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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.))

Comments

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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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[ardent]

Actually, repentance is pretty accurate too, when it comes to what we're doing here.

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[envy_the_sinners]

I wonder how many others would agree with the sentiment as well.

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[ardent]

I don't know, actually! I know a lot don't, though; from the responses you've gotten so far, does it seem as though people have put much thought into why we're here at all? Most seem to just accept it after a while.

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[envy_the_sinners]

It is an easy thing to accept. The lifestyle is easy, and the people of this world are welcoming. If this place were miserable, those taken here would do more than question. They would demand answers.

[But that's precisely Scar's reason for wondering. He hadn't known what to expect, after his death, except that someplace as lighthearted as this had been an impossibility for a man who had inflicted so much suffering.

But that's just Scar being dramatic again.]

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[ardent]

Maybe, but I find it hard to accept that somewhere like this would bring us here and expect nothing in return. I might have believed it once, and I wanted to when I arrived, but now I'm not so sure.

It troubles me, though I try not to think about it.

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[envy_the_sinners]

You mean that this place might be looking for "payment" for the service that it has supposedly granted us?