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impure_tale ([personal profile] impure_tale) wrote2008-05-13 04:42 pm
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(ooc: totally his first post on the other game two LOLONETRICKHORSE)

Beloved Reader, I've a puzzling tale to tell you.

Imagine that you find yourself on the brink of death, and all the putridness that this may imply. Your body is broken; you can feel it consuming itself out of starvation, and it is covered in welt and open wound, and finally in excrement, as you haven't the strength to stand and clean yourself, or find some corner with which to deposit your relief. The stench is terrible. You might plead with your captors for assistance, but you haven't a tongue with which to speak, just an aching emptiness, the feel of a hard stump somewhere toward the back of your throat where that appendage once began and should have stretched onward. No, the only thing pressing against the back of your teeth is a hard wad of linen, forced there to catch the blood that still threatens to choke you.

Can you perceive that agony, reader?

Beautiful, no? I have written of many horrors, disclosed them to you unabashedly, but my conception of torture has never been so vividly outshined.

Your final hour approaches, and it is not the guard that comes to you now, possibly hoping for your expiration, that your body may be disposed of. It is a friend, one whose bonds with you have been tried unforgivably in the recent weeks, one whose hands had provided much of the punishments you have endured, all of which brought you to this state.

Could one blame you, reader, for rejecting his prayers for you? Prayers that felt false not in his sincerity -- though you wish they had been, as it is so much easier to dismiss a person if in your last moments of pure helplessness your anger remains hard -- but false in the sense that the only people who hear them are the two of you.

There is no God. He professes now that no human being is exempt of divine mercy, of passage into paradise, and yet here you lie, in the lowest caverns of Hell, and you wonder why the man's convictions can run so steadfastly to God, but no defense arose when you were still yet clothed and healthy and safe, before his betrayal broke you.

Would you do as I have done, reader? He offered his rosary to me to kiss in acquiescence, and I consumed it, though his fingers pried at my teeth, I permitted the hard metals to slide down, lodge sharply in my throat -- I could feel it puncturing even as that final moment arrived.

I wish I could profess with full honesty that it was my greatest victory, but none in my state could have done better.

Here lies my confusion, reader: This surely would bode the end of a story and not the beginning, oui? It is with this, encased in vivid personal recollection, that I put my quill to paper now, coming to the slow but confusing realization that while this surely happened, your faithful author continues to exist, continues to write, and continues to be who he always has been.

The afterlife? Perhaps. Heaven or Hell? Hardly. Though this was not to be expected, there is still no God or Devil to be found, and that satisfies me. Nature suffices unto herself without need of a creator -- although this turn is most definitely not one I thought Her capable of.

-MDS

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
There is no such thing as a dignified death, sparrow. That's why it happens to everyone.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't call me that. And it's entirely possible to die with dignity and honour.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Honor and Dignity are two entirely different things. I look at myself as having died with honor, because I did not compromise my views out of fear of dying or what lay waiting for me in the great beyond -- as some people do. Dignity, however, is another issue entirely.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
A fair point. I think, however, that if you face death standing tall and proud, you can go with dignity.

((laaawlll that's the exact opposite of his death))

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
That is only true if you have the strength to stand.

I guarded my principles, and I could not have asked for more in my final moments. But I don't deny that I was hardly at my best when the end came.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Admirable. Hm. Perhaps you aren't the inbred, decadent fop I thought you were.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 04:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Dear boy, I have never been a fop. I avoided most court activities, actually. Not my crowd at all.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm, you didn't deny the "inbred" or the "decadent" parts.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
I wouldn't call myself inbred, actually. My parents come from two separate lines.

As for "decadent"? Well, sometimes a little excess never hurt anyone.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I've never had time for "excess." And besides, it could be the reason why you're in this place. Well, that or swallowing the Rosary.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:03 pm (UTC)(link)
The latter would be possible if there were any such being that could take offense to it.

Anyone other than another mortal, anyway.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmhm. Must be the former, then.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Why must there be a reason why I'm here?

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That's what that woman told me. We're all here because of something we've "done" while alive.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
What? That's a better explanation than "just because"! What's the point of this place, otherwise?

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You say that like there's supposed to be a point.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:29 pm (UTC)(link)
An assorted handful of dead individuals wake up on a giant... space barge. This is clearly something that doesn't happen to just everybody, so there must be a reason.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I would honestly rather not question. I intend to enjoy myself while I am here.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
There's nothing to enjoy here.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:41 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. Have you gone out and about yet?

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Not very far. But the very fact that we're confined in this place, with "Wardens," makes me wish I could return home, as hopeless and future-less as that place may be.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
It could be worse, you know.

After all, nothing might have happened when you died. And what then?

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 06:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd prefer that, actually. Better than going from one hell to another.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
One can find enjoyment even in Hell.

I should know.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I find that hard to believe.

Well. I mean. I can believe that you'd find enjoyment from it. You hardly seem fazed by this place.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
It's definitely a trade up from the state I was in before I reached this place.

I also know that panicking and worrying is not going to do me any good. I would rather wait and see before coming to any conclusions.

The company is already a good deal more wholesome.

[identity profile] impure-tale.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Charenton Asylum.

And it'd just recovered from fires and escaped lunatics.

[identity profile] major-west.livejournal.com 2008-05-14 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah. I can see why you're not upset about being here, then.