introductions

[cancrymods]

It comes to you suddenly, at the end of an unravelling thread of thought. A sudden, piercing sense of wrongness stops you in your tracks and sends you tumbling through rapidfire questions that you realize you have no answer for. How long have you been here? How long have you been doing the same things, over and over, blindly going through the motions of a routine? Just who are you, anyway?

Questions beget more questions and answers prove illusive until you arrive at the only things you know for certain: the first is that this place is Purgatory.

The second is that you're here because you're dead.

Oddly, this doesn't feel like a surprise of any sort. You don't remember how or why it happened, but it did and that's that. It feels rather as though you've been slapped awake and everything around you has come into sharp focus. You're in Limbo, where you've been wandering since you arrived here in Purgatory alongside all the other mindless souls who are acting out what little they remember of their original lives.

Still lingering is that horrible sense of something being terribly wrong. It hasn't dissipated with your realization of the truth – if anything, it's intensified. There's no way to tell what it is, but there's something going on here.

Maybe you should investigate – or at least see if there's anyone else here who's had the same realization as you...

[ OOC: Welcome to the very first log of Can Cry! For the first few hours, Executors will be free to explore and mingle among themselves. Mod replies will come in a few hours. If you're planning to investigate, please indicate that you're doing so in the subject line as your comment. ]

Comments

[pride_of_amarcia]

[Pascal enters the coffee bar as Rei is in the middle of speaking, slowing from a full run exactly one step from the door, then coming in and looking towards the girl who was speaking.

Then, she just triapsed over, her steps wide, as she moved to a chair and just plopped down on it.]

Oh, hey, so that means you know some of what's going on? That's a rather big yay, given my investigations, uh, didn't turn much up so far...

[phantasmagorial]

Some of it, yes. I've been aware of what's going on here much longer than the rest of you... and I've been carrying out my duty here as well for as long as I can remember.

[emberserker]

Duty? Has that got anything to do with what's going on here?

[phantasmagorial]

It... might do?

[ Though she doesn't sound very sure about that herself. ]

I'm supposed to be keeping the peace here in Purgatory but I'm not sure what that would have to do with what else is going on here.

[daughterofthemark]

[KEEPING THE PEACE! A BRAVE PROTECTOR OF THE INNOCENT! NEW FRIEND IS AWESOME!]

[mementomoritz]

Did someone give you that duty, or did you just know it?

[phantasmagorial]

If they did, I don't remember when doing it. But when I woke up here in Limbo... I already knew what I had to do. I'd forgotten almost everything else about myself, but being an Executor and what I was supposed to be doing here... I remember that much.

[pride_of_amarcia]

... So I guess my first question would probably be, does anything specific cause us to become aware in the first place? Why me over, say, that random peep walking past us on the street?

[She points to a specific spectre, not that pointing to a specific one means much.]

[phantasmagorial]

No idea.

[ She shakes her head. ]

This has never happened before, as far as I know... so I don't even know what could've caused it in the first place, let alone why it happened to all of you in particular.

[pride_of_amarcia]

Hmm. Makes sense. The library, for reference, appears to have, like, nothing, so. Not much help there?

Now, you mentioned a 'duty'? Is that for all of us?

[phantasmagorial]

Oh– no, no! Not unless it was something you decided to take on for yourselves. I'd never force you to do it.

[pride_of_amarcia]

Well, lemme ask it this way. What else are we gonna do if we don't take that on?

[phantasmagorial]

... well, normally, you'd just be moving on to your next lives, but...

[pride_of_amarcia]

Yeah, if that's not working, then I'd rather be part of the solution than just, I dunno, sitting in the library forever?