un: hieke

[inflictwounds]

So this is awkward and I don't know how to explain this, but it seems like my sigil is still being passed around as a good one to use if you want an easy deal to bring people back from the dead.

I don't do that anymore. Obviously.

But I'm kind of in the middle of California now and I would appreciate it if someone could summon me back or something?

Thanks.

Comments

UN: Ollin

[unpocoloco]

You don't do that... anymore?

Did you regularly bring back the dead?

[He's not asking for himself.

But he's kind of asking.]

[inflictwounds]

Regular is a word you could use, yeah.

[He could just answer the question with a straightforward answer but why would he do that?]

[unpocoloco]

"Could use" doesn't mean it's the right word to use.

How did that work?

[inflictwounds]

It's hard to explain. My magic is more innate than learned.

But it was basically...replacing the dead bits with alive bits and stitching it all together.

[unpocoloco]

... Like Frankenstein?

[inflictwounds]

No.

There's not nearly as many dramatic storms and lightning strikes.

[unpocoloco]

Oh is that the only difference.

[inflictwounds]

It's the biggest one, certainly.

[unpocoloco]

I know it's like a... a thing for magic people to not give out how their magic works or what it does but you couldn't give any more detail than that?

[inflictwounds]

I don't think you'd be interested in a full breakdown of how my magic works.

[unpocoloco]

I can pretty much guarantee you I would.

[inflictwounds]

I see.

Well, maybe you'll get one, some day. Maybe we can cover resurrection in class.

[unpocoloco]

You're being evasive on purpose aren't you?

You know what, that's fine. Fair. Maybe someday in class you will or won't decide to go into this and presumably it will be a day I'm not too sick to see it. Great. Thanks for the opportunity to learn something new. Always good.

[inflictwounds]

No.

[Which means yes.]

You know, you're right, it's probably a bad idea to teach these kids about resurrection.

Why do you want to know how it works, anyways? It's not something that's generally wise to mess with.

Private

[unpocoloco]

[He's deadeyeing that no.

He drags his hand over his face and switches the conversation to private. Finally.]

I'm undead, Hieke. Why do you think I'm interested?

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[inflictwounds]

If you're undead, you should know the methods are different. Death and unlife are very different problems.

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[unpocoloco]

Yes. I'm pretty aware of that too. That's why I'm asking how your powers work.

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[inflictwounds]

Do you want to know if I can make you alive again?

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[unpocoloco]

[Looks like it's his turn to struggle.]

I am... curious about what would happen if you tried. Considering I'm not even the conventional sort of undead.

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[inflictwounds]

It would depend on what kind of undead you are. Messing with the undead can be tricky and leave you with someone who's just dead.

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[unpocoloco]

Not a vampire, not a zombie, not a ghost. Not a lich either. My kind doesn't have a name besides skeletons and I'm the first Daybreak heard of. I died before any blight took me. My soul and body are fairly entangled so severing the tie doesn't go well most of the time.

It'd probably kill me. But I had to ask. You know, to be sure.