( audio | un: warlock )

[necromantiae]

Indulge my curiosity for a moment, would you?

( could you deny a face like his? could you? you couldn't. which is good because he's going to ask a somewhat morbid question. )

We're all, apparently, dead. But some of us have died again and been returned via the church. Some of us have disappeared or died and not been returned. Are they still here somewhere? Or have they been sent back to where they came from?

Those are hypothetical questions, by the way. Feel free to try and answer but I think it's going to be a lot of time that could be spent on something more fruitful.

My actual question: could the the way of dying a second time crucial to who stays and who goes? Or did those of us that have been lost end somewhere in this place that we've yet to find?

( he knows that it's not necessarily a fun thing to think about but he recalls the resurrection of his aunt hilda after her many deaths at the hands of his other aunt versus how harvey's brother had come back. two dead people returned to the land of the living but only one went on to live a relatively normal life.

ambrose knows that might be because hilda is a witch herself and tommy was a normal human. but his curiosity still stands. )

Do we need to institute the buddy system to make sure no one else wanders off and doesn't come back?

( he's joking. mostly. )

Comments

Voice

[moderatelymaladjusted]

Is there a way to, uhm-- hello? Is there a way to make a list? Of who died, how and where? It seems like something we should make a list of, and it-- it would make it easier to, like, avoid the places that killed the most? And also, has someone made a list of all of us? On-- on maybe we should look at how he all died the first time? Maybe that's something that's important?

[necromantiae]

There might already be a list. Have you gone back through the weekly bulletins that appear on the network? I know they do keep a tally of those who die there.

( what a morbid conversation this was going to be. )

I haven't kept a personal tally, though. But your last two suggestions have some merit. I know there was a...situation where people were able to see how others died. I don't think many of us were taking notes.

[moderatelymaladjusted]

I haven't, no? [But he's going to, as soon as he gets back to the A-frame and thinks on this for a while and finds some way to keep track of everything. Binders were just so much better than just a tablet.]

What? Someone saw how others died? Died to, uh, to get here, right? Not, how they were going to die. Here. Some day?

[necromantiae]

Yeah, they saw how they died to get here. Not everyone made the choice to look but those that did saw exactly what happened.

( he still feels for those that saw how he died. )

There were tombstones and those tombstones seemed to insert someone into that memory. You were there, watching death in living color and unable to do anything about it. You were a spectator to the worst time in someone's life.

audio | @kol

[unpredict]

[ all interesting questions, and ones kol has had himself in his long, long lifetime. to ask them in another place… it's all part of the experience, isn't it? what happens when a new orleans witch's soul is destroyed in the ancestral realm? what happens if people die here, over and over? clearly beacon isn't the be all end all of death, just like the other side and ancestral realm. ]

A buddy system wouldn't be awful.

[ he's also sort of joking, even though the only person he cares about is his buddy. ]

As friendly as some of the spirits here are, there's a lot more at play than a peaceful afterlife. I don't know enough about this place to be able to answer you, but from experience… when the world around those who have died dies, there's no place else. If you die... who knows where you end up. [ musingly, ] Is there death beyond death?

[necromantiae]

You and I, we'll spearhead this initiative, then.

( still half joking, there. he doubts a buddy system would truly work or be embraced but he is a proponent of not venturing out alone all things considered. people had done that and hadn't come back. )

There is something beyond death, though, because people have died here. Not many but they have died and then they've reappeared in the church. Fitting, isn't it?

[unpredict]

[ kol??? running something similar to bumble??? is this the bad place? ambrose, don't ruin his anti-people reputation he's been building on and off for years!

although he can't see it, kol shrugs playfully. ] A little predictable. Randomly dropping into a kitchen would be a lot more fun.

[ into a cake, into a roast dinner — he enjoys creating mayhem, even if it sometimes doesn't make sense. being resurrected in a church of all places makes a lot of sense to kol, given the sacred nature of their grounds and often the power housed there.

a little more seriously, though: ] All the people who have died since arriving here have been resurrected in the church? Each and every time?

voice; un: mollymauk

[mollymocked]

I am absolutely down for a buddy system.

[For five reasons, but he makes it sound vaguely flirty... That's also just how he talks, to be honest. It's the bad Irish accent. it makes everything lilty.]

[necromantiae]

Are you now?

And why would that be?

[mollymocked]

Because, quite frankly, being alone is fucking awful and I don't recommend it, and if you die here and no one's around to do anything about it, that's just awful. We're better off sticking together.

[So basically practical, not sexual, but the flirtiness stands.]

text; @kingsknight

[broplaints]

It couldn't hurt
The buddy system I mean
Or just groups who check in with each other
Make sure no one goes wandering off alone

[necromantiae]

I was half serious but after what's happened recently
It doesn't sound like a bad idea.
It would stop people from dying and no one knowing.

[broplaints]

Yeah
Or at least save us time if we need to look for someone
Helps if you know where to start

@subzero, text

[saibot]

It is possible to cease to exist if the soul is destroyed. There is no coming back from that. This is most likely what happened to those who do not return.

[He's mostly speaking from experience here and not because he knows how things work in this town. It could be different, but who knows.]

[necromantiae]

So, you're saying their souls have been killed while those that return still have their souls intact?

[saibot]

Most likely. At least that is how it would work under normal circumstances. But this is not the Netherrealm I know. Ultimately the rules might be different.

@wayne

[pearlstrings]

Does that mean you've chosen one for yourself already?

[necromantiae]

You mean, have I chosen a buddy?
I might have.

[pearlstrings]

Perhaps someone you've been meaning to spend more time with?

VOICE; @HK

[catholicisms]

It was my understanding that those who don't return is a direct result of damage to their lantern. The how might matter, though more for the fact that damaging deaths are damaging to the lantern as well.

( he has no comment on the buddy system. if he wants to go out in the forest to die alone for a second time, none of y'all can stop him, ok?!? HE WORKS ALONE )

[necromantiae]

( gosh matt, LET PEOPLE LOVE YOU!!!! )

That's what I've learned as well. I'm just curious on what makes the choice so random. Some people return, some people do not. Were they truly killed or just...taken back in the same way that we were taken here in the first place?

Or maybe not the same way but a similar way.

[catholicisms]

( NEVER!!!!! )

It'd be valuable to know for certain, though likely difficult to accomplish. ( what with all the dying and potentially not coming back and everything. )

@ grizz

[quotability]

People die and come back?

[ this place continues to be strange, but what else is new? ]

Hi again.

[necromantiae]

Hello again, handsome.

( he was only speaking the truth. )

I'm beginning to think that it's not actual death but yes, they 'die' and then reappear in the church good as new. It's happened to a few people. Protect your lantern. If the light goes out, that's when it happens.

[quotability]

Oh. [ you'll make him blush — but fortunately, the topic is serious enough that he can focus on that instead of on having been called handsome by an awfully attractive man. ]

If it's not actual death, what is it?