[Video]

[nakamadile]

Hm.

[Crocodile checks his pocket-watch, then picks up a newspaper to check the date.]

It would seem I'm another year older, then. Strange, how even on different worlds, we follow the same general time delineations. I suppose it's the little similarities that amaze me the most.

I wonder, how many of you have been here for a full year of life? More than

Comments

[gaveherwings]

I've been here barely over three months. In a year...it's very hard to say.

[nakamadile]

I see. I suppose this place forces anyone to hit the ground running.

[gaveherwings]

Pardon?

Well, it can be a scramble to adapt, yes.

[nakamadile]

And who are you, then?

[steel_goddess]

I've been here since February 14th. So about nine months minus a week or so. I'm trying to adapt, but I'd rather not stay if I can avoid it. I don't belong here.

[nakamadile]

None of us do. Have you made any headway?

[video | encrypted - exceptionally difficult]

[steel_goddess]

I think I found the Core. A group of people did actually, but putting together an expedition has been harder then I expected. Some of the companies figured it out too, and they don't want us to have it.

Re: [video | encrypted - exceptionally difficult]

[nakamadile]

Well, that may one day be possible. Depends on how my current goals work out.

Re: voice;

[nakamadile]

I mourn nothing and no one. Mourning is full of regret, and I make it a rule never to regret any decision I've made. Nor do I much care about the date, except as a minor acknowledgement. Birthday celebrations are for children and adults who have no concept of priority.

Re: voice forever;

[nakamadile]

Leaving, naturally, and taking as much technology as I can with me. Just a modicum of the materials here would enable me to have an incredible advantage, back home.

Of course, that's very distant. First I need to build a proper foundation, in order to get resources.

Voice.

[aviatarian]

If you count your birthday as a year...

Would making a life really be considered giving in?

Re: Voice.

[nakamadile]

Both this world and my own seem to be on the same 12 months system of a year.

Depends on how deep into that life you get, doesn't it?

Voice.

[aviatarian]

That's lucky. Some people's are different.

When you start to enjoy it, maybe?

Re: Voice.

[nakamadile]

It's when you buy into the sentimental aspects. Trying to find lifelong friends, building a family. That's when it's gotten too far.

[video]

[tokissity]

You still celebrate birthdays? That's almost cute, Crocodile.

Re: [video]

[nakamadile]

I acknowledged it, but it's hardly cause for celebration.

[video]

[tokissity]

It only means you're one year closer to your demise. It'd be foolish to celebrate it, unless you're a death seeker. I'm guessing not.

Though I do wonder how death works in a place like this.

Re: [video]

[nakamadile]

Apparently we come back. I'm not sure what they'd do for death of old age.