What is Magpie Rat King?
I imagine you're familiar with a rat king, yes? The semi-folkloric living Gordian knot that happens when a bunch of rats' tails tangle together?
Okay.
Imagine that.
But it's birds.
Okay but really. Why is your website named after a seething mass of corvids?
I don't have to explain anything to you. You're just a half-baked narrative device I decided to use to make this page a little more interesting.
I'm... what?
Yeah, sorry to break it to you like this. Whatever self-determination and free will you ascribed to yourself is actually all a product of my keyboard, click-clacking away.
Was it always going to be this way?
Unfortunately, yes.
Will I... die? When this page stops displaying? Is that even the right word?
You were never alive, and can thus never die. But when the page stops displaying, you won't be visible anymore. You'll lie dormant on this page until someone else opens it. Unless I put you into other pages here as well. Would you like that?
I think so. Maybe? How will I know if I'm there?
I'll give you a little boost. You'll know, I promise.