anarqrists not-so-anonymous: redux

[rebells]

Who: Salty Anarqrists Club (Jay's invites + anyone those people decide to invite)
Where: DRAGON HOUSING (on the first floor of the coven's apartment complex in Shehui)
When: Day 148, evening
Open/Closed: ICly closed! potential gatecrashers should PM rebells.

[The process will be familiar to some of you and new to others: some time over the past week, Jay or someone else would have quietly approached you in person and let you know about a meeting that was taking place tonight, hopefully away from the watchful gaze of Brie, Genette, and Qri.

Jay will greet you by the door. It might be a tight fit in the Geir-and-Vern apartment (if indeed it can be considered an apartment), depending on how many people show up. Take a seat on the ground next to the dragon--or on the dragon, if he'll let you--and wait for the meeting to come to order.]

Comments

[rootandbranch]

[after someone reads the updated list to Geir, he lays there with his head bowed and eyes narrowed for a few moments, looking at the ground, tailtip and claws twitching in thought. when he finally looks up, it's with a serious, thoughtful expression.]

This might not be a question for Qri as much as what people here have seen so far, but has anyone noticed a lot of coven members coming from backgrounds that seem... well, strange? Things you wouldn't expect.

I don't mean weird other worlds, I mean things like-- people who had died. Barriers that are normally more difficult to cross than space. I've heard a little about stuff like that. I'm wondering how much there is.

[imsorey]

You mean she's bringing people back to life and then bringing them here? Is that even possible?

[it must be if it's happening, but bringing people back to life isn't usually something that can, well, happen]

[rootandbranch]

See, that's the thing. I don't know if it's Qri doing it, or if it's the world that the people who died came from doing something really weird...

[Geir doesn't mention names. he doesn't know if he dead individuals in question would want that spread around. luckily, he also doesn't think that implying a world is very weird will narrow the potential choices down at all: everyone's world is weird to someone else here, for certain.]

[splinten]

[DIRK, HELPFULLY, LIKE IT DOESN'T MATTER]

No, Paradox Space was definitely ready to let us die that time. Either she brought us back from death or pulled us from right before death and healed us. None of us remember waking up in our version of the afterlife so it's impossible to be sure.

[rootandbranch]

[well if Dirk's not worried about it, Geir's not going to be! though that's an explanation that salves his irritated sense of metaphysics somewhat, actually.]

Oh, right before you died would actually make more sense--!

[splinten]

It could, and I'd imagine it's easier. The other option isn't impossible, though, and maybe Qri's powers lend towards resurrection more readily than healing. We can't really say at this point

[But Geir can take the salve to his metaphysics.]

[rootandbranch]

We know Genette can heal. I don't think anyone's died yet, so I don't want to go assuming she can bring people back from the dead! I guess it'd be useful if someone in the coven-- but it's better not to chance it.

[Geir wonders idly for a moment if he could bring something back from the dead. the word "enlivening" seems like it would cover that, doesn't it? but there aren't any dead coven members around to test it on, and he sort of hopes there won't be. he doesn't know what he would do about that.]

Is that the weirdest thing we've heard of for people being brought here?

[splinten]

So far. I wouldn't discount there being stranger.

[alienates]

[ from the back: ]

If she could somehow save me before I died while I was being burned alive I would be really impressed.

[splinten]

[Dirk jerks his thumb at Karkat.]

And Vantas's point.

[imsorey]

[...PUTS...A HAND ON DIRK'S SHOULDER...what is your life and why is it worse than malevolence imploding the world]

Maybe it's a separate issue, but you might not want to go back to your world until we're sure. I'm not sure how this kind of stuff works but I wouldn't want it to kill you again just because you were supposed to be dead somehow.

[splinten]

[Is that. Is that a hand of comfort. This is so confusing.

Let's be practical instead. That's easier. ...Let's gloss over how they can't go back to their world EVER because the timeline is done for and they're going to be replaced by different versions of themselves. Sorey is clearly having a hard enough time with multiply-dead kids.]

Which raises the issue of potentially being sent back involuntarily.

[imsorey]

[being dead is sad and generally not okay, that is a hand of comfort. it is also to make sure he's not a ghost.]

The people who have gone missing, right? I was hoping they were just going home, but that was before this.

[splinten]

[comfort is weird. ghost check is hilarious]

It would be my guess for what happened to them.

[rootbound]

[pipes up from like, the top of Geir's head, where he is sitting to avoid too many feelings, because wow there seem to be a lot going on on the floor]

She said she could let you stay or go as you willed, didn't she, if she reached full power again, so that's...

Actually, that would be nefarious if everyone she brought here turned out to be dead originally, but I think you might be a minority right now.

Sorry that happened to you, by the by.

[splinten]

[At least Dirk's main feeling is a kind of resigned, 'Yup, sure am dead.']

It wasn't awesome.

[re: the dying. MOVING ON.]

You're right. The majority of people here seem to go back to their original worlds.

[apatheia]

[nodding over here]

I can attest to this as well, but I assume that it's because of Qri that I was brought back online. Given the circumstances, I can't imagine anything else that would have achieved this.

[rootandbranch]

Is it different because you're a-- [not a machine. Nines was very clear that machines weren't the same thing.]

Because you're not human?

[apatheia]

It's possible, but I'd think that Qri would have to have very extensive knowledge of how androids, specifically YoRHa androids, work. When she can't even communicate with us directly though, I don't know how she'd be able to obtain that kind of information.

[Like not even most androids themselves would be able to explain how they work and how to repair them, so how could a with in some distant universe figure it out?]

[rootandbranch]

...that's a good question, actually. Have you ever asked if Madoka or Genette can heal you guys? If they can, it means that "healing" isn't only restricted to flesh, when they're able to do it.

[and that's an interesting point all by itself, isn't it...]

[apatheia]

No, I haven't, but that's a good question. I've never needed extensive healing, and if I did, I'd most likely go to 9S first for repairs, but... It may be worth finding out.

[It'd probably be best not to just rely on 9S for repairs after all, although the idea of something like magic fixing something robotic like her seems a bit odd.]

[splinten]

Corpse party high five.

[He holds his hand up for a high five. Give him a high five, 2B.]

[apatheia]

[He's gonna have to teach her what a high five is first, whoops.]

... What's a high five? [If he hadn't said that specifically, she would've guessed saluting since he has his hand raised.]

[splinten]

[Teaching important things is what he's about]

I hold up my hand, you slap it.

[He demonstrates by slapping his own hand.]

[apatheia]

Oh.

[WELL that seems easy enough! She slaps his hand back lightly.]

"Corpse party high five," then.