ataraxion | 03 ( voice, filtered to medical and security ) ✂ I CAN'T THINK OF ANY BAD PUNS TODAY

[ This is backdated to what may or may not be, depending on your character's sleep patterns, ass-o'clock of the early morning! If it is and this broadcast wakes them up, well. Whoops. ]

The body's gone.

[ It's a man's voice, quiet but more shocked than afraid. The medbabes this is filtered to will probably recognize it! Security, maybe not so much. SURELY THIS AUDIO FORMAT IS THE PRODUCT OF HOW DEEPLY DISTURBED THIS GUY IS. SURELY HE CANNOT TRUST HIS OWN ABILITY TO BE ON CAMERA, HAVING WITNESSED SOMETHING SO UNSETTLING. ]

That's not really specific, it it? Given the circumstances. [ Inhale, exhale. The hysterical edge that was just creeping into his voice gets tamped down again. ] Sorry. The pirate that snuck in here and died a week ago -- Medical, you know who I mean -- he's gone. I just got here to start shift and there was blood outside the morgue, on the floor... I thought someone might be in there, they might need help. Turns out the problem's the exact opposite.

Everything else is still in place. The tag's here -- left it right on the tray. And that's it. I don't know if -- if somebody with clearance took it or what, but the blood looks pretty fresh, and there's... I think some of these might be footprints.

So -- figured one of you might want to hear about it before whoever comes in next, looking for aspirin. I can switch to video if anyone wants, but I'm not touching anything. [ He gives one of those ambiguous short exhales that could be either a sigh or a snort. ] You know, maybe this is just me, but I'm pretty sure this was old the last time it happened.

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[ His ~~not~~ big brother, ladies and gentlemen. ]

A dead man?

You're sure he was a dead man?

Right now I'm not 100% on anything, but -- if he wasn't, it was a very convincing impression. The man was pronounced dead.

We need to find him.

[And burn the body.]

How much blood?

Dead rise pretty easy if a vampire grabs 'em. And I know I saw bites on some of the bodies, just saying.

...the dead dude, he have any?

[ Whatever gets you off, man!! ]

We as in Security? [ quickly added: ] Sorry, dumb question. This is just...

Yes, Security.

He may have been taken, or-

In my world, there is a manner of riser known as a wight.

It would be very bad.

Yeah, the racist zombies. You told me.

...shit, I could take one of those things. Kinda hoping for it now.

Dead bodies don't tend to walk away.

Kinda loaded question. It might be easier to show than tell, if you're okay with it.

I'm not squeamish.

We'll send someone to look.
Have any of the other bodies been disturbed?

[ in a way lower tone than anything else in this comment: ] Shit. Nnnnot to my knowledge, but I wasn't actually around the guy much -- you'd have to ask someone else in the department. He was in pretty nasty shape when he showed up, but.

"Tend" seems like the operative word -- not that I'm hoping for the walking dead over here, don't get me wrong. But it's not the first time something like this has happened.

This sentence doesn't have a good ending, does it.

Didn't check that thoroughly but not so far as i can tell. No other cell doors opened or damaged. And the blood leads straight out the door, pretty much. Looks like whoever it was didn't want to stick around.
And neither do i, no offense, but i don't want to contaminate anything on my way out. Is there an operating procedure for this kind of thing?

[ BOOM, CAMERA. He is, in fact, still in the morgue, so everything has that eerie holy-shit-this-lighting-is-terrible cast to it and the blood which he pans over looks more black than anything else, but it's still visible! The footprints are very fragmentary and the path they take weaves, but that along with other motley bloodspatter traces out a pretty clear path to the morgue door. Which has a long bloody smear on it, similar to (but more obvious than) the one on the morgue cell door he started this video feed on. ]

It's actually worse outside, if you can believe it. But that might just be the lighting.

[He's quiet a moment, studying it - then he asks, abruptly - ]

So why was this man still alive?

[ okay, most security people might not recognize that voice but this guy does!!! and he doesn't believe that shocked tone of voice. kazama's going to speak at a very unimpressed, quiet deadpan. ]

... thought you'd be calmer.

He was not.

[Says the voice of experience, who knows exactly how much blood a human being can do without before dying.]

[A frown.]

That much blood isn't shed after death. Without a pulse, it doesn't flow. Without flow, it doesn't spill. A living human gives off a river; a corpse gives off a trickle. Look at that image; that wasn't a trickle.

Your logic is not unsound, but I can also tell you that I have no pulse, yet my blood will flow freely if I am cut. And I can tell you too that no human lost that much blood and walked from that room still living.

Oh, I am not remotely proposing he walked, sir.

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