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ᴡɪʟʟɪᴀᴍ ʜᴇʀᴏɴᴅᴀʟᴇ. ([personal profile] feigns) wrote2011-06-15 02:10 pm

► two → video/action。

[When the video first clicks on, all that's visible is Will's face and the top of his shoulders. The feed shifts slightly, and from the angle it's being held at, it would be reasonable to assume he's led down, and even more reasonable -- from the slight squint and the admittedly somewhat dirty red bricks visible in one corner of the screen -- to think that he's outside and on a wall. After a moment, he appears satisfied that the device is, in fact, turned on, and places it somewhat clumsily behind his head, slightly further along the wall.]

I assume if this were normal, it would have been mentioned somewhere in between the rampaging wooden animals and the impromptu, temporary marriages ― perhaps just after cats, but before the clones. I shan't complain, though I feel as if I ought to be speaking of― [he pauses for a moment, waving a hand vaguely and briefly adopting something approaching a passable West Country accent]thic faraway lands, visited only by a daring, and arguably foolish, few on gurt maggoty ships.

[He sits up suddenly, and turns round to study his device; he looks cheerful, albeit slightly grubby and fairly nonplussed by the situation as a whole, although it soon fades into poorly concealed irritation.]

Perhaps Bristol's only up the road, or Teignmouth to the west and Torquay just below that. I suppose we shan't ever know; in a few hours more, we'll be somewhere and somewhen else entirely, taking part in a wholly ridiculous scavenger hunt. Why would it be as simple as playing along in what amounts to a bastardised children's game?

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I think I'd go with vampire too if only because brains seem yuck... probably texture yuck too. Blood, I could probably get used to if I had to.

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
True. We do what we have to do to survive, I guess.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
It tends to be instinctive. Competence is another matter, of course.

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 07:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think there's a movie in the world that's ever portrayed zombies as competent. So you definitely have a point.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mm, delicious incomprehension. Cue a somewhat baffled look, Jill.] Movie?

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 07:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh... uhm... you've never been to the movies? Or maybe DVD on TV? Television?

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[He scowls, more in irritation at not knowing what she's talking about than anything else, but irritation nevertheless.] No. I should imagine that's 'after my time'.

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[She doesn't react to the scowl very well, quickly averting her gaze away and stammering a bit over her words.]

Oh. Well it's l-like... okay a theatre stage play but... but all digital so it can be b-broadcast to everyone through technological advances. Imagine Romeo & Juliet performed on... on like... this device the way you're seeing me and I'm... seeing you.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 07:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's a touch surprised by her reaction, but he doesn't bother to apologise, instead opting to draw his legs up on the wall and sit cross-legged.]

Moving pictures, then. A descendant of the magic lantern.

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes. I think.

[She thinks about asking what he means by magic lantern but decides against it. Instead, drawing a deep breath and glancing back up into the video.]

So... so there have been tons of moving pictures made about zombies and they're almost always portrayed as the bumbling idiots who want to eat brains.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 07:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[He hmms softly, more to himself than to her.]

They don't exist in your world, then. [A beat.] They weren't described like that in folklore, or the religious practises they came from.

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 07:34 pm (UTC)(link)
No, it's all make-believe and camp fire stories. The boogeyman under the bed and hiding in the dark. That would all go back to that imagination thing we mentioned earlier.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Have you ever entertained thoughts of being eaten?

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I've thought about it before. I think it would be very painful... and bloody. But then again depending on where they start eating you it could go very quickly as well. My imagination can be best described as overactive.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
And whether you're alive when they start to eat you, or if they sever the limbs first.

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah that whole severing of limbs thing, I've considered that too. I think I'd rather be awake, see it coming rather than be clueless to what's happening.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
You're rather morbid, aren't you? They could always kill you before dismembering you and eating the pieces. I shouldn't have thought the how would matter; you'd be dead either way.

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-15 09:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. Yeah, I can be pretty morbid. The how is what makes it interesting. Dead is just dead.

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Sure it is. We're all so fragile. It doesn't take much to get to death, and yet... in the natural state of things it can take a whole lot.

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[identity profile] bitesvampires.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
If that's how you want to look at it.

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 01:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure what you mean by that. I'm sorry.

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[identity profile] sempreadagio.livejournal.com 2011-06-16 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, then you can say your opinion. I'd like to hear it.

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