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[envy_the_sinners]

[Scar is discovering the magic of nightblogging. Perhaps not the best idea in the world, but his conversation with Ib a while back has left him thinking.

Is there actually a purpose to this second chance?]

I am curious. Do you view coming here as a bump in the road, or as a second chance for something?

[Because let's be real this can't possibly just be a giant afterlife serial killer rehab universe.]

Were we brought here for a purpose? For our own benefit?

((OOC: All of Scar's responses will be anon unless otherwise indicated.))

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[quickattackjack]

_{[Who's awake at this hour? SKELETONS.]}

This isn't the first time I've found myself in a strange and wonderful new place, so I like to think of it as a detour.

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[envy_the_sinners]

Was the last "strange and wonderful" place similar to this?

If you do not mind my asking.

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[ossifragant]

[The good part of being someone who barely ever sleeps?

You're awake to notice things like this. Fortunately, awake enough to go anon and not talk about this sort of thing publicly.]

I don't know what the reason was for being brought here and I don't care. I'm going to live out my life as I choose.

we can probably assume anon forever?

[envy_the_sinners]

To not even consider the chance that there is a purpose for being here is shortsighted and foolish.

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[doitrockapella]

Neither. I've always viewed it as the next adventure to come.

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[envy_the_sinners]

But then do you intend to return to your previous "adventure" when this is theoretically complete?

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[lieutenantantichrist]

[Somebody else happens to be awake, sitting at the kitchen table with a bottle of beer and now and then making stabs at the shitty crossword in yesterday's paper. When the phone buzzes, he eyes the message for a while, then puts his pen down.]

You know what? It's your lucky day. I'm going to tell you the secret.

I'll tell you the one reason why we're all here.

You ready?

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[envy_the_sinners]

I asked the question, did I not?

[Of course he's ready. He's betting that there's some sarcastic smartass on the other end, and Scar... has absolutely no sense of humor.]

[Anon Text]

[francia]

None of the above. I originally thought this was some form of divine punishment. Now I'm not so sure. I have found some great and wondrous things when I expected nothing to be good again. I liken it to limbo, a sort of in between.

[Anon Text]

[envy_the_sinners]

[That's something that makes Scar think...]

Divine punishment? I arrived assuming the opposite. What kind of place did you come from that this would be likened to hell?

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[ardent]

I don't think it's a second chance, because that would mean that we can undo whatever happened to us back home, or we can make it better somehow. I know we can't; what happened, happened, and we're going to be carrying that with us forever.

But I think that we may have been brought here for our benefit; a lot of my friends and I were in a bad situation back home, and this place is giving us a chance to heal from it and support each other like we couldn't back there.

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[envy_the_sinners]

I did not mean to say that this place is a means of erasing the past.

[If anyone knows that's impossible... It's Scar.]

Perhaps a better word would be a place of repentance. Or renewal, in the case of you and your friends.

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[cobraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa]

Originally I viewed it as the worst possible setback, but for me, it really is little more than a bump in the road at this point.

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[envy_the_sinners]

Then you intend to return home and accomplish whatever goal it was you were pulled from?

[He's mainly trying to get a feel for what kind of people are here. Not just their personalities, but the states of their lives before being pulled here.]

[soundmind]

It's a strange detour, to me. It's been frustrating not knowing what's going to happen back at home, I left in the middle of something pretty serious.

[Though she knows what's happened back at home now and it saddens her to think of it since, well, things.]

I think the purpose for which we're here is dependent on how it's viewed. At first I felt like it was an accident, but now I'm not so sure anymore.

[envy_the_sinners]

Leaving at a point of great importance seems to be a common trend among many of us.

An accident in what way? In us being here at all, or an accident in who specifically was chosen to be brought here?

[anon text]

[exeggutorhead]

Second chance, I guess.

and if there's a reason beyond messing with us, I have yet to see it.

[Because yeah he likes it here. A lot. But this place screws around with them way too much to ignore.]

[anon text]

[envy_the_sinners]

[OH LOOK, they can speak to each other like civilized people, now.]

So you think that the purpose for us being brought here is for us to decide, and any potential intention of the party responsible is nonexistent?

[Scar likes it here, too. Which... makes him a little uncomfortable.]

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[voidedrogue]

i guess in a way its a second chance
but itd be a better one if 100% everyone i cared about was here
and welp i guess i left some important shit back home that needs doin

hm
does it have to have a benefit or purpose?
maybe its just what it is

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[envy_the_sinners]

Nothing simply is what it is. People, and by extension whatever force brought us here, do not do things without a purpose.

[Scar, stop. You're projecting.]

Even if the reason turns out to be trivial or shallow, there must be one. You certainly are not the only person who left behind something important.

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[majorcrotchgrab]

So many anonymous posters lately...

But I'd say a second chance. It's... done me well so far.

[envy_the_sinners]

[Scar keeps his own feed to anonymous text.]

This place does well by many, it seems. It is certainly an easier place to live than my previous home.

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[islandshore]

Depends on the person, I'd say. Not all of us really need a second chance. For some of us, it's something else. Like an escape.

[An escape from one prison to another, in some people's eyes. Riku appreciates the space the two regions offer, but a part of him certainly cries out for more.]

Couldn't tell you if we were brought here for a reason. There's still a lot we don't understand about this place to begin with. Trust me, I've been here for four years, and I still don't get how things work half the time.

But seeing how some people have to give up powers and change species to come here, I don't know if it's really for our benefit.

[envy_the_sinners]

Nobody has ever even come forward to say how it is we have come to be here in the first place?

Superhuman abilities are not needed here, though. There is minimal violence, and we have Pokémon to match or surpass whatever we could do before.

[He is more than fine to be rid of alchemy.]

[Anon text]

[foolishwren]

<sub>[Normally she doesn't bother with anon. She likes to pretend she's got nothing to hide and boldly replying to anonymous messages in full I JUST GOTTA BE ME mode is a good way to do that.]

[But man, today...]

[She's just gonna stick with anon. That way she doesn't have to bother with her unending facade of sarcasm and immaturity.]</sub>

For me it's a second chance. I don't plan on going home if I can help it, ever.

But I don't think there's a universal reason for us being here.

Or if there is, it's too big to grasp.

[Anon text]

[envy_the_sinners]

[Thaaaat hits home. Scar can't go home. At least, not without being rounded up and killed once again. It would be a life of running away. He can't even take up a new identity. His face is too recognizable.

Thank Kimbley.]

I think you are one of the first people to say that you would prefer to stay here.

I cannot say that I disagree with you.

[ajustcaws]

i don't know, i think it's kind of like a vacation! i mean it's kind of not where i was hoping to be, but i can't really say i don't like it and it's not like going home will be a problem.

[envy_the_sinners]

What do you mean, exactly, that going home will not be a problem? You would not mind going home? Or you could whenever you wanted?

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[perfectstrike]

A second chance.

There is someone here whom I deeply care for, that I did not... truly understand before I died. But I have a chance to change that, here.

I do not care what the purpose is that we were brought here for. At this moment... being here is enough. Do you not agree?

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[envy_the_sinners]

[Oh. That's... well... rather close to his own situation. Or at least, one aspect of it.]

I think that depends if you have properly come to an understanding with the person. If you have successfully made up for what was missing before.

[ANONYMOUS TEXT]

[diamondo]

I don't think we've been brought here for any specific purpose.
I've been here a long time and it doesn't seem like the world's in any trouble and we need to save it or any shit like that.
So I think we're here for our own benefit.
A lot of people I've met here have issues they need to work out.
I guess that's what this place is for.
It serves as an afterlife for some people, so there's that too.
Why do you ask?

[ANONYMOUS TEXT]

[envy_the_sinners]

I ask because my own thoughts have wandered in the same way. Many of the people with whom I speak seem to be better off here than they were at home.