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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!!]

Comments

[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
?

[manifestering]

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

[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

[manifestering]

Somewhat
I was very angry to have been murdered
My strong will may very well be an unflattering case of spite

Your will must be strong as well to endure toxic blood while still alive

[aonibi]

Whether it was spite or not, it kept you in the world. I think that's admirable, considering.

My body is accustomed to high doses of mako. It doesn't harm me.

[ .. well, the treatments hurt, but it's the results that matter. ]

[traumaticus]

[so for black magic ritual? he got it.]

i see. still, i am surprised you are not trying to work together towards a common goal.

[Richard takes a moment before replying to this part because... yes, there had been visions of misshapen creatures crying in agony. but that is hardly any different to what he endures on daily basis so....]

no.

[manifestering]

With someone who dances around basic questions
?
Hardly an appealing partner

You experienced only feeling
?

[manifestering]

Well then
Thank you

I see
Then I will not bother you with unwanted sympathy

[traumaticus]

i am not telling you to trust him.

that is correct.

[manifestering]

Not that
He would irritate me too much to work with

And that is strange
My experience was very visual
the entity must have struggled to communicate these things

[solitarysoul]

okay but what.

[He's not sure if alchemy is real or not but either way that doesn't really narrow it down.]

there was the kid that didn't want us to reset.

but also there was...i think the AI? or the system. it kept having errors but no one was fixing them. they used to get fixed but for some reason they weren't being fixed.

i thought maybe it was what had been happening.

[manifestering]

I am constructing a body
for myself before you assume something nefarious
I am a spectre and I would prefer not to be

Then her caretaker has abandoned her
or perhaps been taken away by some other means
If true

[solitarysoul]

[Oh god, why are there more ghosts here?!]

okay.

[Just going to skip past the ghost and whatever making a body means. Definitely not donating HIS blood.]

maybe.
but if you saw memories of a different time, does that mean this has happened before?

[manifestering]

[Honestly he is a little sick of explaining it, no matter how much "I want blood please" demands explanation, so he is totally fine leaving it on an "okay" and yet another gently implied refusal...]

I would assume so yes
There was a great sense of failure in what I experienced
multiple failures

[solitarysoul]

i think i heard there were supposed to be other cycles before us.

[manifestering]

Interesting
I wonder if they are all still in this world
but changed
I have not been here very long myself to have met the various peoples
snakes included

[solitarysoul]

the people in rumpitar are snakes.

[He doesn't think he likes what this is implying. Were they lucky to make it through the reset?]

[manifestering]

Oh you are acquainted
Have you visited recently
?

[solitarysoul]

not recently.

the town was locked down for awhile after a monster attack and plot. i don't know if it still is.

[manifestering]

Do you suppose the monsters were also once Chosen like us
?
That is off topic but relevant I believe

Perhaps someone should visit these serpent folk and see what has become of them

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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.

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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.

[skelters]

That sounds inconvenient ...

What do you use the blood for? How does that work? Can you use any kind of blood?

[solitarysoul]

i don't know. i thought maybe we couldn't become them but things are weird here.

their city is to the south east of here. i think it takes about a day or two to get there.

[laserguy]

probably?

it's hard to remember everything and the vision itself was pretty weird, but it was all about being created for a singular purpose, which is rehabilitation. it built homes, food, and pretty much everything, i think.

although, it was also upset that we like to fight.