one fragment ❖ r.furude

[miisdealt]

There's a poem that I'd like for people to read and share their thoughts on. I'm not sure how good it is, so I was thinking that maybe having it in a public forum like this would allow for some discussion.

Committing a crime isn't scary.
The scary part is to admit it.

Receiving a punishment isn't scary.
The scary part is to know the pain of it.

Neither crime nor punishment will be gone from the world,
Because humans are unable to know their future.

Alternatively, if you do not like poems, or would like another question to chew on: there isn't some sort of magic that can make someone become older, is there?

You can say that curiosity killed the cat, really. If you have your own poems to share, I'd like to read them as well. Writing these sorts of things is a hobby of mine, I suppose.

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b.hood

[dokkans]

[ Right. She's going to ignore that poem because while it does resonate a bit with recent goings on, Rika doesn't need to know that. So, moving on. ]

There is, actually! I've met someone who can make someone older or cuter or whatever he wants. It's not fun though, he does it to suck out your life force.

[ fuck you AND your midnight bliss, maximoff. ]

[miisdealt]

Sucking life force definitely doesn't sound like fun.

Although I wonder if sucking life force can even happen in a place like this, where everyone is already deceased.

[dokkans]

I bet it can. Except in our case, it's more like... spiritual energy. I don't know if he'd have found that as appealing, but I don't try to understand monsters.

Besides. If we have no life force, then how is it that we can die again while we're here?

[miisdealt]

That would make sense. Even if we aren't "alive" in a sense, we still do have souls.

[As much as she hates to say, much less admit to that.]

[dokkans]

So then, that kinda magic is pointless, isn't it? After all, your soul is your soul. If it's young, then it won't matter how old you look until you're older!

Oh, but it's nice to dream still.

[miisdealt]

I suppose it would be pointless if I wanted to purposely use it and it worked that way.

But it seems that my physical body's time has aged regardless of me saying anything, hence the question.

[dokkans]

You what now?

[ Her body's gotten older-- what the-- ]

Why?? I mean, did you make a wish to be bigger????

[miisdealt]

I've wished for it for the longest time, but I never expected it to actually happen.

n.ebalon

[silentabyss]

im no good at poems really

but

i know of magic that can kind of make someone older. it requires that time magic be placed on their body first, and then they spend years doing... whatever it is in that appearance and age, and then when theyre done they would undo the spell and "age up" i guess. maybe thats not really the same as what you mean

my older brother invented time magic and i have his spellbook now, so ive been reading.

[miisdealt]

Perhaps not exactly.

Would someone be able to tell if a spell was placed...?

[silentabyss]

ummm... where i come from yeah, i guess it depends on the mage, but yeah. i can only sense little bits of magic here and there and they have to be pretty strong, but there are others here and back home that can sense magic really easily even if its faint

are you interested in time magic?

[miisdealt]

A family member of mine had abilities in relation to time. It isn't why I asked, but that doesn't mean that I'm disinterested.

I enjoy seeing and learning new things, after all.

[silentabyss]

oh... same as me, then.

i dont really know if it'll help you, but if you want to i can let you read through some of my brothers writings about time magic, since i have them

[miisdealt]

It's okay if it doesn't help me. I'm happy enough to learn, and grateful to hear that you'd share something like that with me. I'll have to come up with some way to repay you.

[silentabyss]

yeah its not a problem. i know we dont know each other well but youve always seemed really nice and responsible, so i trust you not to damage things

you dont have to repay me rly i dont need it!! but i have a feeling youre going to insist. so if you feel like repaying me, can i actually request help learning how to cook?? im really bad at it and i know you were in the cooking contest

[miisdealt]

Thank you.

Well, I have already been teaching Kaede how to cook, so teaching another isn't a problem. I can't say I'm master chef level, but I've done most of the cooking on my own for the longest time.

Just let me know what time is good for all of this.

un: s.dito

[necrophily]

[ sorry he's going to address each of these points a whole lot less poetically. ]

no it's not we've had like multiple murder confessions on here

pain sucks but some people are into that

humans all die

and why would you wanna look like a hag lol

[miisdealt]

Whoever said this was about murder in the first place, or even this place?

[Poems are up to interpretation normally of course, but the writer is literally right here to rebuff them as needed.]

If some people are into pain, I don't think I've seen one yet. And certainly, humans may all die, but that doesn't mean that they necessarily don't live, either. Even in a world without us in it, that doesn't mean life doesn't go on, or their existence isn't cut short.

And I never said that, don't put words in my mouth. I was just simply curious, as I found myself in a much older body this morning. Although I wouldn't quite say that being the supposed age that this physical body is makes me a hag.

c.nanami

[waitingforplayer2]

I think probably anything is possible here. Have you checked the library? There's some books about magic there.

I don't think anybody wants to be punished but if you do something wrong then you must know there's a chance, right? Like in Ace Attorney games, they always manage to find the bad guy eventually. It's not like punishment is completely unpredictable.

[miisdealt]

Admittedly, I haven't yet, although I can definitely check if the library has what I'm looking for.

Apparently some people say that there are people who are... excuse my language, "into that". There are times, however, when people don't find the bad guy. That they get away with it entirely and win, so to speak. I know that for certain.

Perhaps karmic retribution exists, however.

And while I personally don't think that punishment is unpredictable in of itself; just that it's something that won't be easily cast aside as a concept. It's something that will continue to exist, simply put.

Although I can't say whether I could predict what sort of punishment would come to pass, for any of my sins.

[waitingforplayer2]

That's a little bit what this place is about, though, isn't it? This is a chance to prove ourselves before we move on. Whether you call it karma or something different.

Since not everybody in the world is here, I can't really say if that's the case for everybody... but at least for us, it's probably something we're supposed to keep in mind, I think.

[miisdealt]

Is it truly, though?

This is my first time experiencing something like this; I've never had to do it before.

[What does she have left to prove? She's died so many times that she can't count them on two hands and not once has she been a place such as this before "moving on". It's odd to her.]

I earnestly don't know much about the nature of this place. It isn't that I was covering my ears, but rather... many other things were happening that nobody had the chance to explain to me much.

Amongst other things, I suppose.

Although if karma is in play, I'd have to guess that I have too much of the bad. I suppose saying that is a bit ironic, however, for a shrine miko.

[waitingforplayer2]

It's just what I've heard. We're all dead, and if we can graduate then we get to reincarnate and live again. I don't know what failure is, exactly. I guess staying here... maybe something worse, too.

I don't really know if there's a value system at play here, like you can gain or lose points, or if the goal is just to reach the end.

[miisdealt]

That's why I said it's something new to me.

Not once have I rolled ones on the dice and landed in an afterlife school after my passing. I don't understand why I'm here to begin with.

There are an infinite amount of worlds that could be better. But the same goes for worse, too. Reincarnation doesn't guarantee a good second chance.

[waitingforplayer2]

Coming here seems like such a mystery, but it can't be completely random, right? Otherwise I wouldn't have so many classmates from my old life here.

I could understand not wanting a second chance. I can understand wanting to rest.

I still want to do things, though. I want to play games together with people - or, whatever it is I like doing in my next life.