Third Jump. [text from violet city.]

[surpassedjupiter]

[Normally it's the type of thing you see under an anonymous account, these short, to-the-point questions. Not being too acquainted with her 'gear outside of some texting she's done and some brief not-skype calls, Phi doesn't yet know to buy a second one when she wants to be the mystery woman she is. Oh well. It's probably a normal thing to be wondering...]

What's the last thing you remember before coming here?

It's okay to be vague -- something like "I saw a good friend" or "I was in a garden". I'll probably ask, but you're welcome to be shy about it, if that's what you'd prefer. Or tell me your life story. I don't have much to do, tonight.

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[surpassedjupiter]

What do you do instead? Do you enter a cycle of some sort?

Hmn. That was the longest amount of time given for someone having been here when I first arrived. You must have arrived shortly after all this started -- assuming that limit is the first instance of this sort of thing. With how frequently people leave, I suppose that would be hard to determine even for those who've been here over three years.

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[solas_ion]

That's roughly the idea of it, I guess.

Tell you the truth, I ain't sure when all this started. Even with how many people leave, I wouldn't say there's an end in sight either. Unless this place decides to quit pulling people in and just let the bunch of us trickle out gradually, which is a pretty goddamned depressing idea if you ask me.

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[surpassedjupiter]

Is it a cycle of new lives, or the same life over and over?

Right. This world brings in more people than those who leave, generally. It might not be a constant rate, but it's enough to keep the population high. I don't think we have to worry about it stopping suddenly -- it didn't when unusual events were happening, after all.

I take it you really love it here, then.

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[solas_ion]

Crossing into 'it's complicated' territory here. It's not reincarnation, if that's what you're asking.

..I guess I don't mind it. All this time of seeing people come and go has gotten tiring, but it's a little better than the alternative.

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[surpassedjupiter]

Actually, I was hoping for the latter to be true.

[In a really...specific way... That she probably won't go into because that would ruin her image, or something.]

That seems to be the case for a lot of people. I hear most of us from other realities were kind of screwed over where we came from.

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[solas_ion]

People like me, we're called into the world for a very specific purpose. Once we die or that purpose is over and done with, we go back where we came from until we're called again. Really, it's kind of a pain in the neck to explain.

Yeah? I don't usually ask about what kinda mess other people show up from. Knowing my luck I'd run into somebody that was all sensitive about the subject or whatever.

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[surpassedjupiter]

[...Okay that was really something different.]

Sounds more like it's a pain in the neck to experience in the first place.

If you're worried about being sensitive, you should probably think about announcing your death less cavalierly.