012 - Lemon Meringue

[deadly_ned]

Question.

Or, um. Query, if you will.


Why do we have the death toll?

Does it teach us anything? Don't go doing what you do or you'll get punished for it? And why a week's worth of suffering? Doesn't death make you suffer enough? I hear it can be painful.


Why just...not have a death toll? Can any, um.

Is there anyone else on board who can stop a death toll from happening?

Just.

Just curious.

[Strike visible to those with psychic powers]

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[itstopped]

Why have a death toll, or why have death at all?

[deadly_ned]

Death I understand. There has to be a balance to life. Symmetry. Symmetrical...poetry. And you need to be able to keep firemen employed.

But what does the death toll balance?

[itstopped]

But this isn't death. There's no balance. [He's already talked about this with you, Ned. :| ] If it's all a... what did you call it, a reset button? Why not just make us unkillable?

[deadly_ned]

No. It's not death. I'm struggling to, um. To wrap my head around the arbitrary business of the week after. The death part I'm not...too concerned about.


It's like when you're a kid and you're told the stove is hot but you touch it anyway because you're curious. You burn yourself and you learn to stay away from danger. We...learn, from danger. No one could graduate if we didn't have risk.

[itstopped]

Then you just answered your own question. It wouldn't be a lesson if it wasn't at least frakking unpleasant.

[deadly_ned]

But why a week? Why not three days, or a month? Who decides when death tolls start and end?

[itstopped]

The Admiral, I assume. Maybe a week seems like a good, round number.

[deadly_ned]

A week has seven days.

[itstopped]

Maybe yours do. [No, that's just trolling.] It's the next single unit that's longer than a day.

[deadly_ned]

I suppose that's true. Reluctantly admitted as such.