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The reason zombies can't work--can't work in world without magic--is all down to micro-tears. Say you could keep away the decay, say you could eradicate the little parasites we all have in our skin just waiting for us to keel over. You'd still last maybe a few weeks as a walking corpse.

If you're dead, there's nothing in your head and nothing pumped through your heart to mend and adapt, and you'd just fall apart, little by little.

This death tolling, maybe it's the Admiral failing to patch back up the parts of your brains that know how to adapt to the wear and tear of being alive.

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[darknessb4me]

[Arthas grunts thoughtfully. He hadn't thought about that before.]

I still want him dead. But if it goes further than him... possibly. He never seemed smart or motivated enough to come up with this system on his own.

[velocette]

[He nods slowly; he can appreciate that.]

So if you saw him, could you tell if he's undead?

[darknessb4me]

I could tell you if he has a heartbeat and a soul. Some undead have one or the other, but not both.

[velocette]

Then...all we have to do is find him.

[darknessb4me]

Yes. All we have to do.

[velocette]

I know. But either he's on the ship, or he's transmitting onto it. Either way we'll have an answer.

[darknessb4me]

If you think you can do something that every inmate has been trying for a decade, by all means don't let me get in your way.

[velocette]

Oh I don't expect to have immediate success. I'm not even sure we'll ever know if he's real, but we're bound to find something if we start looking, even if it's completely unrelated. Most inventions began life with an entirely different purpose than they ended up with, after all.

[darknessb4me]

Good luck.

[It's honestly difficult to tell if this is sarcastic or sincere. Maybe both.]