mid-week 11; un: monday

[vogelfrei]

[ With the regression of the city, working at Sunset Theater has quickly become less enjoyable than it used to be. Though the cast remembers the rapport McGillis had built with them, even if they're more standoffish now. And it's not as though McGillis had placed much stock in his interpersonal relationships to the random citizens, but... the shift in atmosphere serves as a tangible reminder. That this is temporary. That this world is susceptible to insane levels of mind manipulation. That he wants to leave.

Leave and... do what? That's the question that has haunted McGillis for weeks now, and the countdown is mercilessly continuing. Soon Braphine will release them from her hold, one way or another. Soon, he'll have to know. And so will everyone else. ]

Just a little over two weeks until we're free from this, if Braphine really keeps her word and the God of Conflict doesn't swallow up all her power. Until then we'll doubtlessly face a number of additional challenges and hassles, but while we're still in the quiet before the storm...

Are you going home to your own worlds after this? Or will you take Braphine up on her offer and come along with one of your 'bonds'? What is your world like? What is making you return? What is making you abandon it?

And if you're like me and cannot return to where you came from no matter what, maybe the answers can give you some perspective.

Comments

[finalmix]

[ he is not explaining the afterlife hierarchy to McGillis, so, ]

That's putting it simply, yeah.

More accurately I judge whether souls who passed on too early but have enough Imagination to make a difference deserve a second chance or a redo, and if they do, I make it happen.

[vogelfrei]

That capitalization seems meaningful.

How is Imagination defined?

[finalmix]

Potential. Vision. If you can picture something happening to make a change and making it happen. Your Imagination is the limit, basically. If you died before making your mark on the world~

It's kind of a nebulous definition at times but I do get the hang of what I'm looking for after several centuries in the job~

[vogelfrei]

An interesting system - it almost makes me wonder how I'd be judged, were it in place in my world.

But only almost.

[finalmix]

To date your apparent curiosity: What do you value the most, and would you be able to live without it?

[vogelfrei]

How concrete or abstract do you want that answer to be?

I'd be able to live without everything I valued in my life, as evidenced by the fact that I have been doing so here. But if it's about a core concept...

Then the answer is 'power'. I have lived without it before, but would always strive to gain it.