voice;

[ideismo]

[There's a moment of quiet before he starts, the sort of thing that's only really audible if you're listening for it; it's been some time since Alexei has addressed any number of people at once, and while it's something he used to be accustomed to, it's also something that he's rather out of practice with.

So there's quiet, and the awkwardness is palpable when he does start, and he doesn't bother introducing himself; maybe some will recognize his voice, maybe not. It matters fairly little to him in the scheme of things.]

I don't normally request guidance, and particularly not regarding personal matters, so I pray I may be forgiven for the vagueness of the question. But I suppose that the recent conditions on Monsun have me contemplating things.

Is it...acceptable, I suppose, to continue to want something that you have no right or claim to anymore?

[...And apparently that is all for now.]

Comments

[eudaimonikos]

[shrug]

I don't know how you did it. That'd be impossible for our humans. So I'm not really sure if it would have psychological effects...probably something, though, right?

[ideismo]

They seemed to find it traumatic.

[BE MORE CLINICAL, ALEXEI, JESUS.]

I gave them something to revive them and keep their bodies alive for them, to ensure they wouldn't just shut down at random. That's all. Somewhere between magic and technology.

[eudaimonikos]

...makes sense, I guess.

[Michael's feelings about it are rather less clinical than they might have been, but he doesn't really know what to say about it.]

I know humans can revive each other from being dead for a few minutes, now. I'm not too sure how they handle that in processing - that's never been my department.

[ideismo]

Can they...? It's almost always final for us, what I did was highly experimental. I don't know of anyone else that's done it.

[eudaimonikos]

You have to shock the heart right after it's stopped, I think. Obviously that's not really my field. If they're dead too long, though, it won't work. And whatever was wrong with them before is still going to be wrong.

[Unless...it was a heart attack??? Unclear]

[ideismo]

...I'll bear that in mind, actually.

[Things that we probably shouldn't say to a mage with lightning magic: that.

People who are absolutely going to drop Thunder Blade on a dead person just to see what happens: this guy.]

[eudaimonikos]

[WELL THEY'RE GONNA BE DEAD ALREADY

NO HARM NO FOUL]