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[fogey]

[ well, there's no way to say it, except to say it, so: ]

One of us died today. Big guy, blond hair. I don't know his name. I found his body.

[ that's his schtick, isn't it? finding bodies. ]

What I do know is that he fell on some rocks near the beach. Looks like an accident, no foul play. The fall shouldn't have killed him.

[ could've, if the bastard really were that unlucky, but it's unlikely. besides: ]

But it did break his lantern. Seems like Winters was telling the truth about that after all. Before anyone asks:

1) No, I didn't see it happen.
2) Yes, I checked for a pulse.
3) No, I didn't do it.

[ juST COVERING HIS BASES THERE ]

One more thing. I had to step away to get my tablet. When I came back, both he and his lantern were gone. No one else was here, I'm positive. They just vanished into thin air.

[ ooc | so as of today, rosinante (callada) is dead :C feel free to threadjack in this post and use it for discussion or whatever! ]

Comments

[kungfuey]

I'll keep that in mind.

[ She won't. ]

That's assuming whoever disappeared the body and the lantern are the same ones who did all this. He comes back it's a power display. He doesn't and that begs a few more questions as to what's going on around here.

[ordinaryannie]

No more questions than we already have. People not coming back to life is reality until proven otherwise.

It's possible it was an unrelated third party, but unless the guy has some personal enemy who both believes in resurrection and wants to make sure he stays deader than dead, the simplest explanation is that whoever set this up is also the person who made the body and the fragments of the lantern disappear. Doesn't mean it'll turn out to be the right one, but it requires the fewest leaps of logic with the information we have.

[Doesn't mean she believes in routine resurrection, either. Hell, her own gut-reaction conspiracy theory is the ostensibly-dead guy is a plant to sell the game to the rubes.

It's the play she'd make, if it was her narrative. If she was vastly powerful and absolutely lacking in morals and probably in sanity.]

[kungfuey]

Except that we have people who have been here before saying they come back. If we believe them.
Wouldn't be unheard of though.

[ Only in your twisted world, Scarlett. ]

You're assuming its about the guy and not the place.
Fact is we don't know enough of anything for sure to do anything but speculate.

[ She can acknowledge that much at least. ]

But the more shit that happens the better idea we might get on what we're dealing with.

[ordinaryannie]

Now that much we can agree on.

[kungfuey]

What I'm waiting to see?
Which one of us will be the first to not come back.

[ordinaryannie]

Good question.

Probably the first person to get close to something really important.

[kungfuey]

That should make for a fun waiting game.

[ordinaryannie]

Or the world's least appropriate betting pool.

[kungfuey]

[ I mean. ]

My money is still on Mr. Day Two.
I figure eventually they get sick of bringing him back.