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It's starting to get cold. I heard the power was out for a long time last winter, so I'm trying to make things like gloves and scarves. If anyone in particular wants some, please let me know. Also, if there's anyone who could make cloaks or something else like that, it would be a good idea to do that.

I might as well say it now too, November 30th is Saint Andrew's Day, and I'd like to try to observe it. Assuming nothing prevents it from happening, I'll be preparing a feast on floor 25 on that day. Everyone's welcome to it.

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All saints have a feast day to honour them, so this one's for Andrew the Apostle.

Really? How many saints did you have on your world? I'd imagine it would get rather cumbersome to celebrate all of them if there were a great deal of saints...

I really don't know. I think most people only celebrate a few. If at all.

I'm not exactly the best person to ask, I'm pretty new to it all.

What did Saint Andrew do to deserve a feast that is actually observed, then?

A lot that would probably be hard to explain. But if you're asking why I specifically want to, I knew him well. He's always kind to me. But I can't repay that.

Oh, so he was a living saint as opposed to a dead one. Though if the state of things is to be believed I suppose he is dead after all.

I don't mind a challenge. I'd enjoy the distraction if nothing else. If you'd rather speak it than type it that's fine too.

No, he was dead. He was crucified nearly two thousand years ago. That's one of the reasons he became a saint, though probably a very small one compared to the rest.

Actually that's a good idea. [He switches to audio.]

He was an integral part of the birth of Christianity. That's a major religion in my world. He was one of eleven who were with the Messiah pretty much from the start. But it's not just religious reasons. He helped people. Feeding the poor and tending to their health. Surprisingly intelligent too. Apparently people in fishing communities pray to him because he was a fisherman... Things like that, I guess. Accumulation of little things.

So you are as old as that, if you speak of him as having known that. Is everyone from your world as long-lived?

Often it is the smaller things, the things that make someone appear human, that have the most weight. If people feel they can connect, if the can reach, if they could through their own actions be just like that person, it means more, does it not? That's how you win an audience, not by bullying as so many people seem to, but by being a human being. If this man was who he was without deception then he deserves the praise he has gotten.

Oh, no, not at all. Only saints and things. ...I'm 'and things', just so we're clear, by the way. It's complicated. Most people live to be around eighty, I think.

Yes I think so too! That's exactly it. Being a good and honest person is actually incredibly difficult, but remembering those who were can help us all to do the same.

Ah, do you mean magic? That's rather common from what I've seen.

It's a shame that there are so very few people who are truly good anymore. Most people seem to only be interested in themselves and their own gain.

Um...no, not really. I was also dead...but we both live on in the afterlife? It's still different though...we can go to earth and things. Regular dead people can't. And certainly not someone like me, normally...

I don't think people as a whole ever truly were good. There have always been a few, but even in my time they certainly weren't. Actually, if anything they seem to be much better now.

So when you die, you don't stop moving? How does that make you dead?

[Sorry, Judas, he really has little concept of an afterlife or anything like that.]

That's an interesting way to look at it. Those who are good can rise above and become saints or figures to be revered for their goodness. Role models.

Your body dies, but not your soul, is the best way to put it, I guess. The just move on to Heaven, paradise. Sinners are tortured in Hell. Lately some saints and angels have been taking trips from Heaven to Earth, to see the new age and all.

[Oh, that's something vaguely familiar.]

The heart - soul - that's what people say is trapped here, what's stuck into these fake wireframe bodies that we wear. I don't think this is paradise... so does that mean this is Hell?

No, definitely not. It's a lot like this in certain ways, but actually, it's definitely worse.

Worse in what way?

[dear Judas, I'm so, so sorry]

Um, well...it's a consistent torture, all the time.

That lines up with what people describe this place as being like, though the reality is a bit far from the description in that regard...

[Then as an afterthought]

I meant that as a joke. This text medium is difficult to express such things through.

[He laughs.]

You're telling me. Someone needs to invent the sarcastica font already.

I suppose the only danger with such a thing is from people who would use nothing but all the time...

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