text; six feet under

[lesinset]

how many people have memories that span centuries
i mean outside the obvs
but like
there was a memory in ye olde fishing village
somewhere in asia or something
then there was a memory in victorian opium den in like england
then there was a graveyard thing ten years ago where a guy danced a bunch of zombies
to life or something and it was stupid weird
and now
france
wwii
and ss officers

oh
apparently ss officers tasted good
or at least my past self thought they did
who knew

but point is
how many people remember centuries of life
its important

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[matchbreaker]

[ Wow that's an even longer period than her, potentially? She blinks at that and just... admitting you ate naziss. In the end though, well, "its important," so... ]

I do, but I'm not sure how long, necessarily.

[lesinset]

[ It's a weird memory to him and one he wasn't sure how to address. Hence the passe sounding text since it's a little too weird. The whole eating people that is, though this was the first memory about that.

Also Tarr and his texting style is very barebones as in he doesn't believe in punctuation.]

really
you havent had a start point at all
im pretty sure the fishing village was the earliest
since its the only one with daylight

[matchbreaker]

No, I know the beginning and I know where it went from there, but I don't know the precise timeline. At one point, I bragged out loud that I'd be awake for a "millenia or two" but I also know for certain she was joking at the time.

[ . . . ]

It began in northern France but the majority of her life was spent in Japan.

Daylight?

[lesinset]

no clues at all huh
thats kinda rude of the memories

most of the memories are at night
not that it bothered past me much
his vision is pretty good at night
but the one fishing village one
he was watching the sunset
its the only time ive seen sunlight in his memories

i even have a picture of a painting hes in
and its at night too

[anguinous]

SS officers tasted good?

[ Are we being erotic or gorey here? ]

[lesinset]

he was thinking about finally having a good meal
while stalking ss officers
figured they connect

[anguinous]

[ Well. Gorey it is then. ]

Do you find yourself curious how true it is?

[ Are you going to eat people. ]

[usurpers]

you’re saying your past self ate people

[lesinset]

must have been
he was pretty hungry

[usurpers]

”no resources whatsoever” or “i’m in the mood for people” hungry
you’re making it sound like nbd

[hauhra]

Retrospec claims it snagged the souls from our worlds at random, but this is the second time I've met someone with memories of eating people. It seems to be a trend. Should I be worried? lol

Not that any of my past selves have shown any inclinations towards eating people, of course... at least, not yet. They just kill them and play with their corpses. [ jfc Bakhura ]

One of them, though... he played a game involving the corpse of a man that I've seen in my memories alive. This man lived in ancient Egypt, but the game my other self was playing using his mummy looked like a modern RPG. Unlike you, however, I don't know what happened in the years between ancient Egypt and the RPG, though I'd like to.

Why? What's so important about it?

[lesinset]

dont know
do you want to be worried

thats pretty unsanitary
bodies have all kinds of gross diseases

just want to know if there are others
cant all come from similar places where everyone lives normal lives
not that and have all these powers and stuff

[hauhra]

It's not my first choice, no. But at the same time, it would also be foolish of me to let myself be surprised once these cannibalistic trends are actually made use of later as though I hadn't been warned beforehand now. I can only hope that my other self follows suit. Otherwise, I won't be able to keep up with the rest of you once your abilities wake up... though if that man has a mummy, then my other self probably didn't eat people, or else he wouldn't have had a corpse to participate in the game with at all. Too bad...

Still, that's certainly fair enough. Having lived two very different lives is complicated enough without realizing that you have hundreds upon hundreds of years to remember as well. Sometimes I wonder just how much of that people like us can actually realistically get back.

[frostythehitman]

wait other-you was in ww2 too?






other-you ate nazis???

[lesinset]

otherme was in france
was stalking a couple guys in ss uniforms

and he was hungry

so yes to all the above

[frostythehitman]

did he eat them whole or just like
leave the bones behind like the aftermath of eating ribs

[floret]

Ummmmmmmmm

I guess there's no possibility any of them were of, like, a time he watched a really vivid and immersive movie?
Or like
a VR game

[lesinset]

i dont think a game or movies
covers smells and thoughts

[floret]

Why wouldn't it cover thoughts? I have thoughts all the time when I watch movies.

[parodeity]

mine span multiple timelines but thats not really the same thing

[lesinset]

not really no
but
timelines

[parodeity]

a potentially annoying side effect of being a time traveler

[toobigtohandle]

I do.

From my last count, I am looking at a minimum span of 600 years. And it could actually be 800.

[lesinset]

really
were you also some kind of monster that eats the flesh of everyone around you
or an living statue gone wrong
or how about a shape changing fishman

[Private]

[toobigtohandle]

No. I was a sword.