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Debt of Nature - Anomaly - 03-13-2013
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Such a fleeting thing is life. Beautiful, from a certain point of view. Tragic, from another. Pointless, from yet another. All things experience life, be it for seconds or for millennia. No matter the experience, though, life holds one thing constant: it ends.
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It takes very little. An errant step atop a precipice. A misjudgment of which mushrooms to eat. Perhaps merely a fire, if one has the misfortune to not be fireproof. Life can end suddenly, or have a drawn-out conclusion, but a vast minority of mortal beings can circumvent their own deaths.
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But death is hardly the end. If it were... well, we wouldn't be here right now. But I have something far more important to tell than a metaphor about death and burning plantlife. A story quite familiar to me, and assuredly quite unfamiliar to you.
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This is a story of death.
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More specifically, a story of Death. One Death of many. There exists in this multiverse a corporation, one assuredly greater than any you have seen. This corporation deals not in simple products and monetary profits, but in something far grander. This corporation deals in souls.
DEATHCO, it is called. A soul's first stop after leaving the body. Some are cleaned up and sent into new bodies. Some are simply judged and sent to the proper afterlife. But a few - some might call them lucky, others might prefer "unfortunate" - end up staying here, in the employ of DEATHCO itself.
This story is about one of these souls.
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A recent recruit of DEATHCO, barely even settled into their office space. Their job, simple: to retrieve souls from the myriad universes and return them for sorting and judging. As you see them now, they appear as the "Grim Reaper" - a familiar sight to a race called humans. But you'd know all about that, wouldn't you?
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Nonetheless, the Reaper isn't the "true" nature of this soul - they've lost nothing of their former self after all. Behind this facade, they...
Um.
Oh dear.
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This isn't good at all. One second, please.
...
...
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FSSSSSSSHHHHHH
- One brief clean-up later -
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I must apologize. I may have underestimated how flammable this tome is. ...Quite a bit of it has burnt away. No matter, I know this story by heart. Now, where was I?
Ah, yes. The soul who appears before you is...
RE: Debt of Nature - Robust Laser - 03-13-2013
His name was Yon Yonson. He lived in Wisconsin. He worked at the lumbermill there.
He took his own life following an identity crisis, in which people he was sure he knew would ask him who he was regularly.
RE: Debt of Nature - Jacquerel - 03-13-2013
He actually worked on the filing system upstairs before taking an unfortunate fall out of the window and being reassigned to a new job within the company
RE: Debt of Nature - Gnauga - 03-13-2013
A juvenile, ripped from her future by injustice.
RE: Debt of Nature - Loather - 03-13-2013
That's Jeffry Herschel, road crew worker and blues musician. He was killed trying to save his guitar from a rampaging asphalt golem.
RE: Debt of Nature - Solaris - 03-13-2013
THE PRESIDENT
RE: Debt of Nature - Dragon Fogel - 03-13-2013
A serial killer. He's having trouble adjusting to the fact that he's not supposed to do the actual killing.
RE: Debt of Nature - Whimbrel - 03-13-2013
>A small duckbilled platypus
>A Normal Human Man
>A solar powered robot with a buggy AI
>A vampiric watermelon
>A doppleganger. He looks like whoever he's interacting with, within certain constraints.
ONE OF THOSE, OR ALL OF THEM
RE: Debt of Nature - Dalmationer - 03-13-2013
>Mark Roberts.
RE: Debt of Nature - SeaWyrm - 03-13-2013
A time traveler who has grown old and wise while touring the universe, before one day hitting the wrong button in his time machine and colliding with his past self at the moment of his initial journey through time. Not only is he dead, but most of what makes him who he is was wiped out in that time paradox.
Also, his lower body is that of a snake, and he has two heads.
RE: Debt of Nature - Pharmacy - 03-14-2013
Anubis
Blood Elemental
Soul Of A Dead Human Private Investigator
Unicorn
Crazy Cat Lady
A Hive Mind of Birds
RE: Debt of Nature - SeaWyrm - 03-14-2013
(03-13-2013, 01:05 PM)Loather Wrote: ยปThat's Jeffry Herschel, road crew worker and blues musician. He was killed trying to save his guitar from a rampaging asphalt golem.
I like this one.
RE: Debt of Nature - AgentBlue - 03-14-2013
He was a necrophiliac.
RE: Debt of Nature - Phenix Noir - 03-15-2013
he was a bomber pilot. Probably could be accounted for hundred of deaths all considered
RE: Debt of Nature - SeaWyrm - 03-15-2013
He was a grim reaper.
RE: Debt of Nature - ICan'tGiveCredit - 03-15-2013
He was a male stripper and his name was Hugh Jass.
RE: Debt of Nature - Crowstone - 03-16-2013
Harry Potter
RE: Debt of Nature - Mythee - 03-17-2013
>The chief marketing officer of a massive telecoms company, a husband and father, who secretly spends all of his free time writing My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic fanfiction.
*snicker* Almost exactly my dad
RE: Debt of Nature - Gatr - 03-17-2013
She was Shea Roberts, and she sold ice cream to children. Unfortunately, she was killed by a crazed shooter out of the blue. Insulted by this random death, she now seeks vengeance for all those who treat life in such a careless way, and asylum for victims of those random killings.