And our two theories aren’t incompatible, either. The Nameless Island could’ve been providing the same entertainment. Perhaps everything was simulated there as well. It would explain a lot of the strangeness I’ve seen.

[ But he’s caught something and pieced it together; ]

There aren’t individuals from your reality, here - but rather, individuals you recognize, but from a different time or series of events than you recall.

Fascinating.

What version of events do you remember? [ It’s a somewhat rhetorical question. Unless this stranger knew a specific subset of people here - it’s likely his history will be meaningless to Zechs. But it’d be a point of data. ]