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[ossifragant]

It's Greed. Leave a message and I'll get back to you.

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While I'm at it. Day...24, let's say. Starting with voice, afternoonish.

[croi]

[Shove it around based upon what Greed's doing: if his afternoon is action packed, move it to morning.]

Hey.

[Without preamble. Just like this is Plurk and Greed is getting pinged with an @ sign and an emote, maybe.]

Got a second? [OF COURSE HE DOES. Moving forward!] A guy- what am I doing, there's barely anybody here- Enoch told me about stones.

[ossifragant]

Eh?

Yeah, of course I've got time. [He remembers that question he had with Enoch; it hasn't been that long ago.] Ask away.

[croi]

He didn't really say much. We got started and then started talking about being geised. [Don't ask, bro.] It- the Philosopher's Stone sounds like something I was involved with, back home. Does it have any limits?

[ossifragant]

It does. Its power isn't infinite-- its power source has a finite amount to it, and the power source is very particular.

It would, however, explain why the town is empty, save for us; in order to create a Philosopher's Stone, one has to make a huge sacrifice. Like, say, for instance, using the lives of an entire town.

[croi]

[There is a pause. Then, almost surprised:]

I was thinking the same thing. They used the other people, and when they were done they killed them off, took their souls, and used their souls to get us.

[He wasn't expecting it to be this easy to venture theories and talk ideas. (Ominous implications up the yin yang that he wasn't the only one who'd gone there already, sure, but at the same time validating.)]

[ossifragant]

[...that's an incredibly specific thing to consider.]

Do you have something similar in your own world?

It's a possibility, but it's rather specific.

[croi]

Of course. [It was the polite way of saying, "No shit I do."] It would be weird if I jumped to that kind of conclusion without encountering something like that before.

[ossifragant]

Well, now I'm curious.

I could tell you more about the specifics of it, but it sounds like we're basically on the same page here.

[croi]

Prana stolen from human souls powering up a legendary artifact which can change reality depending on what the owner wants? [This is so...

...this should be harder. More complex. This shouldn't just be so...casual.]

[ossifragant]

Prana?

[He's not familiar with the term, but he gets the meaning, more or less.]

It would make sense-- it would explain why this town was abandoned suddenly, what happened to the original inhabitants. But why are we here? What do they hope to gain?

[croi]

Finishing whatever they started? The little lady- Clarke? Found a sign with the bodies that talked about reclaiming some land. They didn't do the job, so they killed them off and got some people who could...maybe.