Game 050 [Voice/Action]

[neverplaysfair]

[ While leaving out a mug of coffee, mostly-filled, might seem to be a weird thing to do in remembrance, regardless it's what Joshua does as he goes about cleaning the downstairs floor of his house, the space previously known as Kat's Kradle.

Without any real reason to keep more than the cooking area clean, he hadn't. Dust coats many of the tables and forms sometimes-impressive piles in the corners. Today, despite the rain, Joshua has the front door of House 38 wide open, and he can occasionally be seen sweeping piles of dirt outside.

It's rather cold, but Joshua doesn't seem to mind it. At least it's keeping him from working up a sweat. It's a bit late for a new year cleaning, but at least he's getting around to it at all, right?

Every so often he takes breaks to check on his journal, which he left the following question on earlier in the day: ]

How many of you learned things here that you're not looking forward to having to learn again when you go back to your own worlds? Your own death might be the obvious one, but I mean things like, say, some truth about your world, or friends, or family as well. Anything you'll need to find out again if you forget this place.

Comments

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[oftheyin]

Maybe I was just lucky then. But you are right, there are many ways it could slip out. And luckily there are some people who are cautious. When I first arrived I was asked what was the last thing I remember, so maybe others can be protected the same way.

[fierybluebird]

It'll be worse there. Because if I don't remember from here that it ends up with Big Mam, I'll go crazy trying to make sure other people don't get it.

I don't feel helpless about it here either, since I know my actions are involved no matter what.

[Voice]

[redheadlion]

Yeah. I'd like to be there for the whole thing, y'know? I guess it's a dad thing.

Or at least a new-dad thing, since I don't know if I count as a dad or not, yet.

[action]

[soundfrequency]

Maybe I came to check on you.

[voice]

[entwiningfate]

But she died too soon! It wasn't her time... [She was supposed to come back to him in two years so he could keep his word.]

No... she isn't here.

[novelist]

Something like that depends on how one wishes to observe the things around them.

[neverplaysfair]

You don't think that effort itself is important?

[neverplaysfair]

Do you think one would react differently at home than they do here?

[action]

[neverplaysfair]

Because of my journal entry? [ Sweep sweep sweep ]

[novelist]

Perhaps. Though, in the end, it's all the same experiences, ill or good, heheh.

voice;

[neverplaysfair]

But what if they remember more than you do? The last thing they recall could be their own death, whereas you were unaware that they would perish so soon.

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

How do you know it wasn't her time, if you weren't there to know why it happened?

[Voice]

[neverplaysfair]

Well, they say we return at the exact moment we left, so you won't be missing anything.

[neverplaysfair]

Is it? Hearing that someone dies is quite different from watching it happen.

[novelist]

... That's awfully specific, isn't it?

voice;

[oftheyin]

That is possible. [Ouch. That hit her hard.]

[fierybluebird]

What do you mean? In what way?

[Voice]

[redheadlion]

Really? Phew! That's good to know.

Why do you ask, anyway?

[written]

[antlioncyclone]

An attack by the enemy will occur after my return. It worries and infuriates me.

You ask a lot of questions over the journals.

[neverplaysfair]

The effort you put into making sure it doesn't fall until the time it finally does.

[neverplaysfair]

I'd imagine it's not as uncommon as you might think.

voice;

[neverplaysfair]

It's impossible to completely isolate people from the truth. Some truths, by their very natures, will come out with enough time.

[Voice]

[neverplaysfair]

My own experiences.

Everyone has unpleasant things to go back to. The question is whether or not they learn of them here, first.

[voice]

[neverplaysfair]

Hee hee, it's a very good way to pass the time.

Do you know what comes of this attack?

[fierybluebird]

No. The results... [His eyes fall. Is that really all that matters? The end results? Then Marineford was even more of a failure. He can't say only the results matter, not for his sake, but for his brothers, for people here, for the Fishman Islanders themselves even. So long as they know the Whitebeard Pirates still care, doesn't that mean something? Maybe then they'll stay strong until Marco or someone else can do something about it.]

I don't know. I don't care personally because I know I'll put in my best efforts no matter what, that doesn't change. If it helps other people believe in something or take faith themselves, then yes, the effort's important. I'd still rather skip ahead to something I can do more about though.