Open to Investigators

[timelessinventor]

Well, things are certainly going to hell in a handbasket, aren't they?

[Helena's mental voice is more than a bit frustrated.]

Does anyone have any idea where we could be of help? Clearly this firebug needs to stop before they burn the entire place down. I am getting very worried about the gas contents of these airships with all of the fire around. It does not bode well. If anyone finds one of these objects before it explodes, please let me know. I might be able to help disarm it.

Also, what about that other gentleman? Where is he, and what is going on with him?

Comments

[fearinahandfulof]

[Whereas Cassandra hadn't wanted to live in a world that hadn't had her friend in it. It had been the only comfort she had as she'd been laying there dying after her failed attempt to avenge the girl: that at least they would be together again afterwards.

And then even that comfort had been taken away from her]

If they'd wanted it... would they have known to approach him?

[thornsofmalkav]

... I don't know.

[fearinahandfulof]

And if they had, he'd still need access to their corpses...

[And she doesn't know how easy that would be to gain. He might have been able to pass himself off as a relative a few times, but not every time. Unless he was very good at disguises, perhaps.

The Organization hadn't had that problem. Humans in her world would not have cared about the well-being of her kind unless it directly affected them.]

[thornsofmalkav]

There was a charge of graverobbing on the poster, I think? That's one of the ones that made me think Blitzkopf might be in the business of reanimation.

[fearinahandfulof]

That sort of thing is... risky, isn't it?

[She wouldn't know. She still isn't sure just what the Organization had done with her corpse in the first place. Given how she'd died, she'd thought they would have just discarded it - there hadn't exactly been anyone left who would have missed her, anyway - but it's possible that they may have just kept it, for... some reason. To figure out where they'd gone wrong with her?]

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah. You can get in a lot of trouble and you might not even find a corpse that's fresh enough.

[fearinahandfulof]

Humans don't like having the remains of their dead tampered with.

[However, the humans in Cassandra's world hadn't particularly cared what happened to the corpses of the warriors who'd died in their service. It would thus have been a relatively simple matter for the Organization to retrieve them (or, more likely, to send someone else out to retrieve them). And decay had apparently not been an issue at all, judging by her own resurrection, as well as those of... the other two. Perhaps it had been something in their hybrid nature that had slowed the process - or perhaps whatever they'd used to resurrect the three of them had been able to reverse the decay. Or the Organization had simply had effective means of staving it off in the first place. The last would seem the most likely, but Cassandra is hardly an expert on such matters.]

[thornsofmalkav]

Yeah. They really don't.

[fearinahandfulof]

[Cassandra is quiet for a moment.]

After the revival is complete... then what? Is it only the process that concerns him, or would he expect something from them afterwards?

[Public -> Private]

[thornsofmalkav]

Honestly? I dunno. I'm not Blitzkopf. My old... boss wasn't Blitzkopf, either. I guess it probably depends... hm.

[LET'S JUST SWITCH THIS TO PRIVATE WHY DON'T WE.]

... uh, now that I made this private, uh. Are you also in the unofficial 'People Who Came Back From The Dead Club?' Because I'm starting to think I should get us shirts printed.

Not really. I mean, that was a joke. The shirts part.

[Public -> Private]

[fearinahandfulof]

I'm sorry... I didn't mean to imply that you knew. It's...

[She's starting to get used to mindspeech, and some of the things you can do with it, so the switch to a private conversation isn't that jarring. She's... slightly confused by what she hears, though. Clubs? Shirts?

She decides to ignore that for now. If it's important, the woman will likely return to it.]

Do the Trumps do this a lot?

Re: [Public -> Private]

[thornsofmalkav]

Bring dead or almost dead or technically dead but actually undead people in to work for them? They do it enough. I know one person who is properly dead but got brought back to life for this and another person like me, who's undead and is literally a walking corpse.

[Private]

[fearinahandfulof]

Oh.

[She falls quiet again, briefly.]

I thought the last time would be the last.

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[thornsofmalkav]

Last time you died?

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[fearinahandfulof]

Yes.

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[thornsofmalkav]

That's what I thought too.

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[fearinahandfulof]

But you were happy to be brought back...?

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[thornsofmalkav]

Well, I thought Traveling was the afterlife at first. And I didn't remember anything about being dead dead, so I guess so, yeah.

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[fearinahandfulof]

I didn't know where I was. The vehicles were strange.

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[thornsofmalkav]

When I showed up here everything was dark. It helped me think it was the afterlife.

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[fearinahandfulof]

I think that was after the... cars?

[Her voice grows somewhat tentative, as if she's not entirely sure she has the correct word.]

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[thornsofmalkav]

I don't remember cars, so it probably was. It was right before a bunch of us were in Questing Country and I think the rest of us were at some weird facility.

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[fearinahandfulof]

The Megaron. In Nibiru. Some of the others had been there before.

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[thornsofmalkav]

Is that where you were?

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[fearinahandfulof]

Yes. It was... strange.