memory! mingle!

[softlyfalling]

Who: Nostalgic Idols
Where: At the lantern-viewing and elsewhere
When: Late 199 to Day 200

[ hey, that's a pretty big landmark, right?

maybe time for some memories. ]

Comments

Re: Witness ok

[forgottenmercy]

[....one slim eyebrow raises.]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Speechless, I see.

[forgottenmercy]

So you, ah, found your way to the Underworld.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Yes. Unfortunately it took longer that I thought because I was missing one important step.

[That is to say fucking occult bullshit Mary-Sue 8th Millennium Item]

[forgottenmercy]

...what, ah, would that be, if I may ask?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Magic.

[forgottenmercy]

...ah, that is right, magic is not common in your world.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

It's a bit of a rare find. But I've always been a believer in whatever magic does, technology can do better.

[forgottenmercy]

...so was this, ah, purely 'technology', or was this a combination of the two?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Fusion.

Pure technology puts a lethal strain on the human body.

[forgottenmercy]

It was, ah, not something I ever dealt with, most likely, but two of the great powers of the world dealt in 'magitek'.

But nothing, ah, quite so...[shiny?]

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

...

[Record scratch]

Your world actually has tech?

[forgottenmercy]

Nothing, ah, like what is here. And the Realm and, ah, Lookshy possess much of what magitek there is.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

What about tech tech? Without the magic?

[forgottenmercy]

The city of Chiaroscuro once had shining towers made of steel-like glass, in the days before the towers were thrown down, centuries before I was ever born. But, ah, magic was likely involved in their construction.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

So you're saying technology came before magic. Well. That just sounds like the lot of you got lazy.

[forgottenmercy]

[shakes his head] It, ah, was at the same time, I think.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Just laughs at that.]

You talk to the dead? Don't you, Maiden?

[forgottenmercy]

I, ah, do, yes.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Met anyone who chose to be dead?

[forgottenmercy]

In what, ah, sense?

Suicide or, ah, choosing to remain a ghost and not moving on?

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Doesn't the latter still exist in the world of the living?

[forgottenmercy]

Most ghosts are, ah, in the Underworld and remain there, unless at a place where the division between the worlds is thin. Or at, all, Calibration.

Hungry ghosts are, ah, an exception, but they stay with the body.

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

So what's moving on then?

[Don't say reincarnation don't say reincarnation don't say reincarnation]

[forgottenmercy]

[sorry to disappoint]

Reincarnation.