paradisalogs | if you don't leave you will kill or be killed

Who: Micheletto and you
What: the most ridiculous intro i've ever written
When: 13/December, late afternoon
Where: the duck pond
Rating: ducks.

[There is currently a very nonplussed-looking man standing knee-deep in the duck pond. He has apparently been there for at least several minutes, because the ducks have become accustomed to his presence enough where they aren't too afraid to come close.

His hair is a little damp, too. Maybe he fell in earlier? Regardless, he's still just standing there. It's a little weird. Surely someone in such a catatonic state could use some assistance!

Of course, the second any hypothetical assistance gets close enough, he's going to grab them and toss them into the pond. Maybe that's why he looks so puzzled.]

[ooc.: during this post, micheletto's also experiencing his first temporary loss, wherein he will just shove people into the pond reflexively if they get within arm's reach. because it's funny. prose or actionspam, you decide!]

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Better you stay in Venice, then.

And what crime has Savonarola committed, to earn your ire?

Nothing that the rest of Italia does not already commit itself.

Every sin and supposed moral bankruptcy, I hear.

[Micheletto pauses, glancing over at him.]

Yes. We are all sinners in one way or another.

Some more than others.

Yes. God must favour some with stronger convictions.

[This conversation is making him want to gut something, so --] Savonarola is a preacher who displeased Rome. That is his sin.

He is an enemy of the Borgia pope, then.

Yes. [And, happily, of Micheletto.]

And you serve Rodrigo Borgia?

[This requires a brief moment of thought, but he shrugs. In a peripheral way, yes, but ultimately --] No.

Why do you ask so many questions?

Because it is unusual for men from our time to appear here in Paradisa.

Do men from other times not take offense to such wanton curiosity?

[That gets a smirk.]

No, they are fucking nosey bastards.

[He smiles a bit as well, eyes downcast.]

Then you have picked up some habits from them, yes? Are they from the past or future?

After a year, it is difficult not to. Most of them are from beyond the year 2000, though.

[He can't even fathom that, so he just swears a little. Shit's crazy, bro!!!]

It's surprising the world did not crumble before then.

If you have qualms with sinners now, imagine how it will be in the future.

The world has qualms with sinners. So I remain surprised that it hasn't torn itself apart.

God does not seem to be doing much smiting in the future. Fewer plagues and pestilence.

Then it seems, Florentine, God will soon give up on the world.

And yet I see no end of days in sight.

[He smiles thinly, cocking his head.]

This world is outside of time, yes? You may yet be wrong about that.

We will have to see.

Yes.

[Oh look, he was right, the city's right here. Great.]

It seems as though you told the truth after all.

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