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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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[originallutece]

How did it happen? And how did it compare to how you came here?

[nonscriptum]

well, i was slowly torn apart after being stabbed multiple times by a demon

which is arguably a lot worse than how i just fell off a cliff before i got here

[originallutece]

"Arguably".

Define demon.

[nonscriptum]

totally black eyes, came from some kind of version of a hell, weird magic powers, sword she could summon from midair

yeah, i know how it sounds.

[originallutece]

You're speaking to a woman who recently died via assassination as she tore open the universe.

The bar for "how it sounds" is fairly high, unfortunately.

Define your timeline. You were in the other place, you died, you were revived, and then you died again and came here. Yes?

[nonscriptum]

fair enough. you tear open universes often?

- in other place
- died
- revived by a "god"
- left other place
- went home to my world
- died there

now i'm here

[originallutece]

Once, I should imagine, is often enough. But a fair few times, yes.

"God"?

[nonscriptum]

there were a few of them. they called themselves gods, not really convinced they were anything but really intelligent parasites

fed off of emotions we produced and sometimes spiked them specifically to get a better meal, which as you can imagine is not an especially good time for the hosts

[originallutece]

I appreciate the distinction.

Did it weaken you?

[nonscriptum]

no, but it could become really disorienting, or really bad

feeling love or hope is great, but excessive amounts of rage or confusion?

[originallutece]

How many accidents occurred because of an excess of rage? It seems counterproductive to a certain extent: I'm certain someone must have been killed at least once if that's the case.

[nonscriptum]

that i couldn't tell you. there were a lot of people and not everybody was keen to share

[ There's a pause as he remembers when Rage reached inside of him, clutched something feral and dark, and he prowled the streets of Hadriel hunting for victims. The sickening glee of seeing a bullet strike home and the thrill of the chase when he let people get away for the express purpose of giving them hope, letting them think they had a chance before he dogged their footsteps again. ]

but people were killed because of events, yeah.

[originallutece]

I see.

[. . .]

I'll inevitably have more questions. But I think for now I'll leave it be.

Thank you, though. I appreciate the information.