aefenglom | un: xXx_tWiStEd_MiNd_xXx

Skip to Main Content

Entry tags:

un: xXx_tWiStEd_MiNd_xXx

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?

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[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.

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?

I don't think so, Sir.

People like her.... so long as they breathe and can speak, they will share their ideas. Even without magic, the power of ideas is the most dangerous of them all.

Ooooh... So you're afraid she'll have company in her cell. Yeah, that's a real problem.

How about solitary confinement for life? Only Miss Nessie and Mhairi, forever! Would that be better?

Please.

If her supporters know she is alive, they will surely find a way to deliver her back to her freedom. A person with those morals and that level of charisma alone is quite dangerous-- or, have you not realized this?

[Lorenz let out a contemplative hum.]

You do seem quite... eager about this, if you don't mind my saying.

[Henry seems to snicker about Lorenz's first musing, but he's prompted with an observation about his character. Just as cheerily as anything else he says, he responds to that instead.]

Which part? Necromancy, killing Morgana, or death? Either which way, you're right! I've got a thing for death and UNdeath, hee hee! That's why I thought about all of her necromancer followers, and how they could probably just find a way to revive her if we're careless.

Even if we burnt the remains and scattered the ashes to the wind?

[For once, Lorenz felt a thread of doubt--]

Goodness. Necromancy was never a subject I studied, so I tend not to think much of it. Reanimating a body is... inhumane, and the very thought of it disgusts me.

You don't truly think that they will reanimate her from fragments of dust, do you?

[If so, Lorenz may have made a mistake...]

Oh, I think that'll work pretty swell. The wind thing, I mean. Not TOTALLY foolproof, especially if they're content with a dim puppet to control.

But if they seal her up like they say they wanna... Unless they're TOTALLY sure her ashes will be locked away for good, surely a dedicated rogue could just break in! Sacred relics and stuff go missing all the time. Pretty sure some dust isn't immune to being swiped up, either.

Thank you, Sir. Now I shall shudder at my own thoughtlessness while I try to sleep tonight. Necromancy is not an art I am well versed in on either side of battle, so the notion didn't even occur to me.

Noooo problem-o! I live to disturb, nya ha ha!

Anyway, try not to let it disturb your snoozing. I'm sure they'll figure it all out. Dorchacht's pretty familiar with necromancers. One way or another, they'll either pay for their errors, or fix 'em. And the sun will keep rising! Probably. Unless Morgana comes back and turns it back into The Black City all over again!

[Henry's doing a stellar job at being reassuring, as he does.]

['Reassuring' was... one word for it.]

You do realize that we may be called to help Dorchacht again, if that is the case?

Sir, if you do not mind, shall we meet sometime to discuss the particulars that you know of Necromancy and the Undead? This conversation has been a grave reminder of my own missteps in understanding and judgement, of the sort that is unfit for anyone on this realm.

I seek to rectify this.

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only