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[confined_to_briah]

The stench of death is in the air. ( And you better believe she knows that stench well. Far too well. ) I suggest that everyone take an additional day off of work and keep to themselves.

( Even if they happen to be rotting. She is beginning to wonder if that's exactly what some citizens are doing. )

( Private to Setsuna. )

Keep to the air for your travels until the danger passes.

( / )

( Private to Lucifer. )

It reminds me of Jahannam. Surely there are ghouls wandering the streets.

Do you feel at home?

( / )

Comments

private//unhackable;

[mortemscintilla]

Ready-made excuses for the Citizens to cry and cower like children.

[ As if they don't do that enough. ]

private//unhackable;

[confined_to_briah]

I'd rather them cry and cower than join the dead on the streets.

private//unhackable;

[mortemscintilla]

If the Deities plan to have them join the dead's ranks, indoors or outdoors won't matter much.

private//unhackable;

[confined_to_briah]

True enough. However if they blundered into said ranks without realizing their mistake, that would be a nuisance.

private//unhackable;

[mortemscintilla]

Death is cheap here, as it is. [ Dryly, ] The concern is admirable, but it's ultimately wasted.

[ People are a nuisance anyway. ]

private//unhackable;

[confined_to_briah]

Life is worth fighting for if you have a chance. ( It's less about concern and more about sustaining a larger group of non-rotten people. )

Private;

[beyourarmy]

I'm keeping to the air, anyway. [Last thing he can do is face anyone, right now.]

Private;

[confined_to_briah]

Good. ( Dealing with a Setsuna ghoul would not be amusing. ) Can you smell them?

Private;

[beyourarmy]

[Not that they have a chance in hell of beating him and turning him.] Yeah.... I can feel them, too. Kinda. They make me uneasy.

Alexiel, I don't think you should go outside, either.

Private;

[confined_to_briah]

( Better safe than sorry, especially with these Deities. ) I have no plans to confront them. ( Unless she has to. )

Private;

[beyourarmy]

Neither do I.

But...if anyone gets mixed up in that, it's kind of my job.

[Video]

[brothertragedy]

I do not think anyone will head out seeking his own demise.

[Video]

[confined_to_briah]

You never know.

[Video]

[brothertragedy]

There are more reliable, less horrifying ways to go out.

[Video]

[confined_to_briah]

I know of one. ( Flight. )

[steleheart]

They're dead?

[confined_to_briah]

And rotting. ( She isn't helping, is she? )

[steleheart]

Oh.

[ A troubled pause. ] The few I've run into seemed pretty ... fresh.

[confined_to_briah]

They must have died last night.

[steleheart]

So they're zombies?

private

[sympathyforme]

Home is where the heart is.

private

[confined_to_briah]

( Is he trolling her? Cruelty has never been so succinct. )

You needn't go that far.

private

[sympathyforme]

Never far from you.

private

[confined_to_briah]

Why?

private

[sympathyforme]

As I just said.