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[h3]Gerhardt, Yggdrasil crime scene[/h3]
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"It's a blood borne disease, as I said, communicable thought direct blood contact or ingestion of infected blood. Initial symptoms of infection are marked by a feeling of euphoric invigoration, followed almost immediately by nightmarish hallucinations lasting...hmmmmm. I'm honestly not sure, hehehehehe. Felt like an eternity. Anywhere between moments and hours. The infected awakens feeling like a new man, with new found strength and endurance. What follows is, and this a purely conjecture from this point on based on personal observation, a muddying of the line between man and beast. In humans it begins in the mind, increased aggression, feelings of paranoia, a sharpening of the killer instinct, bloodlust. From there it seems the body begins to change to better reflect the mind. An increase in size, elongation of the limbs, sharpening of the teeth. All the while the mind continues to degrade until there is no difference between man and beast. The change may be gradual, but I've also observed it to occur incredibly quickly. As though the beast had suddenly thrown off their guise of humanity. I do not know if it is possible to resume a human guise after discarding it completely but I do have reason to believe that," he stops for a moment, looking down at his bound hands. He clinches one of them into a fist a few times before looking back up at her. "That the beast can be used without surrendering to it fully. Just dipping your toe into the well, as it were, instead of plunging right in. Those that have a handle on their infection are essentially indistinguishable from the uninfected except in one regard. There is a sure way tell if someone is a carrier of Beast Plague."

"I'm sure you've noticed that distinctive odor filling this cramped little alleyway." He said, looking around. "That's the smell of beasts. If you smell this that means an infected is nearby. But as terrible as the plague is it is not what I fear most. What I fear most is an outbreak in this city drawing the attention of that I believe to be the origin of this plague. You do not want [i]them[/i] here."