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[synergismus]

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Warnings: Zombie horrors in the appropriately titled ZOMBIES! thread, otherwise TBA. Please put warnings in subject lines of your comments if content warrants one.

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ZOMBIES! (bonetown)

[synergismus]

The dead don't, as a rule of thumb, walk in Bonetown. The process of reanimation or unlife generally involves magic of some sort, so they might be able to walk in but they then might also have to be carried out. If they're really dead.

If, for instance, they're infected with something... but these technicalities aren't quite as pressing to the Bonetown residents dealing with a nightmarish contagion pattern that causes unthinking aggression and cannibalism among those infected. Where it came from and who's responsible will have to be sorted out later, though the fact that the spread of the infection begins in Bonetown is quite possibly too convenient -- there are thus some limiting factors to the destruction infected victims can cause -- can't be ignored.

'Convenient' is not the term of the moment, however, not when 'horde' and 'riot' are so close at hand. Full infection takes anywhere from five to twenty minutes, though the symptoms are almost instantaneous. Prelude Street is the worst off: a main road lined with shops, there are people with burst blood vessels in their face and eyes, people being noisily sick, and among a high percentage of those not weak or sick, people losing capacity for coherent thought and speech. It escalates quickly, but in patches. Those farthest gone tend to stay until everything and everyone in their vicinity is thoroughly destroyed.

[martyrdomoption]

Episodes like these --whether contained to a canton or citywide-- provide plenty of opportunities for the various criminal classes, although it requires a certain level of finesse and smart thinking.

The gentleman being hauled from the back of a cart, in one of the less monitored entrances to Bonetown, has been found lacking. Mitchell tells the other day-walking cruorovores to keep a look out while he drags him along the street himself, certain he's not about to catch anything, any time soon. "I don't think you'll be trying to pull a fast one after this," he says to the bound and gagged man. "It's a shame you had to find out the hard way."

He's dumped in a quiet area, and a bag of blood --one of many that he'd tried to sell-- is poured over him. Mitchell even goes so far as to remove the gag, pinch his nose, and let the last trickle run down the captured man's throat.

"And if that doesn't do the trick, I'm sure someone will be along in a minute." The gag is put back in place and Mitchell slaps the man's cheek with a broad, unfriendly smile. He leaves him to his muzzled pleading, heading back in the direction he came from.

[requirethree]

Antonin, unerringly, had put two and two together and made "no one in power will hassle me for killing things if they're zombies." He can't be in Severus' house all the time, and he is really very good at killing things. The way he looks at it, this is almost like community service.

(The analogy would probably work better if he were more careful about making sure the people he killed were actual zombies and not just covered in blood because they were running away. You can't make an omelet without killing a few innocent bystanders.)

And if he sees someone who is clearly alive, he might even help them. For the novelty value.