At the End of All Things Elves in Revelation
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"What's wrong with it?"

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"Limbo is an infinite flat plane of nutrient-bare dirt with a day cycle, and air. That's... it. When people die, they get one thing, not a person or anything like 'Internet access' that implicitly requires people but maybe their favorite dog or a popcorn machine or something, something they'd like to have at least if they were asked without knowing what Limbo's like. The things are indestructible in almost the way daeva and Limboites are, so the popcorn machine will continue supplying popcorn at a normal popcorn machine rate forever, but this is not a recipe for a wide variety of consumer goods or people having any privacy or anything like that. As of a few hundred years ago someone's thing was an ocean, so now they can do saltwater irrigation and make mud bricks, but..."

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" - wow. That seems - poorly planned."

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"It is not how I would design an afterlife."

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"Better than the Halls of Mandos but that's really not saying much."

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"What are the Halls like besides short on popcorn?" Cam makes some popcorn, eats a handful.

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"Being disembodied is - trying to focus on motion or follow things that are happening in the incarnate world is really really hard. The Halls are just - big, and empty, and neutral, so they're not exhausting to focus on, but they also have no particular features. You can interact with other disembodied people but it's painfully intimate and you can't quite do words. So you just - exist."

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"...painfully intimate?"

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"You can't just say hello, you just kind of - blur into them a little bit, they get more than you intended..."

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"Eugh."

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"Yeah, Limbo is nicer and gets better whenever new people and stuff appear. Plus they get care packages from daeva."

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"Awww. Demons probably send the best care packages."

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"We do, but we can't do it at arbitrary times, so the angels and fairies chip in."

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"When can you do it?"

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"There's things called concordances where specified parts of two daeva realms, or one daeva realm and Limbo, overlap. They come on a regular schedule and there's trade during all of them except Hell/Heaven, during which there is instead a tiny stupid war."

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"Racism! And probably lack of trade incentives or something. We can trade with Heaven through Fairyland."

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"What do demons trade?"

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"We don't need to be physically sent stuff - well, animals, but that's a narrow enough use case that all our concordance trains are outgoing. But we commission art and stuff."

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"Elves would be really good at paying demons if the Valar didn't disable summoning. But I bet they will. They really really hate risk."

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"Yeah if you let people take risks you might wind up with an evil god on the loose or something."

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"One of their justifications for not paroling us for thirty thousand years was 'paroling Melkor went really badly!' Which - I mean, they rarely learn from their mistakes, so in a way it was commendable?"

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"...wait, they paroled him? I was joking."

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"They paroled him."

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