Too Busy To Hate

Daisy's Story

June 14, 2012 16:18

Daisy will start going around near the university to cemeteries there. She’d listen for the restlessness and gossip of the dead.

The closest cemetery is Decatur Cemetery, about a mile from the main campus. It’s large, covering 54 acres, and beautifully landscaped. Some of the locals even walk their dogs here, and Daisy can find those little poles with dog bag dispensers on them dotting the cemetery grounds.

There are also several employees who patrol and caretake the grounds, so it’s hard to sit down and perform rituals to really have a good conversation with the dead without a plan. However, Daisy’s natural ectomantic talents allow here to get a sense that there’s certainly SOMETHING that’s got the local dead all worked up. There’s a lot of unfocused discussion and talking over each other — the dead equivalent of a stressful cocktail party.

Then she’d come at night at some point (even though it’s against the rules) and attempt to find an area like near the groundskeepers shed to perform her ritual.

Daisy manages to find an area that’s a little secluded, away from the roads and with a bit of overhang from a nearby mausoleum. She sneaks in at night, sets up camp there, and watches for a while to see if anyone shows up. It seems she’s going to be undisturbed long enough to cast her ritual.

She draws a circle on the ground using salt and starts chanting in modified Greek, calling the dead to her. After a few moments, they start to appear, drawn to the circle.

At least, most of them show up. They look like men who have worked in the world’s most unsafe factory. Hands and arms are missing, Knees are completely vacant. Holes appears in sides, and one looks like a high-caliber weapon has taken off the side of her face. As they get closer, though, she notices that the missing pieces look like they’ve been CHEWED off.

They all speak over each other, in various versions of “help us” and “it hurts.”

Wow.. She will ask them what has caused them to become like this. What has been done to them?

Wow.. She will ask them what has caused them to become like this. What has been done to them?It’s hard to get through the gibberish, but eventually you find one shade of an elderly woman who appears stronger and more substantial than the others. She explains that a woman — a corpse, really — has walked through several times a week and scooped bits of their souls from them. She overheard one of the shades call her “Esmeralda,” and the corpse then ate her whole.

Wow.. She will ask them what has caused them to become like this. What has been done to them?It’s hard to get through the gibberish, but eventually you find one shade of an elderly woman who appears stronger and more substantial than the others. She explains that a woman — a corpse, really — has walked through several times a week and scooped bits of their souls from them. She overheard one of the shades call her “Esmeralda,” and the corpse then ate her whole.She instructs the elderly woman to hide from Esmerelda if she can. She asks if she can describe her so she may find her in the living world, or provide any things that might show her true face to Daisy. She thanks the woman for her help and says she will return to attempt to free and release the wounded if she can.

Wow.. She will ask them what has caused them to become like this. What has been done to them?It’s hard to get through the gibberish, but eventually you find one shade of an elderly woman who appears stronger and more substantial than the others. She explains that a woman — a corpse, really — has walked through several times a week and scooped bits of their souls from them. She overheard one of the shades call her “Esmeralda,” and the corpse then ate her whole.She instructs the elderly woman to hide from Esmerelda if she can. She asks if she can describe her so she may find her in the living world, or provide any things that might show her true face to Daisy. She thanks the woman for her help and says she will return to attempt to free and release the wounded if she can.They describe her as a woman who looks like a walking corpse. Her skin is blotchy and falling off, and her hair has completely fallen out. She probably shouldn’t be too hard to find.

Wow.. She will ask them what has caused them to become like this. What has been done to them?It’s hard to get through the gibberish, but eventually you find one shade of an elderly woman who appears stronger and more substantial than the others. She explains that a woman — a corpse, really — has walked through several times a week and scooped bits of their souls from them. She overheard one of the shades call her “Esmeralda,” and the corpse then ate her whole.She instructs the elderly woman to hide from Esmerelda if she can. She asks if she can describe her so she may find her in the living world, or provide any things that might show her true face to Daisy. She thanks the woman for her help and says she will return to attempt to free and release the wounded if she can.They describe her as a woman who looks like a walking corpse. Her skin is blotchy and falling off, and her hair has completely fallen out. She probably shouldn’t be too hard to find.She will attempt, if possible, to help some of the wounded dead find peace if she can, if not, she’ll come back to try to do it.

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