• Stovetop@lemmy.world
    75·
    1 year ago

    I suppose this scenario is actually somewhat reassuring, because the guy who killed 12 people deserves whatever misfortune falls upon him. You wouldn’t have to feel bad stealing his knowledge and memories, and could also go to the local guards to turn him in with the knowledge you’ve obtained.

    Though good luck sleeping at night with the knowledge of what it felt like to murder 12 people with your own hands and see the life fade from their eyes.

    • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
      251·
      1 year ago

      The way he reacted makes me think that not just the memory that he killed people was taken, but the desire to as well. Otherwise you think he’d be more like “I don’t remember doing this, but cool!”

      • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        10·
        1 year ago

        We don’t know the reason he killed 12 people.

        Could be those are 12 nobles he robbed, or 12 previous sexual partners he murdered due to a fetish

        Really any number of reasons to kill and keep 12 bodies

        • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Traditionally you bury or make the bodies not visible in some way unless you have some desire to see them.

          • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            8·
            1 year ago

            Could just be really shit at hiding them, like that guy who basically dissolved people and left their bones where they could be easily found

            • x4740N@lemm.ee
              4·
              1 year ago

              Turn the bones into bone meal, use it to grow stuff

              Writing this just made farmers sound even scarier especially ones in rural areas far enough away from towns

              Farmers could just feed the victims to hungry pigs and then turn the teeth and bones into bone meal

              You’d never know if you where buying produce grown in part with human based bonemeal

              • PugJesus@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                2·
                1 year ago

                Farmers could just feed the victims to hungry pigs and then turn the teeth and bones into bone meal

                Six pieces…

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br
      11·
      1 year ago

      There’s an interesting philosophical debate there. What good does imprison a guy who have no recollection of doing the crime, or the circumstances around them? Can be argued that the person who committed the crime and this guy finding the bodies are two different people who share the same body.

      • Protoknuckles@lemmy.world
        4·
        1 year ago

        I think there was a book about this. Someone had a multiple lifetime sentence, so they kept cloning him to put him in jail.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      10·
      1 year ago

      I’d go looking for another mindflayer offering “spotless mind” services and pay to have those memories removed. Assuming they can be trusted, of course. The hard part being that they’re still mindflayers.

    • sirblastalot@ttrpg.network
      9·
      1 year ago

      Fantasy Dexter. Actually loves murder, but instead just gets their kicks vicariously by stealing the memories of murderers

  • xantoxis@lemmy.world
    25·
    1 year ago

    Legitimately one of my favorite oglaf’s of all time

    • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social
      78·
      1 year ago

      The carpenter killed them, and forgot he did it with the transfer. Really, I think the woman shouldn’t consider it her crimes but I guess some confusion is understandable under the circumstances.

      • Remotedeck@discuss.tchncs.de
        271·
        1 year ago

        Ah that makes sense, my hang up was I assumed the mind flayer just transfered skills in woodworking and not memories

      • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        1 year ago

        Seems the way the memory transfer works is that it makes it seem like YOUR memories. Not something that was delivered to you

        • xantoxis@lemmy.world
          7·
          1 year ago

          What makes this one so perfect for me is that that piece is left unsaid by the comic. The joke exists almost entirely in the fact that the man is surprised; and that his surprise is genuine, as there’s nobody else in that basement to hear him say that.