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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-13 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
[ He oofs as he makes his landing. His bruise and his graze and his BACK STAB... which is starting to hurt kinda big time actually. He could try to cauterise it using some of the fire and whatever, but... those guys be ROAMING ABOUT.

Well... he doesn't really want to do this actually, but he sighs.
]

Don't curse me again, okay?...

[ And a-digging he'll go... ]
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-13 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
[Great. Maybe it'll pour and he can wash some of the venom on the surface off.

And that snake's gone to hell.
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It's gone, so don't worry about it.

[Entering a clearing is risky, but he's racing against time more than before. The rainfall should help. Once he's looked around as much as he can in the darkness, he turns his hand around to hold the child's and makes for the building.]
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[HIS BACKSTAB... Maybe Kronk 3 was the one who launched that harpoon and he now feels guilty about it since the dude was clearly just trying to escape and definitely not trying to steal the bodies of these fugitives.

Anyway yeah those guys do be roaming about. They seem to have managed to get the fire under control, at least, though they're still battling it for custody of their fence. They have lost the battle for their watchtower... Tragic.

But! Aikawa a-digs! The dirt is mercifully still soft, and maybe that corresponds with the number on this person's piece of wood: 1. It looks like the grave isn't that old. Maybe a day or so at most.

He doesn't even have to dig six feet down because these are people who have no respect given to them! After digging about three and a half feet, Aikawa's shovel will hit something that's firmer and more solid than dirt, but still pretty soft.]
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
[Who knows! Also wow don't just send this poor snake to hell IT'S DOING ITS BEST.

The child is, at least, fast like he had claimed. Light on his feet, too. Sieghart won't find him a cumbersome extra to take along, though he will find that the pain at the site of the bite wound is slowly heating up the skin there, and that warmth is spreading slowly but notably in all directions radiating from the bite.

As he heads to the building, he'll find that this one has guards at what seems like the only door. There's a pile of logs stacked up near one of the walls, and several large windows that cast dim light, indicating there's activity inside. A bit further off in the distance, there are what appear to be gallows, set at rest for the time being. There's a pile of something draped in white fabric off to the side of them. Across the clearing, there's more forest, though it appears a little less dense than the side they just came from.]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-13 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well I guess Kronk 3 has a reason to go back on that and justify his stabbing of a random supposedly-civilian whenever he comes around and sees some dug up graves. That being said that's actually somewhat nice of them to actually bury these bodies, Aikawa would have expected them to be thrown into a hole or burned or something... because that's what the Hole Militia did once upon a time. It was a whole thing.

And STOP HE WAS TRYING NOT TO HIT BODY but he is not very practiced at digging graves. That being said, now that that's happened, he'll drop the shovel and start using his hands. Alright, let's see this body, hopefully not too rotten or creepily rigid post-mortem...
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Kronk 3 will just stare into the middle distance and maybe consider quitting his job, perhaps with Kronk 2, as neither of them get paid enough for this.

Anyway as i aki stare at this sentence going WHAT for the 50th time about this wholeass canon, Aikawa HITS THE BODY BUT LIKE LIGHTLY it's fine. He can use his hands to clear the dirt away! The body is:

1) Wearing very familiar clothing on a very familiar frame; it's definitely Risu, in the outfit that comes to mind first when Aikawa thinks of him.
2) In a surprisingly good state for having been in the ground for probably about a day, and likely dead for longer than that. Actually, it's a little uncanny? Though any of the exposed flesh is cool to the touch, it still has the sort of softness that a regular, living person would have. The limbs don't seem to be locked up, either. It's like it could just get up and start moving again, with the exception of its neck. Oh, yeah--
3) It's missing its head.

Despite how lifelike it looks, it does reek to the high heavens, though. As soon as it's unearthed, the stench of putrification wafts from it, and especially from its neck, which appears to be the only part of the body that's festering.]
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-13 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[Sieghart, who died from poison before, curses the snake to hell again as he walks through the throbbing heat blooming around his foot and leg.

He moves away from the guards and up to the windows, where he positions himself between them in order to steal a glance into one. The initial plan was to avoid encounters; if he can't get anything out of this much, he might just move on without nosing around . . .
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
[oh yeah i forgot about that. funnee

Sieghart might very well decide it's best to move on in this case, then. Through the window he's currently looking through, he'll be able to see into one room within the building. It's definitely got people in there! There are two armed soldiers, one sitting at a desk and writing paperwork and the other smoking by the door. They both seem either enthralled in their work or pretty damn bored, respectively; neither is particularly on guard.]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-13 05:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ IN OUR EDO PERIOD JAPAN, HERE IS A CORPSE WEARING A SLEEVELESS JUMPSUIT WITH HUGE METAL STAKES ON ITS ARMS/LEGS... you idiot Risu how could you die like that. ]

Ugh --

[ Go figure it'd be like this. HIS HEADLESS RISU TRAUMA BABY!! His head pounds, flashes of memory of a rotten body bag, inside of it a headless body of a giant. He immediately goes a little pale and starts sweating, the back of his head screaming panic because someone -- someone has seen this before, and it's his own fucking fault, he deserves to suffer -- ]

Shut up...!

[ But not now. He smacks himself in the head with the ball of his palm, trying to focus. Breathing slow, even if it's rancid, sickening air.

Curse isn't here with him. Right now, it's not the corpse of a target, and it's not Curse. It's his best goddamn friend. Wiping his face with the sleeve of his fancy outfit, he looks down at Risu's body and wheezes out a faint breath... and then focuses on Kondo's grave next. He has to probably take them to Tama, he wagers...? But there's no way he'll be able to take both of those with him.

He puts the thought aside for now. Focus on the task.
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-13 05:30 am (UTC)(link)
[Poison, his toxic girlfriend.

The soldiers don't appear familiar enough to warrant staying. Sieghart pulls back before he can be seen, considers the base's importance, then gives the child's hand a light tug before he goes to round a corner away from the guards. It's time to quit this place.
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 05:48 am (UTC)(link)
[HE JUST KEEPS GETTING POISONED...

The child lets himself be tugged along, keeping pace with Sieghart just fine. Sieghart will find that if he puts too much weight onto his bitten leg, he'll feel a jolt of pain in the area of the bite, but there doesn't seem to be any other effects just yet.

He turns the corner away from the guards, and the rain begins to pick up its fall. The gallows still lie to the side, and the rest of the windows remain in various stages of lit, showing activity from within in all but one. The slightly sparser forest lies ahead. Where does he nyoom?]
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
[everyone as they execute this guy, averting their eyes: fashion gets kind of weird huh......

But here's your headless horseman!! Wowee. Risu's body remains in its grave as Aikawa heads over to Kondo's. There's a similar marker here: the number 1, set at the foot of the dirt mound. If he digs, he'll find the dirt similarly soft. If he doesn't stop before about three and a half feet, he'll end up hitting what feels like a second body, though he can probably accurately guess the distance now that he's done some digging.

Presuming Kondo's grave gets the same treatment as Risu's and he paws the dirt off, he'll find:

1) Another headless body! Yeehaw!
2) This one is just wearing a fundoshi, stripping it of any identifiable features by clothing.
3) It's also in the state of decay that one would expect of a body that's been in the ground for a day or so and dead for another couple. The skin is discolored and feels loose in some parts. The limbs are no longer locked up with rigor mortis, moving around fluidly but with the weight of the dead. The dirt and the body both smell like decomposition.

Now he's got... two bodies! Ha ha ha!]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-13 05:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ Are you telling me this body is naked. ]
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Yeah!

The fundoshi is there so like not entirely but. Functionally, yeah! That's a naked rotting body in the ground. Maybe he should try to loot it.]
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-13 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
[The best thing he can do for his leg is to immobilize it; however, that is decidedly unwise for the overall situation. He has Kondo's head in one hand and a child in the other. What's he going to do at the gallows, retrieve a body? No, he's going to the slightly sparser forest and avoid becoming a drowned rat.]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-13 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well anyway that's fucking great. Given the nature of CYOAs, he has a feeling he's meant to probably take this body... with him...? But he can't very well just leave Risu's body out here to keep rotting. Sure, it must not be real, it's a figment of imagination, Risu isn't even here now that everyone in the graveyard knows that he's not his hostage... but he just can't, not really. ]

Hell.

[ He's in fucking hell. Well he's just going to have to hoist this dead body up, trusting that it's the correct one since the map labeled it as Kondo Isami. This one feels arguably worse and probably more important to his current objectives, so he will carry this one, even though it sucks to have to. As for Risu... well, he feels kinda bad but he's just gonna grab him by the back of his collar and start taking him with him, back into the woods and off the execution grounds at the least. Risu is actually 70 pounds less than Aikawa.

And from the woods, peeping at the Kronk Squad........... what they do. Can they fuck off so he can keep walking yet?
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
[Who knows what's over by the gallows! Sieghart doesn't and will never know now as he heads out toward the forest. The contents of this base remain a mystery.

The child tightens his grip on Sieghart's hand as they walk. The forest on this side is significantly less dense, which means that even though someone here didn't free up his kid-holding hand to take a lantern and thus still can't see well, he'll likely trip on less vegetation because there is simply less to trip on.

After a little while of walking without incident, though, he'll be able to pick up on two separate sounds. Up ahead, it seems there's the sound of some sort of running water. To the side, there's the crack of some branches out in the distance.

The child looks up at him with fear in his big ol' eyes, which dart off toward the foliage.]


Did you hear that...?
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
[This mans is so sentimental help...

Well! He lugs up Kondo Isami(?)'s body, and while Kondo is quite a large dude in his own canon, he is nowhere near sizeable compared to Aikawa. He'll have no trouble hefting the corpse up, though he will have to worry about the nastiness of its skin slip-slidin' loosely and threatening to tear in places. There's also the matter of the decomposition liquid dripping from its neck, as a leaky corpse do.

Risu's body feels like dead weight despite the fact that it looks to be in such good condition, but Aikawa can drag it easily enough. Away he goes, into the woods! The Kronk Squad do still be buzzing about their burnt hive - though now that he's entered the forest on that side of the burial grounds, if he looks around the foliage a bit, he'll find a large, dark shape leaning up against a tree nearby. There also seems to be something of a footpath in this direction.]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-13 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[ HIS NASTINESS IS WHY HE'S HOLDING HIM, he figured if he dragged Isami's body then it's gonna rip up and stuff which he thinks will probably not be very good. Unfortunately unlike in his world, he will not bank on there being someone with healing/regenerative powers, who can completely fix up the most screwed of corpses.

Bleeeeegh. Just because he's kind of used to the stench and viscera of bodies doesn't mean it's actually pleasant. He really, seriously wishes he had his normal mask right now. Pausing to put on the okina mask over his face like that'll help at all (maybe it will in spirit at least), which probably makes him look like an absolutely terrifying thing to anyone who happens to see him (A SEVEN FOOT CREEPY GRINNING GRANDPA WITH TWO HEADLESS CORPSES?) but like whatever.

Between two bodies and his injuries really settling in, he'll be slow, but... it'll do. What be this large dark shape, he'll pause to squint at it hopefully with the illumination of background firelight before moving on.
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-13 06:20 am (UTC)(link)
[It wouldn't have been safe to signal their presence with a light, no matter how dim, anyway!

After the incident with the snake, it's probably better that he just make a beeline for the water source. But the child actually speaks up, and that gives him enough pause to stare off into the same spot.

Tch. If it isn't one thing, it's another. Putting himself in the front, he steps cautiously to the side.
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
[He's so mindful of this corpse's skin that's just barely holding on... ALSO YEAH WOW. WHAT A HORRORSHOW. Imagine if a kid just appeared out of nowhere and wandered across his path, can you imagine the 1880s version of therapy they'd have to go through.

Anyway, as he takes a look, he'll discover that the dark shape is... a wheelbarrow! It's set up so that it's mostly obscured from view if you were to look into the forest from outside of it, but not so well-hidden that someone in the forest wouldn't see it. Someone's got friends on the other side. It looks big enough to fit a body if it's fetal position'd a bit, but maybe Aikawa can try his luck with some jenga-ing.]
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Another snake pops out of a nearby bush and bites Sieg's other leg.]
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[personal profile] illomened 2022-07-13 06:31 am (UTC)(link)
[Nah just kidding. Whatever's coming their way is apparently 1) lorge and also 2) fast, because what sounded like some distant cracking of branches mere seconds ago is rapidly turning into the sort of sound that indicates a Large Thing Is Barreling In Their Direction And Will Get There Extremely Soon. Um. HM!!!

The child does not seem to like this at all and starts to panic, clutching at Sieghart like SHIT WHAT NOW.]
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[personal profile] decaptych 2022-07-13 06:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ Did you mean: internalise it and/or tell it to your children where it will be remembered as a ye olde folk tale of horrors in the woods? Because yes.

Wow thank you, you are being so nice to him. How fortunate for him. He'll put Risu's in it because Risu is bigger. Take a rest on the grass Deadzo Isami while he finagles Risu a bit. He'll probably stick out of it a little bit but you know what... you know what... it's fine...

And then once again, he'll just have to sorta jenga this bullshit, maybe lowkey use the obi to tie Kondo's body to him so he can better use his hands for this wheelbarrow, god help him. He starts astral projecting a little bit in the midst of this at how much effort he's putting into this and he doesn't even know what's gonna happen in Tama.

Okay. Down the footpath!!
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[personal profile] ercnerd 2022-07-13 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
[What now? They do what they should've done ten seconds ago: go to the water. The child is supposed to be fast, so Sieghart breaks into a run while keeping track of their relative position to the barreling thing by the sound of snapping branches, because he isn't keen on just standing there and taking what's coming in the face.]

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