∞4 | video. Death Takes A Holiday;

[whip_poor_will]

[From the angle shown, Ravine is holding the phone away from her face, elbow propped with her chin in the palm of her gloved hand -- and even now, hints of black smoke continue wafting from her hair and coat.

[ Although apparently uncomfortable, she flashes her smile just as she always has.]

"Well, for those who believe themselves capable, I would advise against any attempts at reaching that ninth god beneath the Colosseum the easy way. It leads to some rather ill results."

[She would know.

[Soon her gold eyes shift back to the soft brown most are used to seeing when she is not wearing her sunglasses. Once she is feeling a little better and not radiating black vapors anymore, her stern expression transforms into a smile, her face scrunched in amusement.]

"For anyone not interested in that, however, I have a question!

"Imagine, if you will, that you have been a dead person for thousands of years. It has also been that long since you've ever felt or tasted anything.

"Then imagine if you have been given an opportunity here to be a living, breathing person -- but only for a few days! Would you mind sharing what you would do with that short time in the mortal plane?

"I admit, I am perhaps looking at this from a dead woman's perspective, but it does not appear that there is much to do for the corporeal here when there is not a festival being thrown by our gracious locals. It would be a shame to put such a generous gift to waste."

['But Ravine, why not just ask the gods to make you permanently living?!' one might say.

[Yeah, no, that is the one thing she is not addressing right now, thank you very much.]

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[abyssalarcana]

what kind of ill results

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[whip_poor_will]

[While she could be so much more snide when it comes to Caedra -- considering that she's one of those that Ravine doesn't want anywhere near the Door with a 10-foot pole -- she's going to bite the bullet for a moment.]

The kind that is supposed to repel anything trying to break in the easy way and make it as unpleasant experience as possible. If I felt pain, it probably would have hurt.

[abyssalarcana]

and i suppose im not lucky enough to hear what counts as unpleasant for you in particular hm?

[queenkiller]

[Hella's not playing this "pretend to be undead" game. She's taking stock of who to avoid and who she might have to keep her eye on.]

What exactly are you? A thousand year old undead person?

[whip_poor_will]

Undead, you say?

[And then she LAUGHS.]

Far from it; that would entail that I still have a body! Which, for your information, I do not. I am hardly a zombie-lich-draugr-revenant-what-have-you.

[queenkiller]

Then you're a ghost.

[Just as bad. Hella is great at making snap judgments, meanwhile.]

It's the same thing.

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[puzzlingly]

「It's not that he's trying to ignore the... well, main problem or, whatever? It is certainly he question presented what calls his attention. He's been there, after all.」

Do you think that's a good idea?

「Look, it's rather obvious why he's asking...」

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[whip_poor_will]

[Wups, she is going to approach this like a normal, living-person conversation.]

You should specify which part you are questioning, Atem.

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[puzzlingly]

Well, you... haven't been alive in a long time and — it's gonna sound weird but, it takes some getting used to it.

「Does that make sense? it should, right? Nop.. erm...」

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I don't want you to get hurt, that's all.

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[stupid_monkey]

I wasn't dead or anything, but I just wanted to eat everything and run around in the grass. The sun feels so warm when you haven't felt it in forever.

Why are you asking? Were you dead back in your homeworld like Laura? If you're looking for good stuff to eat, I can help ya find some.

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[whip_poor_will]

I do miss the feeling of the sun, I believe. That seems to be a thing you should miss.

[Hard to think about much when she's forgotten so much as it is, but things about this city just had to jog her memory.]

And no, not quite like Laura -- or like many of the people here. I do not have a body neither the luxury of "borrowing" one indefinitely.

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[stupid_monkey]

You mean you can't eat or feel anything?

Wait... [There so many new things here, he's having a lot of trouble keeping track of all of the new rules.] If you don't have a body, how are you using a phone?

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[northerndragon]

[Jon sounds enormously skeptical and wary -- although less than he otherwise might, in light of some of Ravine's other replies to this post.]

When dead men live and walk where you come from, or dead women, why is it? What does it?

[whip_poor_will]

[Oh look, another reply that Ravine just LAUGHS at! Only this time for different reasons.] My apologies, it is just... I have been here for a long time, and I do not believe anyone has ever asked that question before!

[It's strange how people tend to ask all of the "wrong" questions that don't get them the answers they want out of her, and so they end up walking away unsatisfied. It is more amusing to her than anything else, really.]

As for what does it... that would be the Emanations' doing, for the most part. Particularly the Dumah, which are the current embodiment of death. However, I would not quite say that they have allowed us to "live and walk" in the same way that you do, Jon.

[northerndragon]

And how is it that you live and walk, if it's not in the same way?

[Ravine is not not sounding like a wight, here, only a wight wouldn't be sending this message, and she doesn't look like a wight or a White Walker, and what little of their speech he's heard has only been shrieks like cracking ice and the Wall when it weeps.

It occurs to him to think of whether the Night King is the embodiment of death -- what those who follow the Seven would call the Stranger. But he doesn't think the Stranger, if it exists, is always so cruel.]

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Mmm. Meet as many people as I can. Fuck as many people as I can. Eat whatever I can, perhaps with those people I've fucked. You needn't a festival to enjoy yourself, you know.

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[whip_poor_will]

[She chuckles as though Ianchus just told an actual joke.]

I do not recall having an interest in fornicating when I was alive, and it certainly was not an option in death. [No body, remember.] But I was hoping there would be other activities here besides gaming, drinking, and rutting.

[She gives a contemplative pause.] I do miss beer, however. It is not made the way I am used to these days.

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[dedikated]

...Course that wouldn't work.

( But her words don't sound dismissive. They sound put out, if anything. Kate had hoped that would be a better option than simply digging it up and probably alerting every passing Null that they were on this planet. )

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[whip_poor_will]

Oh, of course! It would be expecting too much to cheat.

[Ravine doesn't sound any more surprised by the news than Kate is dismissing. The task was merely asked of her, and she delivered an answer.]

Although there is a positive side. This means that the Door is currently out of reach from those who would likely abuse it, or tamper without fully understanding it. [There are a few she can think of that she would rather see not touch the ninth god at all.]

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[tongueamok]

There is plenty to do here, Miss Ravine. You need only find something that catches your interest.

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[whip_poor_will]

Well, I have always wanted to go to an amusement park, though I believe there has always been something missing when lacking adrenaline to get that rush. [He can't see it, but she's steeples her fingers like she's making clawing gestures at the air.

[Then, disappointment.] But we have nothing of that sort here that sounds actually fun.

Perhaps I should have asked the hosts what they even used to do here for fun.

[They were too busy being distressed and screaming silently or whatever to answer many questions, though.]

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[hasitsthorns]

Thanks for taking one for the team.

As for me, I dunno' actually. I'd eat a lot, probably. Enough to make myself sick. Maybe twice but three times would be too many. Have crazy awesome sex? That seems like a staple go-to for when you can feel things again.

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[whip_poor_will]

I would say it was a pleasure, but the experience was quite the opposite.

[Not that Ravine is complaining. She'll gradually get better in a short time, and her own curiosity has been satisfied.]

Food seems to be the popular choice. I admit, it sounds as though I should have taken the opportunity during Hope's feast a few months ago.

That second one, though... [Obviously Rose isn't the first to suggest it, but Ravine is a little surprised that it hasn't come up more.] I never had much interest in such acts when I was alive, although who is to say that a few thousands of years would not change anything.

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[abbatis]

what a weird and completely absurd scenario, if you ask me.

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[whip_poor_will]

Perhaps, but what if you are the ridiculous one?