@morpheus

[dreamlords]

How are you thinking of this place?

Do you think you're a prisoner of some sort of powerful magic or do you think you're dead? Or is it something else?

If it's death, were you close to dying when you then woke up here? Because I know I wasn't. I cannot die so if this is death, I have some questions.

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@dewdrop

[declass]

I am not sure yet.
As far as I remember, I was not close to dying before I came here.
And my co-worker arrived at the same time as I did, and he also doesn't remember being so.
It would make sense if we died at the same time, but the fact that neither of us remember how it happened is what concerns me.

[dreamlords]

I was not anywhere close to dying but again, I shouldn't be able to die.

So, if that's what's happened, I'm concerned as well. And it would have severe ramifications where I come from.

Do you and your coworker remember the same things?

text — un: LAURENT

[wrists]

are we not all here just to die again? the concept of death feels meaningless at this point. i think the hierarchy has us here to do their bidding because they need our souls to keep the netherworld functioning. we are essentially prisoners, though they wouldn't have us think this way.

i might have been killed. i don't remember it happening, but it seems within reason for me. in any case, it feels underwhelming.

[dreamlords]

They wouldn't and I would say I am through being someone's prisoner but I apparently have no choice in the matter.

Which is infuriating. But again, nothing I can do.

Were you being hunted or just in a position where a lot of people wanted to kill you?

un: d

[damnpire]

Will you be trying to find a way back?

[dreamlords]

Of course.

You won't?

text | un: constantine

[exilire]

Having any luck with finding answers?

[dreamlords]

Why?

@warder

[heavenstorn]

I am all but certain that I am dead. Though this is not the afterlife I was meant to go to.

[dreamlords]

And what is your afterlife supposed to be like?

un: zagreus

[dodgeouttahell]

I'm not entirely sure, actually.

[dreamlords]

Nothing has made you lean one way or another?

text, un: lottie

[oomfies]

i twisted my ankle before coming here
so definitely not dying

but if we're here that means we're dead anyway, right?

[dreamlords]

Does it or is that just what we've been told?

( un: mellifa | text )

[somatosensory]

Does the afterlife typically involve this much slime? ( lest anyone forget the shrouds. )

I feel like that would have a more prominent feature in eschatology.

[dreamlords]

It doesn't. Not any afterlife I know of.

Slime is absent from those places.

@takemitchy

[crybabyhero]

[Takemichi has been coping with his dingy afterlife under the assumption that everyone here is very, truly, and undeniably dead. He sure is. He vividly remembers the searing pain of being skewered by a sword. He just sort of assumed everyone else had a similar memory; they just didn't feel like sharing.

This text message changes things.]

what do you mean you can't die??

[dreamlords]

It means I can't die. I'm not human.

@silco

[zauneyete]

I suspected I'm dead, given the... obvious trappings. However, some have made arguments that make me think perhaps it's less likely.

[ People who should be alive being here, for example. But you know, he is dead, he knows it. Or if he isn't, he'll be mightily surprised, considering his last moments... ]

Perhaps this is yet another mystery for us to unravel.

[dreamlords]

Among many other mysteries.

Were you near death where you've come from?

text | un: yuheng

[rumination]

I was dead, or extremely close to death, upon my arrival. My body would not have lasted, given the state.
However, this is not the underworld I expected.

[dreamlords]

What did you expect?

@harukaze

[janescayre]

I don't remember my own death, and I think this entire place is a set up.

Sure, the existence of the supernatural is both damnable evidence and totally annoying, but this place reflects too much of the living world to be a realm of judgement, rest, or punishment. For example, we still have to prove our moral worth when our prior lives should have provided open and shut cases. We're still living with physical bodies that get injured and catch diseases, we still have to earn money, we're still under the mercy of an authoritarian class. It's the same shit in a different pile, only with dumber hurdles.

Also they keep ripping off different parts of myth and literature. Someone is just slapping a bunch of mystical entities together ad hoc.

My bet is that it's a simulation, or if we're believing in truly stupid possibilities, an alternate universe.

[dreamlords]

A simulation?

So, we're prisoners being subjected to something technological?

@kuruko

[telepathy]

i was close to death

[dreamlords]

What happened?