nullorvoid | 002. Audio / Action for Cherrygrove City

[AUDIO]

...So I've heard this is a video game or something.

[Well, hello again – it's audio-only from Ginti again, though it sounds like he's managed to find his way to Cherrygrove without anything too stupid happening; he still sounds approximately a thousand percent done with everything and everyone, but that...might just be his normal tone, really.

Either way, thanks for the explanation, Lancer, he appreciates it. Sorta. As much as he can appreciate an explanation that stupid.]

Not like I'm trying to be weird about it, but is this the sort of game where we get a whole bunch of save points, or do we Game Over as soon as we walk off a cliff or what?

[...WELL, OKAY THEN.]

[ACTION]

[Anyway.

After Ginti's...that is out there, he can be found kind of wandering Cherrygrove for the better part of the day; he's been here for a while, and it's actually not too bad? Now that it's decided to quit raining, anyway.

He hasn't really seemed to mind the rain, though, even when it was going full force; he's been spending a lot of time on the beach, doing...god only knows what outside of staring at it a lot. He can be found there today as well, though he seems to be entertaining himself well enough up on the rocks as opposed to just being listless; his balance seems good enough that he won't be testing the results of the question he was asking earlier anytime soon, but it's something to do with himself that doesn't involve other people, so naturally he's probably sort of asking to be bothered.

He's not all that great at conversation, but he wouldn't be too opposed to it, either. Probably. Maybe. Kinda. He's sort of a social crapshoot like that.]

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That's good, but how do you know about this if you aren't dead?

It's a long story. Let's just say my job is interesting.

I thought you said you worked at a bar or something?

Yeah, I do. You meet some unusual people that way.

...I don't really get it...

And that's fine with me.

[GINTI.]

You still want one of those fish, or are you done chasing after 'em for now?

[WHAT A JERK...]

Nah, I'm done chasing 'em. Maybe I'll try to catch one another day or something.

[...]

But c'mon tell me more about this afterlife stuff, Ginti!! What's it like?

...What is it you want to know?

[He actually doesn't seem too bothered by the line of questioning, attempted subject change notwithstanding; might as well just...kind of find somewhere to sit for a while, yeah?]

[That sounds good! Nowi will definitely follow wherever he goes!]

What does it look like? Is it a normal place like this or is it like... funky colors and sounds and stuff? I guess you probably don't know the exact answer, but surely someone's talked about this sorta stuff before, right?

...It's a building. A tower. When you die, you don't really remember it - the shock of it kind of makes you forget. So you just kind of realize you're there, only you don't remember deciding to go anywhere. You know how the inn we're staying at has an elevator to take you between floors? That's where you realize you're at - it's sort of like coming back around after you've been distracted or zoned out, I guess. You don't remember going there, you just know you're there.

The elevator takes you to a set of rooms where your soul's judged - someone's waiting there for you, and they talk to you and they make you do some stuff, and based on what you decide to do and how you act, they decide what happens to you.

...That sounds kinda scary. What happens to you? Like, if you're bad do you just... stop existing or something?

[Nowi looks absolutely fascinated with this. Then again, she spent over an hour riding the elevator when she first found it, so...]

Something like that.

[...]

If you're a decent person, or if your soul still has more to get out of being alive, then you're sent to be reincarnated. Your soul gets sent back to the living world, and you get another shot at life as someone else.

If you're enough of a bad person that you don't deserve that, though, you get sent to the void. And that's it for you - you're just falling through darkness forever, with only your thoughts and your fears and your regrets for company. You still exist because no one can destroy souls, but you're never gonna come back to life and after a while you'd probably think being destroyed was better.

Wow... That sounds awful. The void part, I mean. I guess being uh... reincar-whatever wouldn't be so bad.

But c'mon, you're leaving something out here. This is a lot of info for a guy who's never been there!

[WAIT HANG ON]

Did-- Did you get sent to the void!?

[...no, that wouldn't make sense, would it?]

Oh, but you said you weren't dead, so I guess that's not possible.

Yeah, that's right - I've never died.

If I tell you how I know, you can't run around telling anyone, okay?

[Nowi bobs her head up and down vigorously.]

I promise! I won't say a thing about it to anyone!

I've never died, but I've never been alive, either - I'm an arbiter.

I know all this because I'm the guy who judges people's souls.

Arbiter...?

[...............]

Wait, you're the person judging people's souls!? Does-- Does this mean I'm dead? Are you judging my soul? Ohhh man that's not good, I'm totally going to end up in the void, aren't I!?

[SHE NEVER SHOULD HAVE BEEN SO ANNOYING...]

What? No!

[Oh my god, Nowi, why - ]

I'm pretty damn sure you're still alive, and I can't judge living people - that isn't how it works!

Oh. Well that's good!

[AND JUST LIKE THAT SHE'S DONE PANICKING.]

Well then if I'm not dead, what are you doing here? Oooh, are you trying to find a person to judge? I'm sure you'll find them, Ginti!

[WHY ARE YOU SO STUPID...]

I don't know what I'm doing here any better than you do.

[...BECAUSE FUCK YOU I'MMA DRAGON?????]

So maybe you were just pulled here too? Huh. I guess someone probably would've told you if you'd been sent here on a job or something. But that's okay, 'cause we can figure out how to get you home! And until then, you've got me!

[SAID LIKE THIS IS A GOOD THING AND NOT A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY]

I don't get sent to the living world on jobs, so I'm just gonna take a guess and say that this isn't one of them. I don't think anyone's testing anything, either, other than maybe my patience.

I'm not going to panic about it or anything. I'm kind of pissed off about it, but I'm not freaked out.

I didn't think you would be! I don't think you're the sort of person to panic, like, ever. I think you'd rather find the person who brought you here and punch 'em until they send you home! Or something like that.

[She seems really pleased to hear that though.]

...I'm not even going to pretend that doesn't sound like a good idea.

But yeah, there's not much point in panicking, really. Either you've got the situation or you don't, but even if you don't and it's the worst-case scenario - like I said, being dead's not even all that bad.

As long as you don't get sent to the void, that is!

[...]

Hey, Ginti? Thanks for telling me about that. And I promise I'll keep quiet about it!

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