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[delilahs_death]

[A long-haired man in a long white coat appears on screen, looking confused and somewhat in shock. He's carrying the usual new arrival gear from the docks, but he seems a little dazed and disoriented. His collar hangs open, exposed a long gash mark along his neck, but he doesn't seem to be paying it any mind. Instead, he's glancing around Genessia City with an overwhelmed and stunned expression.

Everything seems so very different than from 1896...]

...I don't quite know if I'm using this correctly. If I'm to be honest, I don't think I've ever seen a device quite like this before. But if someone could explain to me where I am a little bit, I think that would be helpful.

[He shuts his eyes for a second, as if trying to shake a fog from his thoughts. Eventually he shakes his head and looks back at the screen, continuing.]

The last thing I remember is -- dying. The last thing I recall is dying. And now I'm in this place and it's all very...well, it's not quite what I think I imagined the afterlife to be.

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[brbgettingwrench]

Well you at least have it on and we can hear and see you. So that's a good start.

[Winry was currently sitting outside the apartment complex that she lives at. She knew she had to kneel over just to get inside, but she was trying to think of other ways around it. But it wasn't long before her mind was focused on other things instead.]

Though you died? I admit this isn't exactly an afterlife because not everyone who arrives is in that type of situation, but think of it as a second chance at life.

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[delilahs_death]

I died. I remember dying.

If this is a second chance, then has everyone else here died as well?

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[brbgettingwrench]

Well, when I first came here I thought I had. Turns out everything turned out okay in the end.

[I mean when your soul is used as a stone, yeah one would think they died.]

But as I said not everyone here has died. But there are some who have gone through such experiences, it's just a case of finding them.

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[delilahs_death]

I don't think that'll be the case for me. There was quite a lot of carnage at the time.

[He shakes his head a little, focusing himself.]

If that's the case, what are we all doing here, then? Why be brought here?

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[brbgettingwrench]

I honestly don't know. I know there is a place for information, but I don't think they know why we are brought here.

But with some people have been here a long time, you would think someone would have some idea.

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[delilahs_death]

So what do people do here, then? Just...live their lives as if everything were all right and it didn't matter why they were brought here?

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[brbgettingwrench]

It seems to look like it, but honestly... I don't know what people do. I know what I do, but cannot really say for the others.

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[delilahs_death]

What is it you do, then?

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[myfayevalentine]

*The way Faye is sitting her wings cannot be seen, so she looks normal enough*

This isn't the afterlife. If it was, I'd be disappointed.

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[delilahs_death]

I remember dying. If this isn't an after-life, what is it?

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[myfayevalentine]

Another time and another place, a completely different world to the one you left behind.

So looks like you got a second chance at being alive.

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[delilahs_death]

...I suppose so. But I don't understand how or why I was brought here.

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[myfayevalentine]

You won't ever understand that. And if you do, you'd be the first of us to figure it out.

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[delilahs_death]

Is everyone else here dead, too, then?

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[myfayevalentine]

Huh? What? No. Most of us have never died. But there's a fair few here that have.

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[delilahs_death]

So a mix of living and dead.

I suppose no one knows why that is, either.

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[youfool]

Oh, that's a very common reaction. But no, you're not in the afterlife. If you were you'd probably be either roasting for your sins or singing 'round the throne of God. You're in Genessia, of course. Could've sworn the introductory pamphlets covered that...

Ah, names! What's yours?

[Don't ask what a werewolf's doing with a phone. Gotta parcel out the madness.]

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[delilahs_death]

I admit, that was more what I was expecting. But I died and wound up here, so...I suppose the idea of an unknown afterlife made the most sense. But none of this makes any sense at all.

[Honestly, the fact that he's talking to a wolf is the least confusing thing about this.]

My name is Jezebel Disraeli.

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[youfool]

[A werewolf! Standing mostly upright and everything.]

A common point of origin around these parts, however morbid.

[His teeth show and his lips curl once the man reveals his thoroughly unmanly name.]

HAHAHA, WHAT!? No it isn't! I'm sorry, I have to assume your parents were too decent for that. Come on; your actual name, please. You're pulling my paw!

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[delilahs_death]

[He just wears a long, dry look while he laughs. It's not the first time he's gotten flack over his name, but still.]

My father had a flair for the dramatic and biblical.

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[youfool]

Ahaha, and the demoniacal too, I bet! Naught but malevolence would possess a person to grant a name for the wrong sex, and with such dark meaning besides! Goodness, what a blackguard!

[The phone's experiencing some turbulence, due to the rolling laughter Ted's going through.]

Aheh, aheh-heh! Well, I'm *gulping breath* very sorry to hear that. Thank the grace of God you have a spare. Please let me use your surname exclusively; what charity I've got forbids the first.

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[delilahs_death]

[Well, he's definitely not wrong about his dad being a blackguard who's into the demonic, that part's for sure.]

You can call me 'doctor'; it's what most people did. Or Disraeli is fine, I suppose.

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[youfool]

"Dr. Disraeli." Catchy! There's some alliterative appeal for you. What field? Medical, or something more esoteric?

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[immortalrose]

Ah, a newcomer...

[There's been a startling number of new faces in Genessia lately. The dhampir has noticed. This could prove to be both good and bad but he doesn't think much of it. At least not yet. That's why he welcomes this newcomer with a placid smile. He can tell this poor chap isn't quite savvy with technology.]

You were...dying? [Augustine arches his brow curiously when he hears that last bit.] This isn't the afterlife, friend. This is...a whole new world.

One with unlimited possibilities.

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[delilahs_death]

I was. And then I died. I remember that much, even if this is not the afterlife I anticipated.

I see. And what sort of possibilities do you mean, then?