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[occupiesvitalregions]

[Ol' Gil has a lot on his mind lately, one of which is this:]

hypothetically

if the door stopped doing it's thing and bad shit stopped happening, and the gods were able to send us home,

would you choose to stay here? why??

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[utulien_aure]

I've not been here long enough to have an opinion of the place.

But I am dead at home-and likely will be for a very long time. That would be something to take into account.

[occupiesvitalregions]

seriously? You're dead? How do you know????

[utulien_aure]

I was on a battlefield, with my comrades dead, heavily injured, and pinned between enemies.

I closed my eyes and found myself here- with a helmet that had been cloven down the middle.

I would happily take another explanation, but death does seem the most likely.

[occupiesvitalregions]

yyyyep that sounds likely

going down in battle is pretty noble and badass. probably doesn't make dying any less shitty tho.

i really want to find a way out of this place, but i think first i want wa way to get it in our control first. no more bad shit happening, no more reliance on gods. but that means getting a handle on supplies when we're stuck in a cave?? ugh.

[utulien_aure]

I knew dying was a possibility going in. [Though, yes, absolutely shitty to experience.] It's the repercussions I regret more.

So I assume your preference would be to leave as soon as possible? [Well, more than fair.]

I've not yet made up my mind on these god, but I can tell you that rebellions against Powers are tricky-especially if you wish to get out alive. And yes, I would think a plan for supplies would be the bare mjnimum of what you would need as a viable alternative to these gods.

Do you have one?

[goldpoints]

hey u said ppl already did!!

[occupiesvitalregions]

a couple did! I wanna know how common of a thing this is

it'll change how we go about getting out of here

[goldpoints]

huh? why would that change it?

[occupiesvitalregions]

if a whole bunch of people want to stay here then we can't just up and leave it as a shithole if we get the chance to leave

so while we're trying to find a way out we need to find a way to make bad shit from happening all the time, and make this place livable

the problem is this is a closed off underground cave with no lines to supplies

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[goldpoints]

oh like

if we can get out then bad things can get in but if we close the door after us then the people who stay can't get new things

this sucks

what if like we made the doors like escalators

one up one down

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[journalname]

I, too, am dead at home. I suppose my only choices would be to stay here or to die in truth.

With that in mind, I might linger for a time, if others did.

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[occupiesvitalregions]

this is a lot more common than i thought

it makes me wonder if this is some sort of afterlife?? pretty weird tho

i want to get out of here and lots others do, but i think it's worth turning this place into something livable before we abandon it

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[journalname]

That would be a good thing to do. There is always a possibility that others will come after us. It would be kind to leave them more than what we found.

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[occupiesvitalregions]

well i would hope that whatever we do to get out of here or stop this place would mean stopping the Door from bringing in more people

it makes it harder to get out of here with the more people it brings in! gonna be harder to organize everyone

[journalname]

That would be nice, but it does not seem we understand it at all. I would settle for sending those home who need it.

Yes. It is difficult enough to bind so many diverse people together without more being taken every month.

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[closerift]

I would go.
There's work to be done and nearly everyone I care about is back there.

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[occupiesvitalregions]

i figure that's probably the majority, but there's a lot more people who want to stay here than i ever thought

like people who died and then woke up here

it's crazy

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[closerift]

I don't know of anyone like that myself, but I can understand.
If the other option is to return to a world where you've died, being anywhere, alive, may seem more appealing.
Even if it is... this place.

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[occupiesvitalregions]

seriously. better here than dead i guess

it's like this place is the afterlife but only for some people?

i mean i am pretty sure i'm not dead. and i talked to someone here once who said if someone that was here suddenly disappears, but comes back later, they went home

when they get there it's like no time is passed at all and they don't remember even being here until they're brought back

this shit doesn't make much sense!

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[closerift]

Or you can be both here AND dead. The ultimate state of suffering.

I don't think it's meant to be an after. It's only another world, but the Door has the power to draw in those living and less so.

A disturbing power indeed.

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[blessedmaiden]

I would probably go, family is waiting for me home and they're probably wondering where I am right now. That being said... my homeworld is safe so I'd still try to see where my help could be needed.

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[occupiesvitalregions]

I figure that's what most people would do, but it's surprising how many want to stay. I mean I guess it beats being dead.

[He's quiet for a moment, lost in thought, when he remembers he's on the phone with someone. Hi.]

Oh, uh, so here's the thing. I don't know if it's true or not, but someone here once told me that if you go home, like how some people disappear, when you get back it's like no time has passed at all. Apparently some people just get sucked back out the Door or something when we're not looking at get sent home? I dunno. I don't really get how this stupid magic shit works.

[blessedmaiden]

It's actually quite confusing how... many people are actually dead. I'm at least glad they have this place.

[she hums, raising an eyebrow and considering the situation for a long moment]

Actually it's not so strange from my point of view, time probably flows much faster in the city than outside it, it's probably part of dimensions being... different. You see, when I was a kid things happened and I was brought on another world myself, there I become a woman and when I left it- turns out only few weeks passed for the rest of my original world. Maybe, just maybe, people who leave don't have enough time in their original world that they went back before being teleported back in?

Honestly, it's hard to tell with our limited knowledge of this universe.

[occupiesvitalregions]

[This is just getting weirder.]

Time is weird. Had I known that someday I was gonna get kidnapped by a magical interdimensional door, I'd have studied more physics or something. Not that I'm sure physicals holds up in the face of magic bullshit.

[blessedmaiden]

It probably is. We know so little about how our univ.... multiverse works, we don't even know if time is infinite or not, I can only assume things. And, hey, magic has its logic....