voice; cellphone

[vetala]

There seem to be quite a few things different about me physically, ever since I discovered this network a few months back, and aside from being a little irritating, most of them haven't significantly affected me to the point of not being able to function. However, I think that there is something odd going on with my eating habits. I've been hungry in an odd way since I visited the Tuning Towers and it's been going on for weeks and nothing is really helping the issue. And I think I've figured out what that is, though how I figured out involves a very uncomfortable bus ride with people who have no concept of personal space, but very tantalizing, ah... Well... Jugular veins.

Anyway, that odd statement coming from me really should make what I'm about to ask obvious, but bear with me, because I am going to ask a mildly disturbing question.

Does anyone else besides me feel a particular urge to, oh I don't know, drink blood? And along the same vein- I mean- Along the same lines, is there any way to make it stop aside from the usual thing? I've read enough literature to understand the basic idea but is there anyway to opt out? Because I'd really rather not go down that path at the moment.

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Voice. Cellphone.

[flamberge]

[Vampire like tendencies, huh? Maybe others might care, but Richard focuses on something else. The last time they had spoken was when his poor shoes suffered a tragic fate at her hands, after all.]

This peculiar urge aside, how are you feeling?

Voice;

[vetala]

[oh nooooo :c She was doing so well in her crusade to not be completely mortified too. All that progress... Gone.]

Oh. Hi... I'm feeling fine. Aside from that urge.

[Pause.]

Did it come out? The vomit? From your shoes? Did you have to throw them away? I am so sorry...

Voice;

[flamberge]

[Poor, poor Richard. Tries to show concern? Girl becomes mortified.]

You needn't apologize. You had no control over what happened.

[He speaks a bit softer than normal just to drill home the fact he isn't mad or upset or anything.

...Though, yes, he did go buy new shoes, but only because the vomiting was taken as a sign from above to mean BUY NEW SHOES. NOW. YOU NEED THEM YOU MORON. But not mentioning this, nope.]

Voice;

[vetala]

[There is a small percentage of Kanti's brain that is solely dedicated to reliving her regrets and being mortified about them, so it's hardly his fault.]

That is... a point, yes. I still feel terrible about it, but that is a point. [Because even when she is trying to accept a thing, Kanti is still unwilling to do so without generally acknowledging her fuck-ups.]

Voice;

[flamberge]

[Maybe, but you have to admit Richard scores pretty high on the LOOKS INTIMIDATING AS HELL scale, too.]

Should you desire to make up for it then do so by returning to and remaining at full health. [Pause.] Best another shoe not suffer the same fate as my own.

[There might be some slight playfulness audible in the last sentence. He's really trying to make it clear he's not mad here.]

Voice;

[vetala]

[His playful tone is met with THE MOST AWKWARD CHUCKLE IN THE WORLD that trails off into a humming sound and then small sigh at the end.]

Well, I'll do my best, I suppose. I'm not really sure what to do otherwise. I think it's mostly a sort of side-effect of whatever is happening to me.

Re: Voice;

[flamberge]

[Awkward chuckle is a sign of failure. Thankfully though, what she says makes any thoughts on that chuckle become concern over what she'd said.]

Do you've any idea what may be happening?

Voice;

[vetala]

I'm apparently either turning into a vampire, a leech, a Chupacabra, or some other creature.

It's honestly a shame, because I work very hard to maintain my figure. [Ecept not really, but let her make a poorly thought out joke of this, alright?]

Voice;

[flamberge]

Chupacabras are supposedly fairly lean creatures so your figure may yet survive.

[Countering with his own lame joke.]

Voice;

[vetala]

Are they? Most of the pictures I pulled off Google show some sort of emaciated dog creature, so I suppose you're right in that sense. Though most of them are distinctly... dead.

[Ruining his joke. Little Miss No-Fun.]

Voice;

[flamberge]

Then you'd truly be one of a kind: thin and still breathing.

[Little Miss No-Fun met Un-funny Old Man.]

Voice;

[vetala]

I'd rather be the same and... still breathing.

That sounded better in my head.

Voice;

[flamberge]

[Okay, that actually gets a chuckle out of him.]

You staying the same would be preferable, yes.

Voice;

[vetala]

Well of course it would be, it's just not likely. [When people were talking to her in middle school about urges and changes these were not the sort she was imagining were going to happen.]

Voice;

[flamberge]

If nothing else, a change in appearance doesn't mean you'll cease to remain yourself.

[Hopefully that's somehow comforting?]

Voice;

[vetala]

The changes in memory will take care of that, I imagine.

Voice;

[flamberge]

Obtaining memories not your own will not make you any less the person you are.

Voice;

[vetala]

Memories and experiences are what make people who they are, correct?

Voice;

[flamberge]

Yes, but acquiring new memories does not change who you are at this very moment.

Voice;

[vetala]

But it will eventually

Voice;

[flamberge]

[a pause comes from his end]

Have you ever heard of Theseus' Ship?

Voice;

[vetala]

I wasn't aware he had a ship. I thought he traveled by road. Or was that Perseus...

[These Greek heroes and their -eseus.]

Voice;

[flamberge]

He traveled by boat to arrive at the island of Minos, however this isn't related to the mythology per say. It's a philosophical question, a logical paradox to be precise.

As I mentioned, Theseus traveled to Minos by boat and returned home to Athens in that same boat. Over time this ship grew to need repairs. Say that for each repair, a single plank was replaced. More and more planks were replaced over time until none of the original planks remained. Can the boat still be considered the same boat that Theseus had traveled in or had it become a different boat?

Voice;

[vetala]

Hold on for a moment... [There are a few research-y sounds, mostly thoughtful 'hmms' and and finger-taps on a screen.]

Minos is in Crete and the route to Athens is almost a straight line, where would he have stopped to fix the boat? Where would they have even gotten the supplies? If they kept them on the ship, why wouldn't they have just built another boat and left in the newer one? And even if they replaced all the planks, if they were still calling the ship by the name they initially used and it was still functioning in it's purpose, would it really matter to them whether or not it was the same ship?

[PHILOSOPHY FAIL.]

Voice;

[flamberge]

Your knowledge of Mediterranean geography is impressive, if somewhat off topic.

[Impressive, but just not philosophy.]

Although, the last question holds a philosophical aspect to it. Does it matter if the ship is the same as it was at the beginning? Does it in fact matter that you are not the same as you were before?