community board, halfway through may

[vagabone]

[A message appears on the bulletin rock one afternoon! Imagine that!! Whoever this is, they don't write very often--there's nothing else recent in this handwriting.]

¿Does anyone want more books for the library? ¿More clothes? Anything at all, I'll get it for you.

Between all of us, I think we've got enough stories saved up for the crazy monthly emergencies, so I don't mind spending some of mine. I have enough.

- H

[Next to this, like an afterthought, there is an arrow pointing to two more words.]

¿card tournament?

Comments

[deadlylittlething]

David Wallace, The Emergent Multiverse: Quantum Theory According to the Everett Interpretation
David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality
Lev Vaidman, Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
Gérard G. Emch, Algebraic Methods in Statistical Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory
Belinfante, Measurements and Time Reversal in Objective Quantum Theory
Duwel, The Many-Worlds Interpretation and Quantum Computation

[Is this just a shopping list of incredibly specific reference material that's useful to literally only one person on the island? It sure is!]

[vagabone]

¿Are you trying to figure out how we got here? ¿How to leave?

[HE WANTS IN.]

[deadlylittlething]

I'm going to figure out how I got here and then leave.

Or was anyone else projecting themself through time when they arrived here?

[That could actually significantly supplement his calculations.]

[vagabone]

No idea. Some of us were dead. I don't know if that helps.

[deadlylittlething]

Less than you might think.

[He's got a recently alive again brother right here, thanks.]

I suppose it could be statistically relevant. Got a list?

[yourattention]

[Someone else's handwriting appears under Five's question:]

its faster to say who hasnt been dead at least once
you want death cop cabbages tho hes got a whole fuckin book of dead people names

[shiromadoushi]

I died twice!

[yourattention]

congrats join the club
i keep my third death milestone corpse in my house

[shiromadoushi]

You got a new body each time?? Nice!

[vagabone]

¿Death cop what now?

[yourattention]

[Instead of explaining, he just draws a bust of Kravitz in red chalk and labels it "Death Cop Cabbages." Is it faster to actually fucking answer questions than draw bizarrely on-model responses? Probably! That's not the point here though.]

[vagabone]

¿What does he have to do with cabbages?

[deadlylittlething]

[Instead of engaging with literally any of that, next time he comes by Five just circles 'book of dead people names' and adds Why? to it.

Also he's seen Kravitz before, so that sketch further down is actually pretty helpful.]

[vagabone]

It's up to them to decide if they want to talk about it. I'm not going to put up anyone's name.

But I'm dead. You can ask me anything you want, if you see me around. I'm the skeleton.

[The only skeleton! Kind of sad. Skeletons are cool.]

[deadlylittlething]

[Five spends a long time staring at the rock at this point. Sets a piece of chalk to the surface for a response, then drops it again. Considers just writing a very stern No. and leaving it at that. But curiosity gets the better of him in the end.]

Your metaphors could use a little work.

[Please tell him that was a metaphor.]

[vagabone]

[N o p e.]

It's not a metaphor. Maybe you'll see me around.

[He really is distinctive!!]