(SPEECH TO TEXT) FROM: @OBJECTION | TO: @ALL

[murdocksboy]

I've been advised against using my real name, so I suppose for now you can call me Jack. As a relatively recent addition to COST, I'm curious to learn more about my fellow recruits. What led to your decision to join up? What has your experience been like?

And maybe most pressing at this moment: do any of you have advice on how you dealt with your near-death experience and the recovery following it?


@OSCARBAIT | @SPIRITFINGERS | @APPLEDIE

I hope you've had better success than I have.

Comments

@SPIRITFINGERS; private

[inconstantly]

well

i have more money than i know what to do with, i'm mostly recovered from my injury sustained in spectacular victory, i have almost as much wine as i do money, and i never want for a warm bed

so i'd say yes, considerably better than you

[murdocksboy]

you're nothing if not candid. i'll give you that.

any chance of talking you into sharing a little of that excess wine

[inconstantly]

what's the occasion

celebrating the land of the living?

[murdocksboy]

sure let's call it that

@BRUNNHILDE

[heilt]

When did you experience this?

[murdocksboy]

hard to say considering the way time apparently works around here. but fairly recently. i exercised some poor judgment in the arena.

[heilt]

( go figure )

Can you describe the experience?

[murdocksboy]

the experience of dying or the experience of coming back?

>>FROM:@AEGONNER 🐺 PRIVATE

[northerndragon]

I'm here because the Regency is a threat to my world, and to children I may one day have.

I don't think anyone has been with this cell any longer than I have, though a few have been here just as long.

This hasn't been easy. None of it.

[murdocksboy]

then we have similar incentives. the first part anyway.

but your drive to see it through is stronger than the urge to give up and let someone else carry the burden for a while?

[northerndragon]

It wouldn't be right to let others carry a burden that's mine. Not without me doing my part. If I can help other worlds, too, so much the better, though my own is my priority.

Are others from your world here with COST?

[murdocksboy]

i can't disagree with a word you're saying

i'm not sure, i haven't had the opportunity to talk much to others about where they're from. i've met a couple who could be. and you?

@LOUISLAMOUR

[omniavincit]

Are you using your death as an icebreaker?

[murdocksboy]

hey i asked about people's motivations as an icebreaker

[omniavincit]

My mistake.

What have you been telling yourself? About what happened.

[murdocksboy]

i'm not really sure what to tell myself yet

there are implications i'm not entirely comfortable with

@TALEOF

[doublejumps]

"Near-death"? （・∩・） I don't believe there's any denying that we died. We were simply brought back.

[murdocksboy]

i'm going to need a little more evidence before i change my views on the feasibility of resurrection

[doublejumps]

But didn't you experience it for yourself? (･д･)

[murdocksboy]

or i experienced unconsciousness and lucid dreaming following a critical injury

@mellon;

[verumdicit]

Are you one of the ones who actually remembers your recruitment? I'm surprised.

[murdocksboy]

do you not remember yours? that seems more surprising to me

are you saying you don't know why you joined?

[verumdicit]

I do. Perfect clarity--others don't seem that fortunate.

It makes me wonder why they have their motivation at to fight.

@LEGOLAS

[duskmeadow]

Other than a stiff drink?

[murdocksboy]

i am working on that one

are you speaking from experience?