trusthell | WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT? OUR TALES RIVAL JUST TURNED INTO A ZOMBIE!

[...so, uh, that was a thing that happened. Tarrlok was completely ready to do the politician thing and come up with a speech or something for most of whatever the hell that excuse for a trial was, but everything got all confusing, baffling, and horrifying and completely inexplicably, he can't find the words.

Maybe he just... needs a day. Tomorrow will probably be fine. For now, though, Misa volunteered to make brownies, and he was going to make a Northern Water Tribe comfort food specialty.

...even if they only had shortening and not actual animal fat and it'd been a while since he'd made it, but it tasted... alright? Definitely not as good as the stuff back home, but it was hard to get that good, anyway.

...there's also the matter of setting things up in a location other than the dining hall, because even though that's cleaned up, it still feels pretty tasteless to hold a wake literal feet from the place you found someone's bloody corpse.

So, a little later on in the day, a lovingly personalized note will be slid under everyone's doors:

And if the Survivors choose to head to the library, they'll find a... well, okay, it's a bunch of boxes from the storage room of comparable size stacked up on each other to kind of resemble a table. The dining hall ones don't even seem like they'd fit in the library, so Team Afterparty clearly had to improvise. One side is filled with plates, bowls, and spoons, and the other is filled with brownies, cookies, and a big bowl of berry aqutak. There are also chairs dotted throughout the room in a sort of vague circle --- close enough together that if people want to talk, they can, but far enough apart that it'd be easy to drag it off for some privacy.]

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I've never seen one before today.

I suspect they're not very common.

Between worlds, you mean.

Yeah, that.

For every world where you got 'em running around, there's probably plenty where they don't exist at all.

Makes it difficult talkin' about anything potentially a problem here.

Or where they just work differently, I'll assume.

That, too.

It's why I want t'focus on the reanimated corpse bit, and not brain eatin' or anything like that.

I've never seen anything like that before today. Does your world have them?

Yeah.

I've only seen 'em once, and they were more like... cursed guardians than what you'd see in a horror movie. They started moving after an object they were guarding was removed.

I saw them in Africa, after my great uncle and I were able to track down a stolen family heirloom.

Your world has a lot of strange things, doesn't it? For what it's worth, I'm sorry about everything at the trial today.

Yeah. It sure seems that way.

[....]

Don't worry about earlier today; people did what they thought they had to, it didn't offend me.

We were all under suspicion at some point.

That we were.

We stumbled into the solution through sheer dumb luck, too. If this happens again, I don't want to think about what people might be doin' then.

No more blood-sharing. We're all going to get sick.

Gettin' random cuts with blades that haven't been sterilized is also a good way to get a nasty as hell infection, and we don't have any way of treating anything like that right now, either.