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text | day 008 | HE412T
[This text post comes after a few hours of radio silence following Dirk's first messages.]
Surprise, I survived.
"I told you so" etc etc.
Turns out the locals are pretty chill, all things considered.
I've learned their language and they have accepted me as one of their own.
By which I mean I'm cooling my heels in one of their longhouses for the rest of the night after they explained their whole Lost-adjacent dogma to me.
And I learned some shit you folks will probably be interested to hear about, judging by the fat wad of nothing y'all were able to tell me.
Key takeaways:
One, this particular group of natives speaks Morse code.
Tongue clicks for dots and hums for dashes.
Might wanna brush up on it if you don't feel like getting speared should you have a run-in with them.
And two, the people responsible for whatever this is are somewhere to the southeast, presumably on another island.
Surprise, I survived.
"I told you so" etc etc.
Turns out the locals are pretty chill, all things considered.
I've learned their language and they have accepted me as one of their own.
By which I mean I'm cooling my heels in one of their longhouses for the rest of the night after they explained their whole Lost-adjacent dogma to me.
And I learned some shit you folks will probably be interested to hear about, judging by the fat wad of nothing y'all were able to tell me.
Key takeaways:
One, this particular group of natives speaks Morse code.
Tongue clicks for dots and hums for dashes.
Might wanna brush up on it if you don't feel like getting speared should you have a run-in with them.
And two, the people responsible for whatever this is are somewhere to the southeast, presumably on another island.
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Death kind of loses its gravitas after the second decapitation.
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both of decapitations, and your limit for caring when people die
but it's better than 7,000 so I guess you have that going for you
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But I'm talking about myself, not people.
And 7000 seems extreme enough to earn another exception to the rule.
At a certain point, numbers cease being tragedies and start being statistics.
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Granted I've only died once, and it was only for a couple of minutes, but it seems like it would be really bad to stop caring.
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Death is a one time thing for most people.
If a person comes to terms with their own death only to unexpectedly wake back up, the state of being at peace with it doesn't necessarily disappear.
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It may be natural, but it could still get you killed permanently. Or at least really mess you up mentally.
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