Enter [Messenger]

Dec 12, 2007 13:31

A strange, mildly nervous but still stately little man, dressed in Athenian garb, has appeared.  He looks as if he wants to say something but has nothing to say, so instead he just stands somewhere off to the side, watching.

T: The Messenger, the one who brings all the violence onto the stage, from any Greek Tragedy, but go ahead and treat him as if ( Read more... )

richard carstone, prometheus, clytemnestra, introduction, the messenger, saetan

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jarndyceheir December 12 2007, 22:32:31 UTC
Richard, eventually notices him and starts a bit, but smiles. "Oh! Hello. Are you... I say, are you quite alright?"

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deadondelivery December 13 2007, 04:46:42 UTC
*he smiles wanly* As alright as any man who has died unexpectedly can be. How odd it is, though, that I have forgotten crossing with Charon...

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jarndyceheir December 13 2007, 04:57:31 UTC
"Ah." He stands and offers a sympathetic smile. "I will presume to observe, sir, that while you may have died, you do not appear to, at present, be dead."

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deadondelivery December 13 2007, 12:25:49 UTC
I've seen many dead in my time. They look alive, most of them, in some way. Should it not just some other way that we still look alive here?

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jarndyceheir December 13 2007, 12:36:14 UTC
"I suppose. But I've been dead, sir," twice, but he won't say it now, "and it's rather different."

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deadondelivery December 15 2007, 05:39:46 UTC
*philosophical hesitation; how strange it is to think, rather than just observe* If you've been dead before, how do you know you're not still dead now?

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jarndyceheir December 15 2007, 12:25:28 UTC
"I suppose I don't, with certainty, except to compare it to the other times I've been dead. It's...rather different."

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deadondelivery December 18 2007, 07:24:45 UTC
However many times I travel a road, I always see something new. *usually some royalty killing each other, but he doesn't mention that*

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jarndyceheir December 18 2007, 12:40:31 UTC
"I suppose that's true," he allows. "But if we're dead, one can die more, and that is certainly a sore disappointment."

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deadondelivery December 18 2007, 22:09:18 UTC
*a small grin* Then at the least, I won't be unemployed!

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jarndyceheir December 18 2007, 23:22:12 UTC
"What is your occupation, sir?"

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deadondelivery December 18 2007, 23:30:32 UTC
*Proudly* I deliver messages! Sometimes they are given to me, but usually I observe what I must tell. And those cases are, primarily, deaths.

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jarndyceheir December 18 2007, 23:34:06 UTC
"That's a rather...grim occupation, is it not?"

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deadondelivery December 18 2007, 23:41:16 UTC
*shrug* It's a rather grim world, and people have to know what happened somehow.

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jarndyceheir December 18 2007, 23:46:49 UTC
"...the newspaper, perhaps? Though there's not one here, that I've seen."

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deadondelivery December 18 2007, 23:54:08 UTC
*blinking suspiciously* Newspaper? What does that mean?

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