@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.

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]

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?

[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?

[declass]

Hmmm...

I wonder if it's possible to send someone to the land of the dead without them actually dying then?
Which does seem a little more unfair if you're as stuck as the actual dead.
But it also does show that this place is uncomfortably powerful.

The last things we were doing? No.
But that itself isn't unusual, since it's not uncommon for everyone at work to be doing their own things.
We just aren't sure if we later on were together and simply do not remember what happened then.

[wrists]

trying to get information out of the hierarchy has been challenging. but i have discovered a small handful of interesting facts, such as this place didn't always exist as there are no known natives of this land. amun's father was the first hierarch, so that particular establishment is painfully young as well. and clearly in discord.

a lot of people probably wanted to kill me, but there was only one that mattered. i fear he got his way. but really, the situation of this place is not so different from back home, so i feel altogether unchanged.

were you a prisoner before?

[dreamlords]

A memory spell.

I've heard of such things but for it to be cast on so many people at once? I don't know if I've heard of something that powerful.

I've been to places that some consider the domain of the dead. I've always been able to leave.

[dreamlords]

The fact that this place didn't exist prior to us is interesting. Was it created to bring us here or was that just a convenient side effect of whatever happened?

It doesn't seem to be easy to get any sort of information especially since the discord you speak of reaches us and ends with us in prisons and being branded.

Not directly before this, no. But, I did spend a century as a captive.

[declass]

Right. If it is possible, that is pretty worrisome.
Especially since we all arrive here not at our fullest capacity. Nothing is really in our favor for dealing that something like that.

Well... maybe there is some way to leave this one, and we just haven't found it yet?
We still haven't really explored too far. Who knows how big this place is?

un: d

[damnpire]

Will you be trying to find a way back?

[dreamlords]

Indeed.

Though, I would think that if there was a way to get out of here, I would have found it.

That isn't being a braggart —

[ well. ]

But, I've been able to leave places that look impossible to leave before. Save for the last time I was stuck in one place.

[dreamlords]

Of course.

You won't?

[damnpire]

I have been.

[declass]

A place other than this one?
Is that where you were before you came here?

[wrists]

the question remains at large, though i wonder of the people that predate the hierarchy. they must have been formed in response to a lack of order and the impending calamity of oblivium. and why are we not permitted to travel to the far shores? there were ships that came from there, before. now it's either a hellscape where surely death awaits, or it's a possible alternative to here. maybe even a route to elsewhere. either way, it does not benefit the hierarchy to lose us, because then they lose souls. just food for thought. it behooves them to keep us in the dark.

a century? you predate the hierarchy on your own. who are you?

[dreamlords]

No.

I was in my home before this. And I was alive. I was fine. So, if I'm dead, then something is radically wrong.

And that makes me uncomfortable.

[dreamlords]

And no success?

[dreamlords]

Morpheus.

An Endless though I've become aware that that doesn't mean something to everyone.

[wrists]

[ laurent of vere also means nothing to everyone here, so. relatable. ]

the names leads to the assumption that your life has no beginning or end. and you never heard of the netherworld prior to waking in it?

[damnpire]

No. Not right now.

Some of the Restless here will talk about the shores farther out, but they don’t know what may be there.

[dreamlords]

There were other realms but not a Netherworld that I was aware of. My brothers and sisters controlled them.

No one had control over a Netherworld.

[dreamlords]

It's worth exploring but I'm sure it would be difficult to get there.

Which just means I want to go more.

[wrists]

i see. the oldest members of the hierarchy were all related by blood or marriage as well.

and did you have control over a realm?

[declass]

We will try to figure it out.
Everyone is at least working hard on trying to get to the bottom of things.

Although if something here is powerful enough to bring someone like you here...
We definitely need to stay on our guard.

text | un: constantine

[exilire]

Having any luck with finding answers?