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	» Age: Not exactly relevant. » Seeking: Without trying to be evasive - not very much, if I'm honest. » Preferences: That dead people stay dead, as a general rule. » Interests: Good wine, good music, decent odds, and getting my work done. » Bio: Some call me the Grim Reaper. I don't really know what I'm doing here, but a diversion in the meantime can't hurt.
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[valr]

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which grim reaper?

[There are many, and she's curious.]

[rapsheet]

How many do you know?

[ Normally people's reaction to that is oh gods not the grim reaper, not yeah but which one, so. ]

[valr]

personally? Śmierć, hein, a lot of ankou, santa muetre
there are others

[rapsheet]

[ ... Were all of those things even words? ]

Can't say I've heard of them. Grim Reaper wasn't a name I gave myself, anyway. I'm not the only emissary of the Raven Queen, but mortals seem to find it easier to think of us as one being. Gives them less to worry about.

[valr]

haven't heard of the raven queen. she's a god?
not from earth then?

[rapsheet]

Goddess of the natural order of life and death. And... no. But I've heard of it.

[ In a roundabout sort of way. ]

How exactly do you come to know so many of us?

[valr]

[It's weird to think of there only being one goddess of life and death, which is the impression she's getting from the use of "the" rather than "a", but she can save the question for later.]

valkyrja, the chooser of the slain
i serve my gods, to ferry the dead to their resting place

[rapsheet]

Ah, I see. Not too different then, you and I.

[valr]

[She hesitates on her response, but it doesn't feel right to lie.]

maybe
dont work much these days
i only take those that believe, not a lot of belief left

[rapsheet]

Mm. It always seems that way, doesn't it. It's a shame.

[ Belief is different to him - it's hard to deny the existence of a god who in some cases will speak to prove you wrong. But more and more people seem to defy their authority, reject their wisdom. ]

Is it the willing you take, then?

[valr]

i take mine to Valhalla or Fólkvangr
there are many afterlives, its why there are many of us

[rapsheet]

Interesting. Why so many?

[valr]

there are many gods, they have their own realms

[rapsheet]

A different afterlife for each, then? Most of ours aren't concerned with it.

[valr]

for each pantheon. Hel resides over death in my culture, hades for the greeks, osiris for the egyptians

[rapsheet]

[ Ohh. Now it's starting to make a little more sense. ]

And all these co-exist? There must be almost as many gods as mortals.

[ Little bit of 'technically a divine creature but not really' humor, there. ]

For us, the dead all find their way to the same place in the end. Usually without too much help, though every so often their protests will become actual resistance. That's generally where I come in.

[valr]

there are 7.5 billion humans on earth

[Kara 'what's a joke' Styrdottir.

The second point takes her a moment, but she thinks she gets there.]

you claim the undead?

[rapsheet]

Sounds like a lot of gods.

[ The airy shrug almost visible through text alone. ]

That's my job, yes. Or... it was. Rounding up the ones who escaped the astral plane, or wouldn't come, or otherwise toyed with the laws of life and death. We don't take necromancy as lightly as they seem to here.

[valr]

someone makes that choice they don't get to go anywhere, that's punishment enough

[There's no afterlife for undead things.]

[rapsheet]

You just leave them there?

[ Seems counter-intuitive. ]

[valr]

all things end, sooner or later
we're not in a hurry

[rapsheet]

I suppose that's one way of doing things.

What would you do about something that couldn't die? Undead beings of pure magic don't need to go anywhere, in my experience.

[valr]

they wanna exist for eternity in a void after everything else is gone that aint my problem

[rapsheet]

Playing the long game. I respect that.

[ Not about to be fine with open insults to the Raven Queen's name wandering around as if they're untouchable in the meantime, but he can understand a more long-term approach. ]

Honestly I think I'd be bored without the work. Or... I would've been, before.

[valr]

[hollow laughter dot mp3]

you learn to live with it