Game 011 [Voice] - Another Year Wiser

[neverplaysfair]

Given the nature of time here in relation to our own worlds, would you say that birthdays here even have a point? You lose any time you spend here when you go home, and possibly regain it if you return, so it the end it arguably doesn't exist in any permanent capacity. But it's still time that you've lived and experience that you've gained.

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[neverplaysfair]

But when you come back, are you seventeen, or nineteen?

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

You'd probably call yourself seventeen, even if it were nineteen years of cumulative experience. You'd've still lived seventeen years, just two different versions.

[neverplaysfair]

So the time is mutually exclusive?

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

If you'd lived two alternate lives in the same space of time, you'd still call yourself seventeen. That's all I'm saying.

[neverplaysfair]

So it's not entirely based on the amount of experience you've had.

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

Guess not. If you suddenly got back two years of new memories, Josh, that take place in the past and overlap with the rest of your life, would you count it as part of the continuous experience?

[neverplaysfair]

Personally, I'd suspect they weren't mine. But I might have a somewhat special perspective on things like that.

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

Who knows? I'd say there are some folks strong enough even to mess with your head.

[neverplaysfair]

Of course there are. But I doubt any of them concern themselves with someone as lowly as me.

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

Hey, I end up concerning myself plenty, Josh.

[neverplaysfair]

I know.

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

And?

[neverplaysfair]

I still doubt any of the ones who can mess with my head care about me.

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

Alright, probably not. And those that do aren't entirely fond of ya. But, what, you don't think I could mess with your head?

[neverplaysfair]

Why, Mr. H, is there something you haven't been telling me?

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

Aw, J, what would I do that'd involve a memory wipe?

[neverplaysfair]

I suppose I wouldn't know, now would I?

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

And I guess you never will.

[neverplaysfair]

Not going to tell little old me?

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

Who says I even did anything?

[neverplaysfair]

That's for you to divulge, isn't it?

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

Guess it is. But I'm curious -- what d'you think I might've done? Rob a bank? Molest small children? Spill coffee on your throne?

[neverplaysfair]

The third one sounds like it might have potential.

[nattocat.livejournal.com]

... hey, actually, forget I said that. What were we talkin' about? Birthdays?

[neverplaysfair]

No, no, do tell. You spilled coffee where now?