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[impure_tale]

I have reacted to the last week with relative patience, I feel. I suppose I can understand the turmoil everyone seems to be experiencing over the port, but I cannot say I completely empathize.

Unless you were unfortunate enough to be on the Barge when it was exploded? You did not die during the last port. You were not killed during the last port. No more than Orpheus killed himself in descending to the Underworld in order to collect Eurydice. The effects, morbid as they were, were tame compared to floods we have had in the past. It was not "mass murder." Since many of you have the rare experience of actual death in recent memory, I balk at the notion that a single one of you would count what has occurred as such. You know it's much worse, no matter how mundane the cause, even with the promise of coming back.

To anyone that truly was killed, you have my deepest sympathies.

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[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Sometimes, all their squawking gives me a headache.

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Remember that not so long ago this was you, my treasure.

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[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Yes. And I gave myself a headache.

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Have you seen Rex since returning from port?

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[inhumandog.livejournal.com]

Every day. He's in the infirmary.

[yeahscience.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either, man.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Then you have a decent head attached to your neck.

[yeahscience.livejournal.com]

I mean, it's just, I'm pretty sure I was already dead and all.

[He's eyeing the Marquis like he wants to ask something, but...]

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

What is it?

[yeahscience.livejournal.com]

...What's with the hair, yo?

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

So what, you expect that to be sit right with people? I know that story. Orpheus still lost something.

I don't know what the little shit intended, I don't care, but people still could have abandoned others. Who's to say they didn't want to go on in the afterlife anyway?


Who's to say that it wouldn't be better.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

He lost something because he gave in to temptation and looked back. He did not lose something because he went to the Underworld. He still lived.

You sound as though you might have looked back while you were there, as well.

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

[Not him.]

I didn't.

[Never him.]

...I fucking didn't!


...I have nothing left to lose.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. Whatever your pain.

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[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

So that's why it was a sticking point. Understood.

They're prisoners, you know, being surly is nearly required of them.

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I've been to prison; this is not a prison.

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[der-umgekehrte.livejournal.com]

I was too busy being up my own ass to ask how you've been. You all right? General annoyance of complaints or something personal?

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[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

...A matter better discussed in person, dearheart.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, but I simply can't agree.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Have you ever been killed? Truly. Not just send to the land of the dead.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

No. And I still don't feel that I have been. But we did die. Our souls were free to be judged and move on to their eternal resting places. There was a very well appointed train available, in fact, depending on your judgment.

Also there were donkeys.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

As with every port, we blend in. We were in the same state as the other inhabitants of that world. We did not, however, die. No more than appearing in an insane asylum made the lot of us insane.

[sharpememory.livejournal.com]

I've had death tolls worse than that port.

[darknessb4me]

Damn right it isn't mass murder! He doesn't deserve credit for that much, I had to work damn hard to get my forty kills, it wasn't a fucking accident!

[shortsghtedlove.livejournal.com]

It was still a disagreeable state to be in. [Although that is comforting. So he wasn't really dead and there's no need to fret about it.]

I'm rather miffed that we didn't get that other port, though. However boring it looked, it still seemed better than this land of the dead.