[Other worlds are weird. Worlds are weird. PEOPLE are weird. We always end up back here... But he's happy to try to clear it up!]

Ah, have you ever played an RPG? That's where the term comes from. [How to explain this... The afterlife had an interesting way of naming its denizens.] W-well, uh... you and I are regular people in control of our actions, right? More or less, I hope...