Voicemail/IC Contact

[explosivecombat]

[VOICE/TEXT/VIDEO; OPEN TO ALL.]
(Carmen, you probably want this one.)

"State your name and whatever business you may have with me; I'll return your call once circumstances allow."

[Please state in the subject line if OOC planning is preferred and we can handwave like the wind, but otherwise IC will be assumed!]

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[sadisticwarfare]

[It's barely noon when Archer sends Kimblee a text. It's short but it probably gets everything across well enough.]

IF YOU FIND ALEKHINE PLEASE KILL HIM FOR ME.

[explosivecombat]

[...oh dear.]

Understood, and gladly done.

Dare I ask what he's done to deserve death this time...?

[sadisticwarfare]

[HE'S A LITTLE ANGRY.]

We got in an argument this morning and apparently he's decided that today's a great day to run off with my uniform. If he's wearing it, you have my permission to beat him into unconsciousness before killing him.

[explosivecombat]

I see...

[...]

You know, I have no idea how these things keep happening to you.

[sadisticwarfare]

Neither do I, if you want me to be honest. You'd think if I was going to be punished for my actions it would be in a way that doesn't involve my Alakazam stealing my uniform.

[The deaths of seven thousand men = a Pokémon stealing his uniform??]

[explosivecombat]

I would say that perhaps this place is some sort of purgatory, but I doubt we deserve that much.

[...Sounds legit tbh.]

[sadisticwarfare]

It seems far too nice for that.

...Though I suppose the point of it could be to take people like us and place us in environments where we can't cause as much damage.

[If you ignore the numerous attacks on Ecruteak, of course!!]

[explosivecombat]

...That depends on how you're defining "damage," doesn't it?

That is, property damage seems to be more or less the same regardless of where we are, but with regards to loss of life...surely we can't permanently destroy as many, which I suppose qualifies as less damage until you consider that it just means we can kill the same people multiple times.

[sadisticwarfare]

I suppose it could be more satisfying to kill someone over and over again, but that would involve seeing them after they should be dead. It's not something I've ever had to test out so I can't say which one is preferable, but it's an interesting thought.

[explosivecombat]

Does that notion bother you? Seeing someone after they've died, that is.

[sadisticwarfare]

I suppose it shouldn't since we've been here for so long, but yes, it does.

[explosivecombat]

What is it about it, if you don't mind?

[sadisticwarfare]

I'm not entirely sure. I suppose it's hard to wrap my head around the concept of returning after death. I've spent my whole life knowing that it's permanent but this place is entirely different. I also haven't seen very many people die here. Perhaps that's part of it as well.

[explosivecombat]

I understand.

[He pauses for a moment before continuing; normally he'd just leave that be, because he doesn't see any point in elaborating any or saying anything further, but that's not...something you just leave alone, conversationally, is it...]

I know I tend to be a bit more cavalier about death and dying here, but for what it's worth, the concept that it isn't permanent here is a bit strange to me as well.

[...#NailedIt]

[sadisticwarfare]

[...you tried so hard, Kimblee...]

I appreciate the effort, but this isn't something I'm bothered by. It's a little odd, but I can handle it.

[Hopefully he won't ever have to try to handle it because he probably wouldn't take it well!!]

[explosivecombat]

Bluntly put, I didn't think you were, at least not to an extent that it preoccupies you. In my own case, it's just something I think about from time to time because it conflicts in interesting ways with something I tend to do, that's all.

[sadisticwarfare]

Oh? Are you going to elaborate on that?

[explosivecombat]

...It would drive you mad if I were to say no right now, wouldn't it.

[sadisticwarfare]

Of course it would. I'd have to pester you in person.

[explosivecombat]

You say that as though I mind.

That said, you've never seen me in battle, not properly, and so you've never seen me around those that have died; I make a point of remembering everyone I kill.

[sadisticwarfare]

With your memory you'd have no problems with that. I wasn't aware you cared so much about the dead.

[...why though??]

[explosivecombat]

"Caring" isn't quite the right word for it.

As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter why they died - whether it was through no fault of their own, or every fault of their own - and it doesn't matter how much or how little the deceased meant to me personally. I never even spoke to most of them. But the fact of the matter is that it's still a life lost, and more to the point it's a life that ended because of me. Why shouldn't I do them the basic respect of acknowledging them and ensuring I remember them? Whether I cared about them or not, they were still people at one point.

If anything, I'd think I don't deserve to not look.

[sadisticwarfare]

That's a very interesting way of looking at it. I doubt I could do the same, were I in your position.

[explosivecombat]

Don't misunderstand me; I don't regret killing any of them. That doesn't mean I can't acknowledge them just the same.

[sadisticwarfare]

I know you don't regret it. It's very interesting that you still choose to do this. I never would have thought about it.