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[circumitus]

after seeing that last post, was thinking of the disappearances in general.
not just the handful that have also vanished without a trace recently.

just worried that people have been a little too quick to assume that everyone vanishing are going home, even if that's what the ship did each jump when it was still spacefaring.

so does anyone have other theories as to where people have been going?

home after all? taken? obsolete?

perhaps our "friends" in the jungle may have an idea?

Comments

[noman]

Do you mean to suggest the rotation is deliberate, then, rather than a malfunction?

[circumitus]

it ironically makes more sense than the possibility that people are just going poof for no reason.

[noman]

There is a reason for everything. :)
Do you believe the presence inside the ship is doing it?

[circumitus]

inclined to agree.

believe it's possible. the fact that we still have these abilities may mean that we're still connected to it.

[noman]

That's a reasonable assumption to make.
What do you think will happen when the ship finally goes over the cliff's edge?

[circumitus]

no idea.
personally? hope the whole damned thing explodes when it does.

[noman]

What about the perimeter?

[circumitus]

well

would assume that would either break the tether keeping us here or we all die of cerebral hemorrhaging.

either way we no longer have to deal with this bullshit anymore.

[noman]

Very true.

So you have been testing the tether's limits - I do hope you're being careful.

[circumitus]

can handle a bloody nose and headache. have dealt with worse.

[Worse than feeling like your head's about to burst open? Yeesh.]

[noman]

That seems to be a common sentiment here. Someone's always had worse.
I was decapitated, myself.

[circumitus]

decapitated?

take it you died before you came here?

[noman]

Not exactly.
Did you?

[circumitus]

a few times, but not before coming here.

[what]

[noman]

Would you mind explaining what you mean?
Here, as in the planet? Or this universe, the ship, everything?

[circumitus]

as in back home, before coming to this universe.

[noman]

Sorry, I'm a bit confused now - you died there, or here?

Why did you die?

[circumitus]

there.

why were you decapitated?

[noman]

[David smiles briefly—wherever he is. Hidden from human eyes.]

I was part of a research team sent to explore the ruins of an ancient civilization on an unknown world. In the end, it turned out that just one of the inhabitants was still alive. He wasn't very happy to see us.

[circumitus]

and despite being headless during this you were only "not exactly" alive?

[noman]

I was always "not exactly" alive, according to you people.

[circumitus]

the hell is that supposed to mean?

[noman]

First I'd like to know why you died, and how. If you're shy, feel free to lock the exchange.

[lock]

[circumitus]

suppose

...

[Rey doesn't decide to use the lock then because she's afraid of people knowing. She is just more conscious of the fact that what she's about to write is hard for some people who know her.]

wasn't really considered alive by some people either. was sent to wars, usually as a different person with different memories, more often than not never being made self-aware of being anything other than human.
then died in those wars only to be brought back as another person with new memories, because someone went mad and he needed someone to take out his anger on.
don't really blame him, to be honest.

since then have been shot, stabbed, beaten to death, drowned.
even became a walking bomb once and blew up.
to name a few deaths.

henceforth private

[noman]

[That's fascinating.]

Why, that's horrific. I'm sorry you were forced to experience such terrible things.
All the same, thank you for sharing it with me.

If you don't mind answering another question: how did you survive?