[Video] Body Garden

[dirge]

[The drone captures Dirge's huge form half in shadow perched on the roof of an old mausoleum, surveying the graveyard below like some hideous teal vulture.]

I don't understand...

[He mutters, claws tapping at the ancient stone statue of whomever is interred there curiously. He pinches the chin and squints into its eyes for a moment before shaking his head.]

What is the point of this ritual?

[Dirge jumps down, landing on all fours and crouching near a tombstone.]

What a terrible waste! Body parts are so very useful...

[He flicks the grave and it pitches forward a little.] Why bury them in the ground? Or lock them in boxes? Is someone saving these for later?

I know decaying organic can be used to grow things. People bring flowers, but they do not plant them.

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Re: [Video]

[dirge]

Empty!? [He frowns down at one, clearly unhappy to have been tricked. He was promised dead bodies!]

So....this is just for memories. Sort of a placeholder for the person who is gone?

Re: [Video]

[knight_light]

Most likely. [He's sure not all of them are empty, but is guessing a lot of them are.]

That's what any memorial is for, Dirge. It's a place to remember those gone, either lost to the badlands before, the Miasma now, or to death. So yes, it's "just" a place of memories.

[Look around enough and you might find a marker for him and Drift...since they left the city only for the Lambda to bring in a different version of the two of them...Talk about strange when they came back shortly before Unicron attacked. That was surreal.]

Re: [Video]

[dirge]

[Dirge considers this, grabbing the grave he had knocked askew and tilting it back into position. He stares at it for a few moments before speaking again.]

A place to be remembered when you're gone. [He taps his chin with a talon.]

I wonder...

[His optics brighten abruptly.] You know what? I think I know someone who needs a grave.

Re: [Video]

[knight_light]

[Head tilts a bit to the side.]

And who would that be?

Re: [Video]

[dirge]

Someone that really wanted to be remembered. [He is grinning now.]

How does one go about getting a marker made and placed here?

Re: [Video]

[knight_light]

[And Wing is very, curious. But he asked straight out who is was and Dirge did not answer. He won’t press.]

There might be some unmarked ones in the warehouse. I could get one for you.

If not there, then you might have to make it yourself.

Re: [Video]

[dirge]

Good, yes. Do that. Do you know anyone who can make statues with pretty good likenesses?

Re: [Video]

[knight_light]

[Considers] I'm not sure. Perhaps you can ask around the hub to see if someone in the area would have such skills.

[He points at the screen.] No threatening anyone to get what you want. You offer a trade, something they might want in return for what you want from them, understood?