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lifenet2018-11-03 09:45 pm
cacoethes_mori) wrote in lifenet2018-11-03 09:45 pm
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Stones of Farspeech; backdated to October 30th
Hello. Has anyone seen Lance around?
I don't need to talk to him! Just tell me if you've seen him.
[Or has he, you know, broken something important with his necromancy?
That would certainly explain the Storyteller's reaction to it.]
...if you are Lance, then say so and I'll be done with this.
I don't need to talk to him! Just tell me if you've seen him.
[Or has he, you know, broken something important with his necromancy?
That would certainly explain the Storyteller's reaction to it.]
...if you are Lance, then say so and I'll be done with this.
2/2
Anyway--]
Ha ha! Besides, it sounds like it doesn't matter now.
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[He doesn't miss a beat before adding the next part--]
Sorry about that.
[He doesn't sound sorry at all.]
...
Mmmm.
But if the magic is that sensitive, I'd recommend we stop leaving bodies lying around in the open.
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What are you talking about?
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What do you think I'm talking about?
[Legitimate question or thinly veiled criticism?
Yes.]
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But now she is, and she doesn't like any of this at all. ]
What did you do?
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[Foster's laugh is loud and rough and not quite natural sounding.
In contrast, his tone following is the downright insolent. Although he doesn't actually intend it that way, he knows better--not answering her question is still acting above his station.]
That's basically the same question, you know.
[Does answering it afterward make up for it?]
.... it was mostly necromancy.
[He says it almost like an aside.]
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You used necromancy on Lance's-- on Lance.
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He doesn't even care about the ideological nuances of necromancy, he sees that as someone else's problem. But here he is, again. Of course he is! This is why he's wrong...!
He's wrong, and now he has a chance to prove it.]
Do you actually think a dead body is the same thing as a living person?
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[ She's forcing her voice to stay level, but... it shakes. ]
He wasn't yours to manipulate.
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But. This is.... certainly.
Well, it's certainly not what he asked for. Which is fair! He's not worth answering, after all. But still, his reply is slow and excruciatingly pointed.]
Use... who.
[Say it.]
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[ Backtrack a little. Her head is all muddled, and for someone who feels other people's emotions she's... bad at her own. Bad at thinking coherently when upset. ]
Even if-- it was just his body-- [ and boy does she hate thinking like that ] --Alive or not, it's still him.
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Hahahaha!
Wow.
[Are you sure that's the hill you want to die on?]
Amazing. That's really fucking creepy, haha!
[He sobers, immediately and weirdly calm.]
Okay.
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Not nearly as creepy as reanimating a corpse!
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[It's a perfectly serious question.]
Mmmm. Lance's corpse and Lance are both of equal value? I find his corpse, and that is Lance. I find my corpse, and that is myself?
Haha! Well, we knew that. I am... my corpse.
But now Lance is his corpse, as you are yours. You are your corpse. Haha. You are your corpse. You are your corpse--
[He's taken this idea and has started to run with it, and his speech grows increasingly pressured with excitement.]
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[ What does she say? She doesn't know. She's struck speechless, and she... Even when it comes to this, she backs down. Always. She's not like Nari, she can't...
Can't do anything, in the end.
She doesn't reply to Foster again. ]