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expiationnet2023-07-29 04:40 pm
murderingjustice) wrote in expiationnet2023-07-29 04:40 pm
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Afternoon everyone.
Now that we've had time to recover and collect ourselves after the recent expedition I believe we ought to breakdown the events and our discoveries. Sharing our information might as well be the essential for us to figure out the true nature of this world and uncover the truth behind the events occurring here.
For those who decided to stay behind: during the expedition with the fairies we came across two types of 'creatures.' Let's call them group A and group B for time being. The group A were clearly humanoid and harmless at first. That being said, they did seem to be covered with set of markings, similarly to 'brands' that appeared among us 'The Chosen.' Group B were more mutated and only vaguely reminded human. They appeared from the shadows. They were actively hostile and aggressive towards the fairies -- and by the extension us. They also seemed to have some level of control over group A.
Some of us were able to 'save' them through either selfless acts or reuniting them with items from the deserted apartments. Group A seems to have returned back to their previous forms, even if their minds don't seem to be quite there yet. But group B simply faded away.
Now, what makes this interesting is the language fairies used to when addressing these creatures. At first, their leader called them 'people' before correcting himself and later used a word 'the infected' to describe group A. Honestly, this leads me to a following hypothesis:
The group B were once humans just like group A. They both were 'infected' with a similar if not the same ailment as the ones with the Brands did. If this is correct it seems like there are at least three stages to infection:
1. A contamination. This is where the brands/markings appear
2. Activation of the ailment. I believe that in this stage the infection has spread to a person's brain, causing them to act hostile.
3. Mutation. Rather self-explanatory. This is the last stage of the infection and the point where the person is beyond salvation.
If my hypothesis is correct it leaves the following questions: what is this 'infection' and where did it originate from? why were the shape of the brand extremely personal to its bearer? why is it the act of the kindness that seem to lift the ailments? are the other variations of the 'infection'?
The last question makes me think of the reported odd behavior of the locals living in Aldrip. If they are beginning to act strangely and similarly lose memories and traces of self we can't overlook the possibility of the whole branding-event occurring again.
That is all I have at the moment. If you have anything to do add I'm all ears.
Goro Akechi.
Now that we've had time to recover and collect ourselves after the recent expedition I believe we ought to breakdown the events and our discoveries. Sharing our information might as well be the essential for us to figure out the true nature of this world and uncover the truth behind the events occurring here.
For those who decided to stay behind: during the expedition with the fairies we came across two types of 'creatures.' Let's call them group A and group B for time being. The group A were clearly humanoid and harmless at first. That being said, they did seem to be covered with set of markings, similarly to 'brands' that appeared among us 'The Chosen.' Group B were more mutated and only vaguely reminded human. They appeared from the shadows. They were actively hostile and aggressive towards the fairies -- and by the extension us. They also seemed to have some level of control over group A.
Some of us were able to 'save' them through either selfless acts or reuniting them with items from the deserted apartments. Group A seems to have returned back to their previous forms, even if their minds don't seem to be quite there yet. But group B simply faded away.
Now, what makes this interesting is the language fairies used to when addressing these creatures. At first, their leader called them 'people' before correcting himself and later used a word 'the infected' to describe group A. Honestly, this leads me to a following hypothesis:
The group B were once humans just like group A. They both were 'infected' with a similar if not the same ailment as the ones with the Brands did. If this is correct it seems like there are at least three stages to infection:
1. A contamination. This is where the brands/markings appear
2. Activation of the ailment. I believe that in this stage the infection has spread to a person's brain, causing them to act hostile.
3. Mutation. Rather self-explanatory. This is the last stage of the infection and the point where the person is beyond salvation.
If my hypothesis is correct it leaves the following questions: what is this 'infection' and where did it originate from? why were the shape of the brand extremely personal to its bearer? why is it the act of the kindness that seem to lift the ailments? are the other variations of the 'infection'?
The last question makes me think of the reported odd behavior of the locals living in Aldrip. If they are beginning to act strangely and similarly lose memories and traces of self we can't overlook the possibility of the whole branding-event occurring again.
That is all I have at the moment. If you have anything to do add I'm all ears.
Goro Akechi.
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I mean, I don't always ask for names, but there's relatively few enough of us here that I've probably ran into that person. What do they look like?
[ Granted, she isn't too sure where this is going. But Ange is interested enough in knowing to go along with this train of thought. ]
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anyway, he has an ability to nullify another person's powers and abilities with his touch. i heard from one of the previously branded that his ability managed to clear their mind and remove the spell they were under. this makes me think that we might be dealing with a case of a parasite rather than 'medical' infection.
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Yeah, I met him. The guy who was napping out in the middle of the desert while we were supposed to be investigating. [ Apparently that's the impression he left behind, huh.. ] But wouldn't that just mean that whatever was going on back there was supernatural?
His ability sure seems like a kind of magic to me, anyway.
[ And since it worked on her own powers too, Ange kind of imagined that the ability was able to nullify magic, mostly. ]
Then again, pretty much everything about this situation is supernatural in the first place. Including all of us having been dragged here.
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the reason why i suspect a parasite of sort is because apparently his ability couldn't do heal those in the desert. which would also lead us to conclusion that we are dealing with two completely different cases here.
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So is it separate causes that have the same effects? A different branch of the same illness, or curse, or whatever you want to call it? Or maybe getting branded like that is an inevitability here, and it can be caused by an entire variety of things.
I guess this is more of a side note, but there is some overlap in theme too between the whole branding thing going on and us having been brought here over claims of crimes. Criminals were often branded in the past, after all.
[ Not that it has to mean anything necessarily, Ange figures, but she can't help but see it. Maybe it's since she was always so busy looking for thematic connections back home to try and solve the mystery of her family's death, considering the dumb ways clues were presented to her. ]