[audio] username: thebeginning

[starpulse]

[ There's a new username on the block and it appears that thebeginning does not believe in texts posts, so come click play on this audio! You'll be treated to a young-sounding female voice that has diction and inflection like your grandma. ]

Attention, people of the wondrous tome!

I have been following your conversations for a few days now and I am most entertained and at the same time most confused. Just what are all of you? Am I truly speaking to mortals of far-away lands?

I do not wish to bother you only for trivialities, however. Relay to me your most entertaining story. Where I am, it is always so boring and I am so... [ yaaaawn ] sleepy...

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[starpulse]

[ Sothis is still on audio because she cannot be bothered to write, sorry. Also so you can really hear her righteous fury at these words. ]

Why, you! Does it always please you to be so presumptuous about the circumstances of others? It is a rotten habit, indeed!

[jrltezridax]

Surely we can all agree to just not respond to things if we have no interest in saying something nice! Or neutral, at least!

[praeclarum]

Define "we."

[jrltezridax]

We, pronoun (1) used by a speaker to refer to themself and one or more other people considered together; used to refer to the speaker together with other people regarded in the same category; people in general.

With the category being 'those of us connected to Deatth Chat.'

[praeclarum]

Then no, we can't.

[jrltezridax]

Why's that, then, detective?

[praeclarum]

Because niceness has no inherent value. I gave the newcomer useful advice. Sharing stories is nice, but useless.

[leopatraofficial]

u must b fun at parties :/

[praeclarum]

Parties are tedious. One of the best things about my career is that I never get invited to any.

[starpulse]

I do reserve my right to defend myself from such false assumptions!

[jrltezridax]

Of course! But the detective's comment was a bit unnecessary, is all I meant.

[starpulse]

Well then! As long as we are on the same page in that matter.

[praeclarum]

I have many rotten habits, but honesty has rarely been one. I don't see why your boredom is anyone's problem but your own.

[Have you tried turning your boredom off and back on again? It worked for him.]

[starpulse]

You really have never heard of courtesy or kindness, have you?

[praeclarum]

I believe I've heard legends of such things.

Why are you unable to change your circumstances?

[starpulse]

I am...

[ Okay, this is where explaining gets difficult, uhm, give her a second to figure out how to word it. ]

There is only one place in which I can exist, only one realm that is accessible to me. Do not ask me where it is, I could not tell you. What is certain is, I do not get a lot of visitors in my domain.

[jrltezridax]

[ One domain... with very few visitors... is that so... ]

[praeclarum]

Interesting. How did you come to be there? Why can't you go elsewhere?

audio->video

[starpulse]

There is no-- Oh! Wait, this mysterious tome can serve as a mirror, can it not? One moment...!

[ And there is a short noise of shuffling as Sothis figures out how to turn on a video transmission. She herself is not in view, but you can see a throne room. Sothis moves the tome around so you get a good view of it. Notably, when she films downstairs, the room kind of... ends very soon. There is just darkness, just nothing there anymore. ]

There! This should serve as some explanation.

[ .... maybe. ]

Re: audio->video

[praeclarum]

Hm. Very unusual.

[Okay. Now he's interested.]

I can see why leaving is a problem, but I can't see how you got there to begin with.

[ectoplasmfear]

Kindness for it's own sake has little point in and of itself.

[ God, these people are naive. ]

Thus far, it's not as if you've proven in any way to be remotely worthy of respect.

[ He'd be mean regardless, because he's a villain. But he still doesn't believe that idiots deserve anything other than to be treated as such. ]

[starpulse]

There is just as little point in lecturing me, child!

For a group that preaches the importance of not wasting ones time, you are all rather fond of engaging in the same.

[ectoplasmfear]

There is, though. The point is that it's funny. You're quite easily riled up.

[starpulse]

Mind your manners!!

[ Proving the point... ]

[ectoplasmfear]

No.