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[theweakhavepurpose]

[The video opens on a pile of wood, sticks, shrubbery, and chunks of what might have been siding, all piled into a very obvious pyramid surrounded by rocks.]

So everything has sucked recently. Back home in Montana, when shit got rough we'd always get together and have a big bonfire. Get drunk, make s'mores, all that stuff. It didn't make things better but at least you forgot about it for a little while.

Worth a try right?

[He sounds like he's honestly asking. He's trying really hard to be positive for once.]

I've got some graham crackers, chocolate, and other things for roasting. No marshmallows though so if anyone wants to come through in the clutch it would be appreciated.

I'm lighting this up tonight at dusk, so if you want in, be there. I've only got so much to burn and it might not last more than an hour or two.

((OOC: Feel free to use this like a log and make top levels and do action things. Go forth and get some bonfire mingling on!))

Comments

[toiletseat_girl]

Fuck if I do. I've been here nearly two goddamn years and I've yet to figure out what their goal is. Other than not be turned into red smears on the pavement by the Null.

[theweakhavepurpose]

At least that's a goal I understand. And if they brought us here to power themselves up to fight them I'd kinda get it?

But that doesn't seem to be what they're doing.

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah, I mean I get not wanting to die. Who wants to do that? But there's not wanting to die and there's fucking with people for shits and giggles.

No, not really. Fuckers. That last thing was the fucking worst.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Other than Confusion I don't think they're enjoying this much either. At least they're not gloating about it over the network or anything. And I don't think they're smart enough to be keeping up appearances so we don't see what they're doing. Which makes everything make even less sense.

The temple exploding? Yeah that was... not good at all.

[He's gonna have some harsh words for Fear about that.]

[toiletseat_girl]

Damn few things about this place make sense. I've been here nearly two motherfucking years and I know about as much about what's really on the gods' minds as I did when I first showed up. Jack shit nothing.

It fucking sucked. The whole thing, from start to finish.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Jesus. Two years?

How're you holding up?

[He's been here about nine months and he's going stir crazy.]

[toiletseat_girl]

Uh-huh. About as near as I can tell, counting the numbers of new people days.

Actually . . . not bad? This place got me into medicine and science. As soon as I get outta here, I'm signing up for college on the pre-med track. And I have friends here. I didn't back home.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Silver lining I guess?

The people aren't bad, I'll give you that. Well most of them. Still, this place seems pointless and dumb. Could have gone without all of it.

[toiletseat_girl]

Guess so. Coulda been worse.

This place is fucking weird. But you can get used to just about anything. 'Nother month, 'nother stupid god trick. But you're right about the people. I've only met a couple of assholes here when I uses to run into 'em all the time back home.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Haven't met any crazy religious fanatics who want to kill everyone since I've been here. So a major upgrade for me.

[The amount of cultists has dwindled to.. well just him now.]

On the other hand no one in my world can fly or shoot fire from their hands or anything like that. So people here could do a shit ton more damage.

[toiletseat_girl]

And people aren't making me take the souls of people about to die, so fuck yeah. Upgrade for me, too.

[while the number of Grim Reapers is still likely in the hundreds of thousands, worldwide]

Yeah. They could. But most people don't. Other than Caedra. But she's kind of a weird, bitchy hobo demon.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Wait, the what now?

[ You can't just casually drop some Grim Reaper shit on him like that.]

She's a fucking asshole. Why couldn't we have kept her on ice?

[toiletseat_girl]

Oh, shit. Sorry. Back home, I'm a Grim Reaper. Fucking hated it and I'm glad to be rid of it. So when all this is over, I'm boldy going where no George has gone before.

[which apparently is Star Wars world. which is cool. she'd still prefer Star Trek world, but what can you do?]

Because this place is fucked up and it hates us?

[theweakhavepurpose]

... You're the second person to tell me that actually. The Grim Reaper part not the going where no one has gone before part.

Popular gig?

[toiletseat_girl]

Really? Was the first one a really fucking tall lady named Ravine? If so, she was cool. I miss her.

If not, I wanna know who else it was so I can tell them that I have the market cornered on this whole Grim Reaper business, so they can back the fuck off.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Yeah, that's her. You don't have to go full Highlander or anything.

[toiletseat_girl]

Okay. It's cool that it was her. We were friends, so I didn't mind sharing.

[theweakhavepurpose]

Weren't you just saying that you don't want to do it anymore anyway? Should find someone else and dump it off on them.

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah, I fucking wish it was that easy. Just high-five someone and bam, they're a Reaper. But I'm like physically different from your garden-variety human. I heal fast, I don't age, I don't technically need to eat or sleep. And that's not gonna change, mostly 'cause I'm not going back to my world.

[theweakhavepurpose]

You're just gonna... stay here? Forever? I thought the Door sent people home whenever it felt like it?

[toiletseat_girl]

No, no, hell no am I staying here forever. I'm going to a different world.

[theweakhavepurpose]

What like go back with someone else?

[Tinya kept mentioning that but he kind of thought it wasn't possible.]

Is that something the Door will do?

[toiletseat_girl]

Yeah, with Peter. Or wherever he decides to go. I'm not picky.

[she plans to browbeat Sorrow into making it possible, if necessary]

If it can take us from point A to point B, it should be able to send us to point C if we wanna.

[theweakhavepurpose]

I mean I guess that makes sense. But what'll happen to us back home? Do we just disappear?

[He kind of likes the idea of Jacob forever wondering how Pratt escaped from the chair he was duct taped to while locked in a bunker underground.]

[toiletseat_girl]

I don't know and I don't wanna know. All I do know is that I'm leaving behind a clusterfuck and I don't want to watch it in action. So I say, pick a world and go with it.

[yes, do it for nothing but sweet, sweet revenge]