking to the Professor, he smiles broadly. “What’s it like being an android, Professor?” In response to the question, Jack calmly says, “I want to learn all of it, but perhaps we should start from the ground up. You can test my fundamentals and bring those up to your standards and by then maybe I’ll discover an area that I like? But, would you like to learn anything from me? I know all kinds of magic, and I’ve learned more in every world, so it’s only fair that I share with you.”

Meeting up with Marina the next day, he is carrying a lemonade.

“Oh, well, I was a teenager when I was lured into my first dimension other than my home dimension, and I spent a bit of time there, then something happened we don’t need to talk about. A bit later I was in another one, and in that one, I ended up spending a lot of time training, more than ten years, I’d guess? I didn’t really keep track. I’m not sure I can die of old age anymore, because I didn’t age when I was training with Mr. Magehammer, and the other versions of me out there in the multiverse are all way older, and look exactly like me. So, to answer your question, no I don’t think I age.”

"Well, that would entirely depend on who you asked. Ask Data, and he might say it was difficult not being human. From my perspective, being an Android is like being a human in a robotic body. We're fast learners of repetitive movements and logical algorithmic ideas, but just a little slower in processing emotions. Much like the neurodivergent humans, but for different reasons."


Jack is enrolled in the standard courses for people and aliens new to Starfleet. By the time they get to the space station, he'll have a good understanding of the core subjects.



Professor responds, "Given that no one in our recorded history has ever used anything like real magic other than technology and psionics, I have my aunt's about whether anyone could learn. But I'm certainly willing to try. Go ahead, show me something."

Marina says, "I hope you don't mind, but I don't get many chances to communicate telepathically, as long as we're alone, would you mind if I practiced?"


"Fascinating!"


"You have no need to fear discussing anything with me. I'm a safe nonjudgmental place. If you feel comfortable trusting me with it, I'd be glad to talk it out with you."

The explanation the Professor provides is both informative and not, since he can’t really empathize with the idea of being that. He also doesn’t know who Data is yet, but he’s learning quickly. The courses provided by Starfleet are enough to begin filling in some of the holes in his understanding of how things work, at least in this universe.

When the Professor says they might be interested in learning, he nods and takes off his hat. “Just come with me into my hat.”

Jack continues to talk with Marina, but telepathically now.

“Oh, it’s not like that, well, kinda,” he begins and then goes on to explain. “So, the first universe I was drawn to needed help getting rid of an evil version of me, and after some stuff happened, I used a Banishment spell to kick him out of the dimension. But, I was still really new at it, so I ended up kicking everyone with a name similar to ours, out of the universe into another universe.”

He pauses to let her ask any questions.

“To make matters worse, when I was trying to fix things and get everyone back, I think a future version of me tunneled back in time, and it caused everyone to rip in half rather than cause a branch in the timeline.”

Professor blinks twice and says, "You want me to go inside your hat? Are you aware that I'm 5'6" and that your hat's volume capacity is far less than my volume?"

After Jack's reply, when he sees Jack go inside the hat, he expresses amazement and delight, looking all around the hat, picking it up, and finally going inside. With wide eyes of glee, "Jack! It's smaller on the outside! What kind of spacial dimension manipulation technology do you have access to here!?"



What a terrible accident! I've never heard of someone using a spell, but it sounds like you were just trying to do the right thing.
Marina is patient, and tends to save her big questions until after providing emotional support.



How awful! ... How did a future version of yourself do anything if you don't remember doing it? But more importantly, how does knowing all of this make you feel?

“Yes,” Jack replies and then proceeds into his hat. Leading the Professor around, he heads into the area with the cartoon bias. “Technology? It’s a combination of a lot of things in this one, it’s dimensional folding, a Tardis, and a few other things, if I understand correctly. I’m not skilled enough to make one of them yet, but it’s on the long list of things I intend to learn.”

Showing the professor around, he starts to demonstrate some of the cartoon magic, and then also some other magic. Just generally letting the Android experience some new things. Only fair, given that he’s being taught their Federation technology.

With Marina, later, he’s a bit uncertain how he feels.

Honestly, I don’t know to feel. I know I helped everyone by getting rid of Evil Me, but at the same time, a lot of people were hurt or died. Should I feel sad for mistakes, or should I feel guilty? I’m not sure how I feel. I know I’ve learned from my mistakes and that beating myself up about it won’t help, but at the same time, it feels wrong to be ambivalent about so many people dying.

He thinks about it.

I don’t remember doing it, because I hadn’t done it yet, of course. The possibility that I might not do it in the future, the fact that I died, means that one version of me lived, while the other was split in half. I guess. Time is weird like that.

"Could you place me in the bean while we are here?  And you seam to have some tendencies to be a truthteller/seer if you become one you should be able to know more about your future and what happened to cause that event, Verimagus can be fairly effective and should work synergisticly with your order magic."

"Are you sure this isn't just a holodeck? What would you be willing to teach me?" ((Please pick one to start with))

I hear you. You were there to witness it all, and it was partly your responsibility for bringing them there, even though that was an accident. But nevertheless, people's lives matter. I don't think there's any particular way you should feel - however you feel, even confused, makes sense. How are you honoring the memory of all of those people who shared aspects of your name?



Marina asks permission to watch Jack's memory of the event.

If he lets her,

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She places her hands on Jack's hear and performs the Vulcan Mind Meld. This is what she sees:
While Jack is coming back from the beggar, he notices someone other than himself breaking through the wall from the other side (meaning 2 hours ago that same someone who wasn't Jack broke through from the other side of the warehouse) someone else is standing ready to give a message to himself from 2 hours ago. The moment he does so, reality begins to split in two. But this abnormal choice divergence of reality doesn't work like a normal choice divergence, instead, everybody is ripped into two pieces. Including Jack.

Marina says, "I don't think that was you who caused the catastrophe. It looked like people were organizing and getting ready to survive in there. Really, you weren't responsible for their deaths at all.

---

((Stella is right. Magus would work synergistically with any other magics Jack has))

Jack thinks about the best way to teach an android, who is at least, largely, based on Logic. “Well, hmm, let’s see if we can make something here and bring it back with us to the ship?” he proposes and pulls out his empty book and cartoon pencil. “What should we make? How about a model of your ship? Do me a favor and draw a perfect model of your ship from a third-person point of view, as detailed as possible.”

Once the Professor (assuming he can do the same as Data can do) draws the picture, Jack sets it on the ground and says, “Now, cartoon reality, as far as I can tell is all about imagination and perspective. So now that I can see the ship from this perspective, perhaps, I can grab the model like so.”

And he reaches into the picture and plucks up the model. Holding it up for the Professor to see, now fully rendered by the Professor’s hand.

“I’m not sure it’ll work if we bring it back, but if it does, it’s all yours Professor.”

---

With Marina: Honoring them? I suppose I’m just trying to learn from past experiences and never make the same mistakes, and I’m remembering them.

The request to read his memories is accepted, though he does try to learn how she is doing it so that he can do the same in the future.

---

“I’ll try later, Stella, and yeah, I’d like to learn how. We just haven’t had time to begin learning it. I’m sure I’ll want to once we aren’t busy.”

At her request, he pulls her consciousness out of the helmet module and inserts it into a seed, planting it into the soil of the cartoon biased part of the Tardis.
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Draws in all the balur and build a bunny golem body.

This takes a little bit of time.