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"Can you tell if people have a soul?"

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"No."

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"What does taking someone's soul even do."

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"Oh, it doesn't do anything to you, I just have it afterwards."

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"I mean for you, what does it do for you."

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"It doesn't charge me up like it's a movie, if that's what you mean, I just have them."

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"...that's not what I mean. What I mean is, like, is there an experience associated with getting them, can you then trade them to other people and is there an experience associated with that, if someone said 'yeah I took some souls but it was ages ago I forget how many' would that be surprising, if someone said 'I tried to take this guy's soul but then later it turned out he hadn't had one' would that be surprising..."

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"Oh, no, none of that."

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"So it doesn't feel like anything to have a soul, if someone sold their soul twenty times it would work fine - there's no way demons would ever be able to tell if a species of aliens had souls..."

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"Yeah."

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"....huh. Why don't demons act like they can get souls from people other than their summoner, or take a soul without consent, if there's no way to tell anyway and it doesn't feel any different to you..."

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"Oh, well, we can't talk usually, so if we just pretended we could do it by looking at you nobody would notice we were pretending that."

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" - that makes sense. But if, like, a summoner offered you their child's soul or something, you might pretend you could do that, because why not..."

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"Somebody might've done that, I don't know."

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"Do you coordinate on what to pretend or does everyone just kinda do what seems appropriately dramatic."

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"There's not meetings or anything."

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"Cool. Thanks. I don't think I actually have anything you want, then."

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"Oh well."

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He releases the long video of all the demon interactions online in Revelation for people to watch. He also releases a shorter version that shows all the demon interactions but cuts out some pauses and doesn't take days to get through.

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Most people are not super convinced by this because it would be a bad idea to watch some video on the internet in which demons talked and conclude that it's perfectly safe to sell your soul.

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...he's not recommending people sell their soul, they obviously should not do that, he's observing that demons don't actually seem to want their souls that much and don't agree on anything about how taking them works and are not at all dangerous to talk to.

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Well, maybe they can tell that he doesn't have a soul, and are lying, so that humans watching the video will talk to them.

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The consensus on the internet in most places that aren't Revelation is that probably Revelation is just freaking out over nothing at all but, eh, it would be kind of hard to notice that if you started with their premise, poor guys.

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Harrumph.

 

One day there are greys around the perimeter of the bus route.

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A new term starts at the Elendil magic schools. 

 

Shuttlebus announces it'll be running every two minutes, with two different shuttles.

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