Voice;

[mopirates_moproblems]

[James hasn't made a post since his first - in part because he's terribly lost. He has proper clothes, now, thanks to Favrielle, but it is still overwhelming to be in such a foreign place. His concern isn't so much the rationing, though that seems to be quite the source of anxiety for some he's encountered. What he wants is answers to the many and contradictory things he's been told since his arrival.]

I find myself at something of a loss, in this place, with so many people from such seemingly different times and places. It seems impossible that one person could have brought us here, and insensible that they should.

[That, though, is a subject he's sure has been at the center of many debates. What truly haunts him is what he heard from Peggy and Ariadne before.] I was led to believe that this place was a sort of afterlife, and yet, if I understand correctly, there are some here with ambitions to return to their homes. I do not see how such a thing could be accomplished.

[And that's it. No suggestions, he's just mulling. Aloud, and in public, which, he realizes now, is terribly unseemly.]

Forgive me. There is little purpose to these musings. Perhaps they are better off left unvoiced.

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[cravats]

If you are at a loss, perhaps it will help to think of it as educational, Admiral.

[mopirates_moproblems]

I am trying, Mr. Lyall, but I'm not sure it has helped.

[He is having a very British freak-out.

Also, he doesn't know Lyall is a professor yet. Someone should fix that.]

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[mycompromise]

[Connor's hood is pulled up, obscuring part of his face from view when he responds. What is noticeable isn't much, just piercing eyes and an intense frown. Norrington's accent is familiar and it puts him on guard.]

I was informed this place is between life, death and dreaming. It stands to reason it may serve as an afterlife for some, but not for all.

[A beat.] Do you remember your death?

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[mopirates_moproblems]

[James regards the man with suspicion. His voice is not familiar -- but in general, he has learned to be wary of men who hide their faces.]

Between life and death, I could understand, but dreaming? That, it seems to me, is nothing more than another part of life.

[Several beats -- and then he presses his lips together, flattening them out.] I do.

Voice

[bindsthedead]

This place lies between Life and Death and dreaming, according to the Kedan.

[Then she catches the implication in his words, and her tone becomes more wary.]

Are you saying that you- died?

Re: Voice

[mopirates_moproblems]

So I've been told, although that is hardly illustrative.

I remember what I believed to be my death, before arriving here, yes.

[But he's terribly polite about it. That must be a refreshing change for her.]

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[fotia]

Uh, yeah, no; Personally I'm kind of rooting for the whole "in-between" thing more than the afterlife part. I kind of like living, thanks.

Besides, it's not entirely impossible to get back home if you have the right machinery and technology for that. [That he, unfortunately, doesn't have yet. Not that it's going to stop him from designing and building one..!]

voice;

[mopirates_moproblems]

Do you know someone who has demonstrably returned to their home? This is the first I've heard of such a thing.

[Please don't strt on the technology. James is having enough difficulty adapting already. He's not even thinking about that, yet, beyond the tutorial the Kedan gave him.]

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[bondsprofoundly]

In many cases, what's called the afterlife is a transition from one physical state of being to another. It's difficult to cross back, but not impossible.

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[mopirates_moproblems]

I have seen creatures returned from death before. I am in no hurry to join their legion.

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[andaway]

[Clark ponders how to exactly word what he's going to say. He had dealt with a couple of people from another time back at home, and even more after he got here... but it never gets any easier.]

It's not exactly the 'Aferlife', from what we have been told. It's more of an 'In-between'? A middle point. Some of us didn't die before we got here, we just... fell asleep and woke up here.

Audio;

[mopirates_moproblems]

That is what confounds me. Death and sleep are not at all the same, whatever the poets would have us think.

audio;

[demon_brat]

It is not an afterlife. Most people who have come here are not dead, where we come from.

[Why, yes, this is the voice of a child.]

audio;

[mopirates_moproblems]

[Another child. Privately, James has his doubts -- he remembers his own death, and he's seen evidence of violence on others. But he will not disenchant the boy, if he's somehow held on to hope.]

I have misunderstood, then.

[audio]

[gathersnomoss]

I'm afraid I haven't made too detailed a study of travel between planes or worlds or whatever you call them, but I know it's possible. Even before I arrived here, I've met people from other planes. There was none of this 'between life and death, or wakefulness and dreams' stuff, but I admit I don't know much about dreaming.

And, whatever else, we are alive here. That implies if we leave here, we'll continue to live.

[He's not thinking about the fact that he may well be a copy of the original Zelgadis, who is carrying on his business in his world. Even if he is, he still wants to go home and he can hash things out when he gets there.]

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[mopirates_moproblems]

What about those of us who remember our deaths?

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[chiot]

If y'ask me, none of that matters. We're here now, so who cares? Let the livin' figure that out, huh?

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[mopirates_moproblems]

Seize the moment, as it were?

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[philosophe]

Many things that rulers do seem insensible, I have found. There is likely an explanation for it, but I do not think we shall like it.

I, for one, am not precisely pleased that we have been snatched up so; even if there was nothing left for us to do at home.

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[mopirates_moproblems]

Nor am I. But what can be done to change it?

[Keep calm and carry on, and all that.]

voice;

[cynisme]

[When Grantaire had teased Norrington before, there had been some semblance of mirth in his voice. With his source of mirth dwindling, that tone is distinctly lacking.]

Of course they want to return home. Don't listen to what they say to you, any delusional idiot who didn't want to die and doesn't remember the occasion of their death would convince themselves that they're not, in fact, dead and in their graves.

voice;

[mopirates_moproblems]

It is your belief, then, that those who insist upon their continued existence are only deluding themselves?

[The same thought had occurred to him. How distressing, to find his thoughts travelling along the same path as a cynical, hopeless drunkard. They have absolutely nothing in common.]

voice;

[shorttempered]

I don't know about everyone else... but I personally would like to go home because I'm not dead.

voice;

[mopirates_moproblems]

How refreshingly abrupt. And how do you propose to see that through?

[lostundercover]

It doesn't get any easier, the magical people and everything.

Some people believe what they say about a place between life and death, but others don't. That's why some people want to leave.

[mopirates_moproblems]

The most succinct explanation yet.

[traumatizing]

To be fair, I don't think those of us who want to go home really know how it would be accomplished either.

In any case, I don't think this place is any kind of afterlife, though I'm not sure I believe this "in-between of life, dreaming and death" stuff either. I just know that personally? Being sucked into some other world makes more sense than being dead. Which says a surprising amount about my life, really.

[mopirates_moproblems]

The dead reanimated, I have some frame of understanding for. The concept of alternate worlds... is a bit harder to perceive.

voice; wow I am late

[inseine]

[Ah, the British fellow who was welcomed aboard the Turtle not so long ago. Javert remembered this voice.]

I don't have any illusions that I will return anywhere, [says Javert curtly.] I thought Keeliai was, ah--What would you call it? Limbo? Purgatory? The definition of in-between! But I noticed some men do not recall their deaths.

but fashionably.

[mopirates_moproblems]

I have noticed that as well. If it is not too personal to ask, I take it you do?

[Purgatory. The thought is almost comforting. Is it possible he died in a state of grace?]