recinerate | first puzzle

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first puzzle | voice

[beyond was dead, and now he's not.

it's a perplexing position for anyone to find themselves in, of course, but even more so when there's something fundamental about that person that's gone missing - something that should be there, but isn't. beyond has found he is missing such a thing, and has decided to take advantage of the technology of this new place in order to work out his thoughts regarding this dilemma.]

"In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity."

[his voice is quiet, raspy, almost unnaturally even in tone. he pauses, then picks up with one of many questions currently on his mind, addressing anyone within earshot.]

What shapes your sense of identity?

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I'm pretty sure the US constitution doesn't mean shit to the Admiral.

[beyond laughs at that, quiet and rasping and darkly unfunny. the admiral is a person of incredible ego, he has decided, and beyond is intensely angry at the injustice he believes he has come under due to the admiral's influence.]

I believe your assessment is correct, Jimmy.

Exactly. Whatever it was that got me sent here after I died, it probably transcends any of that.

Do you have an idea of what that might be?

Yeah, I got some ideas. [Nowadays, he does. When he came here he thought the same: bootlegger, liar, killer. Now, though, he thinks it might be something else. That doesn't give him the power to change it, but he's closer to understanding.]

And you've accepted your sentence?

It's this or being dead. [And honestly, at first he would have preferred death-- but he's come around on that, too.]

Some might prefer the alternative. Why do you find this more appealing?

I didn't, before.

I got people I need to take care of, back home.

I see.

[beyond ponders, for a moment, what it would be like to have something, someone in his previous life that was worth going back to.]

I believe it's your turn, Jimmy.