Thissala: Last Stop on the Suicide Express

This is my last post on Thissala for now, although given the authors never finished it, and there seems to be content I haven’t been able to access, I can’t promise it is the last word. My previous posts on this game are needed for context. Via S. Howlett-West Books. Prior to officially being To Your Scattered Bodies Go, the first book of the Riverworld series was published as two novellas; this magazine has the second. Let me first address something I mentioned in my post last time: what happens if you die repeatedly? In Riverworld the book, it causes the protagonist Richard Burton to be resurrected, but farther down the river; in a search for the source (like Burton searching for the source of the Nile) he kills himself repeatedly in order to take the “suicide express” down the river. It doesn’t happen like that here. KILL ME As the darkness of death fades, and the light intensifies, you find yourself falling quickly at first then slower, then slower still until you find yourself…