Fifteenth Deduction [Video/Action for Dissimulo]

[modernholmes]

[Conan's face appears on the video, obviously worried about something.]

Ne, something scary is happening!  Is everyone okay?  And does anyone know how-

[He breaks off to spin and kick a soccerball straight into a nearby zombie's head, instantly dropping it to the ground.]

Does anyone know how widespread this is? Are they in Discedo?  What about Spero?

Comments

[waytoopatient.livejournal.com]

[SIIIGH, yes, she knows, she knows...she did, too.]

Yeah, well...I guess most people are staying inside to try to avoid them...

[She looks outside the window, at the group of the zombies who are still hanging around. Are these the corpses that the scientists were supposed to get rid of...?]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

But if we're avoiding them we can't figure out why they're here and how they work. [This makes perfect sense.]

[waytoopatient.livejournal.com]

It's not safe, though. N-not even for me.

[She turns away from the zombies to look at Conan.]

Why? Do you have some sort of plan to figure them out?

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Zombies aren't real, so they must have some sort of device that allows them to move like this. I wanted to see if I could find it.

[waytoopatient.livejournal.com]

You mean, you think they're like robots or something?

I guess the scientists could be controlling them...

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

Not like robots. But maybe something mechanical with limited motion.

[waytoopatient.livejournal.com]

[Sounds like a robot to her. But she shrugs...]

Well, we shouldn't get close to them as long as they're aggressive like that... but maybe if they give up, we can go back and take a look at one of their friends we knocked out.

[The idea of looking at something mechanical is much easier to grasp than looking at undead zombies :|]

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

But maybe if we figure out how they work we can stop all the ones that are still out there.

[waytoopatient.livejournal.com]

...

[She can see his point. She wants to stop them, too, but...]

I don't know, Conan. I don't want either of us to get hurt...

[modernholmes.livejournal.com]

I guess it can wait until there are less of them outside.

[Or until Ran isn't paying attention.</i.]

[waytoopatient.livejournal.com]

...that would probably be best.

[She looks kind of relieved to hear that. Conan's usually not so cooperative, ffff.]

It looks like they're moving pretty slowly, at least, so it should be easy for people to outrun them until we get to the bottom of it...

[Or until someone does, anyway. They can't be the only ones trying to figure them out...right?]