Seventh Game; Voice

[dyingames]

[The feed begins with a click, a few moments of silence before Joshua begins to speak.]

Time travel, is it?

I wonder if the future they experienced was that of this timeline exactly, or if it was an offshoot. Another timeline entirely, perhaps, another Death City?

Tell me, travelers. Is there anything different now from the history of ten years later

Comments

Voice;

[suchselfishness]

... You need to get out more often.

Voice;

[dyingames]

That might be a term for the split, actually.

A world in which Joshua gets out more often.

Voice;

[suchselfishness]

A world where Joshua isn't always desperately trying to be clever?

There's an idea.

Voice;

[dyingames]

Oh, I'm sure that already exists.

[taggingstains]

Souls are different. I can't interact with them at all here.

[dyingames]

[You have his interest.]

Oh? How did you interact with them before?

[taggingstains]

I'd take them out of humans who were going to kill themselves so that they wouldn't get damaged. Or clean up the mess left when we didn't get there in time, or if they died in an accident or by murder. Stuff like that. Otherwise the unplanned deaths would create areas of negativity.

[dyingames]

[A pause- That's so similar to the concept and place of souls in his world, but still so different.]

So is there no method of clearing the negativity rather than preventing it?

[ Video ]

[red_unrequited]

[ YAWNS ]

Many worlds.

Yeah, the universe splits for every quantum state. So there are a lot of them. Putting it mildly.

[ As a Death God, Grell regularly bent the laws of physics. Meaning - he had to know them ]

What's your point?

Video;

[dyingames]

Wouldn't want to confuse some of the simpler people here by going quite that far in my explanation, but yes, I know.

[S'okay, Deathbro, he knows how that is.]

My point is simple curiosity.

Video;

[red_unrequited]

...of course, in most cases, there aren't too many substantial differences between one state and another - so the different universes - or timelines, however you want to look at it - tend to collapse together again.

'S what a lot of people call "Fate." But it's just the multiverse finding a lower energy state.

Ha! Can't believe I still remember all that. Been years since I was in school.

Video;

[dyingames]

Aaah, yes, I've heard of such merges.

Would it be rude of me to ask how long it's really been? Since you were in school, I mean.

[video]

[complexrestart]

[This piqued Rika's interest. She's silent for a moment after she turns on the video feed, a thoughtful look on her face.]

... Have you ever experienced a different branch of your world?

Video;

[dyingames]

[A pause, and a smile.]

Yes.

This is one, after all. Albeit fairly distant.

[video]

[complexrestart]

... That's true. You're right about the distant part. Because of that, I was very surprised when I arrived here.

Video;

[dyingames]

I think Death City is a surprise to most, really.

What's your world like?

[strengthtohelp]

[That reminded him.] Someone I met said she was male in another world. Are you referring to that kind of scenario?

[dyingames]

Something to that effect, yes.

Herp, should've been labeled as [Voice]

[strengthtohelp]

One of them said Spirit was supposed to die during the attack, but he's still alive. I guess you can say we've already entered one of those splits in time.

Voice;

[dyingames]

I assumed as much.