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[petsthedog]

[Alright. He didn't want to be the first one to bring this up, but now that there's already been some Nonsense™ involving (attempted?) murder, he might as well.]

so how sure are any of us that we're actually alive here anyway
i dunno bout anyone else but i was definitely about to bite the big one before i woke up on that train
and if people don't actually remember it if they try to kill someone or when they're about to die here maybe it's because we're already dead and this is some kind of fucked up afterlife

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[petsthedog]

grats to us on bein the genuine article in the ghost town, i guess

tell me to fuck off if its too personal, but how much do you remember about dyin?

[lockingout]

[ Too personal... It is, and it isn't. Thinking on it, Lockon decides that he'd rather discuss this with a stranger in the same position than with anybody he has a genuine emotional connection to. ]

It's fine. Personal or not, it can't hurt to compare notes.

I remember being injured and feeling like I was going to lose consciousness any second. I was bracing for the end and I don't recall anything after that. Don't know if that's how dying's meant to feel - only done it once, and all.

[petsthedog]

sounds about right
i was bleedin out and shit was getting all blurry and dark for me too
then i came to on the train but everything was mostly healed up

so if this aint an afterlife then someone went through the trouble to save us
which i don't get at all

[It just seems impractical? Might be the #depression tho.]

[lockingout]

Same deal here. I've kept an injury I'd sustained a day before I died, but everything I died of? Healed up completely, yep.

Though I can say for certain nobody saved me. Someone else from my world is here - for him, I'd been dead for years.

[petsthedog]

[New fear unlocked: meeting an Aki from years in the future. Everything about that seems like it would go incredibly poorly.]

world, huh
wasn't entirely sure i was ready to assume we were all from different universes but
if that's true it ain't much a stretch to take it further and assume some scifi timeline crap is goin on
like if there's supposed to be a normal order of how things are supposed to go, and there's different worlds out there
could be they're from a version of your world where you didn't get uh
dimensionally kidnapped before kicking the bucket?

[. . .]

geez
that sounds insane even to me and i'm from a place where time really does get fucked up every night

[lockingout]

I hate that this makes sense to me :/

[ That part of the reply is sent pretty much immediately, because. Man. What the fuck.

It's only after venting that simple emotion that Lockon gives the matter some in-depth thought. ]

There's some time shit going on for sure. I mean, he got here a month ago from years into my future, and here I am - a fresh corpse, barely cold.

Or not cold at all if your theory is to be believed. I've heard other people did arrive here with their injuries healed - even if they weren't about to kick the bucket.

[petsthedog]

it's weird
i really did think us all bein dead made the most sense until the immortal and the guy from literal hell showed up
plus someone who's some kind of ex-ghost or something?

[He's had such a long day with this post, man.]

hard to believe that time shit is the least complicated explanation now

[lockingout]

Ex-ghost... Way to go making the rest of us dearly departed feel jealous!

Honestly, I don't get half of the stuff people are talking about here. Kind of a humbling experience, I guess? Back home, I didn't even know if I believed in an afterlife anymore and now everyone's piling in with their grand supernatural adventures.

[petsthedog]

[Jealous...yeah, totally, that's definitely the emotion Shinjiro feels toward people who are not dead slash no longer dead. 100%. Ahem.]

yeah there was some weird shit at home for me too but not on this kind of scale
plus it was meant to be secret anyway

[In fairness Quixote might just be bad at secrecy? But he's also talking to someone openly about the whole ex ghost from cannibal town and to the aforementioned demon from hell about hell, so.]

[lockingout]

Weird shit, huh? Supernatural stuff?

My world's got its fair share of oddities, but most of it is really more a matter of technological advancements.

[ He's not sure where 'next step of human evolution' shit fits on the supernatural to secular scale but maybe that doesn't matter. ]

[petsthedog]

basically yeah
things would get fucked up every night at midnight
we called it the dark hour
only some people could experience it

[lockingout]

So you're a chosen one? Seems like that's not as fun as one might think.

[petsthedog]

[Lordt, but that makes it sound so important. He lets out a bitter snort on his end.]

i'm a nobody who stumbled into a ton of bullshit is what i am