undread | daan daniël

Oh, you haven't met! Where our my manners. Pâté, meet Daniël. Daniël, meet my dear familiar, Pâté de Rolo.

[the little flying dead rat creature will do a sweeping bow, and then, sorry, but laudna will start doing a silly cockney voice for him.]

Charmed, I'm sure. I'd say it's nice to have a doctor around, but I'm already dead!

[ Well. Definitely points for the effort. He looks like he's somewhere stuck in a mixture of UH but also this is actually kind of funny because of how unexpected it was. ]

...! Er. Yes. My pleasure, Mr. de Rolo.

[this was such a serious thread and then this happens.]

It's actually Lord de Rolo. He's from a very prestigious Whitestone family, as a matter of fact.

[ It really is funny how quickly she really is exuding horrific, and yet, endearing under all that. ]

...Right. Rude of me then.

Lord de Rolo...

So fancy.

[very pleased he played along.]

I did make him. Just a little craft project. But then I brought him to life.

Necromancy, I take it.

I don't know why I'm surprised it would work on non-humans, but I suppose it must.

Not exactly. I can animate inanimate objects sometimes. There's a slight distinction. He's more like a living doll.

Puppetry then.

But I take it you're lacking for contact with any otherworldly powers, just like the rest?

...Yes. I can't use them, or contact her. Unless she's simply gone silent on purpose.

Figures. Not that I expect gods to answer in a punctual manner...

But it's a problem that seems to be affecting everyone, including those that draw their powers from other places too.

Oh, she isn't a god. Her soul is just trapped in my body. She's usually very punctual.

[but not right now.]

If they've managed to shut all of that off, they must have some sort of means of doing so.

[ He assumed she was another person drawing power from a god because that's how things usually are and Gale and Aerith basically said more or less the same thing. Welp. ]

Oh. [ Okay. He has no clue what this means but maybe he'll ask later. ] Yeah, sounds like it. I wouldn't really know, but everyone else says so.

[nah fam she's a warlock]

No magic? Not even a few little healing spells?

...

No. Not for a while, and never again.

I've found needle, thread, and the occasional bonesaw to be effective enough.

I see. [...] Those powers can be dangerous. It can come at a price. I understand.

Prices are only worth the cost if you get what you want. And even then, that's not always guaranteed...

But that's neither here nor there. Hopefully we won't need that kind of thing anyway.

We don't know what's going to be on the horizon, but at least we have some semblance of a goal now. I think everyone should get in rest for today, and we can all think on it tomorrow.