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[knifedances]

[He'd been keeping out of the way during the recent chaos for the most part, his strong sense of self-preservation leaving him disinclined to take up an active roll - that, and he may still have been sulking just a little over the results of a run-in with a certain detested someone while under the influence of the contaminated water - but that doesn't mean he hasn't been watching. On the contrary, he'd quite enjoyed witnessing the turmoil produced by recent events, and has been keeping a careful eye on the DEMISE network just to make certain he doesn't miss anything that might be useful to him, later.

But now all the chaos has died down and he's feeling a little bored, so he deems it time to re-engage with Death City society]

Ah well, that was certainly a baptism by fire! So much has happened, and all in the last ten days since my arrival. Witches and kidnappings and chaos in the streets, even potential serial killings on top of it all; enough to unnerve or at least unsettle most people, I would have thought. Is this the level of danger we'll be facing on a regular basis, I wonder? I'd been led to believe otherwise.

How many of you did the attacks convince to fight as we've been brought here to do? How many were dissuaded? I myself am still undecided.

The list of deaths and casualties was fairly high, so my condolences to anyone who's experienced a recent loss or disappearance. It's strange and perhaps a little disorientating to find ourselves in a situation like this, and that must be made significantly worse if the people you know - either those you've met since arriving here or those you might have known from home - are lost or threatened. Unless those people were ones you found threatening, I suppose, which is always a possibility.

Which leads me to another question! Have many people here chosen to locate partners amongst those they knew before coming to Death City? Or is it more common to pair off with those you've only just met? I suppose I'm feeling a little curious.

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[knifedances]

I'd say so, yeah ☆

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[kill_some_time]

The answer you want to hear is above, between and beneath. However, while there is a King Nothing and a King Everything, there is no King In Between.

[Yep, that explanation makes perfect sense in his opinion.]

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[knifedances]

And does that leave you between then, or beneath? I'd be inclined to say between given your earlier description, which I suppose would leave you at a disadvantage in some respects.

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[kill_some_time]

Does it seem that way to you?

[Ew, no, he's not Poseidon and wouldn't want to be like him at all even if he had the chance to. The other being more macho than him doesn't count as an argument.]

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[knifedances]

Well, it's one of three possibilities, if I'm to believe what you've been telling me.

[Which is not to say that he does :|]

It would depend on how you define beneath, between and above, I suppose.

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[kill_some_time]

It's everything a question of such? I could be one person's god of evil and another's god of good at the same time, viewed from such a point of view.

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[knifedances]

More likely than not, yeah, but that has more to do with the subjective opinion or belief system of the person who considers you a god, doesn't it? Rather than the specific realm - or whatever you'd like to call it - that you rule over. The interpretation can be different, but the specificities remain the same. Or is that not the case?

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[kill_some_time]

That would be correct.

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[knifedances]

In which case we're back to the conclusion that one of three possibilities exist then, right?

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[kill_some_time]

So it would seem. Your way of reaching conclusions seems to be the same as the one you use for asking your questions.

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[knifedances]

Ah, you're being a little rude. But that's okay; I'm not easily offended. Besides, perhaps you're only seeing as much of my reasoning as I'm allowing you to see. Perhaps this way I'll get lucky and bore you enough to convince you to go away.

[Though really he's curious about you, almost as much as he is cautious]

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[kill_some_time]

Perhaps. But would that not make telling me this a stupid move?

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[knifedances]

Hmmm, I don't know. Do you find stupidity off-putting?

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[kill_some_time]

I have come to find it a fact that is hard to avoid.

Sometimes, it can even be entertaining.

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[knifedances]

A little hard to avoid, sure. Though there's a big difference between outright stupidity and ignorance.

And that's annoying. Is there anything you don't find entertaining? Perhaps I could feign that instead~

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[kill_some_time]

There is.

There is a lot, yet what would telling you bring?

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[knifedances]

Ah, it's called teasing. You don't always need to take me so seriously ☆

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[kill_some_time]

No, albeit maybe you would be doing well to take our conversations a bit more serious?

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[knifedances]

I suppose that depends on where your inexplicable interest in me will lead, doesn't it?

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[kill_some_time]

I won't lead you anywhere.

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[knifedances]

That's not quite what I meant. I'm just curious about your intentions, which I'm sure you can understand.

[Not that he expects to receive an answer, but there's never any harm in asking~]

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[kill_some_time]

My intentions... I am using you as a toy to alleviate my boredom. That's all.

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[knifedances]

[He doesn't like that answer, yet he's arrogant enough to believe that attempting to play with him wouldn't get particularly far, and that he'll attempt to return the favour when he feels it's appropriate]

How unkind. Though as much as I hate to disappoint you, I don't think I'd make a very satisfactory toy.

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[kill_some_time]

I would be inclined to agree. You are not very interesting, yet I have found that few mortals ever were within the last centuries. They come too far and in-between and die that quickly that it's hardly worth the bother to pay attention to them.

Yet I have run out of my usual toys and there is nothing else around.

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[knifedances]

If I'm so very uninteresting then why not choose one of the others? I'm sure there are enough unusual beings here to keep at least a little of your interest, and some of them are likely to be much longer lived than me. I'm just an ordinary human and therefore no fun at all.

[He's quite happy for you to believe that]