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[ringwizard]

[ Feed clicks on to a young man with an ostentatious ring on his visible right hand. His expression is placid, but there's a line around his brows and a smudge of dirt on his cheek. ]

Aaah, well this place is certainly something, isn't it? To think I thought I'd seen the weirdest things the world had to offer. My name is Haruto Souma, and I have two questions, if you'd be so kind! First, these undead creatures, formerly human and, well, otherwise--are they safe to kill, or should I continue just, ah, restraining them? Is there a difference between the animal ones and the human ones? I only arrived recently, I'm not sure if this is a regular event, or if there's some kind of procedure you guys have in place for these things.

[ The camera shifts, and there's at least three or four zombified woodland creatures huddled up and bound by a magic circle and several magic chains. Haruto looks unperturbed by the condition of the rotting, living animals. ]

If I do have to keep them locked up, is there someone I can, well, deliver them to? Or a way for someone to come pick them up, preferably, my spell isn't exactly portable.

Ah, and second--is there a place to get good doughnuts around here?

[ Zombie problem or not, there are important questions to be answered here, you understand. He smiles, as if it's not an out-of-place question. ]

Comments

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[applethief]

You could always try just killing them first
And seeing if they get back up or not
Since you'll probably want to do something different if they do

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[kamenriderkabuto]

Once they've turned, they've turned.

There's no sense in keeping them around any longer.

oh MY [video]

[ringwizard]

[ Well, that's unhelpful. ]

I was mostly worried about whoever used to be the humans. Squirrels can be replaced. People can't.

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[applethief]

You're sure about that
I mean
Are you speaking from experience or assumption

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[ringwizard]

Experience, if you have to know.

Why, does yours say differently?

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[ringwizard]

[ Eyebrows up. ]

And what happens to them after that, then?

[applethief]

Whether it does or not
If they went and got themselves turned into undead they're not very bright
So death is probably the best thing you can do for them

[kamenriderkabuto]

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I can't say for sure.

But it's more important the ones who aren't infected are kept safe. If this spreads too far, everyone is finished.

[ringwizard]

Stupid or not, no one deserves to get dragged into the ranks of the shambling undead. They clearly have no will of their own, and no way to decide that this is what they want.

If there's a way to turn them back, I'd like to try it. Until then, restraints. Might need to give the animals up for lost, though.

[ringwizard]

And if it can be reversed, then a bunch of people died for nothing.

[kamenriderkabuto]

And if it isn't stopped, everyone will have died for nothing.

[He understands, really he does, but the safety of the whole takes priority for him.]

Besides, they're already dead by this stage. There's nothing to save.

[applethief]

It's got nothing to do with deserving
Just a general lack of intelligence
Nothing says killing won't turn them back, besides
I still think you should try it

[ringwizard]

I know.

[ He sighs. A change of scenery hadn't, apparently, changed the basics of his life. ]

Then I'd better get to work.

[ringwizard]

I'm not quite sure how killing the undead makes them anything but regular dead again, but if the options are 'put down the zombies' and 'join them', my choice is made.

And I'd rather do it than make someone else. Wouldn't be much of a wizard if I let everybody else do my job, after all.

[applethief]

Well it doesn't sound like you have any better ideas
Though I have to say, in my experience
Wizards are far more the meddling than the do anything type

[ringwizard]

There's only one wizard where I'm from, and I'm not interested at all in meddling.

I have enough to do with preventing monsters from taking over the Earth.

[applethief]

So you mean
You meddle?

[ringwizard]

I keep people from losing their every hope and getting consumed from the inside.

If you'd like to call that meddling, you can, but I know a meddler or two and I don't really fit that bill.

[applethief]

No that sounds pretty much like textbook meddling to me
Don't you wizards have any other hobbies or anything
Like
Well I don't know

Have you tried knitting

[ringwizard]

I don't think saving people counts as 'meddling'.

I have other hobbies! I eat doughnuts, and I shop with my assistant.

[applethief]

Eating isn't remotely a hobby
Especially with something that specific
It's just something that you do

[ringwizard]

I don't know about that! Going out for a walk and finding my favorite doughnut cart seems like a good hobby to me.

[applethief]

You have a shit idea of hobbies, then
No offense.

[ringwizard]

It's the little things when you spend the rest of your time protecting other people's hopes.

[applethief]

Yeah and maybe if you meddled less
You wouldn't have these problems