Video ; @samsa

[enucleation]

[ it's a video! And Kaneki is at what looks exactly like a morgue because he is at a morgue. To the left there is a dead person, and he will talk about it in a moment. To the right, his cursed doll is sitting at a table, immobile this time; she had a bit of a makeover ever since arriving to Serthica. Currently he is wearing a white coat, just like a doctor would (spoiler alert: he is not a doctor)]

Good evening, I hope everyone has settled in, in this... steam-punk city. [ a pause ] I feel like we might go through every literary genre at this point.

Anyway - [ Kaneki rises some papers he will be reading from as he approaches the dead body ] I was given a job as a mortician. [ how fitting ] and I can tell you a little bit about what I have seen here.

There is some sort of affliction, even in healthy looking bodies. A rot - [ and that's when he shows the dead body up close. There is a rotting look to it, green and festering, inside the abdomen ] It shows in abdomen and muscles. Also, the bodies decompose at a strange rate. None of them seem to follow a normal human pattern for decomposition, some too slow or some too fast. Honestly, I'm not a doctor so I only know what I read in medical books, but I haven't found information on this. [ he puts the papers away and walks away from the body ]

Lastly, during that eventful summit, some of the delegates started acting weird when Minaras rose. I can't put my finger on it, but there was a strange smell. They smelled human, they are human. But- [ he pauses, frowning a little. How is he supposed to describe a scent? ] It was just not normal. There are others in this city that smell like that, some of the bodies that arrive here, too. It's not everywhere but it's--

I can't recognize it. And no, the rotting bodies are unrelated to that smell, I have checked.

So, this is the information I currently have. If anyone has anything to add, I'd love to hear it.

Comments

un : deft hand of little deaths (voice)

[scrapgege]

... If they're rotting, doesn't that mean they're already dead before they actually 'die', somehow?

I have seen many diseases in my time, but one that would rot a body from the inside out would either be very localized, or an epidemic bad enough it would be very visible.

I hope it's not a disease.

[He didn't really mean to say that last part out loud.]

[enucleation]

I'm not entirely sure. I was told the spirits, however, seem to remain behind even after the bodies have passed away.

[ a pause ] I'm not a doctor, but a diseases that keeps the spirit after death here is not something I've heard of.

[scrapgege]

... But there are no spirits here. No spirits and no ghosts. And that's unnatural.

Something is tethered to these bodies to keep them moving, but I don't know if it's an actual human soul.

[enucleation]

I don't really know anything about spirits and ghosts. I only know what I see.

You are free to inspect the bodies at morgue if you wish, though.

[scrapgege]

I'm in the other part of the city, so I don't think I can cross over very easily. They also have me carrying messages for politicians so I tend to get watched pretty closely.

[enucleation]

It wouldn't be easy, no.

[ a pause ]

Since you are dealing with politicians, at least peripherally, have you seen them acting... weird? Like some of them did during the summit.

[scrapgege]

I wasn't at the summit. What happened exactly?

[enucleation]

During it, the Sanctuary lost all power and while everyone was rushing around to find some form of light, some of the delegates started spasming with guttural groans. Others froze in place and it looked like they were trapped with horrifying expressions.

[scrapgege]

That... doesn't sound good. Either possession or... the opposite.

[enucleation]

What is the opposite of possession?

[scrapgege]

The soul being taken out of the body.

After that, it can be used as a puppet in different ways/