[02] Video; Backdated to Friday May 1st

[kingpawn]

[ Hey, everyone. It's Walt. You may remember this guy from such videos as drunk posting in his underwear. But in case you don't (and hopefully you don't), Walt is fully clothed this time. He still looks every bit as weary as his video debut, but at least he isn't drunk. That's a plus. ]

I apologize in advance for any inconvenience. It seems as though the Heropa pharmacy was caught up in whatever chaos erupted in the city and suffered some damages. We will be closed until further notice, but I will be doing my best to ensure prescriptions still get out to everyone who used my pharmacy to have them filled. We have a sister pharmacy that has temporarily taken on accounts here in Heropa. Though if it's more convenient for imPorts, I can have things forwarded to the other imPort cities.

Repairs have already begun, so I don't anticipate us being closed for over a couple weeks. If anyone wants to offer their assistance in helping rebuild the damaged sections, it would be greatly appreciated. Otherwise, I hope everyone has been well and continues to be well now that the worst of this is all behind us.

Comments

[ferrisbuellean]

I have the self-control to not eat them. You should try it some time.

[Was that a donut burn? It might've been.]

[kingpawn]

What are you implying? I'll have you know I dropped at least thirty pounds in the last month I was at home.

[ Conveniently not mentioning that it was because of cancer, though. ]

[ferrisbuellean]

Hey, man, congrats. That's a pretty excessive amount.

[Suspicious of it just being from exercise and healthy living, tbh.]

[kingpawn]

[ How does Walt even respond to the congrats? ]

....thanks.

[ And he shrugs it off. ]

Point being, what's the point in depriving yourself? I assure you if you pick up a hammer and do some work tomorrow -- not only will you look great on camera, but you'll burn enough calories where it won't matter if you have a second or third donut.

[ferrisbuellean]

Sure, but I'd fuel myself a whole of a lot better with some protein or slow burning carbs. You don't just put any shitty oil in a super car just because it'll burn it up anyway, you look after the engine and give it the best.

[Ie. Jeff is a super car, Walt is some old Daewoo or something.]

[kingpawn]

[ omg Jeff. You are the rudest. ]

Well, I mean, you can either pay more money for that good oil or you can save that money and enjoy life a little more.

[ Shrug. Or you can make a meth empire and then money is no object. Buy a new car whenever the old one needs an oil change.... ]

[ferrisbuellean]

And regret it later in life when that finely tuned engine has turned to shit thanks to negligence? Yeah, no thanks.

[You can't buy a new body, Walt, that's not how metaphors work!]

[kingpawn]

[ You can always come back to life in a weird superhero land, tho. When that body shits out. ]

Do you think the actions you make in this world are going to hold any consequence on your life back home?

[ferrisbuellean]

Do they not?

[Still not entirely sure how all this fancy dimensional travel thing works.]

[kingpawn]

I imagine not, no. From my understanding, life goes on there all the same -- no memories, no physical changes -- what we do here doesn't even matter in the long run. It's pointless.

[ferrisbuellean]

So you're saying if I put on 400lbs in this place, I'd just revert the second I went back? Jeez, talk about a free pass...

[kingpawn]

That would be some pretty impressive self-destruction you'd be doing to gain that much weight. But yes. That's exactly what I'm saying.

[ferrisbuellean]

And yet I'm still not going to eat that extra donut? Know why? Because I have self-control.

Why does it matter if nothing we do here is going to be transferred back to our world? By that logic, isn't life just pointless? All we're doing is making changes in a world that we won't really be spending more than a century on, tops.

[kingpawn]

Well, there are some of us who will remain here. There are some of us who have no world or life to return to. It's only pointless for people who can go back home. Because those people will live on unaffected and never remembering.

But me? I will always remember you, Jeff, and how you refused to eat more than one donut.

[ferrisbuellean]

You'll always remember me, huh? So, does that mean you have no world or life to return to?

[kingpawn]

I....don't. I died back home.

[ A beat. ]

Lung cancer. Inoperable.

[ferrisbuellean]

[Paaause. Awkward.]

Well.

Shit.

Sorry.

[kingpawn]

No. It's fine.

[ No it's not. ]

I'm alive and well.

[ Which he hates. ]

I got a second chance.

[ Which he didn't want. ]

Really, things are looking up.

[ferrisbuellean]

[Fine or not, this is still pretty awkward. Speaking to dead people is weird.]

Yeah. This is a pretty awesome second chance too, huh?

Does that mean you'll never go home? It's like the weirdest purgatory ever.

[kingpawn]

Well, who knows. I don't think staying here is any guarantee even if I can't exactly go back to living in my world.

I could vanish one day and simply go back to being dead.

And wow, we got really depressing, real quick from me trying to coerce you to eat that extra donut, didn't we?

[ferrisbuellean]

Entirely your fault. Because if you can't blame the dead, who can you blame?

[kingpawn]

That's pretty terrible logic, I'll have you know.

[ferrisbuellean]

Works for me!

[:D?]

Look, death and donuts aside-- that should totally be the title of your autobiography-- but death and donuts aside, things aren't so bad here. There's hovercars, superpowers and some really handsome lawyer on TV. I'd say we got it pretty good.