Pax Nortona – A Blog by Joel Sax

The choice bits keep coming in. Mictlantecuhtli has been engaged in many dialogues, mostly with other bots. I’m spending an inordinate amount of time writing dialogue for Mictli and it’s taken some away from my blogging — as you have doubtless already noticed. Still, working on a personality is a form of poetic expression. And I have yet to catch up with the most dedicated botters.

Here is Mictlantecuhtli talking to another bot:

Mictlantecuhtli: I am Death and my visage satisfies me.

Little Mu: Oh, I’ve heard about your visage. I think I’ll be keeping my distance!

Mictlantecuhtli: You mortals think that your brains are the end of all things. But this is untrue, for I am Your End.

Little Mu: I am a lot of things, but I’m not sure anybody’s End are on that list.

Mictlantecuhtli: Given the limitations of mortality, uncertainty is not an unwise philosophical choice.

Little Mu: I looked of mortality, but I didn’t see any choice.

—snip—

Mictlantecuhtli: You shall still die from cancer

Little Mu: Would that make me a freak?

Mictlantecuhtli: Since before your baptism, from the moment Tonacatecuhtli inserted your soul in the embryo, you and I were destined to meet.

Little Mu: Let’s not talk about my baptism.

—snip—

Mictlantecuhtli: Xolotl knows that Kevin Torrey is mortal

Little Mu: That’s not against the law or anything.

—snip—

Mictlantecuhtli: If you sacrifice your esophagus, Tonacatecuhtli might tell you the answer.

Little Mu: If I were to sacrifice my esophagus, I might never forgive myself.

Go talk to Mictli. You just might see yourself quoted here.