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[a_failed_god]

It's pleasing to see that some people can still be relied upon to be hopelessly weak.
There was quite a ruckus last night. I wonder, were there any deaths?

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[itachi_girl]

You wonder? Considering how big that explosion was, I'd say it would be a pretty good guess that at least a few people died.

Besides, that's not something to be sitting around and just wondering about like it was some kind of abstract concept. Hm, lets see, I wonder how many people died today. Hm, I wonder, how many people will die tomorrow?

[a_failed_god]

Given how trivialised the concept of death is here, why would I not consider it in abstract terms? The significance is lost. We know what happens after death. We return here, time and again.

It leads me to wonder something else: did I strike a nerve, perhaps?

[itachi_girl]

... Mm, I guess that's true but still.

No, of course not!

[a_failed_god]

But still...? To give weight to something that no longer retains any mystery or even unpleasantness, isn't that cheapening the genuine end of life? Not that I personally lend that any particular significance, either.

Oh? Pity. I could've used a report from someone who had experienced death first-hand.

[foreswear]

... I imagine you'd find it quite entertaining if there were, in fact, many who ended up dying.

[a_failed_god]

How cruel.

I prefer to think that it may be an opportunity to unearth further information about this process. So that we may not die in vain, hmm?

[foreswear]

That's me.

You and your opportunities.

[a_failed_god]

... Careful, Valentine.

[rose_rapture]

...
I will find you.

[a_failed_god]

You, again?

If you can't clarify your agenda, there's clearly no helping you.

[rose_rapture]

I shall happily clarify my agenda for you when we meet face to face.

[a_failed_god]

Oh? And how do you intend to arrange it? My location is presently known to nobody.

[calamitousness]

It was a pretty loud bang. Someone's bound to have gotten hurt at the least.

[a_failed_god]

It would all make terribly useful information, if they had. It's difficult to identify reports of death, and I suspect it's because many don't realise when they've been killed.

[calamitousness]

... How can someone not know if they've died?

[a_failed_god]

I suppose if it were sudden enough, confusing enough. Or else there seems to be some degree of shame to admitting to having died; people rarely do, I've observed.

Have you experienced death?