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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 2011-09-26 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[Consuming him is exactly what it does. Once he gets deep into casting these spells, over and over, it starts to affect him.]

I'm not about to let years of study, practice, blood, sweat and tears go to waste. You have no idea what I had to go through to get to this level!

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
And you don't know what all I've done to reach my level. Don't make the mistake I did. Don't let the magic destroy who you are.

You are accomplishing nothing but making yourself out to be a child that doesn't deserve the magic. You're no better than that man that taught you.

You're making yourself unworthy of the magic. And if you don't stop, you're going to leave me no choice.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[Kind of! But once Theo is deep into casting these spells, it really starts to badly effect him.]

No! I will fucking deal with them. I swear to go if you keep lecturing me like I am some fucking child...

[He's starting to cast a spell, leaning over to start writing on the sidewalk with a piece of chalk.]

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
It IS what I am! Without it, I have nothing!

[Oh you did not just say that. He practically roars at her.]

Don't associate me with him! That asshole could never get to a level like this! He didn't know shit!

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
This is a breeze for me, so long as I have enough components on hand.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
You are more than the magic.

Great. Then you're becoming a worse monster than him. THERE NEEDS TO BE A LINE, THEO.

[She raises her head, meeting his eyes unyielding. Just what is she planning?]

I'm not going to let you destroy yourself. The man I'm looking at right now is nothing and it's a waste to let a shell have this magic.

I'm going to take it from you.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Psh. Your magic is so Hermetic in nature. Granted, when all the pieces are there, it's amazing, but still clunky.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
Like hell you will!

[Zombies, which had stopped and stood silently behind their master, step forward now, ready to strike if need be. Normally he would have done it by now. But there's hesitation here.]

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
It takes a lot of fucking work, but it's worth it.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I know. Remember, I'm from a place where humans aren't even supposed to be able to use magic, much less be able to rival youkai. I totally get the whole hard work thing.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:55 am (UTC)(link)
[Zombies don't fly, but witches do! Marisa flies up into the air out of reach if the zombies and stood on her broom, arms crossed. Her expression was hard as a rain of danmaku comes down to take out the zombies.]

You can't stop me, Theo. If you want to keep it, you'll go home now and leave the zombies be. Put them to rest and go home.

[identity profile] downtoearthpony.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
If you mean Ah'll let you make zombies beat each other up, then yes, Ah'll let you be. Just as long as you don't go about harming anybody Ah guess you can have your fun...

Ah know where most of mah friends live so it shouldn't take long to check on them. What about you, anybody you want to check on as we go?

[identity profile] weiss-tank.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
Look, if it's that damn inconvenient, don't do it. And I wasn't lecturing you. You would have known if it was a lecture!

[Ken however is only mildly miffed about this, after all, Theo is doing what he wanted.]

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[Afraid she might actually turn on him (paranoia is a lovely thing), Theo puts up an invisible force field with a quick spell. He looks around to see the zombies being decimated, still scowling.]

Goddamnit. This isn't fair!

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Shut up.

[He keeps working. As he does so, the zombie in the nearby area stop their search for food, their expressions going blank, making them look more like the zombie hordes in movies and fiction. He stops, debating whether or not to turn the spell and use them, or continue on destroying them. He stands, lighting up a cigarette as he watches them, thinking.]

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Then how did you manage it? Magic where I'm from seems to only be for those who can afford to study it. My broke ass had to work like mad just to get the basics down.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sure anyone I know is fine. Let's just go so I can get back to what I was doing.

[Time to stagger after Applejack while zombies seem to keep a fair distance. He's quiet as he concentrates on the spell to do this.]

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 04:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[She rolls her eyes at that force field.]

What's not fair? That someone is putting people zombified to rest instead of playing with them like rag dolls?

I told you; you can't stop me. Go home, Theo. I can do this all day.

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
I had a teacher that didn't care about my well-being and I had a certain level of vengeance driving me. And then I just wanted to be better than Reimu. Nothing's impossible, ze. You just gotta do it.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 08:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Who's Reimu?

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 08:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Best friend. But don't tell her I said that if she ever ends up here.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Fine! Jesus Christ...

[And he won't try to stop her. Partially guilty conscious, partially that he's too drunk to walk in a straight line, partially the fact that he knows he doesn't have the energy to keep up with her right now. One or two more big spells and he'd be unconscious. But he's not leaving - he's going to stay right there.]

[identity profile] adropofjupiter.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 08:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[In a few minutes, all the visible zombies are destroyed. Marisa then goes back to staring at Theo with her arms crossed.]

I told you to go back to your house. Go.

[identity profile] weiss-tank.livejournal.com 2011-09-26 08:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmf, sorry. [Ken believes that Theo just needed the quiet to work, though he will speak up again when Theo pauses]

Hey...question.

[identity profile] sanctusdei.livejournal.com 2011-09-27 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Theo hates losing. HATES it. And that's what he considers this to be - a huge loss.]

Haven't you had enough of telling me what to do?

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