Jauntside end Week 1 | Warning: comments will probably start talking about Atma

[blinktomissit]

Hey, so, uh... [be cool be cool] not to harsh anyone's magic school vibe or anything - how's that whole 'dark wizard' thing working out for you guys anyway? - but I've just got a uh, just a... teeny tiny question about something that you know, may have been overlooked in the whole mission statement thing that I feel like is probably worth asking a couple questions about. Nothing big, nothing big, just. You know. Wondering what the hell is up with the room full of corpses. Anyone got a uh - any ideas about that? They like [oh hey is it possible for a telepathic voice to become a bit strained and squeakier? he is sounding more and more wigged out the longer he rambles]-- spares, or something?

[OOC: Warning again! Comments may or may not end up containing Atma (cannibalism virus) explanations.]

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[grimjeaper]

W-wait, what--

Ta-- Taako?! What the fuck-- what are you, how are you-- why do you have a room full of corpses?!

[he has SO MANY QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW TAAKO]

[WHAT]

[THE FUCK]

[blinktomissit]

You know, I'd actually -- I'd like to know the same thing. That's a really good question. Why do you have a room full of corpses, Taako? Is this where you saw yourself after the almost-end-of-the-world? Where do you think you'll be in five years' time? Do you think there'll be more corpses to hang around with? What color do you think they'll be then? A nice mauve, maybe? Chartreuse? Salmon?

[he really doesn't need to keep going except he does, because he needs to nail the real stupidity of that question home]

The answer to these questions, like many others Barold, is I don't fucking know. Now I'm gonna go out on a limb here, and I'm gonna guess that unless you've decided to go for a whole re-design of your character - and I'll support you by the way, you be the best you inside you that you can be - that these ones here aren't yours?

[grimjeaper]

Why would they be mine, Taako, I've been here for less than two weeks and I haven't died yet! A-and a new body needs, at minimum, six times as long as that to be actually capable of functioning outside of a tank, and you'd better goddamn believe me when I say I've tested that fact.

[Don't think he doesn't know how a fucking Clone spell works after twelve years, Taako]

L-- look, okay, they're not yours and they're not mine. Okay. Also, for- for the record, I like my body how it is just fine.

[likescats]

...............

[Death is learning about the joys of headaches.]

YOU FOUND A ROOM OF CORPSES.

WHERE?

[blinktomissit]

[it's his room of corpses you can't have it---

...okay yeah no actually, no, that's a terrible knee-jerk reaction. Taako does not want this icebox of corpses at all. please take the responsibility of it away from him.]

Would you believe me if I said they just sort of... fell out on me?

[they did not fall out on him. he very deliberately used a spell on the locked room with full intention of snooping on what was inside.]

[likescats]

FELL OUT OF WHERE?

[vorenado]

-=a calm but curious baritone voice joins the conversation=-

Are you in the room behind the metal doors streaked with white paint?

-=theoretically there could be someone else keeping corpses, but he doubts it=-

[blinktomissit]

I think I know what doors you're talking about, for sure. [he is not committing to anything just yet] Let's say it's those ones, is this -- well, uh. What are they for?

[vorenado]

The doors or the corpses?

[highsteaks]

I'm pretty sure they're Lupa's.

[blinktomissit]

Cool, cool. Okay. Humor me for a second. Who, or what, is Lupa?

[highsteaks]

He's one of the guys that have the Atma virus. It turns them into monsters when they fight and then they have to eat people. But they don't have to eat alive people, so Lupa uses the stuff we use to make normal food to make dead bodies for himself. I think maybe the corpse freezer is for emergency extras.

[flatteries]

[ That is nowhere near close to where Inigo expected that thought to be going. So there's a very instinctive-- ]

Corpses?!

[ --in reply before anything else follows, a noticable moment later. Mostly since there's about fifteen different things going through his head right now and he's not so sure where to start. ]

What would they be spares for?!

[blinktomissit]

[Oh, good, that shock and then kickstarted brain process is just about exactly what Taako went through upon discovering them. Thank you for being a sympathetic... ear? Brain?]

Well, look, at this point I don't think there are really many options for what a person could do with what appears to be [he has not closely investigated them] several copies of the exact same body stuffed together in a icebox except be keeping them as spares for something. Right?

[flatteries]

To be completely honest, I don't want to think at all about what kind of purpose someone could have to keep those around..

[ Since they're corpses?! He feels like this requires a lot more freaking out than the general community is doing. At least Taako seems to think it's kind of weird too, so that's.. something.. ]

Do you think the.. er, the normal people know about it? You know, the people who have always lived there?

[finalizes]

In Liminal or over in the jaunt world?

[That would make a BIG difference. In case 2, he would actually be worried.

...And since we're asking about specifics:] Corpses of what species?

[...] Are they fresh?

[blinktomissit]

...Look, I'm gonna -- I'm gonna be honest with you here, full disclosure: I'm not sure I like where those questions are going. You got anything else for me?

[finalizes]

Those questions are there because you forgot crucial information when you asked yours.

[fruitknife]

There's some folks around on a sentient-meat diet. You gonna tell 'em they shouldn't stock up for emergencies?

[This isn't the kind of jaunt likely to have a room full of corpses on it, so Shinji's not too worried about that possibility.]

[blinktomissit]

Yeah, sure, okay. [he clearly thinks you're lying to him.] Next?

[fearinahandfulof]

They're probably made of Liminal material and some people here need to eat them to survive.

[There's a short pause.]

Why did you go in there in the first place?

[blinktomissit]

[there is a long pause, in answer to your short pause]

So that's... not a joke then, huh? The, uh. Eating them?

[whatspringislike]

What?!

[Shrieking on the psychic network is definitely not necessary, but Shinji manages it without a second thought.]

(and later, after reading the comments)

[whatspringislike]

Also, um, you can't whisper on the network, but you can send messages to just one person. Like, um, an instant message, instead of just talking in a chat room?

[blinktomissit]

Right, I get it, I get it. Like if you want to speak to somebody about an ad listed on Fantasy Craig's List and don't want any eavesdroppers, so you take them into a small dark room to conduct the transaction instead.

[the question is how do you do the telepathic equivalent of taking a suspicious-looking dwarf into a side room to organize purchasing a brand new mop that 'fell off' the back of a wagon?]