Well that was unpleasant. And messy. And sorta gross. I don’t think I really want to blog about it either which is why I didn’t post yesterday. Our next move is to try to track down the people responsible for raising those zombies. I have no idea how we’re going to do it though. Dad thinks we can see if the TV crew that was at the demonstration has any b-roll footage of the crowd, and especially of the protesters. If they have any, Dad and I will sift through it to see if we can spot anyone doing any chanting or other ritual behavior.

It’s a shot in the dark, but we have to try it. Can’t let those morons raise another batch of undead. I don’t think I could stand it.

Liam and I spent the day with my dad gathering the herbs and artifacts he’ll need to undo what those idiots did last night. Dad told me that he was going to need y help on this one because there were so many. I’m nervous about that.

I have studied necromancy, hell, I grew up with it. But my powers lie elsewhere. The most I can give dad is extra strength. If anything goes wrong during the ritual tonight, we’re screwed. Dad seems confident, but I keep picturing us having to wade through them and sever body parts all night. Not fun. Gross actually. You get one chance to put an improper zombie down and if you don’t get it right, then all you can do is chop them into bits and separate the parts in sealed containers. I’ve done it once, on a single zombie. I can’t imagine doing it with a gaggle of them.

I should go prepare. Dad’s just about ready.

The haters showed up at the rally. I was hoping for a simple, stoic demonstration but nothing ever goes the way I want it to. The entire zombie population here was there, which, to the average person might sound like a lot, but in truth, there actually aren’t that many true zombies around.

You see, as I mentioned before, only a trained and qualified necromancer is able to raise the dead, to breathe true life into them. Once they do that, the zombie is forever tied to that necromancer. Metaphysically speaking that is.

My father raised my friend Liam here. Liam can be hung, drawn and quartered yet still he will live. He won’t be particularly happy about it, but he will be alive. So to speak. But if, Elvis forbid, something should happen to my father and he would die (knock on wood, throw salt over the shoulder, spit three times and mutter a lot of Latin) then so would Liam. The necromancer animates the dead with his power. As long as the necromancer is alive, so is the zombie.

So as you can probably guess, necromancers don’t actually raise the dead very often. Too many zombies will eventually weaken the necromancer.  So after a very long explanation,  there just aren’t a whole lot of true zombies out there.

But the haters… God I can’t believe what they did tonight. It was awful. These people (and I use that term lightly) can’t seem to get past the stereotype. Too many movies have skewed perception so badly and some of the ones among the haters have *just enough* knowledge to make them dangerous. They know that an improperly raised zombie will be very much like the zombies depicted in movies like “Night of the Living Dead” and “Shaun of the Dead.”

Can you see where I’m going with this? Those idiots actually hit the local cemeteries last night and attempted to raise a LOT of dead folks. They did not gain the permission of the families. They did not perform the rituals properly. What they ended up with was a truckload of mindless, frenzied undead they could barely contain. They carted them all to the rally and loosed them on the crowd. It was not pretty. We managed to contain them before anyone was seriously hurt and we’re holding them in a storage room until my father can get to town to lay them to rest. Again.

The sheriff was reluctant to arrest any of the haters and he was slow to get his men together. I think he did that on purpose to let those idiots get away.

I suppose their goal was to show the world that the “bad” zombies exist and shouldn’t be granted rights because they were mindless and harmful. Unfortunately, all people will see when they watch the late news tonight is a crowd full of people running around shrieking and trying to avoid being eaten. They won’t see zombies like Liam trying to restore order and speaking rationally and moving about normally.

This is going to be a tough battle.