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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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[laserguy]

yeah, including the marks. it was pretty awful.

sapped my energy, didn't feel like doing much of anything. eventually i... lost control, destroyed a building. luckily, some of the others managed to create a cure to get rid of the infection.

[manifestering]

Interesting
Lethargy is a new symptom
or
An old symptom unrepresented in the vision I encountered
Must wonder if that indicates a newer kind of corruption
Curable without snakes

What manner of cure
?

[laserguy]

i avoided turning into a snake the first time, so maybe the corruption was less powerful? or i just got cured in time.

you'll have to ask the people that work at the clinic. i was kind of out of it, but i remember drinking a nasty ass medicine to stop the symptoms and everything. hopefully they can make more?? especially if some others are hit by that again.

[manifestering]

Oh
Becoming a snake is not a symptom as I understand
It was a solution
Still could be right about the existence of a time limit

A medicine
Strange concept to combat a corruption of data
Very metaphorical

[laserguy]

like if the corruption persisted, the AI would've turned us into snakes? yeah hard pass. also kind of a weird solution to the problem.

[No offense to Dara or anything, she's cool.]

even if it's a corruption of data, it really felt like i was sick. or getting affected by some really bad disease.

[manifestering]

It seemed like desperation
Snakes happened to be there
May as well have been a bird or a rat

I believe you
It makes me wonder where this corruption originates
to have such effects

[laserguy]

i'll pass again. thanks. although, if we managed to make a cure last time, does that mean the AI was able to provide us the correct ingredients without being turned into an animal?

that i don't know. it was different from the glitches. or even the gnosia infection.

[manifestering]

No idea honestly
That is well outside of my wheelhouse
Perhaps Root would better understand the correlation between data and items we can perceive

The gnosia infection
?

[laserguy]

do you know of stem club then? those guys usually seem to figure out something.

happened around july. some people got infected by gnosia, causing them to kill others, even friends. a lot of them look disfigured after a while, transformed by it. different from the corruption though, not to mention that sha-ming said it's from his world and stuff.

[manifestering]

Yes
Root granted me access to their private channel
I trust she will have some insight

Plenty of people kill their friends
Still
strange
Hopefully no plagues of history will join us here

[laserguy]

uh, not normally? i don't go around killing my friends?????

[WHAT DO YOU MEAN.....]

[manifestering]

Not making accusations
Personal bias seeping through
I was killed by a friend

[laserguy]

[bruh.]

okay putting this out there

i think that person is disqualified from calling themselves your friend now.

[wait.] are you saying this happened before coming to aldrip??

[manifestering]

You would think so yes
And yet he has made me a martyr for his own career
How strange

And yes I am a spectre

[laserguy]

[just going to put another person in the 'everyone he knows is dead' category.]

dude tell me that you're haunting him forever.

[manifestering]

Oh fear not I will desolate him yet
Until then
Here
I am rather liberated

[laserguy]

uh, that's good??

you really don't seem like a vengeful ghost right now.

[manifestering]

Not much of a traditional ghost
That is to say lore-compliant
Maintaining an emotional affect is difficult actually

[laserguy]

[that's... good as well??]

cool.

so. what stuff do you like focusing on here? you mentioned feeling liberated.

[manifestering]

That was literal
Previously I was confined and now I am here
That said
Alchemy for the most part

[laserguy]

isn't that a bunch of old stuff? turning lead into gold, finding the philosopher's stone??

[manifestering]

You are not the first to suggest as much
Firstly
Yes
Secondly
What year do you beleive it is
?

[laserguy]

in aldrip?? or for you?

because no idea about... well, either, actually.

aldrip used to be a small town village and now it's this weird city. not to mention the whole simulation thing.

[manifestering]

Unconcerned with the year in this place
That said it is 2214 by my estimation
Where I am from
Many of you are from a place where alchemy is a lost art
Not me obviously

[laserguy]

it's 1983 where i'm from.

so everyone's kind of busy talking about nuclear weapons.

maybe we'll go back to alchemy early if we live in nuclear armageddon after.