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[raisedinabox]

[The audio feature clicks on and when he speaks Jim sounds subdued, thoughtful even

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[raisedinabox]

Do you mind if I ask what happened to you?

[Hmm. And he's kinda intrigued by that answer, Howie.]

You've accepted that you're already dead, but... aren't you here for a second chance, just like the rest of us? Couldn't you use your deal to be alive again?

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[raisedinabox]

There's a story I heard once about a man whose home was caught in a flood. He'd been driven up onto his kitchen table when his neighbors broke into the house, to offer him help out of town. The man declined, saying that God would protect him from the waters.

So they moved on, and the water kept on rising until the man was driven upstairs, and some other neighbors passed by in a motorboat they owned. They offered him a way out, and again he declined, saying that God would save him.

Finally the man was driven up onto the roof, and a police helicopter came for him, trying to convince the man to go with them before he drowned, but he insisted that God would save him.

The helicopter moved on, the man drowned, and when he got to heaven he asked God why he hadn't saved him. God replied that he'd sent his neighbors, a boat and a helicopter to save the man, and that it wasn't his fault that the man had insisted.

It seems to me that if God wanted you dead, he wouldn't be giving you a way back to life again.

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[stopthat_destro]

All of my deaths here have been more painful and vivid than whatever transpired back home. [BECAUSE HE'S NOT REALLY DEAD BACK IN GI JOE BRIG, OR SOMETHING.]

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[raisedinabox]

I'm sorry to hear that, Doctor. And they haven't become any easier to bear with time?

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[stopthat_destro]

No. I suspect the Death Toll is designed to be something your body can never truly adjust to. Each experience feels like the first.

You haven't died on the Barge yet?

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[raisedinabox]

Could I just ask, other than Crane and his friend, no one else attacked you after your takeover, did they?

[DO YOU HEAR THE FAKE CONCERN IN HIS VOICE?]

Once. But it was...

[Pause]

It was different. I passed out due to blood loss before I actually died, so it was just like drifting into unconsciousness.

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[raisedinabox]

No, Edward, I was talking about my first death. I believe I blacked out before actually dying during our encounter, so my memories of it only extend up to a point.

[HE REMEMBERS PLENTY, EDDIE.]

I don't have one. An opinion, that is. It's not something I've ever considered in that much depth in the past.

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[raisedinabox]

...Do you remember it vividly, Edward? You didn't seem quite yourself at the time.

[Lol, Sorry Edward. Jim's playing the morbid fascination game.]

Hm.

It doesn't seem too unreasonable to believe that I do.

[Lie.]

[flashy_magic]

I remember mine perfectly. I didn't really have any expectations for what it'd be like, though. I mean, I didn't think I was going to do it any time soon.

[raisedinabox]

Do you mind if I ask how it happened?

[flashy_magic]

Another sorcerer came up from behind and sucked the life out of me.

[raisedinabox]

My condolences, that sounds like a nasty way to go.

[Private] Oh crap why no notif on our last conversation.

[championoftime]

You're sounding quite curious today, Mr. Profit. Surely I can't be the inspiration in this new interest in death.

[He does not believe that he is. But he will let Jim answer how he wants to.]

[Private] Eljay nommed it :c

[raisedinabox]

Well, you are, in a way. Wondering if your experience of it was the same as mine made me curious.

[That and he was feeling particularly voyeuristic today.]

[Private]

[championoftime]

Did you learn anything interesting? [Curiosity strikes. Someone is going to have to have a dream about his death soon and see how he tries to redo it. This is certainty.]

[Private]

[raisedinabox]

No. What I was curious about was how people felt the moment they lost their life, but it seems too intrusive to ask for that specifically. People seem to be more comfortable talking in generalities.