Session

Myriad Reality

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Curtis: Not specific enough information, unfortunately. It’s a big step but it’s a long way from solving the problem. Know where it might have come from?

@Crew

I'll work on tracking it down. Most importantly, I want to find some kind of cure.

Myriad Reality

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Curtis: Let me know if you need any additional resources.

@Crew

I won't say no if you know a guy.
*The fringes of my jacket discolor, as if briefly exposed to flame*

Myriad Reality

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Curtis: Makes sense on a few fronts if that’s the case. Has it given you any ideas?

@Crew

I'm looking into how we might be able to quarantine these energies, if it's possible at all. Otherwise, finding someone who can put it out is the move.

Myriad Reality

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*You hear a very brief spat of static*
Curtis: General Curtis.

@Crew

I've got new intel for you. The effects of this disease are unique, directly burning away at the mental energy of these people through some sort of metaphysical interface. As soon as a target reaches a few feet from an affected individual, the effect spreads to their energy as well, using the individual as a fuel to sustain itself.

Myriad Reality

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*It heavily favors the incorporeal*

@N Mity

I'm going to make a call.
*Steps outside*
Hey, general?

Myriad Reality

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*It doesn’t present itself as being any more than several feet*

@N Mity

Last thing...
*Separates the mental energies being attacked into their own requisite layers, including physically driven energies, emotional energies, metaphysical energies, among others, and compares the concentration of burning between each layer*

Myriad Reality

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*Nothing indicates the likelihood of either- the flames themselves seem self-sustaining, using all it burs as a fuel source in itself*

@N Mity

*Checks the range of their area of effect*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks down at the note before grabbing a folding chair within arms reach, pulling it over to myself and almost falling into it*
Sure...
*No force actively impedes you from doing so, but no matter how efficiently your internal life forces become organized and separated from each other, something intangible continues to cause decay to all, as though the harm is being done to more than just your life itself*

@N Mity

*My energies begin to emit small pulses that resonate with other life forces, searching for the possibility of a living creature that may be sustaining the flames, while at the same time searching the planet below me exploring any indication of the land itself being alive*

Myriad Reality

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*The correlation appears to be exactly what you would expect- The volume of the former has no influence on the burning, but the "surface area" over which it occupies does have a positive correlation*

@N Mity

*Sits down, crosses my legs, and closes my eyes, folding my palms together and extending my middle and index fingers, as well as my thumb*
Hey you, if this kills me, give this to the IA. I've got a transmitter you can use.
*Retrieves a notepad from my toolbag and scribbles down some notes before taking a deep breath and starting to separate my own energies within myself, point by point, isolating those burning to the left from those untouched to the right*

Myriad Reality

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*This variable seems to not influence the rate of anything that is happening*
You seem to-
*Coughs*
Be deep in th... In thought.

@N Mity

I'm about to be a whole lot more focused. The good news for you is that your body's fine.
*Changes the view to that of spheres of influence, triggering a hazy, liquidy aura that replaces the movement of particles where more concentrated regions become thicker, deeper, and more opaque, and looks for a correlation between the burning mental energy and its proximity to more concentrated black energy*