57 days till Halloween [voice]

[quickattackjack]

<sub>[Today's transmission is short and sweet. The background noise is running water and the light clacking of plates against one another.]

[Jack's having one of those realizations that crop up out of the blue and just has to share it with the world. He sounds worried.]</sub>

Just how old do you think we newcomers can get in this place?

_{[There's a short pause before the feed ends that suggests he wants to add something else but he doesn't.]}

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[paladinlost]

...That would depend on our current age and how long we can be kept in this world in the first place, I imagine. Our original species might also influence that.

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[quickattackjack]

_{[Jack flips on his video feed. He's in his kitchen and the sink is still running. The bubbles are overflowing onto the tile.]}

All very good points! But suppose one was already past their original, er, expiration date?

[video]

[paladinlost]

Ah. That would complicate matters.

[If he saying what Cecil thinks he's saying.]

Can you estimate your... non-expired body's current age? Or recall any changes to it since you arrived?

[video]

[quickattackjack]

In all my four years of being here, I've come to discover I'm on the latter end of the see-saw of life, but I'm not sure how far. I can tell you one thing--I have a lot more grey hair than I started with.

[video]

[paladinlost]

Those could simply be due to stress, but still... There's a possibility you can reach the same age the eldest citizens of this world can achieve, but I've no idea what it is. Then again, they die while we cannot, so you could also grow much older.

[video]

[quickattackjack]

Possibly...if it's stress then I'd believe I got every last one of them just before last Halloween! Putting on a haunted house is a lot of work.

And that's true...I wonder if it would be possible for one of us to become the oldest living human on the planet.

[video]

[paladinlost]

We'd need an elderly person who arrived long ago and will stay here even longer to test that. Along with information about local longevity records, if it's available. But I've not seen either of those during my stay here.

[video]

[quickattackjack]

Well, aside from my friend Heather, I've been here longer than anyone I know... A little research just might put me in the running!

_{[He's trying hard to look at this in a positive light.]}

[video]

[paladinlost]

I'm not certain whether to congratulate you or offer my condoleances.

[He sighs.]

I'm definitely one of the ten earliest remaining arrivals by this point, but as I've looked fifteen years younger than I am for quite some time, I'll be of little help for this. Unless this world somehow accelerates my aging.

[video]

[quickattackjack]

_{[Jack laughs.]} I don't know either. Ahah.

Maybe we should try and round the rest of them up. Swap stories. Things like that!

[video]

[paladinlost]

This could be a pleasant little meeting... or an extremely depressing reunion. We'd have to include drinks and food, to fit both of those possibilities.

[video]

[quickattackjack]

I threw a Dead Man's party one year...I wish I remembered how it went.

_{[A little too much wine that time.]}

[video]

[paladinlost]

A Dead Man's party? I've no doubt it was a lively occasion.

[Cecil no.]

[video]

[quickattackjack]

...

_{[He was asking for that. He can't be mad.]}

It was. We had a live band and everything.

[video]

[paladinlost]

That sounds extremely lovely. Was it popular enough to repeat someday?

[video]

[quickattackjack]

I don't remember there being an enormous turn out...but I might just throw another. There are dozens of new arrivals who could probably use some cheering up.

[video]

[paladinlost]

Indeed. I spoke to one who looked extremely confused and upset a few days ago, though I doubt she was dead in her world.

[video]

[quickattackjack]

I'm not so sure she would enjoy a party full of dead people...

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[paladinlost]

...It might give her the wrong idea about this world, yes. People who think this might be the afterlife are already common enough...

[video]

[quickattackjack]

Maybe newcomers need a different kind of party.

[video]

[paladinlost]

Preferably one that comes with supplies for the first few weeks of their journey.

[video]

[quickattackjack]

Yes! That's a great idea! But...I don't think I can volunteer myself. I'm not the best at...jovial celebrations.

_[Cough.]

[video]

[paladinlost]

I have some experience with large events, but my world's style might be too... formal for the occasion.

[Courtly balls don't really work everywhere.]

[video]

[quickattackjack]

Hmmm...we should at least put the idea out there so that someone else might take the job.

[video]

[paladinlost]

A young lady spoke of creating facilities for new arrivals. Perhaps a celebration could be included.