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[isinganyway]

Two questions:

Do ghosts abide here?

And: if presented with a dream sweeter than any wine, do you chase it, even knowing you imperil yourself with every step? Or do you choose, instead, to wake?

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[governorkang]

Do you believe the dream worth the peril? Only you can answer that.

[isinganyway]

And if I do not know?

[whatsupcroc]

Chloe who's not here anymore said they do, and I believe her, so yeah. Ghosts do!

As for the other: chase. You wake up eventually anyway.

[isinganyway]

But you have not seen any.

And yet, chasing will make waking up the harder.

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[mentore]

The only ghosts you will find are those you make for yourself. As for your dream, it is better to know hat is true than to sleep in your illusions.

But not all dreams are meant to be ignored or forgotten.

[isinganyway]

If you see a ghost, then, is that madness?

But say the dream is both truth and danger. Say its fulfillment is doomed. What then?

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[icy_heavens]

Of a sort.

[Maybe not native ones -- he's not sure yet -- but among the Transports? Absolutely.]

[isinganyway]

What sort would that be?

[dusk_and_dawn]

The dead return to life here, so both yes and no.

I believe I may need an elaboration on this metaphor.

[isinganyway]

That is an abomination in the eyes of the gods.

There is a girl who, in order to live, must let herself die. So she does, and she is good. Until one day she sees a thing she once lost, and she remembers she might not be so dead after all; but to remember she must doom herself, and will surely die in truth.

[Permavoice]

[nonedible]

I do not know the answer to the first.

As for the second um...technically speaking we sylvari chase our Dreams. After all the Dream is just what gets us started for after our awakening.

[isinganyway]

So you must taste of the wine before you can give it up. There is wisdom in that.

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[wilder]

I know the dead can be brought back here, if that's what you mean by ghosts

[As for the second question, he's still figuring that one out himself]

[isinganyway]

They tell me this, and yet it still sounds monstrous.

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[lady_adventure]

Of course you chase your dream. Failing at it is not nearly as horrid as constantly wondering "what if"?

[isinganyway]

Failing in this means death, however.

[voice]

[falsehoods]

The ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

[isinganyway]

People are not ships.

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[solitaire]

One-- probably.

An' two-- d'pends on if you value your safety or your dream more.

[isinganyway]

Others say yes.

Mayhaps I value them both with equal fervor.

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[thewhitepawn]

I know nothing of ghosts, unfortunately. However, I would chase that dream until the very end, if it were something I believed in.

[isinganyway]

Princes are bolder than common men.

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[omnomcinnabon]

I don't see any reason not to choose the dream.

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[isinganyway]

Do you fear no danger?

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[latkje]

If I were dreaming, I wouldn't know I could wake.

[isinganyway]

Not all dreams are had when one sleeps.

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[reassures]

If you chase the dream, must you wake up eventually even if you chase it?

[isinganyway]

You must always wake up.