username: lady of the willow tree | audio

[aprescoup]

( She has long suffered, her great sigh speaks, every fool that's walked this world. ) ...you took more dead. Why are you like this? You want friends? I buy you friends. Three for five coin pieces, at the market. You are ugly, maybe I pay seven. And you are fools! No one likes you. I pay nine.

Pah! What is your luck? What is my luck? These other clapping seals in their little frills, with their little cakes and their little cups, they are playing their little games. And they come to me with messages. I I have the look of a saint now, who delivers word. How fortunate Karsa is. How grateful.

Look here. Pay attention. ( She spits out the words: ) First come the beggars, the Bessis. What is their puny fire worth now? I breathe hotter each morning. They ask for their captives, to hide their shame. Imagine! You kill, and you kill, and you kill, and then you keep your dead 'allies' like vermin, and it is not good, when you are found out. Who could have thought?

( And softer: ) The others. The Attaryl, for whom speaks the red woman, Vannozza. They want their dead. For burial. Ha! As if she will not use them to say, looooooooooooook! Look what my cousin's good friends! Look. But the witches... these are their dead.

So, talk, choose, and — ( The transmission seems to flicker, her voice first feeble, then doubled, then she shrieks: ) No. No. You do not dare, you do not presume, you do not, you fur-clad pink pig, you do not dare —

( But Karsa falls silent. To a quiet backdrop, broken only by a rhythmic drip, speaks undead Lord Anurr of Sa-Hareth — who has not been seen since arriving in Sa-Hareth. He seems to borrow the voices of multiple men, women and children, never settling on the one: )

H elLo   Li TtlE   FrIenD S. HoW   Ha VE   YoU   Be EN?   GoOD?   Yo U   ArE   Go OD   peOPlE.

Go oD   ThIn Gs   SHOUl D   HaPpE N   T o   GoOd   Peop Le.   And   GoO D   EnDing S   to   Th Ose   Who   HAV e   SuF f e Red   LoN G.

N o?   Y E s.

And   Th E y   havE SuFFer Ed,   ThEse   AtTa ryL.   An D   N oW   ThEY WoU l D   Be   Use D   aGA in?

No.   So   Man Y   BuRNs. So   ManY   WA I Ls.   I heAR   ThE M   FroM   HerE.

GiVE   Them   To   ME.   Th E Y   Will   Be   O U R   BrothER s   In   SA-HARE Th.   Fr E e.

( As quickly as Anurr interrupted, his voice disappears. A long heartbeat's silence. By the time Karsa recovers command of her own transmission sorcery, she is quieter for it, rattled. )

You... that. That disgusting creature. That... well. Well, you heard him, didn't you? You heard him. Tell me what you wish done. You cannot have it all ways. Only one answer.

( ooc: the floor is yours, threadjack away, debate the fate of the six undead claimed in the Bessis tower disaster, plus the three previously weaponised by Wei Wuxian. Characters with 'ownership' of the dead get final say — please state it! All the undead will go to the petitioner with the highest number of votes. Haltham Anurr will not be answering any comments. )

Comments

un: golden koi boi ; audio

[jinzhong]

Hey! I didn't want to show up dead!

audio

[aprescoup]

I spoke of you? I did not speak of you. No one speaks of you!

un: chenqing

[weifinder]

Final death. Full spirit release.

[aprescoup]

( Too stunned for insults: )


.......ehhh? What? Why?

un: absterge

[downswing]

They have a tribe. A people.

un: moonage daydream (audio)

[lancifolium]

Agreed. I'll help you however I can.

un: daozhang | audio

[binghua]

Put them to rest. Their lives are finished. No one else should have them, no matter what freedoms they promise.

audio

[aprescoup]

Blind man! You do not know, maybe. You do not see. Let me tell: they have water here. Nice and long in canals. They don't need your tears.

un: man's greatest treasure; audio

[reparo]

[rattled - rattled and unsettled and it shows. audibly.]

What...was that? Who was that?

audio

[aprescoup]

A pig. Didn't you hear it squeal? A pig.

un: chenqing

[weifinder]

Anurr, who was friendlier when pretending to be Haltham some months back when a number of us first find ourselves in Sa-Hareth. He's an undead lord, just not one of the brothers of Unhalad's, taking over the other citadels across these regions.

audio | un:thewrench

[in_theworks]

What the fuck was that?

[this is some BBEG level shit]

audio

[aprescoup]

It was a pig. You do not know pigs? They are little animals, and we eat them. Or they are big, and they try to eat us.

un: the blue spirit (audio)

[elfuego]

That was– are you safe?

[ Whatever it was, he hated it, and he hates this choice but he's got a soft spot for cranky women. ]

[aprescoup]

( For the first time, after a wait, softened: )

He forced the thrall broken. It is... uncomfortable.

un: sizhui

[paperbutterflies]

This...

[ Sizhui is quiet for a long moment. ]

For my part, I would think putting them to rest for good is the best option, but... I think they are aware enough that they can at least give an answer - among those options, which one is preferable.

Hanguang-jun pointed out they have a tribe, but would they want to return there? Only they might know.

un: absterge

[downswing]

We ask.



( He is trying. )

un: skyguy | audio

[chosenfordarkness]

If they're suffering, maybe they should be put out of their misery. What more can even be done for an undead?

[aprescoup]

Not for! With.

video;

[soulsrob]

I think they're quite adorable. But shouldn't the choice be up to them? I perhaps could find a way to tell. Besides, I rather like having them around, they're such good listeners!

[Cheerfully:] And hello Anurr, darling! How have you been doing? Well, I hope?

[aprescoup]

Why do you speak to the pig? You like pigs? Their little pink hides give your heart flutter?

UN: Lianfang-Zun | Audio

[malicing]

[This is uncomfortable and he wants to ignore it, he wants to stop his ears and turn away.]

I should pity them. If they're not strong enough to break their bonds, what more can they expect than to be used?

[aprescoup]

Ha! Spoils. Of war.

Un:???

[funnylittleclown]

OH! More friends would be lovely, but friends you must pay for... I'm afraid they wouldn't be the best sort.

audio

[aprescoup]

You are very ugly. You pay.

[scrapgege]

... I think they are conscious enough to decide for themselves. They should get to choose. They've been kept as slaves for so long, the least we can do is allow them the freedom of what comes next.

I have nothing against Anurr, but you don't just... give people like that, even if they're dead.

[aprescoup]

Of course! You do not a feast on a pig.

un: vast & furious | audio.

[valeas]

( emilia reads. and she listens. and she contemplates her own thoughts, not quite in full-form yet.

first, to karsa: ) Are you all right?

[aprescoup]

( She has, it appears, enough sense to quiet in the face of decency: )

Only the pride is wounded.

un: teamzero

[gladiokinesis]

(the undead feels more like klaus' territory, but it still doesn't sit right with him, keeping them alive.)

Let them fucking rest.

[aprescoup]

You cannot both rest and fuck. Or you do not do one very well. Perhaps you are bad at both.

@taken for granite

[rumorate]

Can they make any choices for themselves? Make any decisions? Is there any sentience in them at all?

[She admittedly doesn't know much about the undead, so she's making an effort.]

If not, and there's no other way to alleviate their suffering, we should find some way to end their suffering. Unanimate them. Whatever the correct terminology is.

[aprescoup]

They're with your people, you tell me.