( 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. )

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@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?

[mollymocked]

[Molly is somewhere between wanting all the people and just wanting some of the people in a close-knit group, but he's doing what he can to ingratiate himself to as many people as he can.]

I'm from the circus, friend. People in large groups always end up being arseholes of one kind or another. Even the nice ones. And given we're all dead and a bit stressed out, panic and being grouped together makes people hinky.

It's up to the sensible ones to keep everyone from offing or betraying each other.

[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.

[unpredict]

[ understatement of the century, ambrose. ]

Seems to be a multiverse of people here. [ he watches marvel! kol sighs; ambrose is right — this place does seem to be pulling people from different realities… different times, even. hardly any of it is comprehensible to kol, but it's easier to just go with it than to ask questions that hardly help them get any closer to an escape of this place. ]

The witches you knew… were they consecrated when they died?

[ aka: did some magical ritual take place to send their soul to that realm? ]

[broplaints]

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

@wayne

[pearlstrings]

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

[moderatelymaladjusted]

You’ve been here for months, and no one knows anything. It’s just— it’s frustrating and a little much? You know?

[Not to mention disheartening and not boding well for Quentin’s chance of figuring anything out soon, and just being here for a day and half and the darkness is already getting to him. The way it makes the days and nights bleed together in to one long, endless night.]

And you can just do that? Not dwell? Is this where the drinking comes in?

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]

The only downfall would be if they both disappear at the same time.
Then, we would be down two people when it could potentially be one.
I still think it's a good idea but there are pros and cons.

[necromantiae]

The circus?

( well, that's a new one? )

I don't think I've ever had the honor of visiting the circus. All I know of it is what I've heard from others and seen on television. I know there are large animals and clowns, which I would rather not see ever again, and people who do a lot of flips high in the air.

( that's what the circus was, right? )

What did you do?

[necromantiae]

No one knows anything because we've been a little busy. We're not just sitting here, doing nothing. People have died, things have happened, and people keep arriving. There isn't always time to just sit down with each other and talk about what's going on.

( there were quiet nights, sure, but most people spent those nights unwinding and trying not to think of what was happening. )

I can do that just fine. ( he'd been doing it for decades now. ) But drinking helps.

[necromantiae]

I would almost guarantee that the rules are different. Why would one person die and stay dead while someone else comes back? Why is it that random?

[necromantiae]

Not all of them. Some of them were resurrected.

( such as his aunt hilda but he assumes that's a special case since it was his other aunt doing the killing. )

I know I wasn't consecrated when I died. And those that died at the same time weren't either. We were just...murdered. Unfortunate business, that, but nothing to do about it now.

( fucking witch hunters. )

Mostly we just try not to die.

[necromantiae]

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

[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.

[pearlstrings]

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

[necromantiae]

Are you suggesting that I'm using my buddy system suggestion as a means to meet beautiful people?

[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. )

[pearlstrings]

I'm suggesting it would be very pragmatic.

[necromantiae]

It would be.

But I might also get called out for using something meant to be official and help for personal gain.

[moderatelymaladjusted]

I'm sorry. I didn't mean-- I mean, I didn't think you were all just sitting around and, uhm, so. I maybe thought after what you said that no one trusts each other and that's why nothing gets done?

[That would not be the first time that cooperation was key and also the hardest thing in the world to achieve. He knew his friends, and still, they'd had to use magic to find harmony and the Key to go with it. These were all complete strangers.]

Yeah, any tips? Because I can't stop thinking about-- about well, all of it?

[necromantiae]

( so stubborn. )

True.

I'd rather not die again but if I did have a deathwish, I would like to know if I'm going to come back or if I'm gone for good. It's not good odds.

i had momentary panic wondering if i forgot they were texting lmao

[catholicisms]

As morbid as it is, if someone does die, we could monitor the process. There might be something more to it, you're right. It's just not worth risking not coming back for.

( would it be weird to make a "if I die will you watch me" pact? uh, maybe. )

lmfao nope, i'm just a dummeh

[necromantiae]

So, we'd have to make sure we knew who died quickly. I don't think just getting word via the bulletins would work. They would already be dead.

But, barring someone seeing it happen, I don't know how we would be alerted to someone dying/

( maybe the buddy system wasn't such a bad idea. )