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[nonscriptum]

[ Recent events are enough of a push to get him to do what he was waffling about, but that doesn't mean he likes having to be the bearer of any news, let alone the kind where he gives mildly hypocritical advice. ]

i know it hasn't even been a week but apparently people are already biting the dust again, so

hi, i'm nate, and enough people have asked me about this crap that i should probably have made this sooner. i've been to another world like this before, the whole "kidnapped population of different people, different places" thing, got the t-shirt, so i might be able to answer some questions people have

death probably isn't gonna stick here, but that doesn't mean you should be testing your luck since there's always some kind of price with these things.

seriously, don't be stupid.

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@fuckthis

[evocation]

oh boy
here we go
have you told them how much the gods sucked?

[nonscriptum]

yeah i told one guy but he talked like he was from ancient greece so i'm pretty sure he didn't believe in any other gods but the pantheon of assholes he knew

probably for the best

@Grandmaster

[paletteswap]

Rosinante was telling me about you. We were planning to investigate the forest or lighthouse.

I suppose that still needs to happen without him.

[nonscriptum]

kind of sounds like the second one didn't really fall into place for him

[ Too soon? ]

i definitely want to get out there and explore stuff but we really gotta figure out parameters first

@carol

[starforce]

[some... time... after her conversation with will]

You're investigating the lighthouse? I want in.

@helsing

[kungfuey]

It doesn't.

[ Continuing to give responses without context to back up her answers. ]

What did you have to do to get out of the last place?

[ Not even wasting time doubting his story. ]

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i kind of assumed as much based on the creepy church, the very specific number of candles on the altar, and the door nobody can open there

[ He pays attention...when it comes to weird innocuous stuff off the beaten path. ]

we had to be let out. i was there for two years, so trust me when i say people tried to leave.

@oracle

[spitefullight]

Someone's dead? Well, wait that's not possible. We're ALREADY dead.

and even if someone is do we have any powerful clerics here? Maybe someone can bring them back.

...I mean if we have an abundance of diamonds somewhere I guess.

[nonscriptum]

[ Okay, not...even gonna ask about the diamonds, or the clerics, or the other shit that sounds like something Taako has probably said before. ]

yeah you'd be surprised

he'll probably just come back on his own without our involvement

@parker

[webshoots]

How did it happen the last time?

[nonscriptum]

temporary death or interdimensional kidnapping?

@raylan

[ultimatums]

Hi Nate, big fan
Long time listener, first time caller
I guess what I'd like to know is which building you inevitably climbed before posting this helpful PSA about not pushing our luck

1/?

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@missprincessmary; voice

[withsadness]

[I'm going to just gently assume this is after she stopped crying.]

I don't have any money...but I want to pay it for him so he doesn't have to worry about it when he comes back. Do you know how I can do that?

OH MY GOD.........

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[ OH GOD OH NO A SAD CHILD ]

Whoa, whoa, hey- it's a- it's a figure of speech, okay? We're not paying with money, it's okay.

@dysmas :// text

[chardismastic]

[ The username is simple to figure out but the post itself... Is not. How the hell does Drake have prior experience on this too? (Because it's Nathan Drake so of course he does.) There are a lot of questions he wants to ask but also very much doesn't want to so. Eventually, after starting and deleting quite a few starts to this conversation (and some debate over whether or not to even reply at all): ]

guess you'd be the expert with that advice then

[ dealer's choice whether he means the "other world" part or the "don't be stupid" part. ]

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[ For the sake of their history Nate will assume it's the "stupid" part. ]

ha ha, hilarious

i'm being serious though

@carol

[starforce]

[don't be stupid is a sentiment she can get behind, but.

after some consideration:]

So we should just take what the creepy guys who kidnapped us say at face value, because that totally screams trustworthy.

[nonscriptum]

yeah, that's not what i'm saying

but i've BEEN kidnapped by a pantheon of "gods" that basically drew their life force from feeding on our emotions and comparatively? these guys are more trustworthy

what i think is that we need to figure out the parameters of this place before somebody trips and falls to their death forty times in a row and stops being themselves

[primordialerebus]

Maybe people can break us out if we aren't actually dead????

[ A small spark of hope. This is Leon's who schtick. If anyone can, they could. And if she's not dead, home should be fine too!!! ]

[nonscriptum]

have you seen the state some people were in when they got here?

[ Blood. A lot of blood. There's no way that much blood loss would let someone live. ]

@subzero

[saibot]

Let the foolish ones die.

@Nightshade

[primordialerebus]

Oh my god not another one stop being a dick holy shit.

@kingsknight

[broplaints]

What kind of price?

[nonscriptum]

it's not tangible so it's kind of hard to explain

it's just like
people losing things. or become less themselves.

@hasashi

[comehere]

Return from death has always come with a price.

What makes these places so different?

[nonscriptum]

where most people come from, death is kind of

final

@rlutece

[originallutece]

Have you died in that other world?

[nonscriptum]

yeah, can't say it was my favorite thing that's ever happened to me.

@d.grayson

[identifier]

what else are you putting in the pamphlet?

[nonscriptum]

honestly can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not

[ He's had a lot of callers and not all of them have been friendly. ]

@carnie

[ordinaryannie]

who'd you have to bargain with to make death not stick in the last dimension you were dragged off to?

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no one, actually?

there were these entities that called themselves gods and they drew power from emotions. one of them would bring us back if we died.

guess it's really the only way to maintain a sustainable food source