un: 46692

[escardos]

it's almost christmas! how does it feel to be approaching the holidays when nightfall is approaching so quickly? make sure to spend your time wisely, because you might not be here next year you might be three meters underground!

juuuuuuust kidding! but it's a fun thought, isn't it? people celebrating and putting their holiday lights up, almost as if trying to make us unaware of what is coming. they might as well be trying to brainwash us, huh?

i really hope i can buy some new video games-- what are you guys planning?

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[conquerorofwaves]

[he can take a few guesses why, but while it seems like this guy's willing to share, it seems a bit early to ask]

Obviously that can be fixed. For one thing, there's this girl named Nana that's always baking banana stuff I tend to pass by her set up on my way to class and there's a cooking club, dunno who's all in it.

Actually, I've been missing that kind of food, might try to make something - no certainty it'd be any good.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

Ah, yes! One moment -

[There's some shuffling inside the apartment, before he opens the door with a smile.

...And of course, he's completely unaware that Flat can see him, under the glamour - seeing his true form of a tall man with the same gray hair, but with no mustache and...

...a striking similarity to someone else on campus.]

Come in, come in.

[escardos]

[ the moment that flat sees the teacher in question, his eyes widen slightly in surprise. he stands silent for a few seconds, taking in the essence of his new mathematics professor.

and laughs. ]

You almost had me there, sir. [ he walks into the apartment, appearing casual. in reality, however, he was on high alert. not because of moriarty’s identity, though—that’s just how he is in general. ] You really looked like how the books described Sebastian Moran for a second—but you’re just how the books described Sherlock! With gray hair, sure, but close enough. Pretty incredible!

[imitationsoul]

No wonder that didn't catch on - you can't turn it into an instrument to influence people's choices in life. Heaven and hell are so much more helpful for that.

It's unlikely, knowing all we know here, but in truth, I'd still like the secular scientists to be right about death. Simply nothingness, the negation of all existence. No longer of use to anybody or obligated to anybody. Your life simply stands for itself.

[alreadyhuman]

whoooooaaaaa amazing (°ロ°) ! thats so cool!! human stories are so cool!!

i wonder why its the underworld though?? dont most people think thats bad? ive never seen an earth ocean before! is it scary?

tw death talk????? from now on i guess???

[escardos]

heaven and hell are as helpful as the stories of krampus and saint nicholas. they're meant to keep people in check and doing as society tells them to. although neither of those things really interest me--unless i managed to see krampus in person. then maybe i'd like to see what he's like inside. what does a half-goat half-demon look like, i wonder!

i'm not really looking to die yet, but i gotta say that i am curious about what it's like. to just take a peek, maybe, or see someone that's clinically dead come back to life.

un: Galanthusnivalis

[buddinghopes]

... Cheerful.

Impending apocalypses aside, I'm not exactly planning much of anything. I'll probably be making far too many sweets for people who are staying on campus for the holidays like me. Plus getting some gifts together for my friends.

What kinds of video games would you be thinking about getting? :O

word of advice to everyone: just never read any thread between these two

[imitationsoul]

Christian morality is a lot more insidious than Christmas child's tales, I'd argue, but the comparison is at least seasonally appropriate.

And well, if you look through enough spell-books, I am sure you can make your dreams come true. At considerable risk, but risk is generally an underrated aspect of the human experience. People try so hard to eradicate it and just dull their lives intentionally.

You're very into experiments, I take it?

[escardos]

as if christian morality hasn't influenced most of the western world since the middle ages, lmao!

but yes, experiments are definitely my thing! people get so angry with them, though. they always say that curiosity is good, but never when it doesn't benefit them-- people are always so hypocritical, huh?

and while i wouldn't mind doing it to myself, but if i'm alone then there'll be many things that won't be able to be recorded. so i'd definitely need a second person with me, whether they want to be the one that dies or the one that watches me die and come back.

interested?

[escardos]

tis the season to be jolly, right?

and aw that sounds nice. why are you staying though? don't have anyone at home waiting for you?

and hmmmm i thought about some rpg games. i've yet to get the nintendo switch, actually! i've been super slow on that!

[imitationsoul]

I am.

I don't hold with the ideas of morality that everyone has accepted to complacently. In the end, it's all constructs. Any of us could kill at any time - it's only a matter of wanting to do it. So the same applies for temporary suicide, obviously.

I'd rather prefer to not be the one dying as of now - if I die in any way, I want it to hold meaning. But I'd certainly assist you in going and coming back.

I've done spells and the likes before, so I am reasonably confident in this working.

un: hieke

[inflictwounds]

I'm afraid reasonably confident isn't enough when it comes to matters of life and death. The permanent loss of a student would be a hard thing to bear.

But I get the feeling you two will try to find a way around this, so if you want to go through with this experience, perhaps ask someone to supervise who has actual skill in resurrection?

UN: GreenDolphin

[strings_theory]

What the FUCK is wrong with everyone coming in lately? What the actual goddamned fuck.

Jesus.

If these dumb bitches want to have their fucking holidays as normal, then let them, I guess. It doesn't do shit to you, does it?

Also, I'm fuckin' going home to visit my mom. Fuck the rest of you.

[buddinghopes]

Well, I do, but it's marginally safer for me to be here.

(Nobody here wants me dead at any rate, as far as I know)

You should defintiely get a Switch, though!! Lots of good stuff on there. I can let you borrow mine sometimes until you get one of your own O:

UN: Princely

[prince_type]

You really think we're going to die in the near future????? It seems fine to me, everyone seems to be doing a good job of making sure that's not going to happen! Besides, it seems like a depressing thought to think of things that way. Everything can be changed if you put enough towards it and go about the situation properly, I think.

As for, ah, the holidays...

I suppose I'll stay here for them, we don't tend to make a big fuss out of the ones celebrated in Europe over in Japan, after all. [That and he has Other Plans he's not talking to anyone about right now, oops.]

[synthsized]

Making pathetic faces isn't going to make me more likely to tell you.

[escardos]

my family's spells had to do with life preservation and advanced healing! in the chance that her's doesn't work, you just need to get my heart beating again and my body will repair itself automatically!

goes to show that maybe next time i should encrypt my messages a little more huh?! kind of rude to butt in like that, i think.

[escardos]

ahaha did that make you angry? why? which part made you angrier?

but that sounds great! are you going to buy her a present?

[inflictwounds]

Noted.

Apologies for being rude, but you should perhaps think of getting advisory from someone with actual authority before proposing experiments.

[strings_theory]

lmfao, this isn't even me being remotely angry, this is the kind of way I always fuckin' talk. I just wonder how this shit doesn't get exhausting for you depressing-ass fuckers.

Yeah, probably. Dunno what yet, though, but I got some time still.

[hatesdeerstalkers]

[Thankfully, he had just closed the door before Flat dropped that bomb on him - which leads to him suddenly spluttering in disbelief, butterflies suddenly appearing in the air around him in response to the intense rush of emotion.]

How did you-?! What?!

[Normally, he'd play it off - but he's too taken aback by all of the descriptions and someone seeing past his glamour that he just spluttered out what came to mind.]

[escardos]

mythology is amazing! you should look up some of them on the internet, you know?

and man, you've never seen the ocean? that's a shame, i think it's really nice. ah, but it can get dangerous during storms--lots of people die in the middle of the sea!

[escardos]

as they say, it's better to ask for forgiveness than ask for permission!

anyways, it doesn't matter that much, does it? one person more, one person less, it doesn't change much in the grand scheme of things, does it?

[escardos]

i am actually the opposite of depressing, tyvm!

how about flowers? make her dinner!

[inflictwounds]

The only people who say that are overconfident fools who will get themselves torn apart because of their lack of ability and forethought.

It changes a lot. Having people with actual skill behind you can make a world of difference, not to say that Miach lacks skill. But there's a reason it's always wise to learn from people with actual, quantifiable experience.