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.

Comments

[easilyamused]

Some of it was medical.

For the rest, let's just say if anyone offers you a startlingly high wage for cleaning out people's houses, you should run the other way as fast as possible. I might have looked a little bit more closely at the biohazard training if I hadn't been struck stupid by the hourly wage.

[bossyboiler]

Who hasn't done something stupid for money? [ She doesn't want to know about the biohazard part. Gross! ] But I don't think I could be able to clean people's houses. Some people are disgusting and I would be the one to tell them.

[easilyamused]

The generationally wealthy. Not that they don't do stupid things, it just isn't for money.

[bossyboiler]

Are you sure? Those people seem to be the greediest on any planet.

[easilyamused]

I should have phrased that better. They don't do stupid things for money that are likely to have direct consequences for them. Just for the rest of the planet.

[bossyboiler]

True enough.