"Do you get accidentally shot at a lot?" Jan had ben shot at very rarely in his life and he wouldn't call any of those incidents accidental. They'd been roberies or wars, though he'd usually avoided the later.
"At times," he said, his accent growing thicker as he spoke. "I have a few friends who tend to attract attention that doesn't stop to ask if you were in on the scheme before they pull the trigger."
"That is why if you meet a new Immortal you have to teach them until they are able to fend for themselves and participate in the Game," Duncan said. "Have you never had a tutor?"
"Only for Latin," Jan answered honestly. "And why would anyone bother to train rather than dispose of a future opponent in a battle for life and death?"
"Because those are the rules," Duncan said patiently. "That is what we live for. If we throw away the rules, our existance loses a lot of its purpose. And if it becomes known that one of us violates them, there are many willing to hunt him down and dispose of him in return."
"I've lived a few centuries," Duncan pointed out. "Most of us want to live as well... And it works out quite nicely, with a few unfortunate exceptions that come to a duel. Those of us who don't want to fight, ever, stay on holy ground."
"How many of them have you talked to?" Duncan asked. "I've spent weeks, months, years and decades at times in monasteries when I needed a break. I have not once felt imprisoned and not once been forced outside."
'Myself' Jan thought, but if he said that out loud, he'd have to explain more than he wanted to give away.
"Talked about that to?" he said instead. "None. They were all too eager to chop off my head. I know ... I know how I'd feel spending a decade in a monastery though."
"It can be a very calming, settling experience, especially when the outside, with its constant changes and new developments, gets too much to bear at some point," Duncan pointed out. "Most of us will rather live than engage in battle and possibly lose their heads in turn. You seriously never had any of us introduce you to the Game and its rules? Where did you have your first death?"
Inwardly he sighed. He hadn't exactly come here to take on the training of a new immortal, and certainly not one who had been immortal for decades, centuries, and still had the knowledge equivalent to someone who had just recently discovered they were special that way. Maybe Method would...
But probably not. He could just about hear Method say 'Oh well, he did well enough until now - he's still alive, isn't he?'
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Date: Saturday, 10 December 2011 19:38 (UTC)"Do you get accidentally shot at a lot?" Jan had ben shot at very rarely in his life and he wouldn't call any of those incidents accidental. They'd been roberies or wars, though he'd usually avoided the later.
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Date: Saturday, 7 January 2012 20:10 (UTC)"At times," he said, his accent growing thicker as he spoke. "I have a few friends who tend to attract attention that doesn't stop to ask if you were in on the scheme before they pull the trigger."
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Date: Saturday, 14 January 2012 19:38 (UTC)"Not the best sort of people to hang out with."
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Date: Saturday, 11 February 2012 08:14 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Sunday, 12 February 2012 20:15 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Friday, 9 March 2012 06:44 (UTC)"Never happened to me yet," he said. "It'd be against the rules of the Game anyway. Still - doesn't mean I like to die."
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Date: Saturday, 10 March 2012 20:11 (UTC)"You actually expect them to obey rules?" Rules Jan at least didn't even know at that.
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Date: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 00:23 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Saturday, 24 November 2012 15:39 (UTC)Though Jan didn't exactly consider himself young anymore, even for an immortal. He'd seen too much for that.
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Date: Saturday, 1 December 2012 21:54 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: Saturday, 2 February 2013 22:00 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Saturday, 9 February 2013 13:59 (UTC)And it wasn't even a question of wanting to fight for him anymore.
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Date: Friday, 15 February 2013 21:23 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: Sunday, 17 February 2013 11:38 (UTC)"Talked about that to?" he said instead. "None. They were all too eager to chop off my head. I know ... I know how I'd feel spending a decade in a monastery though."
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Date: Sunday, 17 March 2013 09:51 (UTC)Inwardly he sighed. He hadn't exactly come here to take on the training of a new immortal, and certainly not one who had been immortal for decades, centuries, and still had the knowledge equivalent to someone who had just recently discovered they were special that way. Maybe Method would...
But probably not. He could just about hear Method say 'Oh well, he did well enough until now - he's still alive, isn't he?'