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[birdsbirdsbirds]

Who: Everyone!
Broadcast: Sure!
Action: Everywhere!
When: Until the end of the month!

[hey droot flooters! how are those new augment glitches going? how's your crew? what fresh trouble have you been getting into? how are those jobs paying off? whether you're in your ship, on one of the moons, stuck on Marsiva, or hiding out on one of the waystations in-between, your audience wants to know what you're up to!

note: there are an unusual number of shoes on sale in the shops today. the ones on Abeo are pretty ugly.]

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[noctiphile]

[The explanation is lined with hooks, juicy baits lingering down for him to pluck up. He could feast on them all but chooses one, jogging lightly forward, blithely ignoring the line of cafes they're already passing by.]

Wait. [He slows when he's ahead again. Able to see Felix's face.] Necromancy? As in divination of the dead? I didn't think such a thing was real, let alone used by people.

[His feet fall back into place with Felix's, expression both puzzled and disturbed.] Dare I ask how it worked?

[lord_wizard]

[He slows to a stop, as if he can't quite manage to think about this and walk at the same time, his mouth twisting into a thoughtful expression]

Do you mean what was done with it or how the magic worked? Either way, there's not much I can tell you. Much of that knowledge was purposefully lost when the Cabal took over things, although there's reportedly a tiny guild of necromancers still operating in the Lower City.

[noctiphile]

[He waves a hand, stopping slightly ahead of Felix.]

Nothing so complex. At the risk of sounding ignorant, I was wondering about the concept itself. Magic doesn't exist in my home except in fantasy writings and our idea of necromancy... Well, it might be quite different from your own. [Perking forward, he folds his hands behind his back.] Tell me, do you burn your dead?

[lord_wizard]

The only way to correct ignorance is to ask questions and learn. [He smiles, genuinely]

Generally no. Most dead are buried.

[noctiphile]

[Burial. It's hard not to wrinkle his nose at the very idea.]

Ah, that explains it. So necromancers would... [he wiggles his fingers] fiddle the corpses, correct? Or perhaps just the bones?

[lord_wizard]

[Minus the ones they burn at the stake, at least. Thus the 'generally'.]

Corpses, I think. There are...were...still ghouls in the lower levels of the Mirador. And a small number loose in the swamp outside the city. Being that ghouls are largely intact I assume it had to be the whole body. Not that the bones can't be used for other things, like contacting the spirits of the dead.