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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! ]

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[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. ]

[primordialerebus]

[ Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck!!! Cue internal screaming. How was she going to get out of this mess. ]

[ It takes maybe 5 minutes before she finally replies, vs. the near instant ones she had been giving before. ]

I got lucky.

[kungfuey]

No you didn't.

[ Does she know that for sure, is she just guessing or is this pure suspicion talking? ]

[primordialerebus]

[ An even longer stretch of inactivity as the internal screaming continues. What would Leon do? Turn it around on the other person! Of course! (No, they'd never have made the mistake in the first place.) ]

How do you know that?

[ Great job Coraline. Not suspicious at all. ]

[kungfuey]

My great powers of deduction.

[ Girl. You are so bad at this. ]

So. How did you?

[primordialerebus]

Same. I'm super good at guessing.

[ She's painfully aware she's terrible at this and that she's backing herself into a corner. ]

[kungfuey]

You are super bad at lying that's for sure.
Protip. You want somebody to buy your line? Don't tell them you couldn't figure out the combination.

1/

[primordialerebus]

It was an accident!!!

2/2

[primordialerebus]

[ Shit she pressed send before she could stop herself. Fuck!!!! ]

The guessing I mean.

[kungfuey]

Sure you did.

Are we really going to play this game? Last I checked? I'm dead so I got all the time in the world to push this.

[primordialerebus]

I swear it's nothing major!!!

[ She feels like crying. More than she already feels like anyways. ]

[kungfuey]

Then why all the secrecy?

[ Well done, Scarlett. smh. ]

[primordialerebus]

I just don't want to talk about it ok. It affects literally no one but me.

[ Lie. ]

[kungfuey]

I'll do you a deal. I'll stop pushing about the how if you stop talking in riddles. No more guess claiming. We can have this conversation without you having to talk about yourself but you and I both know the lying thing isn't working so well for you.

[primordialerebus]

I'm not...

[ A sulky pause. ]

Fine. That works.

[kungfuey]

Glad we got that settled.

[ Would knowing Coraline is a teenager make her better? We just don't know. ]

The keypad. You're sure about that? On the other side of the hatch?

[primordialerebus]

[ >:C ]

Yeah... pretty sure. Don't know what else it could be.

[kungfuey]

If somebody were able to figure out what the code is can you enter it somehow?