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Tweak says, "Okay!"

Rust Cohle wears no mask (iwearnomask) wrote in wariscomingcom,
@ 2015-02-28 00:09:00

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hayley marshall, jo harvelle, river tam, rust cohle, sam winchester

Alright. If I'm not the first person this' happened to, it seems safe to assume you've got some kind of support-network set up already.

So I'd really appreciate it if someone could find me a car, painkiller or a doctor who's quick or doesn't mind traveling.
I need to get back to Louisiana fast as I can, but I'm bleeding something terrible right now, I remember what internal trauma feels like, and it feels a whole lot like how I'm feeling.

Anyone wants to tell me the time, that'd be real useful, too.

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	iwearnomask 2015-02-28 06:23 pm UTC (link)
	From what I gather so far, there's a "mystic seal" that means I'll go to a "different Louisiana", and can't go back otherwise, till it lets me. Son, even if I was shopping for hokum, that's not a whole lot to buy. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rouxgaroux 2015-02-28 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	Out of curiosity, the Louisiana you're from... is your New Orleans run by a weird triad of witches, vampires and other gribblies? Because if not, then it's not the Louisiana I came here from. It sounds crazy, I know. Mystical seal, multiple worlds, something about th3e apocalypse. But it's also real. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

iwearnomask
2015-02-28 06:38 pm UTC (link)

I aint from Louisiana. Just trying to get back there.

And I'm going to take a wild shot in the dark and assume No. Only people I saw calling any shots were Vampires in the old, rich, living-off-the-poor and killing indiscriminately kind of way.

Wouldn't surprise me if they figured themselves witches, mind. Strange Masks and Child Sacrifice and Satanic Rituals. That kind of thing?

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	rouxgaroux 2015-02-28 09:45 pm UTC (link)
	... yeah, that sort of thing rings a few bells. Mostly the Child Sacrifice. Not so much the Masks. Something called the Harvest, bunch of girls being killed off to power up the rest of their coven? As for the Vampires? Very definitely the in literal "I vant to suck your blood" sense. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iwearnomask 2015-02-28 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	Never met a monster that wasn't just some guy, slipped too far down the morality scale. Maybe this is just one of their "different Louisiana" things. Or maybe I just kept paying attention to things I could actually fix. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rouxgaroux 2015-02-28 09:55 pm UTC (link)
	~~You should come over some time. Meet the family~~ I'm going to guess Different Louisiana. Your one's probably in a book, or a tv show, or a movie or something here. When you're done bleeding everywhere you should try Googling yourself. It's... an experience. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iwearnomask 2015-02-28 09:58 pm UTC (link)
	Used to take pride in quite how little they told me came up, when I did that. Guessing that's not the case here? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rouxgaroux 2015-02-28 10:03 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, no. Not so much. Probably want to get yourself a drink before you try it, pro-tip. You might be "lucky" and it's something obscure enough not to have a fandom, and a wiki, and a bunch of strangers knowing everything about you. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iwearnomask 2015-02-28 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	Huh. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iwearnomask 2015-02-28 10:04 pm UTC (link)
	Fuck. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rouxgaroux 2015-02-28 10:05 pm UTC (link)
	Welcome to Lawrence. It's like that most of the time. Except sometimes there's also apparently cursed mistletoe and weird naked guys trying to hug everyone and rugarus. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iwearnomask 2015-02-28 10:10 pm UTC (link)
	So is finding out whether I live or not a smart idea? Because it looks like whoever was tracking me, crapped out about half way through, and it's going to take more than a casual scan to work that out. Rugarus? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rouxgaroux
2015-02-28 10:15 pm UTC (link)

I guess that's up to you. Because when you get back where you're from you're not going to remember any of this, so it's not some Back To The Future disappearing-photo paradox thing, knowing your own destiny or whatevs. Some of us have been here more than once, apparently, but we don't remember any of it. And some of the others forgot while they were away, and remember now they're back. It's a whole barrel full of weird with exactly zero precedent, sorry.

... you'd need to ask a local. All they'd tell me was that they eat people, and you have to set them on fire, and if you see one you'll know. One of the natives, Dean, runs a class on the local weird wildlife that's recommended, if you're planning on keeping Fixing Things while you're here.

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	iwearnomask 2015-02-28 10:22 pm UTC (link)
	So it don't matter what I do, either way things are going to carry on going like they're going to go? And no matter what I learn now, what happens to me, I'm going to make the exact same choices, once I get back again? Guess that means Nietzsche was entirely right, huh? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	rouxgaroux 2015-02-28 10:29 pm UTC (link)
	Can't say I ever read much Nietzsche so you're going to have to forgive me if that reference sails right over my head, but yeah. That's about the gist of it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	iwearnomask 2015-02-28 10:33 pm UTC (link)
	Time, is a Flat Circle. And we run around the edge, doing the same things, in the same way, over and over and over. You're going to do what you're going to do. There's no real choice in it, just the illusion of one. Only way we can know we're going to do what the show tells us we're going to do. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

rouxgaroux
2015-03-01 01:26 am UTC (link)

... well. That's way, way above my paygrade - you're going to want someone with proper smarts to explain how this all works, and that's not me - but let's give it a shot.

Maybe the show shows you doing those things because you chose / choose / are going to choose to do them, because you were / are / will be who you were / are / will be. You're still choosing to do the thing, it's just that the other choices aren't ones you'll take. Doesn't stop the other options existing.

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	iwearnomask 2015-03-01 01:29 am UTC (link)
	Choices you'll never take, that's the rub. And if there's only ever one choice you're ever going to make? That's not a choice. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

fruityoatybars
2015-03-01 01:38 am UTC (link)

you cannot travel both
And be one traveler

That second road still runs through the yellow wood.