Rude, Matthew

[whydoyoushine]

Oi, I need someone to get me out of a room. I didn't do anything this time, and here you go, locking me up for absolutely no reason. This is a violation of my civil rights.

[Zed is referring to the end results of a certain throw down with Matthew, which did not go the way he'd anticipated. But hey, at least he's proven he's learned something from Traveling, like the phrase "civil rights."]

You really want to fight over this, Matthew? Just get it all out there?

Comments

[shiromadoushi]

Wouldn't that just help him get out of the room faster? Since people respawn here.

[whydoyoushine]

[Zed just bursts out laughing.]

What, I've died before, I guess that's one way out of this hellhole.

[shiromadoushi]

As long as your respawn spot isn't set to the same place you died at! Then you might get stuck in a loop!

...what is the penalty for dying here anyway? Since we don't exactly have experience points to lose...

Private to Bakura

[photonicfighter]

Aah... please don't talk about dying here in front of Matthew? He's... he's sensitive to it. It's very unpleasant to die, while in liminal space. He's one of the first of us to find that out.

Riding on Dakki's Private level

[shiromadoushi]

Eh? Really?

[[Bakura sounds... actually pretty surprised.]]

Even though you respawn?

Private alllll the way

[photonicfighter]

Really.

It's not... immediate. It can take days. You need to be put back together. And sometimes, you're conscious of it.

[shironekodoshi]

That long?

[[That... doesn't seem right.]]

Even though people here can do magic and stuff like that?

[photonicfighter]

It's not the sort of magic that the people here can do, though. It's the Arcana's doing. They're capable of doing incredible things... but even those things seem to have limits.

[shiromadoushi]

Even though the one I talked to said they sometimes took people from after they died...

I guess they don't want people to use it like a teleport back to the spawn point? Or something like that...

[photonicfighter]

I don't think it's about us not using it like a teleport. It's about encouraging us to not fight. What we're doing, they take seriously. We should take it seriously, too. We shouldn't be killing each other!

[shiromadoushi]

[[a small pause]]

Does that happen often? More than just this guy threatening?

[photonicfighter]

We might disagree and argue, and sometimes it gets physical... but not usually! And we definitely don't kill each other.

As much as the Arcana see this as a competition, and as much as we're all divided up between them... we should work together as much as possible. Don't you think?

[shiromadoushi]

...It's a competition?

[[someone missed... most of the memos. Or even that there were memos.]]

[photonicfighter]

...yes. Yes, it's a competition.

Your... Arcana, didn't they explain it to you? You did meet with them, right?

[shiromadoushi]

Aaaa... I think so! The guy with the really cool mask that was all glowy and floating, right?

[photonicfighter]

[Mask? Glowy and floating? She has to stop a moment to think of who that might be.]

Do you mean Sun? Maybe... Judgement?

[shiromadoushi]

I think it was Sun...since that matches the number and the look of the tattoo that showed up over the scar on my hand!

[photonicfighter]

Sun, then! And... Sun didn't explain any of this?

[shiromadoushi]

Aaa--- I didn't really think to ask that sort of thing...

[photonicfighter]

....I can try and explain things to you, if you'd like.

[shiromadoushi]

Aaa... if it's not too much trouble...

[photonicfighter]

It's not too much trouble. We've got some time until the next jaunt, don't we? Why don't you come by my place?

[shiromadoushi]

Can do! Until then!

[comebewe]

[There is...no response. Nothing. Just Matthew going completely and utterly silent.]