[open to Investigators] Roll call and IC welcome/infopost

[howexciting]

Is everyone all right? I think-- cazzo!-- I think a roll call is in order. Leonardo da Vinci, present.

We seem to have found ourselves in the Afterlife, or some form of it. But where precisely, I don't know. Angels and demons in the same place... it's unheard of, in the stories of my time.

For those new Travelers, welcome to your first Jaunt. I am sorry it is not more hospitable... if anyone needs better clothes or any supplies, I would be happy to assist, if only I can manage to disperse this crowd-- Dio mio, this crowd! This is ridiculous!

... please, if anyone has found a quiet spot where I may hide, tell me? I am having a bit of trouble, here.

Comments

[shiroganeheir]

I have been telling people, Ambrose-san, that I have been cursed to someone else's afterlife. It certainly feels that way to me.

Kansas would possibly stick out a bit, yes. Perhaps you pleased someone who allowed you life after death? The locals seem to think we are some sort of immortal souls.

[wholeheaded]

So we've got some kind of built-in thing to fit into? That's convenient.

[ oh hey speaking of built-in and convenient: ]

Actually, my name means "immortal." I always thought my mother was being presumptuous but... maybe I can get away with saying she was prophetic.

[howexciting]

The Investigators also did in Digital Frontier, as I understand it, with the Variables... and before that in the Heartbeat Academy as new arrivals, and before that in Harrogate as literal travelers.

And I suppose it is not a lie to be coined an immortal soul, since we seem to come back from the dead, as per the Trumps' whims.

[wholeheaded]

...all right, so it's not so unique. Still, helpful.

[ the back from the dead thing... been there, done that, don't wanna test it a third time or really think about it. ]

[howexciting]

Yes, very. Though I should like to know more about this group to which we are assigned. The more we can fit in, the better.

[wholeheaded]

Yeah, I've got nothing on that front, I barely understand the mythology. We don't-- angels are good, in theory, demons are bad, in theory. Beyond that I just... this is very Earthy, Leonardo, folks from elsewhere are gonna have a hard time with even the basics here.

[ good and wicked, that makes sense, but he's learned by now that he can't trust that simple dichotomy. ]

Why would someone end up in a place like this?

[howexciting]

Purgatory is a place meant for the redemption of souls. That is what I was taught, anyway... so perhaps angels, too, need to be redeemed, and demons as well. Though redemption may entirely depend upon Heaven or Hell's definition of it, in the case of the angels and demons.