mayfield_rpg | dfu (2) - status effect = zombie

[The experiments on Rikku at the factory included the unfortunate side effect of death. She's a stalwart girl, yes, but even the most stalwart can only survive so long with surgical tools tearing at her intestines and causing internal bleeding. Her death certificate was practically signed before she left the factory, and she only survived for a few hours after being released from it.

But that's okay, because she's back! Sure, she's not in the best condition, but she's alive again!

Kind of.

If you ignore the fact that she has no heartbeat, or that her body temperature is incredibly low, or that her blood is a congealed pseudo-solid, or that her right hand (stitched to her left wrist) is starting to fall off, or that a scalpel seems to be poking out from her lower abdomen, or that she looks like she's still dead... it's like she's good as new!]

[Action A: Around Town]

[Despite being little better than a reanimated corpse (and after she has a few hours to freak out over her current state of being), Rikku's wandering around town to check on people. Friends and family get highest priority, of course, but if she sees someone in need of assistance she'll approach and try to help.

Rikku is the cheeriest zombie. Or, at least, she's doing her best to be. There's no sense in wasting time bemoaning her state, right?]

[Action B: 918 Bilko Boulevard, locked to sara_mudou]

[Rikku's banging on Sara's front door with the stump of her left wrist, her hand having been lost somewhere along the way. She's heard the phone announcement that they're allowed to blow things up now, and she really really wants to take advantage. It serves them right for putting them through all of this, and maybe they can get something accomplished!

Unfortunately, possessing one backward-and-barely-operational hand means she can't mix the ingredients herself, so she needs a friend. Besides, Sara was such a wreck last time she saw her, so she wants to see if the girl is doing any better.]

Sara! Sara, hey! Open up! We have things to blow up!

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[Son Gohan has been wandering around the town as well, just taking things in and attempting to get more of a feel for the area. The second he sees Rikku, he'll wave at her.]

Hey! Rikku! What's go...

[He stops and gives her a once-over.]

Uh, are you feeling OK? You're looking a little...uh, under the weather.

I think I'm still dead.

[She wishes she were kidding.]

But I'm up and moving, so I don't know. I'd say that I'm Unsent, but... I don't think it works like this, and I don't really have any kind of reason to stick around this place.

Huh.

[Gohan moves closer to Rikku and pokes at her arm lightly.]

That's...well, that's something really weird. From where I'm from, even if you're dead and back on the planet, you just look like you were in life, not...well, like a zombie. Uh, no offense.

[Rikku barely feels the poking, which causes her to poke at herself in turn.]

Where I'm from, most people who die and are still around become fiends. So I guess this is better than that? I'm still me, I'm just... dead.

Well, as long as you're still you, I guess that's the most important thing, isn't it?

[He gets a horrified expression on his face]

You...you don't have an insatiable hunger for brains, do you?

Yeah, I guess.

[Rikku stares at him after that last question, her head tilting slightly to the side.]

Why would I be hungry for brains?

[Gohan thinks for a moment for the best way to explain it.]

My little brother used to like to watch movies about things that look, well, kind of like you. They seemed to like eating human brains, and it scared him a lot. [He pauses, and smirks a little bit.] His best friend always told him he'd have nothing to worry about from them.

That sounds kind of dumb. Dead people can't eat anything, as far as I know.

[She thinks. Unsent are different than just being flat-out dead, right?]

I'm just not hungry at all. I don't feel much of anything.

Yeah, most of those movies are. I've never been a fan of scary movies, in all honesty.

[Gohan just nods and gives her a once-over again.]

Huh. That can't be pleasant. Not even this?

[Should she allow it, Gohan will poke her shoulder again.]

That's...just weird. Kinda cool, but weird.

I feel it, but just barely. It's weird. I don't think I like it.

[Gohan nods a bit.]

Well, with any luck, it's only temporary. I mean, they got that machine working again, right?

Did they? Then I guess I should be getting better soon.

[She looks down at her hands.]

Maybe switch my hands back like they're supposed to be.

Yeah. I think I heard someone mention that, anyway. I'm still trying to figure most things out around here, anyway.

[He glances down at her hands.]

Huh, I've heard of two left feet before, but nothing like this. Uh...sorry for the bad joke.

[The pounding noise, combined with her continuing hallucinations, make Sara jump in terror. The demons...! They've come for her again.

No... No. That's Rikku's voice. It's not a demon. She tells herself that, over and over again, and forces herself to go to the door. When she opens it, she realizes just what Rikku is yelling, and for a moment, Sara almost seems like herself again.]

Blow things up?! Are you crazy? We can't do that!

Sure we can! They said we could, so we should!

[The soundest of logic.]

I just need hands. One of mine fell off.

[Kono's still stuck in her pond, feeling worse than ever. She thinks she's hallucinating when she sees a zombie stumble toward her slowly. Then again, it's Mayfield, so she can't be sure.

It's not until the zombie has lumbered closer that she realizes it's Rikku. Obviously she's been experimented on, and really looks a mess.

Kono can't manage more than a blink at Rikku's state, even though internally it's horrific.]

Rikku, what happened?

I died.

[She gives Kono a rather plaintive wave in greeting, the movement causing enough stress on the stitching that's just barely holding her right hand to her left wrist that the hand comes off. It lands in the pond with a pathetic plop.]

People who die are supposed to stay dead. I know that Unsent usually become fiends, but... I don't think it's like this.

[Kono stares at the hand as it sinks in the pond. She scoops it back out and holds it up to Rikku. She's so out of it herself, it might as well be a zombie-to-zombie discussion.]

You dropped this.

[Slowly, Kono processes what she said.]

You're a zombie. Just don't eat me, I'll probably make you sick.

Thanks. [Rikku takes the hand back and stares at it. She has no means of reattaching it, so she really can't do anything other than hold onto it. Except that's creepy and kind of gross, so she quickly sets it aside.]

Why do people keep acting like I'm going to eat them? I'm not really hungry at all.

Zombies eat people. They were here. A while ago.

You seem happy for a zombie.

Oh. I don't think I'm a zombie, then. I'm just dead.

[That's really unpleasant to say.]

I'm not happy, but... there's no point in just standing around being miserable about it, either.

A happy dead not-zombie.

[Kono blinks at Rikku slowly. Even if she was thinking clearly, that would take some time to process.

She looks over to where Rikku's hand lies on the ground.]

Maybe you can sew it? It might not hurt. Do you hurt?

I can't make my hand work well enough to do that. [She wiggles her fingers on her still-attached hand. It's on the wrong wrist.]

But it doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts--I barely feel anything at all.

[Frown.]

At least it doesn't hurt.

Mayfield could still fix you. If they fix the revival machine. Then you'll get your hand back, it'll be fine.

[Kono's still holding on to this hope herself, since being stuck in a pond for all eternity feeling like crap is a sucky fate.]

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