going to distantskies!

[deadpans]

Well? Aren't you supposed to start writing that application now if you really wanted to send me there?

[ Crossed his arms over his chest, clearly wasn't impressed. ]

I guess it's better than the places you'd sent me before, though. The city- world thing looks nice and I can go home whenever I wanted.

No, it's not like I'm "excited" or anything. You're imagining things again. I'm just...glad that I wouldn't be stuck somewhere lame. Like London, for example. Or Death City. You have dubious taste when it comes to choosing a home for me. [ Frowns. ] Now start "conquering" that app thing. You're really lazy ever since the holidays started, you know?

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[bindsthedead]

Mine was... rather unoriginal with my own, I'm afraid.

The Old Kingdom is dangerous, but my mun seems to hope people will come to it.

[deadpans]

It's better to be unoriginal than indecisive. Even until this very moment, mine still couldn't decide which name suits my dæmon best. [ Frowns. ]

Muns loves to torture us, that's why. Why is it so dangerous, anyway?

[bindsthedead]

The Charter has been- [Wait, he wouldn't understand that.]

For the last two hundred years, the entire kingdom has been sinking into chaos, and by now, is overrun with Dead spirits.

[deadpans]

Let me guess, they're not ordinary spirits? They can kill people and stuff? [ Things like this are pretty predictable, in his opinion. Either he reads too much, or he's just genre savvy. Probably both. ]

[bindsthedead]

The Dead must steal life from the living to stay in this world. [So that's a yes. And she hasn't even mentioned that a lot of them are what amounts to zombies- and even if guns worked, headshots wouldn't.]

[deadpans]

Oh. Okay. That's...not good. [ Not good at all, in fact. He's definitely crossing the Old Kingdom off his list. ] Anything else worth avoiding in the Old Kingdom aside from vampirical spirits?

[bindsthedead]

Don't try to take any cars or guns into the Kingdom- they won't work- and you shouldn't go near broken Charter Stones. [Also, don't take off Mogget's collar.]

[deadpans]

Broken Charter Stones? [ Obviously, Iceland doesn't know what are those. ] And how do you, for the lack of a better term, "kill" the spirits, anyway?

[bindsthedead]

Hopefully, you won't have to see any.

I use the bells to send them beyond the ninth gate- past the point any Dead can return to Life.

[deadpans]

If you say so. [ Sabriel knows better, although obviously, he is brimming with questions. His expression is practically a giant question mark. ] So...do we have to do the same thing if we encountered them in the Old Kingdom?

[bindsthedead]

If you see any Dead, you should get across running water as soon as you can- or use fire, if there isn't any.

[deadpans]

I'll do that. I don't think I'll remember your advices in-game, though. Still, thanks a lot.