Second Dirge - [Video]

[queenofblacktears]

[The video clicks on to reveal the back of a young woman running away in terror, and a black hand waving after her.]

Thanks!

[Ophelia sounds so amused as she says that, and she turns the camera around to her face, grinning.]

So, I don't know about the rest of you, but I am definitely enjoying all of this. Such panic! [She laughs, and then shakes her head.]

Anyway, not the point. You know those poor little creatures you're all trying to kill? Those bunnies and birds and everything else. You don't have to kill them.

[She turns the camera again to show that her other hand is held out towards her side, and the black tears are stretching off of it, forming into two solid cages on the ground. Inside one, an undead bunny and an undead squirrel are running in circles, and in the other, an undead sparrow flutters about pecking at the black 'bars', to no avail.]

I'll take them off your hands. Aren't they adorable? Just let me know, and I'll come get them.

Unless they bite you, then I suppose you won't be calling anyone. [She smirks, and then pauses.]

Hmm, does anyone know where I can get some more...permanent cages?

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[priad]

Why not just root out the taint?

[ Says the guy who looks like a heavy metal album cover. ]

[queenofblacktears]

...Nice armor.

[She shrugs.]

Why? They aren't doing anything except what they're supposed to do. It's not their fault they're undead now.

[priad]

Thank you.

[ He nods, and the sound of a boltgun roaring as it fires can be heard, and then the dull wet thud of a body hitting the floor a moment later follows. ]

It isn't a question of fault. This will destroy the hold if it continues. It is just another form of mercy.

[queenofblacktears]

Or you could just let me take them in. They can't hurt me, and I've never had an undead squirrel before.

[priad]

The threat of contagion is significant. While you may tend them and you are immune to their bite... [ As is he, most likelythough he'd rather not get out of his armor and test that. ] there is always the chance of an escape, or a malefactor consciously letting them out. After all, someone loosed these upon us, I'll warrant. I've seen the like before.

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[slingshots]

i got a skunk if you want it

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[queenofblacktears]

[Ophelia is never going to think text is anything but boring, so she sighs as she reads it.]

I'm assuming that's one of these little undead animals? Never heard of a skunk...

[Skunks aren't really an age of metal thing.]

[slingshots]

[ there's a pause, and it switches to video. there's no one in sight, just a caged and slowly-going-nuts undead skunk. awww how adorably fluffy. after a second, there's a text addition: ]

you can have the cage, too.

[queenofblacktears]

[Ooh, she doesn't have one of those yet. They're like undead pokemon!]

You've got yourself a deal, mysterious text person.

[slingshots]

[ annndd there goes the video ]

keen. got a PO box?

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[ivanyouidiot]

What if they got free from your cages?

[He's not sure he trusts her to be responsible, just by the way she seems so pleased with the situation.]

We don't want this happening more than once.

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[queenofblacktears]

Hey, sometimes pets get out. [She shrugs.] Worse things have happened.

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[ivanyouidiot]

Sure, yes, but avoiding bad things at all is something I'm generally in favor of.

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[queenofblacktears]

Where's the fun in that?

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[gunsling]

While that sure is agreeable of you, you don't er... you don't really think it'll hold up much as a long term plan, do you? It sure seems like we'll have a whole different problem on our hands if we keep zombie critters around for the long haul.

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[queenofblacktears]

I said I'd keep them in a cage. [She shrugs.] Besides, I'm immune. If the rest of you aren't, that's your problem.

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[gunsling]

You're darned right it is!! It's gonna be a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions if we allow these things to keep on breathing-- Not breathing. Whatever it is they're doing!! Just think about it, locked up snug and tight in their cages one or another of them feels a bit peckish and decides to fly the coop and satisfy those human flesh cravings.

There isn't a moment in cinematic history that hasn't gone south the moment a zombie virus wasn't nipped right in the bud! Which admittedly has never actually happened, because that wouldn't make for much in the way of movie material. The point is that before you know it there will only be three civilian survivors and a handful of corrupt army officials left, who've got themselves a zombie tethered to a chain so it can take on the rest of them at a later date!!

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[queenofblacktears]

[Ophelia lets him yell, looking more and more amused with each passing moment, and also a tad annoyed at some of the concepts she's never really heard of.]

So basically, what you're saying is, if I keep them, I might accidentally wipe out all the humans?

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[torchedhunt]

[Luminada is not an openly emotional woman. She doesn't express rage. Blood elves are above that, and more than that, she's been numb for years since her lover's death.

But this...

When she manages to click open the video, she is openly snarling at this...monster doesn't begin to describe her!]

Are you mad?! These creatures - if they cannot regain themselves, would it not be kinder to let them rest? Why would you do this?!

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[queenofblacktears]

[Oh my, she seems to have hit a nerve. Whoops. But at what the woman says, her eyes narrow.]

I'm pretty sure existing is better than not.

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[torchedhunt]

Existing as a tormented being, with no control over your actions if indeed you still have a sense of self? Yes, much better than being at peace, I'm sure.

[Can Ophelia hear the sarcasm? Yes? Good.]

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[queenofblacktears]

They're little animals, not people. They're just wild. And dead. [She glances over at her cages. (Which now includes a skunk in an actual cage, who is gnawing intently at the bars.)]

I'm sure I can figure out how to get control of them eventually anyway.

Not here

[inthejunk]

[Oh god damn it, does this mean the apartment is going to be full of zombies? You are the WORST roommate ever.]

Re: Not here

[queenofblacktears]

[Zombie squirrels and bunnies if you want to get technical.]

Re: Not here

[inthejunk]

[That's not better at all.]