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

[bloodisthicker]

[...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.]

Comments

[notjustawriter]

Yeah, that's it. Or, at least, I'm pretty sure that's what it was; Zagi was dead. There's no way he could have gotten back up on his own.

[....]

What's a ghost Pokemon?

[pokexplorer]

Ah, Pokemon are creatures from my world. Ghost-types are spiritual in nature, many coming from the spirits of deceased Pokemon or people.

[Sorry for the impromptu PokeLesson, Gabriel...]

That said, I agree with you. Zagi was most certainly dead when we saw him. Do you know how he would have been turned into one of these 'zombies' if that is indeed what he was?

[notjustawriter]

Deceased people.....

[Oh god, that sounds really creepy.]

Zombies, at least how I know of 'em, usually become such because of a ritual or something like that. In the movies sometimes it's a virus or whatever, but that's made up.

...I hope, anyway.

[pokexplorer]

...Yes, let us hope it's the former in this case, as strange as even that seems.

It really is something though, learning about all of these supernatural creatures from your worlds. In the last twenty-four hours I have been educated on three.

[He's still amazed that werewolves actually came up in the trial. Misa wasn't alone in her thought process, it seems!]

[notjustawriter]

A ritual would be a little less of an immediate problem.

But the problem with it being a ritual is those sorts of things are old magic; y'can't just do them without a lot of preparation.

[He doesn't want to even think about a zombie virus in an enclosed space.]

I didn't think vampires were possible until a day ago, either. That was a new one for me.

[pokexplorer]

I see...am I to assume that this old magic is quite rare? Apologies, I simply don't have any experience with this.

[Just magical animals.]

Vampires indeed, and ah...werewolves.

[He looks at Gabriel pointedly about that one, since they got brought up in relation to Gabriel multiple times.]

[notjustawriter]

Yeah, it's pretty rare. You'd have to be of an old family to know about it; and even then, the magic would be considered evil.

[It's.... a wonder why he's at all questioning the existence of werewolves, really.]

Werewolves. Yeah.

I'm sure there's plenty more out there, too. Waitin' to be discovered at the worst possible time.