And so this trope was once again
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"Wait a minute," exclaimed the GSL. "That 555 GET was connected to a 556 GET, which in turn was connected to a 557 GET, 558 GET... Do you realise what this means?"
The time travellers were too busy hallucinating that they were the cast of Legend of the Galactic Heroes to respond, so she continued.
"This is all just a thread on the internet! Each post adds a new line or two, adding their own contributions to this absurd tangled mess of a story. We aren't real! We're just fictional characters!"