neverplaysfair | Game 019 [Voice] - There's a Pun in Here...

Game 019 [Voice] - There's a Pun in Here...

With so many people suddenly dying, I was wondering: what's it like to die here, where death isn't permanent? If you've died back in your home world, what's the afterlife like where you're from?

And even if you haven't, does death seem less important, does it carry less weight here than it did back home?

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Well, it was the dying that had me curious. The fact that it's murder is a bit of an afterthought that's irrelevant to the questions.

I suppose so.

Then to answer your questions: would you like the official statement or a more...philosophical one? People do tend to get testy if you tell them the facts and leave little room for debate after all.

That there even is an "official statement" seems quite interesting. Let's hear that one.

When one dies and the Soul is reaped, the Record is viewed and judged. Those Records are kept for all time because apparently nothing in the universe is without bureacratic red tape, and the Soul is sent to either Heaven to experience eternal peace or Hell to be devoured and tortured for eternity.

Or so we're supposed to say. Put the fear of eternal damnation in a person and they tend to live a rather straight life.

I see. What actually happens, then?

I'm supposed to stick to the official statement, but~ Well, it isn't like Will is here to beat me for this.

Souls are Souls. I truly don't think they much care where they go after they're separated from their bodies, so whether there is a Heaven or Hell or not is...ambiguous at best.

But they do continue to exist after the body dies? Can Souls be destroyed?

A Soul can be devoured and destroyed, sold and manipulated as easily as anything else. Demons specialize in that, as do other supernatural beings.

Ooh, but I sound like I'm lecturing and I do so hate lecturing. Why the interest?

Call me morbidly curious.

[ ~~I did say there was a pun in here ._.~~ ]

[That gets an amused giggle out of him.]

Aren't we all...

Might I inquire as to your name, sir? It seems you and I might have quite a bit in common.

Yoshiya Kiryu. But please, call me Joshua. And you are?

Joshua, hm? A pleasure to make your acquaintance - if artifically so.

You can call me Grell. Grell Sutcliffe, formerly of London.

A pleasure here, as well.

London? Our worlds might be similar, then. I'm from Tokyo.

Similar indeed - you're the second person to say that to me from the Orient. Such an interesting place this is.

It's fascinating how different worlds can be while still having remarkable similarities.

There are surely theories about that, but I'll leave them up to you to uncover.

Hmm... I'm not really one to find the reasons for those sorts of things.

Oh? And here I thought you were such an inquiring mind.

I doubt anyone here has those answers, so I'd be wasting my time trying to figure it out. If the answer fell into my lap, that would be just as well.

Ah, but such things rarely happen, hm?

Sometimes they do, but I'm not holding my breath. Hee hee.

Well, should you find such an answer, do share. I would be very much interested in hearing what you learn.

I suppose that depends on what exactly I learn, but I'll keep that in mind.

How unfair! After everything I shared with you, Joshua, you wouldn't share with me?

As I said, it depends on what exactly I learn. There's an off-chance that it's worth an even greater amount of information than you've provided, so I'm making no promises as long as I don't know.

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