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"Can Cry" Mod Account ([personal profile] cancrymods) wrote in [community profile] cancry2020-07-31 08:27 pm

introductions

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...

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mementomoritz: hmmm... (hypothesis)

[personal profile] mementomoritz 2020-08-01 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, absolutely. [Not even missing a beat.] But that just raises another question, doesn't it?

How do we know?

[She looks almost serious, for all her giddy excitement.]

We don't know our own names, or what happened to us, or anything about our lives. But we both know that we died, and that something is very, very wrong. And that whatever it is, being dead isn't it.

So what's telling us that? Was it something we knew once, that was too important to forget completely? I don't think we can find the answer until we know how we know.
emberserker: Angry look. (you are not)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-08-01 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
It could well be. [Frowns.] You're an energetic sort, aren't you?
mementomoritz: MERCY YES (Default)

[personal profile] mementomoritz 2020-08-01 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Apparently, yes! [And she's back to cheerful.] How could I not be excited? This whole place is an incredible mystery! We can learn so much!

Mostly things we already learned once, but probably also new things.
emberserker: Chibi grump. (why life)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-08-01 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
That may well be, but you realize we are dead. And something seems strange besides...
mementomoritz: maybe both! (new toys? new friends?)

[personal profile] mementomoritz 2020-08-01 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It could probably be worse. We could be dead and on fire! Or really, really bored.

[She has priorities. Are they good priorities? They're priorities.]

At least figuring this out gives us something to do.
emberserker: Moody and sad. (sighhhhhhhh)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-08-01 08:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Wolfsbane has the urge to set Medic on fire, but she just rolls her eyes and looks around the crowds.]

Why all the people, anyway? I thought Purgatory wasn't supposed to be permanent.
mementomoritz: yes??? (what if science?)

[personal profile] mementomoritz 2020-08-01 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[Medic considers that point thoughtfully.] Hmm... I don't think I know much about Purgatory, as a concept. Maybe it just takes a really long time?

"Not forever" could still mean "millions of years", after all!
emberserker: Looking up with surprise. (oh no)

[personal profile] emberserker 2020-08-02 03:23 am (UTC)(link)
I'd rather not.