About a day into Liminal return...

[crouching_sin]

[Naoya's tone, as he addresses the network, sounds... particularly irritated.]

... All right. I might as well announce it out loud in public, because I've had to explain it enough already and it's not like it particularly matters here.

So yes, it's Naoya here. The long and short of things is that yes, I am literally Cain. And before you vampires freak out - I am not some long-dead vampire come to yell at you or whatever. That didn't happen in my world. As for the question of 'how the hell does that even work' - I reincarnate. I remember every lifetime. Other people reincarnate, but they don't remember their previous lifetimes. It's a curse. Literally. Three guesses who gave me that one, the first two don't count.

... And for those of you who are like 'what the fuck is a Cain' - according to folklore, I invented murder. Which is not true, the way the story is written is incredibly biased. I can give details if you want, but it doesn't really matter.

So yes. There you are.

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[acapriciousthing]

He went to live in the Dreaming in my universe. Both of them did.

I don't suppose the phrase house of mysteries means anything to you either.

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay, but there's four archangels, so shouldn't we have four guesses?

[crouching_sin]

That depends on who you ask, and what do they have to do with this, anyway?

[crouching_sin]

... Only a historical site near Pompeii. But what do you mean by 'the Dreaming'?

[acapriciousthing]

It's actually quite similar to Questing Country.

[She hadn't had much time to think about it while she was busy being angry with the Arcana]

My little brother's realm. Where the dreams and stories of my world come from.

[crouching_sin]

Hm. No, nothing like that exists in my world.

... Unless the Internet counts.

[thornsofmalkav]

They were my guesses as to who cursed you. Like, I know you're not my Caine, but they were the ones that cursed him, so I figured they had a chance to be Caine(e)-cursers in multiple worlds.

[crouching_sin]

Ah. No. They were not.

[thornsofmalkav]

Hm. Abel? God? Lilith after you stole her shit?

... okay, the stealing from Lilith was another trick your counterpart pulled in my world.

[crouching_sin]

The second one. I haven't had much interaction with Lilith, to be honest.

[thornsofmalkav]

Welp. That's certainly a dude to get cursed by.

[crouching_sin]

Indeed. One of the reasons I want to kill Him.

... Though on an entirely different note, I think I've figured out the template thing, finally.

[thornsofmalkav]

Hell yes. Going to mass produce your COMP things now?

[crouching_sin]

For anyone who wants one, yes. I think I can transfer the programming over easily enough. I think I can get one of my computers to act as a mail server for now. I don't know if Liminal Space will mess with the wireless capabilities. It might depend on the... 'terrain'.

[acapriciousthing]

If it's anything like our universe, that's something quite its own.

The important thing is Cain isn't some ancient vampire.

[crouching_sin]

You'd think that, but Thorne's world definitely has me... him?... as one.

[loyalrebel]

I am not sure that three entire religions and their branches count as simple 'folklore', but that is neither here nor there. Regardless, we have had a number of well known historical figures here, and history is always biased by those who write it.

Is there a way to lift your curse, Traveling does afford a great number of opportunities for solutions to problems previously thought of as unsolvable.

[seasoflight]

...you're...

...how old?

[thornsofmalkav]

Talk to Claudia. She runs the intranet.

[overlevende]

....Okay.

[Aka she has absolutely no idea how to react to that, is still sorting out a lot of things about her own world's history for herself, and is kind of exhausted from Cainite-story-everything.]

So are you still going by Naoya then or are we supposed to call you Cain now?

[crouching_sin]

To those that do not follow it, it would be. But You're correct, it's neither here nor there.

As for a way to lift my curse... well. There's one solution in my world, a way that is currently closed off to me. As for solutions here... I'm not certain. I'm open to suggestions, though I'm not certain if they'll work. I've tried many methods in my world, but it's too... old and stubborn, if that makes sense.

[crouching_sin]

[Ah, memes. How he's missed them.]

Naoya. It's what I've been going by for... mm, twenty five years. I'm used to it now.

[crouching_sin]

Roughly fifty five hundred, give or take a handful of decades. If you total them all together, kit.

[overlevende]

Well, that will make things less awkward at least.

...Sounds like you have pretty much nothing in common with our Caine, aside from the name and being cursed.

[crouching_sin]

Indeed. It was definitely an... odd thing, hearing about the Caine of your world. But... well. Different worlds, and all... I suppose I shouldn't have been that surprised.