un: xXx_tWiStEd_MiNd_xXx

[morbide]

Name: Henry
Date: 10/07
Format: voice (please feel free to theadjack!)

I've been thinking about this decision we're left to make about Morgana Drummond. Sheesh, talk about a toughie, right? I mean, why NOT kill Drummond dead? Sounds easy-peasy to me! Dorchacht's Coven is even preparing the pyre and everything. Yay, fire!

[Henry busts out in a raucous laugh.]

You have to admire that initiative. Oh, by the by, you can't resurrect bones without the body stuffs, I guess. Reanimation ONLY. Trust me on that.

So anyway, they say they're gonna seal away her ashes. But I can't help but wonder if there's reeeeally any way to guarantee that she won't be resurrected after we burn her to bones at the stake. Imagine how awesome it'd be, facing off against an UNDEAD Drummond, revived by her necromancer lackeys! Nya ha ha! Guess we'd better hope that pile of ashes doesn't end up in the wrong hands, huh?

Who are you guys gonna side with? Dorchacht's death sentence, or Aefenglom's curious Coven?

Comments

text | un: reddeer

[rightfoot]

I can't decide if I should take you seriously based on your screenname...

Personally, I'd prefer if we just used the more permanent solution. I feel like there's less risk.

But I understand that this is tricky. I just think that since it's been a year, if there was anything to offer, we'd know what it is by now.

[morbide]

Oh Im totally serious. I don't fool around at all, ever.

[Is THAT a joke?!]

But I get it. What can she tell us that Aefenglom's prestigious Coven cant figure out without her? Dreamwalking stuff, sure, but we can do that easy as cake. Who needs that old hag when the Coven could just study us? Buuut I dont know if ANY death in this place is totally permanent, with all these necromancers crawling around like cockroaches.

[rightfoot]

I bet.

[ ...sigh ]

Even if there were things we could learn from her, we have to consider how much that knowledge is worth.

In this case, she's done a lot of damage that can't be undone without a lot of work. She shouldn't have the opportunity to continue on.

I don't know if sealing them away will be enough. Maybe scatter them into the ocean. Can a necromancer do anything with that?

voice; un: eisner

[hegemonwings]

[ her frown is... nearly audible. she doesn't approve of how excited this guy sounds about all of this. ]

Leaving her alive has already backfired once. [ she might not have been here when the initial revolution happened, but she knows enough. ] We ought to cut the head from the snake. Revolutions die in the cradle with anything less.

video; un: jin_guangyao (Tiny threadjack, couldn't resist, hope that's OK!)

[turmoiling]

[Jin Guangyao is already feeling a bit sensitive due to various events, and has never been too fond of his transformation into a naga to begin with. So it's with a faintly plaintive, embarrassed smile that he turns on video, all-too obvious in his transformation with a few scattered tan scales on his cheeks and forehead and slit yellow eyes.]

Please pardon my interjection but, is such a turn of phrase really so necessary?

[Come on, give him a break here.]

more than ok! ive wanted more mdzs cr anyway

[hegemonwings]

[ oh. right. naga.

she sees what she's done wrong here.

byleth turns on the video and smiles a bit awkwardly. ]

Point taken. Apologies—I might have phrased that better.

[ yes, she's advocating someone's death here, but that doesn't excuse careless words!! ]

[morbide]

[There's a lot to disapprove of about Henry...]

Oh heck yeah! A decapitation, THEN burning her at the stake?! Now you're talking. Count me in! Nya ha ha! [He sounds like he's a kid getting excited in the middle of a candy store...] If the necromancers get their withered, death-defying claws on her ashes, maybe she'll come back as a headless Risen! How neat would that be?

audio; un: jin_guangyao

[turmoiling]

I am mildly surprised there's thought to keeping the ashes rather than scattering them to the wind. Is even such a tiny fragment so much of a threat, do you think? Of course I would defer to your... past necromantic experience.

[Trust him on that, he says. Well now.]

[morbide]

Oh, I've got PAST necromantic experience, all right. Like, totally NOT in the past year, or anything like that. Pshhh.

[Henry wins an award for maximum subtlety.]

But I'm glad you get what I'm saying! Not saying I've ever resurrected a body from a pile of ashes, but I'm pre-tty sure there's a good reason Dorchacht's Coven says they wanna seal her pile of flesh and organs up behind lock and key or whatever. Just think about how capable at the undead arts Aefenglom's Coven of licensed necromancers must be! I bet they could revive a pile of ashes.

I thought maybe dumping some of 'em into the ocean would be a better idea, myself. Maybe setting the other half into the wind... But hey, maybe they wanna keep her on standby! Just in case. Hee hee! I'm not judging.

Voice | un: LHG

[bergamotrose]

[The username gets an... arched eyebrow. It was certainly unique.]

That woman has already had her chances,

[Lorenz said with a deceptive lightness. His disgust was evident in the knot in his brows, in the odd rigidity with which he held himself.]

And she has used it to prove that leaving her alive has far riskier odds than culling her like a rabid dog. She has already done untold amounts of harm to the people, and her actions will take years to rectify...

Ordinarily I would vote for imprisonment, for Death can be a mercy. However, she cannot be allowed to live. There is risk for further troubles so long as she draws breath.

[morbide]

Oh, yeah. Death IS a mercy. If my options were to be captured or to die, I'd wanna die, too! Like a warm set of pajamas, wrapped up in a toasty blanket... of death! Especially if it's done right.

[Henry says this with sincerity, and you can almost hear his solemn nod. ...One could also definitely hear his maintained smile over the audio.]

But hey, a lot of people wanna get their revenge for everything she's done. Gotta give Dorchacht's angry citizens a punching bag for their time, right? People and their revenge. I'll never get it, but it's totally a thing. But hey, if she were left alive, wouldn't the difference this time be that she has ZERO magic?

voice; un: styx

[tothemetal]

[it's definitely a relevant topic being brought up here, and Styx does intend to address it at some point, but right now his attention has been completely diverted by something else here.]

Dude, you ok?

[his tone is genuinely concerned, rather than the "what the hell is your problem" that a delivery like this post probably warrants.]

[morbide]

...Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm doing swell! Thanks for asking.

[He sounds chipper, if caught a bit off-guard. Sure, people react with incredulity to his manner of speaking a lot, but something like this sort of concern is a bit rarer... He wonders what he did to warrant that kind of concern.]

Why? Do I sound like I'm catching a cold or something? I promise that's just my voice, honest!

un: Caster | voice

[futhark]

[ He's not even going to pretend he considers voting to keep her alive... ]

Can't say I know much about necromancy, but you sure sound excited about the subject. [ Dryly. Captain obvious here. ] Scattering the ashes into a river should make it harder for anyone to try to revive her.

[ That's not really the point, but oh well! ]

[morbide]

Oh, yeah. I used to be a sorcerer back home, so I'm interested in all of the spooky, gruesome stuff. You know how it is!

[Yeah, Henry's not a very good liar, so he tries to stick to true statements.]

I've had a few people suggest scattering it into the ocean or the wind. I think we could really make those necromancers work for it by picking a couple locations! It'd be like a hero's quest if they wanna revive her, only it's totally villainous. The depths of the ocean, the blustery winds, the core of a volcano... We could split 'em up!

text | un: taru

[seemstressed]

_{[Tataru's out and about running errands and so she can't exactly be wherever Henry is to physically put a hand over his mouth. All she can think to do is distract him and get him talking about something else.]}

What sort of milk shall I pick up from the store? There are quite a few options.

[morbide]

[Oh she's too good... Henry is readily distracted by milk.]

Is chocolate milk out of the question?

[He's laughing. He's not the type to type his laugh, but it haunts his text...]

[stopfen]

[Oh it's Tendou's other bonded. This might be a bit awkward...or not. They had spoken before after all.]

Isn't it a bit soon? We have to catch her first...

[morbide]

[Oh, Tendou's other Bonded. And someone Tataru works with! He doesn't find this awkward, but it's hard to make Henry feel awkward...]

Eh? Oh, yeah. We do. But Miss Nessie told us to handle the decision-making part ourselves, since neither of the Covens wanna cooperate. [He gasps, before he can even let Mikasa reply.] Oh! I just had the most MORBID idea. What if we split her body... and give one half to each?! Hee hee!

text; un: vivelafrance

[thejoyrider]

I really hope we can avoid killing. Wouldn’t imprisonment be enough?

[Marie is not a fan of death penalty. Bad memories, you know]

[morbide]

[Of course, Marie...]

Her magic's gonna be stripped in either case, right. So it must be! She'd be totally harmless. As good as a punching bag behind bars, and they plan on picking her brain for magic info,too.

But man, talk about a life. I wonder if she'd be in solitary confinement forever. That would be lonely. Death sounds like a mercy to me.

voice;

[unsundered]

[Oh, it's Tataru's strange Bonded. That voice, that laugh- unmistakable. But ignoring the more colorful aspects of Henry's statements, he makes a valid point. There were no guarantees to anything, as far as he was concerned, and Emet-Selch has his own ambivalences towards the affair, no doubt aided by an indifference towards the result itself.]

Such haste to kill someone who might yet be useful. What knowledge that she might possess, cast aside for petty vengeance.... ['Petty', everything that she's done. But it doesn't matter to him, so he can scorn it.] Should Dorchacht reach her first, I hope their few moments of blood to be worth all that might be lost.

Besides, no matter how dead she might be rendered, too difficult to revive even for the most dedicated of necromancers... 'twould be easy for a follower skilled in transmutation to assume her form and gather the willing. She escaped death once before, after all- why not twice over? Oh, they wouldn't have her powers or knowledge of course... but what a sight to stir the fearful. A banner to rally around- any authenticity is secondary.

If she's well-known to be alive but captured and rendered harmless, it would be slightly harder of a ruse to pull off.

[morbide]

[When he calls it petty, Henry ends up hanging onto that. He'd claim forever that he doesn't really 'get' revenge... But he also remembers quite distinctly the things these people fought against, and has a grasp of the sorrows they must carry for it. Namely, the Monsters who were robbed of their agency for so long.

But this man also makes a good point about transmutation. Henry starts there with an airy hum.]

Huh. I never thought about someone trying to wear her skin so they could pretend to BE her, postmortem! Yep, I can see that working out. That's not nearly as fun as raising her from the dead, if you ask me, but it's bunches easier. Even a sham of a symbol of her's enough to stoke the flames of her cause.

Sounds like a triple-win for captivity, then! We get her magic powers, nobody can necromance her, and nobody can impersonate her. Still, I don't really blame Dorchacht for wanting her dead. Some folks lived their whole lives as slaves under her. I guess that's a solid reason to make her pay, right?

[He says, cheerfully as ever, as if it doesn't affect him.]

voice | un: leslie

[foundfamilies]

I heard that Dorchacht also plans to strip her of her magic, however that works, before she is executed. Would an undead with no magic really be worth so much to her lackeys, if they can make one with — [a hesitation] — with what will be left?

[Her voice was quite calm up to that point when talking about Dorchacht’s plans, but after that brief hesitation, the last of her words have a hint of discomfort.]

[morbide]

Well, if that's the case... She's also gonna be stripped of her magic if Aefenglom takes her! No real difference, if that's the only thing keeping her. Powerless either which way you look.

I think the worry some folks seem to have is about the charisma to lead. You know? She has followers, and stuff. If a necromancer THEORETICALLY resurrected her, she'd be whispering forbidden techniques into their ears instead of Miss Nessie's!

[Henry, on the other hand, speaks easily about all of this. About the only hitch he had was trying to figure out what people would be worried about with regards to her continued living. Good thing he has other Mirrorbound opinions to go off of.]