(let it be known I actually tried hitting a coin with a knife to see how hard it was. I managed to hit it, but nearly broke a lamp in the process.)
...Have Piecewise toss a coin to us and try to bat it out of the air with a knife.
Hey, let's test all of our undead bodies, while we're at it.
+1
+1
I forgot all about that, I feel dumb now.
We should investigate that place Piecewise found. Maybe it holds info on why we exist or at least what Alex was doing for the government and where he is now. It probably also has information the resistance will find useful, like some new technology or secret weapon they've developed.
+1
+1
+1
+1
You take the knife from piecewise and set up the test again, but this time with the coin coming your way. You do this a good dozen or so times and quickly discover that you are not some sort of impossibly skilled undead superman. You miss the first few throws and then manage to hit one, but only with your hand. You continue like this, missing most attempts, before stopping to consider things. You think about how you control or otherwise manage the actions of the other undead and try to apply it to yourself. You don't strike at the coin using the instinctual and innate control you have over your body, instead you order your body to act as a conscious action, as though it was separate from yourself. When you do this your body moves not unlike the other undead; with precision and speed beyond what you can consciously bring out. Its a very odd feeling; your body seems to move of its own accord and yet not, as though it were simply operating on its base level mechanical capacities unhindered by indecision or analytical thinking.
Its an interesting discovery but you can already see one major flaw: while the actual act performed is very fast and precise, it requires you to sit there and consciously order your body. You can't "program" responses or string along a series of actions; like the servants it only seems to understand simple instructions and immediate actions. Any sort of actions with it are going to require a moment to "set up" and be slower to start or react with than normal actions.
As you do this, you tell Esme that you think the first thing you should investigate is that lab that Piecewise pointed out. Its really the best clue you have right now and the fact that piecewise pointed it out might mean that Alexander himself wanted you to look into it.
"A government lab won't be easy to gain access to, especially if it was one worthy of a high ranking member like Alexander." She says, watching you fumble a swing, "Infiltration would be easier than assault, I think, but to do that we'll need to get past who knows what kind of security. They probably have arcane tools to verify entrants or something along those lines. They'd take no chances."
She looks at the ground and taps one foot, squinting and tightening her jaw as she thinks.
"There is one way we might be able to get in...but keep in mind that I really don't know anything about the situation yet so..." She shrugs, "You're dead, we might as well use that trait to our advantage. I think we
Might be able to smuggle you in as cargo. I'll have to do some recon and gather info but a lab like that probably has regular shipments of supplies; if we can get you into one of the containers then you could probably get straight past security. Even if they scan it for stowaways, you'll just look like a corpse. If we're lucky they're already using bodies and you'll just be another in the pile."
She looks up.
"Unless of course you had planned to run in there, guns blazing. I wouldn't recommend it; in fact I wouldn't be involved. But if that's your play, I can at least give you some intel."
Author
Topic: The Left-Hand Path (Read 119362 times)