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[erogappa]

Date: November 21
From: Anon

What do you think we are? Why do you think we were brought here?

Comments

[boneofsword]

I know enough about summoning. Not enough to risk a guess what kind of spell was used here or how to break it.

All the facts suggest that our souls simply return to the world we come from without time passing between the moment we're taken from to the moment of our return.

[erogappa]

pretend i don't know anything about summoning spells. what facts are you basing this on?

[boneofsword]

Mind that I'm basing it on the knowledge that I have of quite similar summoning system from my world. You can summon soul into a prepared vessel that isn't the soul's original body. There also exists a possibility of summoning a said soul from a specific point of their timeline, be it from their past, present or the future.

What my theory is based on are several facts. First, some of gods that returned here after being shinki do remember a lot that happened after their supposed death. Second, the bodies we have here are vessels that adhere to the rules of this world, be it shinki memory loss or various abilities that both shinki and gods have, including shinki vessel form. The fact that shinki can regain some of their memories points to our souls not being native to this world, thus not being fully confined to its rules. Another fact is that both gods and shinki fall into a coma-like sleep, during which gods' souls return to their respective world. While shinki can't remember what exactly happens during that prolonged sleep, my guess is that their souls also return to their respective worlds as god's do, the only difference being lack of memories.

[erogappa]

[ That's a lot to take in. Gojyo's going to be thinking about this for some time to come. ]

when people in your world would summon souls from other times and places, what did you do with them? why did you summon them?

[boneofsword]

[Archer tried to simplify it for the sake of troubled anonymous.]

To aid the magi that summoned them, be it fighting or knowledge.

It's a bit similar to how shinki are to gods that name them, if you need a better comparision.

[erogappa]

and what was that you said about about people going into deep sleeps and then thinking they went back to their worlds? i haven't heard of that happening to anyone.

[boneofsword]

I saw it mentioned several times on the BBS, and a few talked about it when I asked. Thus it does count as a fact.

Aer you having doubts about the memories?

[erogappa]

yeah. i know at least one shinki who is getting very specific memories back. like if he was going to go eat tempura and he got a memory the night before that he was allergic to shrimp, things like that. if shinki got back memories randomly it would be les suspicious.

[boneofsword]

In case you describe it sounds as if their brain is trying to keep them alive by unconsciously chosing memories relevant to their actions.

[erogappa]

so you think the memories are all in his head already and he's just remembering them one at a time? i didn't think of that. it should be pretty easy to test though.

[boneofsword]

[Anon plz]

How? Our bodies still adhere to the rules of this world, that if shinki try to remember things on their own they turn into ayakashi.

[erogappa]

i'm not going to tell him to try to remember. give me a little credit.

[boneofsword]

I'm merely ensuring you won't do anything too reckless. Although I'm curious how do you intend to test that, mind sharing your idea?

[erogappa]

how do you think? show him a lot of familiar things and see if he remembers anything. i will just have to be careful not to tell him that the stuff is supposed to be familiar.

[boneofsword]

Telling you to be careful isn't really going to work, right? Good luck then, and do share the results.