MOD PLOT ↠ AND THOSE WHO SLEPT (CRYSTAL)

[faderifting]

FORM: Crystal
SENDER: Various
RECIPIENT: Various
NOTES: This post is to consolidate (and encourage!) crystal chatter during the mod plot: updates on what characters have observed or are doing, asking for assistance with emergencies, updating everyone on injuries or losses, making the occasional joke in poor taste, asking for status reports from particular people or groups, etc. The top-level comments below correspond to the times of day in the log. To keep people on roughly the same page about when a particular discussion is happening, reply to the top-levels with any new discussions you want to start. Within those time frames, major events are happening more or less simultaneously, so you don't need to worry much about the order things are said in beyond that.

Comments

[sarcophage]

Well spotted.

[Excuse you.]

We aren't repairing them—once this is over, the Nevarrans will.

[Well, he plans on helping, but brevity, etc.]

[whatthefuckami]

And until then, we're supposed to let them run around, trying to make more of them.

[With the dubious air of that's a fucking stupid plan and you ought to know as much.]

[sarcophage]

Cut their legs off.

[whatthefuckami]

Heads'd do more.

[sarcophage]

The spirit inside the corpse doesn't care whether or not it has a head.

[Unless you're lucky enough to find a really cute wisp that wants to mimic death, he reckons. An enraged one wouldn't.]

Just disable it.

[inkindled]

It tried to bite me.

[sarcophage]

What would you do if I tried to bite you?

[inkindled]

Why would you try to bite me?

[sarcophage]

If I were confused and lashing out. Would you burn me down to cinders?

[inkindled]

Well, no, but that's you--I might try reasoning with you, or, like-- I mean, it's you, not a rotty corpse!

[sarcophage]

[Quieter now, careful of whatever's going on by him,]

And if reasoning didn't work?

[inkindled]

Well--then--

I dunno! But it's not the same! These aren't people, proper people. Right? Spirits and wisps and things inside of corpses, those aren't people.

[sarcophage]

I'm asking you to think of them as people. Please try.

[—was all whispered. Now a quick rustle, and no more answers.]