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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]

probably
something to make people feel better about dyin maybe

gotcha
they're moving pictures that tell a story
you got plays? it's kind of like that

[mollymocks]

did you feel any better about it?
ah, i see. magic?

[petsthedog]

wasn't exactly too fussed about dyin someday in the first place

[It's the #depression]

nah, tech
they were invented ages ago

[mollymocks]

oh? expecting it?
now you have to explain tech

[petsthedog]

you could say that

[alternate title: chased it with reckless abandon for two years]

uh as for tech
shit i dunno where to start
tools and electricity and crap?
like what makes the lights go on

[mollymocks]

well i hope youre satisfied with what you got.
you realize that explains very little.
lights are generally made with either fire or magic so far as i know.

putting a general cw suicidality warning on this thread just in case

[petsthedog]

i was
then i woke up here

wait shit you don't even use electricity?
that's way far back for us
this phone would be something we'd call tech for example
or the running water in the apartments
or hell, the train even

[mollymocks]

not pleased to have another chance?
i dont know what any of those are so ill take your word for it.
but you see why this place is confusing

[petsthedog]

things ended the way they were supposed to
don't got any regrets that bein' alive is gonna fix

[He deeply resents having to be, frankly, but he's trying not to just straight up put that out there.]

huh
well
a train's the thing you woke up on
think horse drawn carriage but it doesn't need the horses
a phone is the thing you're writing on right now
as for running water


[There's a pause.]

you just been using magic for all your washing and cleaning?
it'd be easier just to show you honestly
if you want

[mollymocks]

but imagine if you did something that has nothing to do with regrets hm?
but ah what a gallant hero to explain so clearly.
it may shock you to learn that i have seen water before

[petsthedog]

not really interested

you don't gotta be a dick about it
i meant i could show you a sink or shower or whatever since they're pretty common and useful, but if you don't care about any of that fine

[mollymocks]

seems like a waste but as you like.
i dont have to do anything at all, thats the beauty of it.
we do in fact have pipes where i come from.
though some of it may be magic, come to think of it.

[petsthedog]

[...So this guy does know about plumbing in some form or another. He is getting the vibe there's been some wires crossed here. Awkward. Time to do the teenage thing and bail on this particular line of conversation!]

whatever
point is we don't have magic to do stuff like that so we use science to invent stuff to solve problems
tech is just. all that stuff.

so what kinds of magic do you guys have anyway
besides fire and water

[mollymocks]

what kinds? all kinds.
ill admit im hardly an expert
but magic can do anything probably.

[petsthedog]

huh
thought magic was supposed to have rules and shit

[Though, in fairness, fantasy was never exactly his preferred genre, and it became Significantly Less So after his own experience with manifesting abilities.]

[mollymocks]

im sure it does.
thats not exactly limiting.

[petsthedog]

you mean you don't even know what the rules are?

[wtf]

wild

[mollymocks]

i told you im not much for magic.
why bother to learn about something i cant do?

[petsthedog]

didnt assume you meant you couldn't do it at all

[mollymocks]

magic is either innate or takes far too much reading and i dont have the time for that
much more interesting things to do

[petsthedog]

heh
makes sense
i couldn't be bothered either if that was how you had to do it
having powers is overrated anyway

[mollymocks]

oh i didnt say i had none of those
far less at the moment granted. a bit annoying

[petsthedog]

nonmagic powers then, got it
what happened to em

[mollymocks]

same thing thats happened to everyone else here i expect
havent seen any explanations yet

[petsthedog]

[....huh.

It occurs to Shinjiro that he actually hasn't made any attempt to summon Castor since he's been here. He wonders if he still can--not that he's eager to test it.]

some kinda social experiment by whoever kidnapped us is starting to gain some serious ground here as an answer

[He can't think of another motivation that actually enough sense, either.]