Video // un; E.A Poe

[quotetheraven]

[The video feed cuts to a rather pensive looking man, somewhere in his forties. He could be heard mumbling about odd machines, and something about not really expecting the afterlife to look like this. Quite a few people should instantly recognize him.

And without any warning he starts mutter a poem to himself.]

Take this kiss upon the brow!
And, in parting from you now,
Thus much let me avow —
You are not wrong, who deem
That my days have been a dream;
Yet if hope has flown away
In a night, or in a day,
In a vision, or in none,
Is it therefore the less gone?
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

I stand amid the roar
Of a surf-tormented shore,
And I hold within my hand
Grains of the golden sand —
How few! yet how they creep
Through my fingers to the deep,
While I weep — while I weep!
O God! Can I not grasp
Them with a tighter clasp?
O God! can I not save
One from the pitiless wave?
Is all that we see or seem
But a dream within a dream?

Bah, whatever. Greetings to all of... whatever you all are. I am Edgar Allan Poe. Here to join you all in this fever dream.

Comments

[corruptedsave]

[They like the man's work.]

It was months ago, so no not really. Unless they decide to test us again, but the dying one was like you got trapped on a beach with another person and two glasses. One of them had poison in it, and so one of the two had to drink it to be able to leave.

[Just leaving out the fact that it didn't really kill you, just made it look like you died.]

[quotetheraven]

What an insidious idea.

[He hates it, and he hates that he loves it.]

Nonetheless I fail to see how such a thing might be considered a test.

[corruptedsave]

It was pretty insidious, I kind of liked it.

[Chara is a morbid kid sometimes.]

And I dunno how, probably to show pureness of heart or something. If like, you volunteered to be the one poisoned.

[quotetheraven]

That seems redundant, as I'm sure both would attempt to poison themselves.

[Or act as if they would. Which seemed more likely to him.]

[corruptedsave]

Either way, someone died, so why does that matter?

[quotetheraven]

The loss of life is always a great event and moment. Most especially if they are meant to show "pureness of heart" or whatever buffoonery they wanted to see.

After all, what's to stop one from merely acting out the willingness to be altruistic.

[corruptedsave]

I think being altruistic was part of the test? Like no one is going to kill themselves just because they can.

[quotetheraven]

Oh many fools would. And many others would look for ways to act as though they are doing an action for the sake of another.

[corruptedsave]

I think, Mister Poe, that that second part was why they did the test.

[Chara can't help but chuckle a little.]