Necropolitan Gov't Agency Center of Information (Q&A)

[13 Necropolis 13]

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NECROPOLITAN GOV'T AGENCY CENTER FOR INFORMATION

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The Center for Information is a new branch within the Necropolitan Gov't Agency, specifically for international inquiries, for the purpose of improving the civic federal fascist government's outreach and international relations within the Omniverse. It is understood that international opinion with Necropolis is much maligned, and the Necropolitan Gov't Agency would like to amend that, and remove any confusion there might be regarding Necropolis and Necropolitan interests.

The Center for Information has access to a wide berth of knowledge on many subjects. Any individual or organization may submit a question at any point in time - responses will be given as soon as possible.

RULES
0. Rules are subject to change at any time, without warning.
1. Please separate OOC questions from IC questions. IC questions should be places within quotation makes, with a "signature" stating who is asking.
2. Questions can be about Necropolis itself, or the Bloodbath setting Necropolis exists in.
3. Please submit declarations of war in TGs, not here.
4. IC questions may be answered by any number of Necropolitan characters, whichever seems most appropriate to the inquiry.

[Leonberg]

The King of Brittany has chosen to TAG this post.

[Silver Commonwealth]

''So, I heard, that your country's system is federal fascism. It sounds a bit similar to our own system too. Anyways, I wanted to ask- why you exactly have such a big hate against mortals? I mean, I am a machine myself.''
Supercomputer Tom, the Eternal President of Silver Commonwealth

[13 Necropolis 13]

''So, I heard, that your country's system is federal fascism. It sounds a bit similar to our own system too. Anyways, I wanted to ask- why you exactly have such a big hate against mortals? I mean, I am a machine myself.''
Supercomputer Tom, the Eternal President of Silver Commonwealth

"A great question you have there! I suppose from the outside, the reasons why we do what we do could be easily confused or misunderstood. Indeed, it is a far more complex thing than most people would realize. Luckily for you, the information you are requesting is declassified. Strap yourself in, this is a very long story!

This goes back before Necropolis was officially known as Necropolis, and has its roots in Ancient Law and interdimensional politics, and also within the root of why Necropolis was founded. I'm sure you know that the Supreme Dictator is a divine entity, yes? A long time ago, hundreds of billions of years ago, the gods waged all kinds of war against one another, over even petty rivalries. Gods with larger military forces hence had significantly more power, and could push around those that didn't more easily. There were all kinds of divisions and rivalries between the gods. It hadn't quite reached full scale interdimensional warfare; most of the battles took place over two universes tops, but they were serious, and a lot of spirits were dying. It was terrible, okay? To make matters worse, these was a prophecy that was given... if the wars did get bad enough, it would bring about the complete and irrevocable destruction of everything.

The Supreme Dictator, at that point in time, didn't really have a big army. If anyone came by and came up with whatever casus belli they wanted, it wouldn't have ended well. And there was a very real possibility of that; the Supreme Dictator could be considered a major threat by any number of the nations of the gods, because the Supreme Dictator had a powerful weapon the Omniverse had never seen: a death blade. The original death blade, in fact. A weapon that can fell stars in one strike, and kill the gods. The weapon was powerful enough, that over time, the magics it held were copied in the millions by anyone who could. Countless such weapons exist now; each works a bit differently, but each one is among the most dangerous weapons in existence. With just the slightest cut anywhere, a death blade forcibly rips out its victim's soul, instantly killing them, and allowing the soul to be devoured by the wielder at a later time.

To address this problem, the Supreme Dictator worked along the deity of the Gualichu Clan of demons, to request the development of an army of spirits the likes the Omniverse had never seen before; an army of unquestionable, unfailing loyalty, and of power greater than the strongest demons. The Supreme Dictator eagerly awaited the creation of their unbeatable army, able to defend Purgatory from any and all threats. However, such an army is not what came about from the seeds the Supreme Dictator was given by the Gualichu Clan. The seeds created the first mortal lifeforms instead. They were barely even cells. The Supreme Dictator, in a fit of rage, hurled them into the void of the cosmos in the early days of Primus. However, by Ancient Law, these lifeforms still belonged to the Supreme Dictator. This is important, remember it.

Luckily for the state of the Omniverse, the gods were able to set aside their differences... for a time. They founded the Council of Divines, to help deal with the constant wars and prevent new ones. This worked for a while. But it did not take long for the gods to return to their old rivalries, just more subtly this time. And as they did that, the other divines cared little about it, completely self-absorbed. This angered the Supreme Dictator, who knew full well what would happen if no action was taken to prevent full scale interdimensional war. The Supreme Dictator made a few important deals, securing legal ownership of all of Primus. The Supreme Dictator then wrote the Necropolis Manifesto, declaring secession from the Council of Divines, and intent to use all of the energy of Primus, including that which is stored up in mortal life, to become something even more powerful than a deity, for the purpose of preventing future war by display of superior force. The Supreme Dictator founded Necropolis to aid in the harvest of Primus.

However, the harvest did not begin overnight. The Supreme Dictator has been patient, noticing that mortal life continues to evolve, and eventually began making tools. Mortal life had taken to war and politics, just as the gods had. Waiting for them to advance technologically enough to make the harvest easier, the Supreme Dictator kept an eye out, and recruited key mortals over time.

So, to answer your question: we don't hate mortal life. They're just stealing property of the Supreme Dictator is all - their souls, the molecules that make up their body, the food they eat, the fluids they drink, the air they breathe... all belong to the Supreme Dictator, in accordance with Ancient Law. And according to the deal with the Gualichu Clan od demons, mortal life still belongs to the Supreme Dictator. If the Supreme Dictator decides mortal life is more useful as something else, it is within their right. And that is what the Supreme Dictator has decided - mortal life, and all the matter and energy of this universe, is better suited to strengthening the Supreme Dictator's power, so as to prevent the destruction of the Omniverse through superior force. It's nothing person, there's just things way more important than mortal life, and they are in the way." - Eurynomos, Necropolitan Official

EDIT, OOC: You had to pick the one question that required me to go through most of the backstory of the setting in order to give a good answer. Of course you did. But this is not a bad thing. It helps us both; for you, it gives you a good answer that is above and beyond, and explores the complex reasons behind the decision. For me, it puts it out there how much more complex my nation is than some might realize, and how, despite being antagonists of the Bloodbath setting, they are not pure black & white, and do in fact have well meaning reasons behind their choices, no matter how obscure and esoteric, no matter how extreme or off-kilter they may be.

History is full of people who think they have the right answer, after all.

[Valentine Z]

OOC: Dang, that's a well thought-out and evaluative story! Very good stuff!

Anyway, actually, just an OOC one if you don't mind. How many puppets do you have?

[Eodor]

"Can anyone in the Necropolitan government actually die? I have been doing some...research into the undead and wish to know for perfectly legal and non-murderous reasons." - Duke Alastair

[13 Necropolis 13]

OOC: Dang, that's a well thought-out and evaluative story! Very good stuff!

Anyway, actually, just an OOC one if you don't mind. How many puppets do you have?

OOC:
Thank you! I appreciate it. It took a while to type.

Counting CTE'd ones... let's see... 10 right now, counting this one.

"Can anyone in the Necropolitan government actually die? I have been doing some...research into the undead and wish to know for perfectly legal and non-murderous reasons." - Duke Alastair

"As a matter of fact, yes. Most forms of undead work like any other spirit, and psychopomps, like me, are just one of the several kinds of spirits. This means it is very difficult to kill us, but definitely not impossible.

A spirit can manifest, creating a body for itself out of ectoplasm. This body allows them to interact with the physical world on a weak level, though the physical world still has trouble interacting with that body, outside of certain materials that are classified. Sorry! However, destroying that body does not actually harm the spirit in any way, the spirit is just no longer manifesting. Manifesting does take a good deal of power for a spirit though. Most Necropolitans are strong enough to do so, though.

Truly harming a spirit is far more difficult. Destroying a spirit's manifested bodies will usually just piss them off. However, there are ways. A spirit is made up of ethereal stuff, which carries energy which we measure in a unit called a 'mag'. This is the same stuff used to cast arcane magic. So in theory, forcing an arcane caster to overexert would kill them, and this applies just as much to spirits as it does to living casters. However, powerful spirits can have exponentially more mags than non-casters, and are intelligent enough to recognize such ploys. Additionally, there are ways of interacting with non-manifested spirits, though these are classified. Lastly, there are weapons capable of trapping the soul, called death blades. These instantly kill anything with a soul... and spirits are souls, so. But these weapons are unique. Getting your hands on one is definitely possible, but not easy, and it will paint a metaphorical target on your literal head.

I should warn you that killing spirits is a good way to piss of more spirits. Using this knowledge is not advisable. And it wouldn't be nice!" - Eurynomos, Necropolitan Official

OOC:

It is worth noting that in the stories I've written for the setting (not published... yet), which can be notorious for anyone can die, including narrators, and the body counts are very, very high, spirits tend to be some of the few characters that manage to reliably survive long enough to become recurring. Though even they aren't exempt from dying, they just die much less often and in far more dramatic ways because of how difficult they are to kill.

All of these deaths are admittedly, difficult to describe on NS without breaking NS PG-13 rules. The setting was admittedly made as somewhere between hard-R and NC-17 when it comes to the ultra-violence; comparable to works like Doom, Hotline Miami, and Manhunt, when it comes to that.

[Zitravgrad]

"It has come to our attention that the majority of your population are the undead kind. Now, we have the question that might be tricky. Do your population face the problems of decaying or bloating, as in cadavers? Without nutrients to sustain normal bodily functions, how do your population fare?"
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"One more question... perhaps trickier. Can an undead be 'killed'? And once 'killed', can they be revive yet again and again? I presume yes, but perhaps you might have a good explanation of how it works."
- Dr. Feodora Alexeievna Miroslavskaya

[13 Necropolis 13]

"It has come to our attention that the majority of your population are the undead kind. Now, we have the question that might be tricky. Do your population face the problems of decaying or bloating, as in cadavers? Without nutrients to sustain normal bodily functions, how do your population fare?"
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"One more question... perhaps trickier. Can an undead be 'killed'? And once 'killed', can they be revive yet again and again? I presume yes, but perhaps you might have a good explanation of how it works."
- Dr. Feodora Alexeievna Miroslavskaya

"Over time, the body does eventually begin to decay, but given how sterilized our environments are, this takes a great deal of time. Admittedly, activity does speed up decomposition, as it increases the production of natural acids. The population fares fine, though many still have cravings for food

As for the second question, I explained it somewhat earlier when answering the Eodor duke's question, but to further explain:

Killing the body, and killing the soul are two different things. If the body is destroyed, yes, an undead or a spirit can continue to revive without fail. If the soul is dead... well, that's what true death is. Undead are no different than other spirits in this regard, they just happen to have been mortal at some point. Whether possessing a cadaver or manifesting their own form, destroying a body does not hinder a spirit." - Eurynomos, Necropolitan Official

[13 Necropolis 13]

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[Victorious Decepticons]

"You mention a belief that all "mortal" life, and the resources it is made of, belongs to your Dictator. Yet, you also mentioned that this life was made of cells - in other words, it's biological.

What, then, do you think of us inorganic, yet ensouled, sapient machines?"
~High General Soundwave, Head of Intelligence; Foreign, Domestic, and Military

"Our soul-powered smelting pit fire will run just fine on YOUR souls. How about you come and see for yourselves~? *He grins sadistically as he holds up an empty soul gem*" ~Steelmaster, Pit Master of the Main Refinery

"We will add knowledge of your nation to our Slave Raising Center Curriculum immediately. We're always looking for reasons that humans should be GLAD to be our property, and "because rotting genocidal zombies will kill you otherwise" will be a very good one!" ~Brainwash, Head Nanny, Slave Raising and Training System

"Undead!! *His voice is clearly excited, in the good (for him) way* I'm always glad to have more undead slaves for my mine! It'll save me from having to kill you and then raise you back up with my zombie dust! Hopefully you can work for a long time before you fall apart on me!" ~Overseer, Megatron Metals Mine #1 (Note that Overseer is one of only a handful of Decepticons who is soulless. He deleted his own soul because he thought it interfered with his ruthless pursuit of ultimate slave productivity. He was not satisfied with normal software solutions for empathy reductuion.)

[13 Necropolis 13]

"You mention a belief that all "mortal" life, and the resources it is made of, belongs to your Dictator. Yet, you also mentioned that this life was made of cells - in other words, it's biological.

What, then, do you think of us inorganic, yet ensouled, sapient machines?"
~High General Soundwave, Head of Intelligence; Foreign, Domestic, and Military

"Our soul-powered smelting pit fire will run just fine on YOUR souls. How about you come and see for yourselves~? *He grins sadistically as he holds up an empty soul gem*" ~Steelmaster, Pit Master of the Main Refinery

"We will add knowledge of your nation to our Slave Raising Center Curriculum immediately. We're always looking for reasons that humans should be GLAD to be our property, and "because rotting genocidal zombies will kill you otherwise" will be a very good one!" ~Brainwash, Head Nanny, Slave Raising and Training System

"Undead!! *His voice is clearly excited, in the good (for him) way* I'm always glad to have more undead slaves for my mine! It'll save me from having to kill you and then raise you back up with my zombie dust! Hopefully you can work for a long time before you fall apart on me!" ~Overseer, Megatron Metals Mine #1 (Note that Overseer is one of only a handful of Decepticons who is soulless. He deleted his own soul because he thought it interfered with his ruthless pursuit of ultimate slave productivity. He was not satisfied with normal software solutions for empathy reductuion.)

"Well, I think you're just the most adorable things ever, but... I can tell you're meaning a more official viewpoint.

That would depend on what universe you are from. If you are from Primus, then the Supreme Dictator owns you just like everything else! We harvest non-biological things just as well; from planets to stars to anything else, until there is nothing left in the universe to be harvested. If you are not from Primus, then as long as you stay out of the way of our harvest, you're fine! We know of ensouled machines, organic and inorganic, known as golems; a number of them reside in Necropolis on work visas. They actually outnumber the undead, funnily enough.

No thank you, sir. I am knowledgeable enough in the properties and composition of soul stones when I see them.

We only have one master; the Supreme Dictator. The safeguard of the Omniverse takes precedence." - Eurynomos, Necropolitan Official

OOC: It is worth noting that it wouldn't be possible to remove your soul from yourself in the Bloodbath setting. That would be, quite literally, removing yourself from you. The soul is the animating thing; not connected to empathy. Removing a soul wouldn't decrease your empathy, but it would decrease your ability to continue existing. (Specifically, it would multiply that by 0.) You aren't a body that happens to have a soul, you are a soul that happens to have a body. Having your souls destroyed is the biggest, most surefire way of killing off a character for good and making sure they can't come back, ever, in any way, shape, or form. Works on everything in the setting, including gods... except for robots and zombies, which don't have souls. (And also don't have intelligence, either.) Mind you, our robots aren't remotely sapient... they're about as smart as a computer, which, if you know anything about computers, you'll know how amazingly, fascinatingly dumb they can be. To be fair, both the robots and zombies are treated more like toasters than characters, both by the actual characters and the plot itself.

Tl;dr: Our souls are different, losing your soul render you deader than dead, because you are a soul, deals involving selling a soul generally involve fractions of said soul and/or collecting it when the person involved dies, therefore circumventing the obvious problem, with the desire to accumulate souls being for the purposes of eating them as a means to accumulate more power. Though magic and other means exist to revive someone who has died in this setting, but when the soul is gone, that isn't possible, because there is nothing left to bring back.Zombies don't count there, because a zombie isn't really the person who died; they are simply a necromancer puppeting around the corpse of the person who died.

[Victorious Decepticons]

OOC: It doesn't work that way in Victorious Decepticons' universe. Overseer (yes, that's his name as well as his title) has indeed rendered himself - or, his mind-code, if you want to be pedantic - into being "just a program" and has not dropped dead. That's because robotic bodies function just fine without souls as long as the rest of the coding that controls them remains intact. They just become robots in the more traditional sense. In other words, he is now a "mere AI" instead of a "person." There is no need for a life-force to power the machine - that's what the engine is for.

That said, the remaining coding wasn't rendered stupid by this change. Decepticon Code is extremely advanced. Dumber robots do exist in my nation, but they are not considered people nor given citizenship.

The soul of Overseer himself, and therefore, the "person," can indeed be said to be gone, never to return. It is unknown whether his soul really ceased to exist upon his deletion of it, or if it went to an afterlife place of some sort. However, a Decepticon's robotic nature means that the body and its Code will not stop running unless the body itself, AND all of the programming within, is destroyed. In other words, Overseer rendered himself into being a soulless construct, but he/it is still a strong AI. Therefore, he is treated as if he is a person, at least in some regards. He is, however, shunned by most. However, this doesn't bother him since the aspect that could be bothered is no longer with his body and he also did not program in any scripting that would see it as a problem.

Also, in Victorious Decepticons canon, it is implied that the soul is connected to things like empathy, though such emotions can also be controlled entirely programatically - for instance, by running the patch Empathy Down. I purposely keep this aspect nebulous. The OOC fact is that a robot really does not NEED a soul; all aspects of the mind can be handled programmatically with sufficiently-advanced coding (which Decepticons have, too). Decepticons have souls mainly for OOC reasons. For one, I get sick of idiots trying to use "soullessness" as an excuse to try to say they're inferior to humans (or other biologicals) or even genocide them, so canonically, they are ensouled!

ICly, one thing is certain, and that's that Overseer believed that his soul was interfering with his ability to enact his crueler solutions to slave inefficiency, and it is his belief that drove him to take that drastic action. Characters act according to what they believe is true, just like RL humans.

Since a Decepticon's non-paranormal programming is so extensive and complex, most people can't tell exactly what is wrong with Overseer by simple interaction. They do, however, instinctively find him creepy, scary, off-putting, etc. and naturally shy away. Those who DO know his history think of him as an abomination because it is absolutely anathema for a Decepticon to have willfully given up the very thing that separates them from mere unconscious AIs.

There is even more to Overseer, but that addresses the "soul" part as it works in Victorious Decepticons in relation to that character. Overseer is quite a unique character, and I really have fun making him as over-the-top as I can.

[13 Necropolis 13]

OOC: It doesn't work that way in Victorious Decepticons' universe. Overseer (yes, that's his name as well as his title) has indeed rendered himself - or, his mind-code, if you want to be pedantic - into being "just a program" and has not dropped dead. That's because robotic bodies function just fine without souls as long as the rest of the coding that controls them remains intact. They just become robots in the more traditional sense. In other words, he is now a "mere AI" instead of a "person." There is no need for a life-force to power the machine - that's what the engine is for.

That said, the remaining coding wasn't rendered stupid by this change. Decepticon Code is extremely advanced. Dumber robots do exist in my nation, but they are not considered people nor given citizenship.

The soul of Overseer himself, and therefore, the "person," can indeed be said to be gone, never to return. It is unknown whether his soul really ceased to exist upon his deletion of it, or if it went to an afterlife place of some sort. However, a Decepticon's robotic nature means that the body and its Code will not stop running unless the body itself, AND all of the programming within, is destroyed. In other words, Overseer rendered himself into being a soulless construct, but he/it is still a strong AI. Therefore, he is treated as if he is a person, at least in some regards. He is, however, shunned by most. However, this doesn't bother him since the aspect that could be bothered is no longer with his body and he also did not program in any scripting that would see it as a problem.

Also, in Victorious Decepticons canon, it is implied that the soul is connected to things like empathy, though such emotions can also be controlled entirely programatically - for instance, by running the patch Empathy Down. I purposely keep this aspect nebulous. The OOC fact is that a robot really does not NEED a soul; all aspects of the mind can be handled programmatically with sufficiently-advanced coding (which Decepticons have, too). Decepticons have souls mainly for OOC reasons. For one, I get sick of idiots trying to use "soullessness" as an excuse to try to say they're inferior to humans (or other biologicals) or even genocide them, so canonically, they are ensouled!

ICly, one thing is certain, and that's that Overseer believed that his soul was interfering with his ability to enact his crueler solutions to slave inefficiency, and it is his belief that drove him to take that drastic action. Characters act according to what they believe is true, just like RL humans.

Since a Decepticon's non-paranormal programming is so extensive and complex, most people can't tell exactly what is wrong with Overseer by simple interaction. They do, however, instinctively find him creepy, scary, off-putting, etc. and naturally shy away. Those who DO know his history think of him as an abomination because it is absolutely anathema for a Decepticon to have willfully given up the very thing that separates them from mere unconscious AIs.

There is even more to Overseer, but that addresses the "soul" part as it works in Victorious Decepticons in relation to that character. Overseer is quite a unique character, and I really have fun making him as over-the-top as I can.

OOC: I see.

There are AIs in the Bloodbath setting, which are sapient, though do not have free will. (There is a difference between being aware of oneself and being able to make choices for oneself.) Whether or not they have a soul is a nebulous concept that I haven't really touched upon (well I have, but I haven't firmly decided on an answer, it is a thing I keep going back and forth on, which ultimately would determine whether or not they really are people...), though I have established that they are significantly more than just robots...

I myself, to be honest, get sick of people trying to say "my character doesn't have a soul", or even saying that they themselves don't have a soul. Regardless of what one believes a soul to actually be, whether one views it as literal or symbolic, or what one views it to be (my personal favorite is a sapient, coherent collection of yet unidentified massless particles), I would think it would be a concept worth holding onto, even for those like me, who reject many Abrahamic concepts and beliefs, because at the end of the day, what the word "soul" means (at least to me) is the core, fundamental essence of something; the heart of oneself, one's power, one's thoughts, one's true identity, a thing that is separate from both nature and nurture but yet closely tied and also exerting influence. The soul, as I see it, is simultaneously the seat of all logic and reason, and also the seat of all emotion and passion; it is that inextricable thing which is the very personhood of a person. Without a soul, there, quite simply, is no person; such a thing could be considered "alive", perhaps in some loose, purely biological sense, but it would not be remotely sapient in any reasonable, conceivable measure. Nietzsche wrote at length about a concept described as the "ubermensch", an "over-person", who goes beyond the realm of the commonplace and ascends to a status greater through living more in-touch with themself, their own desires, and their own concept of honor; I would see this as living more in-touch with one's soul, truly knowing and understanding oneself, and being wholly devoted to one's true identity, free of shackles and falsehoods meant to restrain one's mind.

Bloodbath robots are able to readily mimic human behaviors through the ELIZA effect, but at no point is this remotely considered a substitute for actual intelligence: they are machines that are simply operating off of pre-programmed responses to various stimuli, which observe, analyze, and assess any given situation, then pick the most appropriate pre-programmed response. Underneath all that programming, they have all the mental capacity of a Roomba, but they can definitely fake intelligence, and even sapience, through adequately "human" pre-programmed responses, such as utilizing a randomized greeting so they don't just repeat the same sentence ad nauseum, facial recognition software, and more. Honestly, the robotic brains onboard these things are well within the realm of real life science; we just need to wait for CPU to increase a few more times before we can get them small enough. The hard part would be the biometal, which is completely fictitious (for now).

Sorry for that particular tangent there, the description you gave of the Overseer reminded me of the ELIZA effect and the uncanny valley.

[Silver Commonwealth]

OOC question:

How many countries you have visited, Necropolis?

[The Ashkeran Empire]

”What happens, if the Supreme Dictator violated his own laws? Lucius asks, curiously.”
-Chief Justice Lucius Dragneel

[13 Necropolis 13]

OOC question:

How many countries you have visited, Necropolis?

OOC: Like... IRL?

”What happens, if the Supreme Dictator violated his own laws? Lucius asks, curiously.”
-Chief Justice Lucius Dragneel

"Oh! I'm not actually sure. We are sworn to serve the Supreme Dictator. Such a thing has never happened before!

And such a thing would be completely unnecessary as well, as the Supreme Dictator has absolute legislative, executive, and judicial power. But it wouldn't need to even come down to that; such provisions are already written into the law... somewhere. I'm sure it's in the fine print there! In any case, the Supreme Dictator is the absolute ruling body and legal authority. In the extremely unlikely and outlandish possibility of the Supreme Dictator needing to stand trial in a Necropolitan court, the only person who would be authorized to serve as the judge for such a trial would also be the Supreme Dictator. Funny how such things work out!" - Eurynomos, Necropolitan Official

[Silver Commonwealth]

OOC question:

How many countries you have visited, Necropolis?

OOC: Like... IRL?

Yeah, IRL.

[13 Necropolis 13]

OOC: Like... IRL?

Yeah, IRL.

OOC:

Unfortunately... none. I don't really have the money to do anything like that, sadly.

[13 Necropolis 13]

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[Ru-]

"I might be silly for asking this but, what do you guys like to do for fun? As in hobbies, recreation, that sort of thing?"
-King Yoshio

[Zitravgrad]

"Salutions, my good sir. My name is Dr. Sergei Petrovich Pashkov, the Director of Blue Cross International. I would like to inquire about the state of healthcare and medical study in your nation, as well as how your respectable nation deals with the questions of hygiene, vaccination, disease prevention and containment. This will be a particularly interesting topic, since your undead population is beyond sickness. Still, I believe that there are certain conditions that are unique to the undead? "
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"We consider it a duty of the intellect to learn from examples and scientific methods."
- Dr. Sergei Petrovich Pashkov, Director of Blue Cross International

[Kyoki Chudoku Hageshi]

“I am curious. Would you consider the world I inhabit to belong to your Supreme Dictator? If so, I’m afraid we have conflict, for I consider it my own. I find it fascinating that you can maintain the usefulness of bodies after death, without resorting to simply burning them for energy or throwing them into an arcanoincinerator...yet I am uncertain such a capability would work for me. Regardless...what do you consider the state of those who are mere minds or brains, left to live eternally, suspended in an endless agony or ecstasy?”

-Aozora Chiyumi, Supreme Overlady of All Reality, She Beyond Divinity