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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?

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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.

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.

[ 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.

[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.]

[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?

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.]

[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.

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?

[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.]

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.

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?

See? I thought so too! Scatter the ashes across all of Geardagas if they must, it just makesmore sense to me....

I dunno if theres ever a surefire guarantee that a determined witch couldn't, i dunno, reassemble a pile of ashes, even from the depths of the sea. but I think that even if they could, they'd never get a complete resurrection. Like a shambling, mindless copy of Drummond's former self kind of resurrection! Though a determined necromancer could DEFINITELY control her like a puppet.

That's just my hunch, anyway. Not like I do necromancy. I just know a guy, maybe.

...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!

[ 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!! ]

Uh.

[ byleth actually has... no idea what to say to that. if he'd stopped sooner she might have just clarified that it was a metaphor, but— ]

Are you feeling well?

[oh henry no

Myr debates with himself a solid two minutes about how to approach this before going for direct.]

Serah Henry, you'd worry me less if you made fewer allusions to your own necromantic experience. In the past year or otherwise.

[Oh Henry. Henry, Henry, Henry. He was somehow even worse at hiding illicit behavior than Entrapta was. Constructive criticism, he has to think of constructive criticism...]

You did not need to mention the timeframe.

Edited 2020-10-08 17:39 (UTC)

I mean, uh, doesn't sound like a cold or nothing. I don't think? Just, your laugh...

[nya ha ha? it sounded like his kitten trying to sneeze some dust off his nose, which was. concerning! coming from a human being. so he can't help but worry, big idiot that he is.]

You sure you didn't get hit with nothing lately?

You're right, it'd be a useless husk of her if we even tried with just a bit of the ashes. We'd probably have to have to have a complete set to do anything with them.

So we should do what we can to fully destroy and effectively scatter and rid our world of these ashes. Make as big of a mess of them as we can.

I don't know anything about necromancy, though. But that would be my assumption. You don't play cards with an incomplete deck.

You know a guy, huh? Just one?

Huh? Yeah, I'm fine. Is it something I said?

[Hmm, or maybe it's the quality of his voice. Henry has no idea. Then again, this isn't too unfamiliar of a reply to him...]

[how tf do you do a private message... Well, at least it seems to just automatically be that way, since Henry doesn't even think to try figuring it out.]

Aw, don't be scared! I'm completely harmless, as long as we're not facing off on the battlefield. What are you worried about? The fact that I definitely HAVEN'T done any necromancy here in Aefenglom? Because obviously there's nothing to be worried about. That chapter's closed, left behind in Ylisse with all of the rest of my dark magic, grisly sigils, and Risen limbs.

Why not? 'Cause I dabbled in a little necromancy back home. Just a bit of entertaining! Totally innocent, and just summoning some Risen. I just thought I should make it clear.

[Henry's tone of voice is easygoing and unguarded. He thinks he's doing fine...]

I understand. There are some things that take some time to adjust to, in this world.

[Like turning into a snake! Thanks, he hates it still. But he can at least make an effort to sound pleasant despite it.]

How long is it that you've been here, then? [Jin Guangyao smiles, shaking his head like it's a bit of a joke. Maybe a bad joke, but still.]

With that under consideration, perhaps it isn't such a bad idea to simply imprison her, don't you think? I've heard the argument posed that her knowledge of dreamwalking would be valuable, and considering the way in which many of us enter the world, it could be of particular interest to Mirrorbound.

[Myr breathes out in an audible huff. There might be a laugh somewhere in it.]

Worried for you, [he clarifies.] Not because of you.

The Coven's touchy and not likely to take you are your word that you definitely haven't done any necromancy if you keep on like this.

[definitely haven't. mhm. yup. l's fingers just stayed alive all on their own for months.]

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