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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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[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. ]

[fogey]

I said already. Nothing was left. Nothing whatsoever.

[kungfuey]

[ There's a slight pause between replies as if she's processing that one. ]

Think you could show me where it happened?

[fogey]

[ ....well. ]

You want to look for yourself? I remember where it was.

[ maybe he should start directing people there instead of having to answer questions... ]

[kungfuey]

I'd like to check it out yeah.

[ I mean. Sure. That was a version of the truth. ]

[fogey]

I can direct you to the place. But I wouldn't get my hopes up

[ it's not impossible she might find something, he knows, but it's also not as though he didn't scour the area when the body disappeared, too. ]

[kungfuey]

I figure I'll take my chances. No harm in it.

@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.

[ordinaryannie]

No more questions than we already have. People not coming back to life is reality until proven otherwise.

It's possible it was an unrelated third party, but unless the guy has some personal enemy who both believes in resurrection and wants to make sure he stays deader than dead, the simplest explanation is that whoever set this up is also the person who made the body and the fragments of the lantern disappear. Doesn't mean it'll turn out to be the right one, but it requires the fewest leaps of logic with the information we have.

[Doesn't mean she believes in routine resurrection, either. Hell, her own gut-reaction conspiracy theory is the ostensibly-dead guy is a plant to sell the game to the rubes.

It's the play she'd make, if it was her narrative. If she was vastly powerful and absolutely lacking in morals and probably in sanity.]

[kungfuey]

Except that we have people who have been here before saying they come back. If we believe them.
Wouldn't be unheard of though.

[ Only in your twisted world, Scarlett. ]

You're assuming its about the guy and not the place.
Fact is we don't know enough of anything for sure to do anything but speculate.

[ She can acknowledge that much at least. ]

But the more shit that happens the better idea we might get on what we're dealing with.

[ordinaryannie]

Now that much we can agree on.

[kungfuey]

What I'm waiting to see?
Which one of us will be the first to not come back.

[ordinaryannie]

Good question.

Probably the first person to get close to something really important.

[kungfuey]

That should make for a fun waiting game.

[ordinaryannie]

Or the world's least appropriate betting pool.

[kungfuey]

[ I mean. ]

My money is still on Mr. Day Two.
I figure eventually they get sick of bringing him back.