Jim Profit (
raisedinabox) wrote2011-11-21 03:34 am
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Did anyone else get much chance to talk to the locals in that port? I couldn't help but find it ironic that their afterlife consisted of a seemingly endless journey towards an ephemeral end point.
[Jim sounds more or less calm, but there's a slight sharpness to his tone, as if something about this port left him feeling... just kind of generally unhappy.]
When I died, I was expecting my entire existence to come to an end. I find it... troubling that apparently spending your time embarking on futile tasks and endless journeys is a running theme when it comes to what happens after death, instead. Still, I suppose this place makes a lot more sense as a surreal punishment, than as a genuine attempt at creating some kind of reformation process.
[He sighs a slight sigh, before adding:]
And I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that a chewed up dog toy doesn't actually have any known use when it comes to spaceship repair?
[Jim sounds more or less calm, but there's a slight sharpness to his tone, as if something about this port left him feeling... just kind of generally unhappy.]
When I died, I was expecting my entire existence to come to an end. I find it... troubling that apparently spending your time embarking on futile tasks and endless journeys is a running theme when it comes to what happens after death, instead. Still, I suppose this place makes a lot more sense as a surreal punishment, than as a genuine attempt at creating some kind of reformation process.
[He sighs a slight sigh, before adding:]
And I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that a chewed up dog toy doesn't actually have any known use when it comes to spaceship repair?
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[Stop being philosophical, Stildyne. You're awful at it.]
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Maybe they don't need our kind of minds anymore, them.
I'm not going to say I enjoyed the feeling. But viewed as an alternative. [And given that he's getting up in years, and wondering what comes next.] It's almost heartening that there'll be a period of adjustment before you're plunged into nothing.
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I'm sorry, I doubt this is making much sense, I just never found the thought of dying so disturbing.
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Was this something you had to think about a lot, before you came here?
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Not that I'm finding that philosophy particularly vindicated here.
So you were a security officer?
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So, interesting scars? I'm guessing you saw a lot of action then?
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Last real war was with the Nurail. And I saw plenty of action there. Rode through some firefights with the Langsarik pirate fleet, too. But it's been decades since there's been anything close to a real war. If Combine hadn't affiliated when it did, they were almost big enough that it could have been nasty, but they trade as hard as they fight and the economic-- sorry, don't imagine you actually care. [Having been surprised into verbosity by something that shouldn't surprise him-- nobody knowing much about Jurisdiction-- he cuts himself off. Honestly: it's been months, why does he still wind up being taken aback at random moments that nobody else knows Supicor from Chilleau from a herd of Aznir riding sheep?]
Typo's are the acceptable cost for all those fascinating words!
No, no, this is fascinating, I just.. I'm afraid I'm having a little trouble with the different factions you're talking about. Jurisdiction is where you're from, I take it?
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[Talking about it is odd, in that it's simply a thing that's known for him. He's never had to explain from the beginning, except for the barge. It's novel.]
Nine judiciaries, nine judges. When the First Judge dies there's a convocation of the Bench to decide which Judiciary's judge will get promoted and with Judiciary will lead in politics this go-round.
It's a big thing, Jurisdiction. So when a system or two gets angry or a few worlds act up it's not precisely a real war. There's just too much of Fleet.
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And I expected much the same of death, if I'm honest. It doesn't feel like a surreal punishment to me, but I do suppose that's not your point. Even so, some of us not being 'punished' are as dead as you.
...It does all have a distinctly religious tone to it, though, I have to admit. Redemption. Walking through endless journeys until you learn something... I won't deny that.
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You seem like the type who would have been.
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But I always respected others' religion, and now I'm here, and living on after my own death, I do have to wonder.
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I don't know, it's probably not that important.
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Not always the impression I got of actual religious people, but how it struck me in the end.
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I think... people's faith, and true faith, is clearer when they're in my care than at any other time. Anyone can be a steadfast atheist, or a superficial believer in their day to day lives. When they're dying or suffering, they suddenly find faith they never had - or realise they never truly believed.
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Having said that, I am the one actually in purgatory, so I am not sure I have room to talk.
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Is that what you think this place is then? Purgatory?
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No. At... where I'm from. I'm stuck. It's the closest thing to purgatory I can imagine.
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You're stuck.
[Pause]
Is that what your deal is for then?
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No. My deal is to keep the boys safe. That's why I'm stuck in the first place. I never finished protecting them... I told you that whole story.
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Ah, yes. I remember. I guess if saving them releases you as well, then that's the sensible choice to make.
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I don't know whether it will. But I am an old man, they are young boys, and I have a duty to complete to them.
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