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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jkason" data-source="post: 2643196" data-attributes="member: 2710">Ru finds his patience wearing thin. Between the priest and the librarian, he's had quite enough of people talking down at him. Perhaps it's part of that street rat pride he's been carrying from his youth, but all of this 'you're too simple' talk has struck the wrong nerve. Ru crosses to the goblin."Last night, I killed a member of the Killi-Kelli-hek. I smashed his skull open, and he fell, only to rise again." Now Ru takes a step closer, pointing out his blows on the goblins own body, never breaking eye contact as he continues. "I broke his jaw off its hinge, smashed first his right kneecap, then his left. I remember the crunch of his spine, the twisting of his neck backwards. He was little more than a broken pile of flesh. And he kept moving. My men did the same to three other Killi-kelli-hek, to the same result."We threw one of them into the river, weighted down such that he should never have returned. He dragged himself out of the scummy water." Again, coldly, Ru uses the goblin as a model for all the physical punishment he can exert, though he never touches him. "I smashed his nose in. His leg bones were shards. I collapsed first his left ribcage, then his right. The only thing on his body that was not shattered and gore-ridden were his fingers, and he still used those to try to drag himself after me."Later still, I watched two men gut each other, fall, rise, then gut each other again. And again. And again. Three separate areas of the city. No other people in attendance. This time, I had a high view of the scene. No one touched the bodies. No strange materials or smells that I could detect. Just two men killing each other over and over and over again."Here Ru backs away. Remembering the events in such detail is draining, slightly frightening even as he tries to use them as an implicit threat. Ru opens his palms to the ceiling and shrugs, out of details and options."If this is necromancy, it's on an order I've never heard whispered about. If you know the necros who can manage it, spreading their magic out over three districts of Metropolis at the least, raising men without having to even take an active hand in the process, then please, point me to them, and give me what I need to stop them from doing it again."</blockquote>

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