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Theo Crawford ([personal profile] sanctus_dei) wrote2011-09-18 09:47 pm

49th Ressurection

[Oh, a zombie plague? Thanks, Mayfield! Theo here is a very, very talented nercomancer, and has been dying (no pun intended) for a chance like this. Mayfield isn't a very conducive place to exercise his gifts, and now it's provide for him tons of undead he can have complete control over.

On Sunday and Monday, Theo will be just messing around with the zombies. Making them do stupid stuff, seeing how far he can exercise his control over them, how much energy it takes, what he can do. Never let it be said that Theo was anything but a careful, thorough spellcaster. He takes it very seriously, and it pays.

He'll even be setting up a game with them. You will find him sitting at the high school baseball field, having the zombies playing a rousing game while he sits in the stands, controlling the spells, laughing and having a grand old time. His crows are with him, cawing cheers with him.]


C'mon! Just cuz you're dead doesn't mean you can't pitch better than that. What, afraid your arm might fall off? Put some elbow grease into it!

[Did I mention he's been drinking too? Though that might be obvious at this point.]

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[By Tuesday and Wednesday though, Theo will be... degenerating. Slipping away. Simply put, the boy is crazy. Power and magic tends to quickly go to his head, and he goes overboard. That's how he got himself killed back home in the first place.

He'll be getting more sadistic with his toying, doing violent things with the infected people. Turning them on each other or people in the streets, running them off of buildings or into cars, using them as weapons against anyone who tries to stop him. He's crazy and dangerous. Coming after him at this point means you run the risk of being injured or killed. He's in his element here and is going to have as much fun as he can while it lasts!]

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[As far as his not!family, as long as they stay inside, they're in the safest house in town. Theo warded the hell out of that house over a year ago against an attack just like this, and nothing undead that Theo doesn't want there won't be making it past the yard without being incinerated by the spell. Theo will return on occasion, though. He needs spell components, and the main one for control of the undead is human ashes. The smoke and the smell from the yard of 337 Brady Lane is a disturbing sign that something is up, if anyone cares to investigate.]

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-22 05:08 pm (UTC)(link)
So what? What've they ever done for me?

[Now he's just sounding like a petulant child.]

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-22 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
And if I don't? You gonna blast me like you just did to them?

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-22 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Baseball? Pitcher throws the ball, batter's gotta hit it and run to the bases. They throw it around to try and call them before they cross home plate and score a point. That's the short version.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-22 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Everyone goes on about this "disrespecting the dead" shit. It's Mayfield, it's not like they're not going to come back all fine and dandy.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-22 05:51 pm (UTC)(link)
No intention of shooting you in the head. Don't make me do this, Theo.

Go home and stop playing with the zombies like they're toys. They're still people.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-22 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. And that's supposed to be fun?

[identity profile] weiss-tank.livejournal.com 2011-09-23 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, he kind of is one.] Theo, please? I don't want to have to keep seeing zombies with faces I recognize.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-23 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
Goddamnit. Why won't people let me do what I want to do?!

[identity profile] weiss-tank.livejournal.com 2011-09-23 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Are you seriously whining about the fact that I'm asking you to help to fix this? Because that is what I'm hearing.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-23 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not whining! Christ. [Yeah, he's whining.

To make a point, he calls some zombies over, who listen without hesitation.]


I sit in my goddamn house all day doing nothing, or at that lousy job, shit like that. This once I get to do what I want to do.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-23 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
They're not. They're dead.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-23 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Normally? No. Funnily enough it takes the undead to liven it up.

[identity profile] weiss-tank.livejournal.com 2011-09-23 03:12 am (UTC)(link)
[Ken doesn't think much of this action. Not in a contemptuous way, but he trusts Theo enough to believe that he wont sic the zombies on him.]

You sit in that house all day because you refuse to go outside and have fun or interact with people! I bet that time Applejack hauled you out to give out pastries was the first time you'd seen sun in weeks.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-23 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
They're zombies, ze. They're still moving, they have purpose, they're undead not much different than jiangshi.

They're purpose is not your entertainment. This is a mistake and fixing it doesn't involved toying with them like they're dolls. Don't be cruel, Theo. Go home.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-23 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
[groan] Bad pun, ze...

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[He snickers. This man has almost zero sense of humor so this should be marked in the record book.]

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
I have the ability to command them. What I want to do with them is my choice! Everyone is always shooting me down.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not a threatening move, more something to make his point. At least for now, anyway.]

I do that because this town is full of idiots who don't understand what it is I do!

[identity profile] weiss-tank.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
People fear the undead, it's just a thing! Look, I don't really care that you can raise'em, I mean, your crows were pretty cute even when they were rotting...

Not the point! People don't understand because they can't approach you to ask anything because you try to puff yourself up and look really scary! You're unapproachable!

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Too much circular logic! Brain does not want to compute!]

Ken, just... just stop it.

[identity profile] weiss-tank.livejournal.com 2011-09-24 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Did Ken just...sorta win at logic? This is one for the record books.]

Theo...[His voice softens a little bit] Alright. I'll do it myself.
Edited 2011-09-24 05:13 (UTC)

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
And I have the ability to blow a hole through a mountain, but I don't go doing that, ze. And if I did, people would stop me because it's not right.

You're letting the magic consume you. I've been there. We're human. We have to have lines, Theo. Don't make me do this.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-25 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
[Duly noted.]

I guess I'll hang out with you for a while and watch them.

...though it'd be more interesting if you weren't controlling both teams.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 02:54 am (UTC)(link)
If I knew someone else who could do this, then I'd invite them to try.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
I only know the very, very basics. Not my thing and I suck at slave-type magic anyways.

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