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[toiletseat_girl]

[a shaky moment as George readies the camera to catch her on the video, technology like this is unheard of in 2003]

So, uh. I've been told that I should get out more. Meet people. I'm not any good at that, so you're just gonna have to--bear with me as I figure this shit out. But I guess I've gotta bite the bullet sometime, right?

[she looks off camera and flushes slightly out of a combination of nerves and embarrassment]

Anyway, I'm George. I'm newish. I have--no fucking idea what I'm doing here. Does anyone? If you do, could you please fill me in.

Comments

[toiletseat_girl]

Seriously? No fun whatsoever? That sucks. We've got to meet up or something, do something fun. Whatever you think you wanna do.
[she is just. horrified at the thought of no fun being had, ever. granted, she's not any good at being fun, but she's willing to try]

That's how it was where I was at, anyway. And it was pretty much bullshit. My mom and dad could barely tolerate each other. I ignored my little sister and quit college just because I could.

Yeah, I'd say that's only fair.

[drilldaddy]

i'd trust your judgment moret han mine when it comes to fun, for sure
i dont think id be real good at picking out stuff t do. you've done way more than i have.
[ What do people usually do for fun, exactly? Well-- that he can do. Delta takes a few seconds to try and think of a handful of possibilities, although he doesn't come up with a lot. He's never really had the chance to try enjoying himself, and he's having a hard time picking what would be best to go for first. ]

oh
that's a hell of a drag
[ He does mean it in a sympathetic way, even if there's not much inflection there. ]
sppose nothing's 100% solid, huh? no matter ifit seems good.

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah, I'm kind of a beginner at this whole "fun" thing. Usually, all I'd do is stick my nose in a book and mope or sit around the house and mope. And then I was dead and I moped. So now I mostly go to the Speakeasy and watch other people have fun.
[George is no better, honestly. she just can't stay shut up in her own room forever, not under these circumstances]

[George gets the sympathy and it makes her feel weird since she knows her own death helped make matters worse between her parents]
Yeah. I guess so. I wasn't around much the last few months.

[drilldaddy]

[ --wait, what. She was dead? That made two of them, although Delta's situation was a bit different. He's got a couple new questions for George, that's for sure-- that, and he's honestly a little more okay with the idea of spilling more of the weird shit now that he knows she's handled something vaguely similar. It's doubtful that anything's going to line up perfectly, but it's an unusual thing to have in common, so he's alright with that. ]

you died?
shit, i didn't knkw you got to hang out afterward. may be you got lucky? 'cause i just had a whole lot of nothing for a while til i came back.
[ The absence of anything wasn't too big of a change from his 'life' beforehand, so he wasn't too terribly upset about that part. Other aspects of his first death, though? Those still rankled, particularly now that he had a mind to think of them. ]

sorry t hear that.
this cave's kind of a secnd chance, then? no sunlight, though. wish there was.
[ It'd be nice to get to see it properly, but-- no dice. ]

[toiletseat_girl]

[she most certainly did die. then she became a Grim Reaper. she's been exposed to a lot of weird shit involving death.]

Sure did. Then, I got the good news that I was being forced to be a Grim Reaper. Which is why I was able to hang around--had to be there to take those souls, after all.
You died, too? And you didn't go anywhere or see anything?
[one of George's few consolations in reaping souls was that theoretically, she was sending them to a better place. the idea she could have been sending them to nothing is horrifying to her]

One for both of us. I mean it, though, we'll have to meet sometime and find something to do that's fun. And the sun would be nice.

[drilldaddy]

that's. hell of a job, there. howd you get stuck wth it?
[ Did that make the afterlife a real thing, or? He feels like he should be a little jealous, but from the way George talks about it, it probably wasn't that much of an improvement. ]
nope. did it twice and i'm still not sre if i missed out on somethnig. what can you do, though.
[ Aside from...not much of anything, that is. Delta doesn't think dying again is the best answer, anyway. ]

yknow what, i'll takke you up on that
between the two of us we oughta be able t othink of something to do. right? even if we're both bad at it.

[toiletseat_girl]

All Reapers have a quota of souls to take. When you fill the quota, the unlucky schmuck you just reaped gets the job.
[the afterlife is real, but George couldn't tell you what it's like. she assumes it's better than what she has to put up with, but since she can't go there, she can't be sure]
Wait a second, you died twice? Who did you piss off?
[George would've preferred to not die at all]

Exactly. And I am bad at it, just warning you.