quickattackjack | 29 days till Halloween [video]

[Today instead of looking cheerful, Jack's feed flickers on to reveal a somewhat weary face. He's sitting hunched over and doesn't look nearly as attentive as he usually does. Edgar is on his shoulder with her head under her wing, snoozing away.]

Good mor-- I mean afternoon, Johto. How is everyone? I hope everyone had a better night's sleep than I did last night. You know, I love a good nightmare as much as the next dead guy, but I have the strangest feeling that it wasn't a dream. I think it might have been a memory. And I died. I've been dead for years, it shouldn't shake me so--

[He pauses to yawn. The ex-skeleton had woken up in the middle of the previous night and tried to power through the day by training for the gym extra hard. Now that it was getting close to bed time again, he DREADED it.]

--excuse me. But...I noticed another thing. In a week or so, I will have been here an entire year. I haven't been away from Halloween Town this long before--not even to do research. Someone told me that time stops back home, so I'm not too worried... but I don't think anything can stop me from missing it...

But I'm very glad to have met all of you. You've all taught me so much about being alive...listen to me ramble. I'm half asleep, I apologize. I normally don't drink coffee but I think tonight I just might make an exception. I don't think I want to sleep.

Haha, let's see how long I can stay awake. I bet I can pull fourty two hours-- how do you all say it? Like an employer?

...no, that's not right.

[YAWN]

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Well, I guess you could say I got better.

_{[Jack has explained his dead-ness a dozen times and has just started telling folks this. It was just easier.]}

Funny how that works sometimes.

[She looks skeptical, though.]

I guess when it comes to this place, you really did get better. Everything that comes through becomes human again. If they were dead, they're revived. If they were anything remotely inhuman to begin with, that gets fixed too.

...Imagine, reviving the dead. I bet a lot of people would do nearly anything to get the secret to that.

I'm not sure I want to think about what mankind would do with that power...or what the dead would have to say about it.

As nice as it is here, I think I sort of prefer being dead. You can't break your nose when you're dead.

It's the nature of souls to decay over time, even in life. It's difficult to retrieve what was lost when that happens, and even if it weren't, the problem is keeping the information contained there in one piece. People have struggled for a long time to keep themselves alive beyond their body's limit, or to try and resuscitate the already dead, but they've all been faulty and imperfect practices at best.

...I'm not sure the dead have any need for noses anyway.

_{[Jack sort of stares at his gear. He's too tired to process half of that.]}

No, we don't have need for them. Not really. Though they're pretty hand if you've still got your eyes and need somewhere to hang your glasses.