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[manifestering]

Hello
If we have not met my name is Octavian
I am an alchemist and as always I am accepting small amounts of blood for a personal project

But that is beside the point

[Just, you know, getting it out of the way that he's always on the hunt for blood samples to save, anyway—]

The point is during our mutual excursions to maintain the integrity of this world
In the ruins I was set upon by a manner of vision
Very abrupt
not entirely welcome
In the water I experienced memories that were not my own
Something about a breed of serpentine people
Where are they
?

The recollection suggested they were not always serpents but perhaps once like us
A group brought to this place and changed
Was this previously known
and
has anyone else experienced these visions
?

[ooc; totes encourage threadjacking for sharing purposes!!]

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[endcaller]

Ah, you speak of the people of Rumpitur. I and a few others have met them.

...But why would you suspect they were once like us? 'Tis a bold theory.

[manifestering]

[Voice when he would prefer to Read... for Fandaniel he will bother to make the switch. But ugh.]

It was in the vision. A group of people were infected. Corrupted perhaps is the term. Then they were changed...

It seemed intended to help. To excise the damage.

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[skelters]

Hello, Octavian. It's nice to meet you! I'm Vash. :-)

[ and okay, there's more important stuff but also: ] What kind of personal project needs blood?

[manifestering]

That would be alchemy as suggested by my trade
Specifically I am looking to create a vessel
flesh preferable
Hence the need for blood

[.......oh, yeah, Manners,]

Hello Vash
A pleasure

un: sephiroth

[aonibi]

Have you spoken to the person who was beginning a blood bank?

[manifestering]

The charlatan
No
Generally speaking I prefer my questions answered when asked
Besides I need a far smaller volume of blood than an entire bank

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[solitarysoul]

what do you want blood for.

[Because wtf.]

i saw...something by the terminal. i'm not really sure what it was.

[manifestering]

Alchemy

What did you see in the terminal
?
I imagine it would behoove us to compare notes as it were
Perhaps these things are meant to intertwine

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[sinningtree]

Did these memories seem to belong to the AI as well?

[manifestering]

I am unsure
But similarly
I am unsure who else they would belong to
from context
They only appeared to me after getting closer to the terminal specifically

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[traumaticus]

you are the second person to ask for blood on the network.

back at the terminals which were located at the desert i was overcome with feelings of love, sadness and heartbreak as we pushed toward the mechanic beside the reset. I could not tell why.

[manifestering]

Yes I have been made aware of the blood bank charlatan
I require blood to use for an alchemical process that will grant me a vessel through which my spectral form will no longer be such a bother
I require no vaguely defined bank

Did you see anything strange when experiencing these feelings
?

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[laserguy]

a vision? now that you mention it, i had one of those as well when heading to the terminal by the south coast area.

[manifestering]

Did you
I wonder if the entity attempted to contact us again in this way
What did you see
?

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[incorrigibles]

wait, wait, wait

you're saying there's serpents who used to be like us? that's bloody wonderful. do you know what caused them to change? a spell or something else

[manifestering]

They were changed intentionally
by the entity
Presumably the AI or at least some iteration of her
They had become corrupted and to change them was to save them
At least
this is what it seemed like

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[followyourstar]

You went out to the terminals? ...I guess it would be safer for you out there than a lot of people.

That's... pretty strange, though. And kind of unsettling. The whole town's worth of people turning into snakes thing, I mean.

[manifestering]

Your faith in me is so flattering

[His little joke...]

Yes I did go
I was asked to attend

And yes it is off-putting and strange
I would prefer not to become a snake myself
Or anything else

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[melnik]

Octavian. First of all, I must thank you for your assistance in the terminal reset. I didn't get the chance to properly introduce myself. My name is Miller.

[ The uh... alchemy thing is interesting coupled with the fact he learned this person is a ghost from Root, but he's going to consider asking about that later because the other information is more pertinent right now. ]

We experienced a similar vision on the ascent of the tower. The team I was traveling with and myself. It was... esoteric but it is my understanding that we were witnessing the failure of this system from the point of view of the artificial intelligence operating it.

I can confirm that there were groups brought to this world before us. I do not know what exactly befell them. Only that at some point they stopped existing inside this simulation. They died... if you can call it that.

But this is the first I'm hearing about them turning into fucking snakes.

[manifestering]

Hello Miller
You are welcome
It was a well-organized operation

We can assume each of these visions is a memory from the entity then
I too was given the sense that many failures have occurred and that the entity was deeply upset by each one
quite tragic
Turning them into snakes seemed an act of desperation
not the fault of the group themselves
Still there is no way of knowing how many creatures here were once like us I suppose

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[valiantarms]

Are you the person who was asking for blood a few weeks ago?

[manifestering]

You are all so enamored with this blood bank person
No
I am not

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[grappler]

the snake guys are from rumpitur
i don't know if anyone's been over there for a while, though.

what'd you see?

[manifestering]

I have heard they were
inaccessible for a time
No one seems certain beyond that

The entity turned them into serpents to stave off some manner of corruption
She was quite upset about it

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[computation]

This is a good idea. Think you could get anyone else who had a vision to write down everything they remember about it? I had one, too. I'd like to see what kind of pieces we can put together.

[ She's dispirited, not stupid. Lack of motivation has never been her problem. ]

You told someone else she seemed upset that she had to turn them into serpents? Because of 'corruption'?

[manifestering]

I am attempting to gather what information I can
as I am sure you have noticed

[He expects her to read everything now, after all, but he can keep track of it in more organized notes anyway.]

And yes they were set upon by black marks of indeterminate origin
Her only option was to cordon off the corrupted parts
and merge the remaining data with serpents
This disqualified them from rehabilitation it seems