65; dictated

[gottaknockhard]

[It's better for everyone that Spike doesn't bring up his brief stint in the 'Space Olympics' or the subsequent invasion -- but that doesn't mean it didn't get him thinking, considering he didn't die when the place exploded (or whatever; he doesn't remember exactly). Anyone who gets yanked around this much has to eventually start wondering what it's all about.

Even someone like Spike, who tries his damnedest not to think about anything. He never generally likes sharing from his own experiences, but for some reason this odd memory came to him sometime after he woke up back at the castle. In fact, it sticks with him long enough to resurface late at night, when he finds himself dictating to the journal.]

Back home, there was a cult I ran across once. It was all based on the idea that you could download your soul into a computer and live forever. They made their own religion around it. Migrate to electronics... something.

It was all a hoax, I thought. But sometimes it doesn't seem so far-fetched.

[He really seems to be in a storytelling mood lately. This can't be a good thing.]

Comments

[gottaknockhard]

Might be telling that most of them used a video game to download themselves. Just goes to show new technology isn't always an improvement.

[pompous_today]

Don't I know. We can't live with it, and yet, we cannot live without it, either.

[gottaknockhard]

I've been doing pretty well surviving on what they have here. It makes me think I could do with less.

[pompous_today]

I know that feeling as well. Are you from the future, then? Compared to many others, I mean. I'm from the year 2517 in my world.

[gottaknockhard]

[... He knew Kaylee and her friends were from the future, but either he didn't know or he forgot how far into it they were.]

Future in the relative sense. I'm from 2071.

[pompous_today]

I see. It always fascinates me how things can play out so differently depending on the place...

[gottaknockhard]

I guess you can't expect a magic castle to have much in the way of modern conveniences.

[pompous_today]

Not at all. No space ships or cars or... anything much useful.

[gottaknockhard]

[He won't mention how he's been in possession of both of those examples, what with people having the tendency to steal from him lately.]

That happens when you only cater to the majority.

[pompous_today]

True. It's not like we should be allowed any sort of freedom that makes it feel like we're escaping, either.

[gottaknockhard]

It doesn't sound bitter when you put it that way.

[pompous_today]

Not at all.

[gottaknockhard]

This is where I should say 'it could be worse' before the castle gets any ideas.

[pompous_today]

Much worse, indeed. I don't want that to happen, either.

[gottaknockhard]

That would be terrible.