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[plays]

[Well, this guy (or gal as the case may be) is now choosing to show his (her) charming face on the network for the first time. As a girl Joshua doesn't actually look all that different. The features are a little finer, maybe, the lashes a little longer, but the giggle is no less obnoxious.

Hee hee.]

Gosh... you know, I don't see how this is so bad. I'm not sure I'd mind staying this way longer, in fact. [A dainty eyelash-flutter directed towards the video feed.] For one thing, girls get much nicer clothes, and they're allowed to like them much more. It's so hard to be a fashionista when you're expected to be getting in fights and grubbing around in the mud.

Too bad there's no place around here to go shopping.

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[flashy_magic]

That's not really relevant. I mean, you might believe in an afterlife, and the Barge proves there is one, but in the real world, people don't expect people to still show up to work and do whatever they expected of them before death once they die regardless of what they believe. So relax, enjoy the fact that no one will blame you for not doing anything you were supposed to do back home.

[plays]

It sounds like you're making a lot of assumptions about how the afterlife works too! What if you died and immediately got put on guardian angel duty, hmmm? You might be leaving somebody out in the cold, sad and angel-less, facing all the trials of the world on their own.

[flashy_magic]

Well, it's their fault for putting someone on duty when they didn't even end up in that afterlife, isn't it?

[plays]

Not really! What if somebody was there already, hmm? What if they'd gotten complacent after it all went according to plan ten thousand times, and this Barge threw a wrench in the gears? Some folks could be in trouble.

[flashy_magic]

Then it's their fault for getting complacent. And for making plans to have an evil Morganian be a guardian angel in the first place.

[plays]

Is that what they called your little cult? Cute.

[flashy_magic]

Yep.

[zeitgeists]

So what did you do that was so very nefarious?

[flashy_magic]

I was part of an evil plot to raise Morgana le Fay...although I kind of regret it now.

[zeitgeists]

No looting? Rapine? Mass slaughter?

[flashy_magic]

No...but even though I didn't like to think about it at the time, a lot of people would die if Morgana was brought back.

[zeitgeists]

What were you doing tangled up in that mess, then?

[flashy_magic]

My parents wanted me to be a powerful Morganian and apprenticed me off to one when I was young.

[plays]

Have you ever killed anyone?

[flashy_magic]

Yeah. Once. I was following orders, but I feel really guilty about it.

[zeitgeists]

Someone you knew? Or were they just a stranger?

[flashy_magic]

A stranger.

[zeitgeists]

Hmmm. Cold.

Why are you answering these questions?

[flashy_magic]

Why not?

[plays]

Murderers are generally secretive about what they've done!

[flashy_magic]

And generally, they have to worry about getting caught, but I was already caught.

[plays]

What if I found it off-putting? What if I found it disgusting?

[flashy_magic]

It is disgusting, but if I lied about stuff like that, word might get out sooner or later, and that would probably be even worse.

[zeitgeists]

Pragmatic. I suppose whoever's holding your choke chain might go spill the beans if you painted yourself a saint anyway.

[flashy_magic]

Narvin is not holding my choke chain! I like working with him!