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( It has taken Rita most of the time she's spent in Lunatia thus far to understand enough of this 'technology' to send out a broadcast. She's not the type to let such a little hurdle as unfamiliarity get in the way of reporting the news, and she is glad to announce her success with her very first article! )

UNDEAD YET DEADLY
The inhabitants of Lunatia might seem an uncouth lot, with their scales and their horns and other extraneous appendages. However, the natives of this world appear positively genteel when compared to who, or should I say, what walks amongst us, attempting to blend quietly into the shadows. Fortunately, I, Rita Skeeter, freelance journalist-for-hire, am here to shed light on the situation.

The Moonblessed by the name of ‘Ambrosine’, is a self-confessed practitioner of the Dark Arts. She is also known to post on this network under the alias of ‘undyingsoul’, which should tell you everything you need to know already. If you still require an explanation, know this: every magical child from the youngest of ages is taught that death is permanent. Any individual who attempts to meddle with mortality is faced with a fate worse than death: the eternal corruption of the soul.

Why does this matter, you might ask?


Those of you from my own world might know of the evilest Dark Wizard of our time, a man so evil that even after his defeat we still refuse to speak his name, only referring to him as He Who Must Not Be Named. In the name of ideological superiority and in search for the secrets of immortality, this Dark Wizard murdered thousands of people, witches, wizards and Muggles alike.

To use a more local frame of reference: as many of you will know, the city is still recovering from the aftermath of the rampages of another Dark Wizard, Asmodeus, who used his powers to control the minds of many innocent bystanders. Could Lunatia withstand another attack so soon?

While Ambrosine has not shown any untoward predilections to violence yet in her time here, evidence suggests she has so far murdered one innocent person in her quest for immortality thus far, as well as a unicorn (a most sacred magical animal).

How many more deaths will she cause? Can this type of individual truly be allowed to walk around our society unchecked? My recommendation would be to lock her up and throw away the key before she can cause any more harm to befall others.

After all, there’s enough to get used to in this new society without wondering about murderers in our midst. As so succinctly put by local resident, the charming thirty-six-year-old Mr. Valmont: it’s positively exhausting!

( After the main text in the article, smaller lettering reads: if you have leads which require any further investigation, or any information you would like me to know, please contact me here.

The name, again, is Rita Skeeter. )

Comments

[necroyalty]

A man who stabbed his wife and three children with a carving knife.

There's not much I really feel like I need to explain here.

[trivialization]

Nothing you need to. But there is so much more to the choice to take a life than 'they did it first' or 'none would miss them.'

[necroyalty]

I know it's a terrible justification, and I leave the moral question of whether I had the right to kill him to the gods.

But he was slated for execution. If he was going to die anyway, then so be it.

I'm not a good person. But I try to minimize the suffering I cause.

[trivialization]

But you don't, exactly. You engineer consequences, make them palatable. The minimal result would have come from killing no one.

So why did you do it? Mere longevity? To save the world?

[necroyalty]

Would you believe me if I said it was part of a decades to centuries spanning plot to weaken the influence of a demon cult that had infiltrated the upper echelons of society without risking the inevitable civil war that would follow if everyone were dealt with all at once?

[trivialization]

I'd tell you it's not only plausible but familiar.

Aside from the 'using subtlety' part.

[necroyalty]

I feel like an idiot for not realizing what was going on sooner, really.

[trivialization]

Most people don't expect the first evil conspiracy they come across. I just started pulling threads at the bottom and worked my way up to the top.

[ ...by 'pulling threads' she means 'killing people' but for reasons currently being amply demonstrated she usually doesn't bring that up. ]