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[fogey]

[ well, there's no way to say it, except to say it, so: ]

One of us died today. Big guy, blond hair. I don't know his name. I found his body.

[ that's his schtick, isn't it? finding bodies. ]

What I do know is that he fell on some rocks near the beach. Looks like an accident, no foul play. The fall shouldn't have killed him.

[ could've, if the bastard really were that unlucky, but it's unlikely. besides: ]

But it did break his lantern. Seems like Winters was telling the truth about that after all. Before anyone asks:

1) No, I didn't see it happen.
2) Yes, I checked for a pulse.
3) No, I didn't do it.

[ juST COVERING HIS BASES THERE ]

One more thing. I had to step away to get my tablet. When I came back, both he and his lantern were gone. No one else was here, I'm positive. They just vanished into thin air.

[ ooc | so as of today, rosinante (callada) is dead :C feel free to threadjack in this post and use it for discussion or whatever! ]

Comments

[kungfuey]

You really think its wise to get their hopes up?

He wasn't big on the details. Seemed like a touchy subject.

[fogey]

I meant your cute comment how we're all dead anyway, but it doesn't matter either way. Presumably, anyone who cares about this news won't just read my message, but also the replies.

[ so there's a good likelihood of hopes going up anyway. ]

I'll have to ask him about it later.

[kungfuey]

I don't do cute. It's a fact. We're dead. Whoever or whatever is behind us clearly wants us here for a reason so what exactly would be the point in doing all this just to get rid of somebody immediately? I somehow doubt the afterlife runs like a reality tv show.

[fogey]

Hell if I know. Your guess is as good as mine

[kungfuey]

I figure we wait and see if he comes back before we worry about that.

[primordialerebus]

You think he'll actually come back? Or that any of us will?

[ Count one person's hopes raised. ]

[kungfuey]

I've seen it before. Why not here?

[primordialerebus]

Are there like, vampires here? Zombies? Is that what you mean? That's not really coming back right?

[kungfuey]

Better not be. That was supposed to be the one perk about being dead.

More like resurrection.

[primordialerebus]

Oh... I guess that's possible. And they just show up in the church. Maybe that's what the hatch is for?

[ She really hopes it is. He seems... seemed? nice enough. And dying through an accident like that is just horrible. ]

[kungfuey]

What hatch?

[ She is the least sensitive person in the world to how other people might be feeling about all this. ]

[primordialerebus]

The one in the church? It's locked from the inside and I think there's a keypad on the other side. I couldn't guess the combination though.

[ In her maelstrom of emotions, she really isn't thinking that this isn't information a regular person would just be able to find out on their own. ]

[kungfuey]

What makes you think there's a combination lock?

[ Oh she picked up on that other part too but she's not pressing that one yet. ]

[fogey]

You're free to do that.

[ or, less abrasively: he's not so much of a "wait and see" person, doesn't like not knowing how long it might take. couple hours, couple days, couple weeks, couple months? a lot can happen in the meantime. ]

[kungfuey]

[ Immediately doing... just that. ]

Any trace of the lantern after he disappeared? Broken glass and the like?

[fogey]

No. That disappeared, same as he did. Not a single shard of glass left behind.

[kungfuey]

See now that's interesting.

[ She is completely oblivious to how wrong everything she writes sounds. ]

What about the body? Any blood or obvious signs of injury?

[fogey]

He fell on the rocks. Yes, there was blood and injuries. But nothing that should've been life-threatening

[kungfuey]

Any traces of blood? Drag marks? Pooling?

[fogey]

[ he's just gonna make a list. ]

• One set of footprints indicating he was walking towards the rocks.
  
• A clear slide where he tripped.
  
• Broken glass from the lantern.
  
• Typical injuries from falling.
  
• No pulse.

[kungfuey]

I don't care how he died I'm talking what was left after he disappeared.

[ Scarlett. No. ]

@carnie

[ordinaryannie]

Rastus said we'll usually return after death if our lanterns are repaired.

If that's legit and if someone or something is planning a resurrection, presumably they need both the lantern and the body.

[That those are both pretty damn big ifs goes without saying.]

[kungfuey]

Rastus? That the bipedal birdman?

[ See Will. She has blunt despcriptions for everyone. ]

Or somebody is making it so a resurrection can't happen.

[ordinaryannie]

Yeah, though I don't think he'd appreciate that description.

[He'd been very specific about not being a bird, after all.]

And that's also a possibility. Though this early, whoever's running this horrorshow is more likely to make a display of what they can do than keep it under wraps. The first person to apparently die comes back, that's a big deal, and people are going to sit up and pay attention. The first person to apparently die doesn't come back, that's business as usual.

[kungfuey]

I'll keep that in mind.

[ She won't. ]

That's assuming whoever disappeared the body and the lantern are the same ones who did all this. He comes back it's a power display. He doesn't and that begs a few more questions as to what's going on around here.