Teenagers Scare the Living Shit Out Of Me etc. etc.

[dyingtohealyou]

[Characters passing by the bulletin board may notice a new message tacked to it!]

Drinking party at the bar at 8pm. Under 21 only. Adults will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Fun and games included, party hats optional. Don’t be late!

[Sure enough, there’s a gathering of teens (and maybe some not-so-teens?) to be found in the bar! While the posting mentions this is a teen only event, adults are in fact allowed as long as they are cool. OOCLY please be aware there are going to be teens drinking alcohol and possibly smoking! Also additionally, please let the teens/players have fun; again, adults are allowed but only if they’re cool enough to play along without snitching them out!

All party game top levels are going to be made under Ahito’s account but please assume ICly that Akira instigated/explained them! Once the game toplevels are up you can also post your own toplevels to mingle freely if you like IDK IT’S A PARTY HAVE FUN]

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[impacter]

My thoughts? [About what, exactly? He chuckles.]

It's just a story, dear Jing Yuan. Not everything must be taken with meaning. Sometimes a role is played simply as that - a role.

[foresightis2020]

[ Jing Yuan blinks at that, though he nods specifically to the first question. ]

You say as much, and indeed it is true that not everything much have meaning. Though is it not also true you placed quite a great deal of thought into this as well? So that there is certainly a meaning of some sort to it all?

I imagined that, perhaps, it could be reflection of how you viewed matters in regards to humans, demons, and the divine.

I suppose I was wrong, then? And it is more about one's role in certain matters, than anything too deep on the matter?

[ He is quite curious himself. He does not ask because he necessarily disbelieves...rather, Jing Yuan wants a bit more insight into the story he told. It seems so heavy and thought-provoking that he can't help but inquire into it. ]

[impacter]

Hahah... my, you search deep. [He taps a finger idly to his lips.] Maybe it was neither.

[There was a reason he kept things warped, vague, without name and with his own role twisted just enough from reality to keep it easier to digest. A mysterious and cruel being, rather than a man calmly trying to keep a situation under control until he no longer could.]

It is what others take from my stories that matters to me, and not what I gain from telling them. Did it make you reconsider the relationship to the supernatural? Did it make you wonder the purpose of roles?

Or did you spend it trying to hear what the story said about its storyteller, and not what its storyteller himself had to say?

[foresightis2020]

[ Jing Yuan merely gives Solomon a sheepish smile when he makes the comment about him searching deep in this matter.

Was it really neither, he wonders? Perhaps it goes to show that this story certainly quite had a profound effect on him that he doesn't immediately move onwards from it and simply draw short conclusions about it. ]

Nothing will make me reconsider the relationship to the supernatural.

[ As a General, he really can't afford to. ]

As for roles, perhaps in the sense of 'does it have to be this way' to an extent in the way those roles were presented.

[ But other than that...he doesn't think so. He hasn't put down the role of a General even if deep in his heart he desires to do so and retire. Venture places beyond the stars, whathaveyou. ]

And as for your other questions...I wondered about both. What the story had to say about the storyteller, and what the storyteller himself was trying to say. There is no need to limit myself, yes?

[impacter]

[He shrugs to the first two points. Fair enough. It was never his job to change people's minds.]

Mm, I think that's common enough. But what make a story if the roles don't have their purposes? How would the story change, if things weren't so set in stone?

[It's all questions for the sake of thinking, not to say one way or another. Solomon knows very well the truth of the story, of the delicate context and the truths and lies told in abundance. Those aren't meant for the space of his tale.]

Did I ever say otherwise, General?

We can dwell in the profound and the broad as much as we like. Just know that there is no "wrong" in what you choose to take from it all. I have no specific answers to give, so maybe see what comes from your own heart, instead.

[foresightis2020]

It could certainly change things; the ending of a story, the motivations, the characters themselves.

Roles can certainly have their purposes. Though, it doesn't mean that they have to be set in stone.

[ Jing Yuan answers easily and freely. The irony is, perhaps, quite funny to speak these words; though they are easily thoughtfully spoken when provided towards the context of a story. For the sake of thinking.

And not, of course, outside of one. ]

Why don't we do so for a little while, then? ...I wonder, however, is it only answers that may result from my own heart — but also your own. I would certainly be most curious to find out, even if it is a story you told, and you hold vaguely as well as clearly whatever answers you defined by telling the tale yourself.