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[damnable]

So turns out even helping citizens being brutalized by the Hand assholes can get you locked up in the slammer for the night. I'm trying real hard not to turn into a three-headed dog-monster and break out of here, just gonna do my time until tomorrow morning, cause otherwise there's no way some innocents won't get caught in the crossfire. Maybe some of you might be up for distracting a gal?

See, there was this drinking game we'd play at the bar: What the fuck is up with that?

Gotta make some adjustments for a network, but just chime in on this post if you wanna play. Other people will ask you, What the fuck is up with ____insert-thing-here-about-you_______? and then you're supposed to answer honestly or drink if you don't want to answer it. Obviously you could still just lie, but then you're a coward. If you're not into drinking, you can think of some other way to punish yourself for not answering.

But for instance, you might ask me, "What the fuck is up with you being able to turn into a three-headed dog-monster?" Or you might ask a friend, "What the fuck is up with your hatred of chickens?" or "What the fuck is up with you being so tall?" Sky's the limit. One time a guy asked another guy, "What the fuck is up with you being so handsome?" and that kicked off a whirlwind romance for them.

Just a way to way to pass the time while we wait for people to be handled and for the beacon to be activated for those who actually want to head home, and you'll be saving the city from the wrath of me so, y'know, an easy way to be a hero.

(OOC: thread jacking wildly encouraged. feel free to plurk about your chars comments so their cr could potentially ask them stuff. go wild! drinking game lovingly borrowed from Critical Role. )

Comments

[weifinder]

There's an ultimate goal of ascension, but the gods of our world, existing or not, leave us to our lives. Not much intervention, but those with faith and those with respect have their own strengths they draw from it, so I've seen.

Humans with too much power and too many strong emotions cause as many problems as they might solve. Gods managing even worse? Xie Lian might relate to how that goes.

Oh, I was born into a family of cultivators, had the capability for it myself, was found by a family friend while on my own on the streets at some point and taken in. At that point, it was all in the raising and training. Which was fun in its way, easy in others, something I enjoyed picking apart and excelling at.

[damnable]

So the cultivator thing kind of runs in the family, and even if you didn't get raised with that family, you still get to carry a piece of them with you which is kinda cool. I'm glad someone found you and took you off the streets, giving you something you could excel at and enjoy.

I know cultivators are all about like spirits and the dead and all of that so it seems like in general spirits are more free in your world. Or they linger more at least to have a need for cultivators to be high enough to have it running in families.

[weifinder]

Hahaha... most cultivators only banish spirits. These days people are using more nuance, to figure out why they linger. In the end, all intact souls should be moving on and reincarnating.

There's more than spirits of any one kind, truly, we deal with all of them. Dealing intensively with the dead is something of a particular specialty of mine, such as it is.

[damnable]

Reincarnating, huh? That's beautiful. I like that better than having a set place for the dead - I think it'd be more of a comfort to people, to the dead if there was this coming back, being part of life again somehow reality to everything.

Instead of getting stuck some place, or judged for your sins and stuck some place terrible in some cases. You like what you do?

[weifinder]

It's a beautiful possibility. Though fairly pointed out, returns to life don't mean each one is as a human, insects and plants require as much spirit in their brevity or longevity.

I do what I do. Liking doesn't factor in, though I do at times enjoy things I do. Or things I've invented! There's something to discovery and learning, always fascinating, the endless puzzles and potential of the world.

[damnable]

True. I feel like it'd be real peaceful to be a big tree, but insects seem to be going Through It all the time - understandably.

You've invented things?