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[domainless]

Martin is away from the phone right now. Pleas leave a message and he'll get back to you.

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[chrisisofaith]

...why?

isn't that just a massive waste? or is it about quantity of meat in one place..?

[domainless]

I mean, I think there was something in the hole? A huge mouth or something.

The entities don't really work on human logic. Jon always says they work on Nightmare logic. And another avatar I met said... rituals are just what feels right.

[chrisisofaith]

Oh.
Well, then that makes sense. The mouth thing.

And the rest, I suppose. If you figure the avatars are nightmare-based beings, then their logic in doing what 'feels right' would be nightmarish.

[domainless]

Yeah, it gets weird. When me and Jon were walking through the apocalypse he kept trying to explain it, but I'm pretty sure he was actually working on a different level of reality to me at that point so...

[chrisisofaith]

He told me a little, but I understand it hasn't happened for him yet. If it's an apocalypse tied to the Eye, I suppose that makes sense too. I imagine it'd be...I don't know super powered? On it's home turf, as it were? That can't be easy for a mind to handle.

[domainless]

Dominion over the other powers, yeah, everyone and everything being watched forever as they're terrified.

And Jon was kind of... the closest thing to a god, I think. He said he could see the whole world. Everything.

[chrisisofaith]

The closest thing to a god in a world that doesn't have them, I guess.

They honestly sound like the sorts of Great Powers that are just a step down from gods back home for me, the kinds that make pacts with mortals and grant them powers similar to the types gods can for clerics. I'm pretty sure they're only not gods because they're relegated to cults and niche focuses that just don't net them enough power and influence to reach godhood.

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If you'd rather not discuss it, there's no need. Jon shut me down early on that sort of theorizing and discussion cause he didn't like I said it made him a warlock by my world's standards.

[domainless]

I guess. Not sure I'd consider the entities gods, although I know plenty of the cults and followers do.

...yeah, that sounds like Jon. I don't mind discussing it if you want to know things.

[chrisisofaith]

I thought they might be gods at first, just evil twisted ones that took over your world, but I'd be inclined to agree now they're not. Gods are people and your entities in their own form are not, to my knowledge.

I'll remember the offer. And ask you things he gets dodgy about maybe.

Just for clarification: was that poem about Jon?

[domainless]

Yeah, they're not. I mean, one of the avatars I met, he doesn't believe they think at all, not like we'd understand it. All the avatars are just guessing because the entities... they sing. Sort of. it's weird. The conversation ended with him thinking about throwing me off a roller coaster so... weird.

Oh the poem was- sort of? But about me too. And the situation when I was living in the Archives.

[chrisisofaith]

Sing? That's a new one I think.


That makes sense. I suppose you'd have little else to think about. Did you read statements too while you were down there? They don't do anything for you, right?

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Wait what's a roller coaster?

[domainless]

I don't think he meant it literally. But... call people, try to transmit their desires to people.

He said something like... it's like trying to recreate a piece of music you heard in a dream, when you have never heard music before.

I read a few statements. Got the same weird feelings as Jon, but I never read as much as him, so no, I don't need them to live or anything. If I was going to feed on trauma I'm pretty sure it would be making people feel really lonely.

Oh! It's a kind of... You know the trains here? Like those, but smaller, open-topped, going really fast, on a track that has steep drops and sometimes goes upside down.

[chrisisofaith]

I know that feeling intimately. An impression of will by something too big for the mortal mind to handle.

Hard to imagine you making people feel lonely. Your presence is rather enjoyable to me.

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That sounds like a fucking nightmare. What is it, a torture device for enemy forces or something?

[domainless]

Yes! Something like that. You can only grasp a tiny portion of the whole.

Flatterer.

...uh... no? It's a ride at fairgrounds and theme parks. You pay money to ride them. For fun.

[chrisisofaith]

Hold on, this is the only thing I can think about right now.

These are on fairgrounds? You pay money to hurtle quickly through the air in a metal box with nothing but gravity and faith to keep you from dying?

[domainless]

They're pretty safe actually! I mean, very few people die on them.

You know, they're carefully designed to be safe.

[chrisisofaith]

Very few. Not none.

For record, I'm not worried about dying, I'm worried about turning green from being so ill.

The trains here are not kind and we don't get on.

[domainless]

I mean, people still drive cars and lots more people die in those. Or aeroplanes.

You don't use the trains? Really?

You would not survive London.

[chrisisofaith]

I have a motorcycle, wings, and the ability to teleport to specific places, I don't need terrible trains.

Does London exist solely on train transport?

And I dread to ask but what are aeroplanes?

[domainless]

No. I mean, you can take a car or there are buses, but the trains and the tube are really convenient and if you drive in the middle of the city you're an idiot.

Oh... planes are flying machines? They transport people through the air.

[chrisisofaith]

Because of traffic? If I go to London, I'll be sure to fly.

See? Now that sounds useful and like a wonderful idea. It would open up so many places to people who can't or won't take months to travel.

[domainless]

You might draw a bit of attention doing that since no-one else can.

And yeah. I guess. But trains do the same thing! You can get to another country in like... an hour.

[chrisisofaith]

No one looks up.
Half the people here don't know I fly and there's only one other guy with wings in Duplicity.

Look I'm not arguing their usefulness, when I saw one first off, I thought it was clever!
But all my insides aim to be outsides when I'm on one, which is not a good time for anybody.

[domainless]

The tourists probably do. They're there to see the fancy buildings and the palace and stuff.

Alright. I suppose they must be strange if you're really not used to them. Never much thought about it. They're just a fact of life at home.

[chrisisofaith]

You get tourists to your city?
From all I'd heard, London's dingy and smoggy and sees fog a lot.

[His perception might be more colored by a Victorian-era man, but still.]

It's normal, there's a hundred little things you don't think to explain or consider cause they're common to you and not so to another. I'm sure there's plenty I can think of for myself and plenty more I can't cause they're just ingrained.