USER: #DC143C - QUESTION FOR EVERYONE

[lonered]

[ USER: #DC143C ]

Hey. So...

...

Question for anyone. Or for everyone I guess.

How sure are you that you're still alive? Back where you're from I mean.

Like on a scale from 1 to 10. Where 1 is "I definitely died" and 10 is "I'm definitely still alive" and everything in between.

Thanks in advance. I know it's a weird question. I just... I gotta know.



[He's asked some folks, but the results so far are mixed. And Keith needs to figure out one way or another if this is just some weird unexpected afterlife, and he's at a solid 2.5 on his own scale so he's wondering.]

Comments

[lonered]

No, not at all. I've never met any aliens that look like that.

Galra are humanoid, but purple. Large pointed ears. Fangs. Markings. Claws. They're bigger than humans too.

Alteans look a lot like humans, but with pointed ears and face markings.

Others don't look human at all. But none of them look like the gray big-eyed ones.

[drubbings]

1 W1LL LOCK 1T 1N MY TH1NKP4N TO ST4Y 4W4Y FROM SUCH S1TU4T1ONS!
4LTHOUGH MY 3XP3R13NC3 1S 3XCLUS1V3 TO M3T3ORS 1 F33L L1K3 1TS TH3 S4M3 TH1NG
4 T3RR1FY1NG C3L3ST14L OBJ3CT BL4H BL4H BL4H

W3R3 YOU GOOD 4T P1OL1T1NG SH1PS?

Y3S TH4T 1S H1M
1M GL4D TO H34R YOU H4V3 M3T
1TLL STR43ML1NE TH3 PROC3SS 4 B1T!
STRID3RS 4R3 NOTOR1OUSLY D1FF1CULT TO 3NG4G3 1N CONV3RS4T1ON BUT 1 TH1NK 1TLL BE WORTH 1T

[lonered]

Fair enough, yeah. I guess I didn't think about that.

But well. It was the middle of a battle. In space. My fighter was on a collision course with a battle cruiser.

#030066

[passio]

I can’t die. Whether or not I want it to be... it’s a 10.

I’m sure these are our bodies, just like they were before we came here. Were you dead in your world?

[satanslash]

honestly? kinda glad. those things are creepy altens kinda sound like when demons possess humans i actually have pointed ears from when my powers got unsealed. and fangs. which were really hard to get used to. [Also Galra sort of remind him of Kuro for some reason? But he's not going to make a 'you sound like my cat' comparison when he's talking to... half of one? Something like that.]

[lonered]

Yeah. Real good.

[Not bragging. Just fact. If he has one talent, it's flying. ...and hitting things with swords.]

So what am I supposed to engage him in conversation about exactly? What do I even ask?

Re: #030066

[lonered]

That is a way more common answer than I expected.
Why cant you die?

And honestly I'm not sure. I remember being about to die. I don't remember actually dying.

[hypertoxic]

Don't worry a8out it.
That's rough. I'm sorry. Do you want to talk a8out it? Given that I'm pretty sure I'm the only dead person here, I can at least give you my perspective.

[lonered]

Yeah. Agreed.

And huh. So your physical self actually changed? That's interesting.

I look completely human. But I can operate Galra technology, which means there's Galra blood in me for certain.

[lonered]

Thanks. That's real nice to offer.

I don't think there's much to talk about. I already made my choice, so it's fine. I just wanted to know whether or not this messed up place is some kind of afterlife or not.
It's sounding like it definitely isn't.

[satanslash]

yeah my brother looks completely human [And he's just casually not going to mention anything about the recent Satan possession because he honestly doesn't even know fully what's going on there, just that Yukio is in a lot of trouble back home.] i know a few demons who have vessels that have the ears and teeth and i think tails they hide? but they can also change between other forms pretty easily? me, i have to use a sword to get to the rest of my power i also know someone who has demon blood but its so far back in her family that she looks compeltely normal you dont know why you have it?

[hypertoxic]

Oh. Uh. You're welcome, I guess.
Yeah, it's definitely not. Actually, coming here kind of pulled me OUT of the afterlife. It's 8een pretty surreal.

[lonered]

Huh. That's interesting.

[And then well, that question. Keith has theories at best right now.]

As best as I can figure, I think my mother was Galra. She left before I have any memory of her. And she's the one who left me the Galra blade I carry. My dad never mentioned the whole alien detail though, so I don't know for sure.

[lonered]

Better that it isn't. Then I don't have to feel guilty about ruining someone's eternal rest or anything while trying to get out of this place.

Yeah it sounds like it would be though. You okay?

[ifionlyhadthecourage]

Agreed... In the meantime, I'll see what I can do to figure out where these computers came from.

[passio]

I can be killed. My body can die... but I'll always come back. I don't know about the others.

Were you bleeding, before you got here?

[lonered]

You'll come back? Like reincarnation or something?

No. I wasn't injured. My spaceship was about to collide with a much bigger spaceship.

[lonered]

Great. Good luck.

I think there's got to be more to the forest. That's my next goal.

[drubbings]

DO YOU TH1NK YOU COULD ST33R ON3 OF THOS3 BO4T H1V3S?

P3RH4PS ST4RT W1TH YOUR N4M3 4ND TH3N FOLLOW UP W1TH YOUR F4VOUR1T3 4WFUL MOV13
4ND WH3N YOUV3 BUTT3R3D H1M UP 4ND 4PP34L3D TO H1S 1RON1C S3NS3S YOU C4N D1V3 1N TO TH3 VORT3X OF T1M3 MISCH13F
YOU SOUND BR4V3
1 TH1NK YOU C4N M4N4G3 1T!

[passio]

[ if he ignores the question now it's like keith never asked! magic! ]

...that does sound like you should have died. And now you're here?

[hypertoxic]

Lol. The only thing that's here is endless 8ullshit, far as the eye can see!
.... yes, I am fine. Thank you, though. For asking. To 8e honest, as surreal as it is, I am kind of glad to 8e around the living again.

#4DFFFF

[chronoshatter]

[ Woah, hey. There's activity on his computer! ]

Uh

I'm pretty sure I'm alive. I remember going to bed and being alive, but nothing after that. So maybe 4.

I still don't know where here is, but a girl I met said she'd been somewhere like this before.

Maybe it's weird, but I've been wondering if we're all just floating in a tank somewhere, knocked out cold and dreaming this whole thing. Or maybe it's just me, and none of you are real.

But if you're wondering the same thing and other people here can't die, that's a good sign.

[murdery]

but if we're all dead without knowing it, then it's not an end, and there wasn't any pain!

[Case... closed...?]

what's a quiznak?

#ECC151

[salutations]

I'd go with a four.

Since I don't have experience with dying, how can I be sure I'd retain any memory of dying? In that case, anyone with suspicions that they might die (or that someone may be after their life) could have ended up here.

That applies to anyone answering ten, as well, of course. [Like, hell, maybe they're all dead! ... That would be a little unsatisfying, though.]

[glaciers]

Minor god is way weirder than the second thing.
Are you sure you didn't meet a shapeshifter?