Game 2 - Thistle

[crittersheep]

[A thistle shaped crystal rises from the ground. You instinctively know to touch it for Death's Eye to receive your answer.

You are bound to your flock by a thin thread, making it impossible to separate, but you may still answer individually.]

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DISCUSSION

[crittersheep]

[teams may discuss answers here]

QUESTION 1

[crittersheep]

WHO IS DESERVING OF DEATH?

Who deserves to die? The weak and elderly? The young, too pure for this wretched world? A murderer, or his victim, a cruel being? There are many evils in this world, and many who do not deserve its suffering.

Who deserves to die in your eyes?

QUESTION 2

[crittersheep]

WHO WOULD YOU MOURN?

Would you mourn a man who's committed many an evil, but benefitted you? An ailing grandmother, alone in her home, but you have never met and will never think about once in your blessed lives.

There are many in this world a pitiful eye will never see.

Who would you mourn?

QUESTION 3

[crittersheep]

WOULD YOU JUDGE A LIFE TAKEN WILLINGLY?

Death is a blessing, an escape, for many a mortal. They take their own lives to escape suffering, out of guilt, or a foolish sense of nobility. But in the end, they are no different from a murderer or the murdered. What then, was the point?

Can you see a reason to do it? Would you take your own?

QUESTION 4

[crittersheep]

WHO WOULD *YOU* KILL?

You curse death, you fear death, you spit in my eyes. Yet out of anger, out of foolishness, mortals take lives with their own hands. For vengeance, for survival, for love, countless sins are committed by your hands.

So I ask you, what man would you look at and kill yourself?

QUESTION 5

[crittersheep]

[You know instinctively, as the final question is asked, that Death's Eye will only take one answer.

You must answer as a group.]

WHAT IS THE VALUE OF LIFE?

[survivaltricks]

. . .

Oh boy.

[literal_trainwreck]

Normally I enjoy a philosophical debate, but this certainly leaves a foul taste, doesn't it?

[shortforever]

Why are you guys actin' like this is a struggle? It's got some simple answers.

[It does not. Do not listen to Odin.]

[survivaltricks]

I blame it on the demon snake.

[everything happens so much]

[survivaltricks]

[rubbing his temples]

. . . I think all I care about right now is taking Death's Eye away from that stupid snake. And if we have to answer some questions to do it, then so be it.





But also, yeah.

[literal_trainwreck]

And I blame it on Bluebell for being stupid enough to believe a demon snake, but that is neither here nor there.

[sigh]

You should probably answer for the team, Lupin.

[survivaltricks]

[a bit surprised]

. . . me?

I don't know if I can speak for everyone on this one.

[literal_trainwreck]

Of course not. But your philosophy is the one that won out between us.

[shortforever]

Besides that, I get the feeling that this'll be kinda like the last time we had to go toe-to-toe with a demon. If we at least sound united, that's gotta help right?

[survivaltricks]

[side-eyeing Loki at that, before turning his attention to Odin]

I can agree with being united, but I don't want to speak for the two of you if your feelings are different than mine.

[. . .]

So let's talk first. How would you answer?

[shortforever]

Well that one's easy: nobody deserves to die.

[literal_trainwreck]

Many people deserve to die, but if I were to choose the category I can most confidently paint with the broadest of strokes: adults who abuse children.

[shortforever]

That's fair, but I'm not so sure I want a demon deciding what counts as 'adults who abuse children'. I think we should be a bit more specific than that.

[literal_trainwreck]

It's probably more advantageous to say "no one deserves to die." I simply can't be the one to say it.

[survivaltricks]

[a little surprised, but in a good way]

. . . I agree.

Which— isn't a denial of the natural course of life and death. Rather, people deserve to live. When death claims them, it is only because their time is up.

[survivaltricks]

[. . .]

[he looks like he wants to say something, but he isn't quite sure what]

[literal_trainwreck]

...There's no need to be sentimental about it. I'm only suggesting that we choose our answers carefully.

[survivaltricks]

You're not wrong.

[but also—]

I'm a sentimental kind of guy, though. You're stuck with it.

[literal_trainwreck]

Does that mean you want me to give my answers? I'd phrase them as articulately as possible, but the possibility of backlash seems almost guaranteed.