Necroepilogos, astrum - 6.3
Added 2023-05-04 14:49:31 +0000 UTCMeat. Blood-red and protein-rich; dripping hot and spicy strong. It's what zombies crave. Or was that brains? But this hunger aches for more than meat. Oh dear oh dear oh dear. I both love and hate where this is going! I hope you're all enjoying this arc so far! Elpida and the others are going to need to accept some grisly realities if they want to reach for that fallen star.
https://necroepilogos.net/2023/05/04/astrum-6-3/
Password is: macronutrient
An epub version of the chapter is also attached!
Comments
Haha, thank you so much! It's a combination I've been trying to explore for a very long time. I've sometimes joked that the true Katalepsis experience is playing Bloodborne on one monitor while watching a "cute girls doing cute things" anime on another. I'm not quite sure what combination would be right for Necroepilogos; it feels like a much darker story, so far. Glad you're enjoying it!
Hazel Young
2023-05-06 03:19:42 +0000 UTCBetween this and Katalepsis you strike such a balance between extremely dark and incredibly wholesome lol. It's almost disorienting in a way, but it's an amazing combination that I really can't get enough of.
Christian Sonberg
2023-05-06 01:03:50 +0000 UTCIndeed! It's still exploitation, but it's not actually 'murder', depending on how you define that, I guess. A never-ending cycle of killing and eating the freshly reborn - unless they decide not to come back. But what's the moral position on eating a revenant who had no idea what was going on here, or where she was, or the reality of the situation? Or the pain of death, regardless of the possibility of respawning years later? There's some uncomfortable questions here, on top of the simple physical revulsion of eating human flesh. Really interesting to explore this, it's been inevitable since the beginning of the story.
Hazel Young
2023-05-04 23:22:47 +0000 UTCNormally the idea of cannibalism would disgust me, but it doesn't in this story. I think it because their all made out of nanos and the fact that even if someone dies, they just respawn later. Include the mutations, and it creates a layer of detachment from 'normal' cannibalism. Like seeing a mantis eat another mantis. It's gross, but it ain't hillbillies in the woods eating hikers. I don't know, different shades of gray I guess.
Kennyevilmonkey
2023-05-04 19:06:41 +0000 UTC
