Questions (Phone)

[ceasetoexist]

[At first, there's just silence over the phone, like someone knocked it over and forgot to put the receiver back up. Finally, after a few moments of this and of fake starts, Pokey finally speaks.]

So, with all the stupid age crap going on, I got a question for you people.

If you could stay one age, forever, would you? Or would you choose to keep aging?

Because, I mean, why wouldn't you want to stay the same age, right? I mean, it's pretty much immortality, and you wouldn't really miss out on anything by not getting older or anything. Really, you'd be doing better then them, right? So yeah.

Sorry, stupid question. Because it's not like anyone WOULDN'T take immortality when given the option. Because everyone would choose immortality.

Right?

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[Obviously, this claim requires testing.]

In a context other than Mayfield, you're randomly stricken by lightening or crushed by boulders. What happens? Would you continue living?

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[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Ah. Immortality does not equate to invincibility. I'm immortal in the sense that I don't age and can't die naturally. Physically killing me could still work, however.

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Four hundred years is a long time not to encounter a single fatal incident... for someone like you.

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[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Funny thing.

Most places you visit are inhabited nearly entirely by lunatics who'll kill without provocation, or run by madmen who burn buildings for fun.

Or, you know, in your case, chop off your surrogate mothers limbs for fun.

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

The reality of those incidences is questionable.

And what I meant was it's hard to believe a jerk-off like you could escape every enemy he ever made in the course of half a century.

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[godisachild.livejournal.com]

If the reality of those incidents is questionable, then you pretty much lose the right to use them as facts when they're stated by you.

Again. Most of the enemies I made in other places didn't have super powers. And I've been going through a run of bad luck here.

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

Maybe. Maybe anything stated by you is questionable under any circumstances.

Did you get a booklet in the mail recently?

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[godisachild.livejournal.com]

You don't exactly reek trustworthy either, Slugger.

Yeah. I got it.

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

It was never my intention.

Then you saw the part about 'neurological emulation constructions'. Thoughts?

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[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Inconclusive. There's too many things it could be.

I want to say it could be a machine, but that doesn't clear much up because there's several things it could be. It could be some kind of hologram around the town working with teleporters to keep us from leaving. It could be that we're all strapped to devices somewhere, feeding in to a computer-simulated world.

Hell, we could all just be PART of a computer program ourselves, and not even really exist.

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

I see.

[Sounds of a pen scribbling over paper from the other side of the line. Could he be taking notes on your words of wisdom, Pokey? Nah, he's probably just doodling a picture of you getting eaten by a dinosaur, more like. (Maybe a little of both?)]

...What if you found out you don't really exist?

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[godisachild.livejournal.com]

What, if I was an illusion, or a copy, or a computer program or some crap?

Probably just be more incentive to do whatever I want.

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the same.

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[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Oh man stop the presses! We just friggin' agreed on something! Maybe we could have a puppy kicking party to celebrate!

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[Well, it's not like he hasn't already been accused of murdering puppies and-- shut up.]

Sure. We'll invite all your friends. You can be the puppy.

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[godisachild.livejournal.com]

Yeah man, you just show me whose boss. Your a hoss after all, carrying that sentry all the way home. Seriously, how long did it take you to drag that thing? It must've been hilarious.

[Its sad, but along with Tak, you're somehow one of the people he has the easiest time talking to. It confounds him to no end.]

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

It would've taken less if it weren't for your associates. [One in particular...]

[Maybe that's because he isn't trying to tell you how glorious friendship is? Gag. What garbage!]

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[godisachild.livejournal.com]

...Did you attack any of them?

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

What if I did?

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[godisachild.livejournal.com]

I-

[Well, that's a good question? What could he do? Nothing, really. So he'll just slam the phone down.]

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[strike-you-out.livejournal.com]

[Oh my. So little was said,



yet so much~]