Network - Text post backdated to August 15

[easilyamused]

Who: Methos
Username: pierson
Warnings: discussion of death, necromancy, desecration of corpses, mind control

I'm sure we're all aware by now of the shambling corpses down on the beach. And probably aware that pulling the hooks out will make them settle down again.

If you are planning to go down and play with the dead things, whatever you do, don't stick yourself with the hooks. They won't just make corpses get up and start wandering around trying to drown people, they'll compel any living thing they get lodged in to do the same. As far as I can tell, the effect doesn't linger in the living any more than in the dead, but it would still be damned inconvenient to go mad and start trying to drown your partner.

To say nothing of the infection risk.

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[canofmanji]

Let me guess? Learned this the hard way, did ya?

[easilyamused]

Ooh, a swing and a miss.

[canofmanji]

Seen someone learn it the hard way?

[easilyamused]

Thankfully, no.

[Which is in no small part down to his partner in accidental zombie encounters not have any flesh for the hooks to get stuck in, which is its own special blend of deeply disturbing.]

As far as I know, no one's succumbed aside from our friends on the beach. If we're careful about disposal, we might still be able to stay ahead of the undead apocalypse.

[canofmanji]

Then how are you so sure that a living body can't resist the hooks?

[easilyamused]

Humans aren't the only living things in this city. There's an outside possibility that a person could resist the effects where the other local fauna can't, but I wouldn't want to stake money on it.

[canofmanji]

Then why not say you saw it happen to other creatures when I first asked if you learned this the hard way?

[easilyamused]

I have to entertain myself somehow.