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Calling

2025-12-08T13:20:48Z

2.215.95.71: Added page on Calling

The native magic of the people of [[Karteria]]. It has been both described as "uncommon"<ref name=":0">https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/1341.html

A primer on living within Karteria -> "Characters can use magic (at least through their Natural Souls), but what about the locals? What's the state of native wizardry?"</ref> and that most "only [have] a marginal personal talent for it<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/1341.html?thread=364093#cmt364093</ref>". The main application in it's pure form seems to be in training animals or instructing them to complete simple tasks<ref name=":0" />. However, it's also combined with science and used to facilitate a lot of the technology within and without the cities, including the barrier, the network and ServiTons<ref name=":0" />.

== Events ==

=== October 2025 ===
During the October Event, Calling was used on Carnivora-, Aves-, Arthropoda-, Ruminantia-, and Reptilia-types within the Patho-Gen facilities to test the predator/prey dynamic. Two characters were given an appetite stimulant and placed in a room, but should one be taken down by the other, Calling was used in an attempt to restrain them. It was most effective on those who had been in Karteria for longer.<ref>https://enochlesis.dreamwidth.org/19927.html?thread=5445079#cmt5445079

NOTHING BEATS A JET2 HOLIDAY -> C. SPECIALIZED TESTING -> CARNIVORA. AVES. ARTHROPODA. RUMINANTIA. REPTILIA.</ref>

=== November 2025 ===
Following this, in November, Calling was used by NPCs on PCs (especially Terra-, Golem-, Spectral-, and Carnivora-types) during the Salvation Parade, to force them to pick up and carry another Augmented<ref>https://kelesis.dreamwidth.org/8246.html?thread=9726518#cmt9726518

BUY ONE GET ONE -> B. COMMEMORATIVE PARADE</ref>.

== Mod Questions relating to Calling ==

=== FAQ ===
[https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/1341.html?thread=321085#cmt321085 What would a wizard be able to "sense" about the types of magic in the setting?]

[https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/1341.html?thread=364093#cmt364093 What's available for research in the libraries relating to legends, fairy tales, mythology type stuff. Specifically involving magic and its origins.]

[https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/1341.html?thread=921917#cmt921917 Does a DND advantage against the charmed condition equate to a lowered susceptibility to Calling magics in Karteria, the mind-control from Patho-Gen, or a force-imprint to Patho-Gen?]

[https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/1341.html?thread=629309#cmt629309 Does Kelesis have the same Calling magic as Karteria?]

Natural souls

2025-12-08T12:40:40Z

2.215.95.71: /* Player souls */

Natural Souls protect [[Augmented]] from [[Arcane Radiation]].

== Types ==
=== Natural Souls ===
* Aves
* Carnivora
* Arthropoda
* Cephalopoda
* Ruminantia
* Glire
* Terra
* Reptilia
* Spectral
* Golem
=== Wild Souls ===
* Fungi
* Perissodactyla
* Cnidaria
* Marsupialia
=== Player souls ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="2" |Type
!style="width:5em"|Count
!style="width:5em"|Initial
!style="width:5em"|Additional
|-
| rowspan="10" |Natural souls
|🦚 Aves
|style="text-align: right"|11
|style="text-align: right"|11
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🐅 Carnivora
|style="text-align: right"|24*
|style="text-align: right"|21
|style="text-align: right"|3
|-
|🦋 Arthropoda
|style="text-align: right"|9
|style="text-align: right"|7
|style="text-align: right"|2
|-
|🐙 Cephalopoda
|style="text-align: right"|5
|style="text-align: right"|4
|style="text-align: right"|1
|-
|🦌 Ruminantia
|style="text-align: right"|4
|style="text-align: right"|4
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🐇 Glire
|style="text-align: right"|5
|style="text-align: right"|5
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🌲 Terra
|style="text-align: right"|14
|style="text-align: right"|14
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🐍 Reptilia
|style="text-align: right"|6
|style="text-align: right"|6
|
|-
|👻 Spectral
|style="text-align: right"|27
|style="text-align: right"|25
|style="text-align: right"|2
|-
|💎 Golem
|style="text-align: right"|8
|style="text-align: right"|8
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
| rowspan="4" |Wild souls
|🍄 Fungi
|style="text-align: right"|2
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|2
|-
|🦏 Perissodactyla
|style="text-align: right"|1
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|1
|-
|🪼 Cnidaria
|style="text-align: right"|1
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|1
|-
|Marsupialia
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> 24 souls, 23 Augmented as 1 Augmented has two Carnivora souls.

Last updated 2025-12-06. <ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/790.html</ref>

== Shifting ==
'''The Temporary Transformation'''

'''(... the more fearsome and monstrous form)'''

Patho-Gen will tell all new Augmented arrivals that their ability to fully transform should be available... now! Yes! Immediately, characters will find that once they tune into the Augmenter implanted in the most vital part of their body, they can tap into the neighboring soul that resides within their body. This is called '''Shifting.''' Shifting is exactly what Patho-Gen wants from Augmented characters, because it gives them those incredible powers!

'''Characters will have a fully bestial figure that they can Shift into at will.''' This form will be monstrous and exhibit the formidable nature of their soul type. For example, one who bears a Cephalopoda-type soul may have many tentacles, slick skin, suckers, an enlarged cranium, the whole kit and kaboodle. Likewise, a Glire-type soul will have their ears, strong legs, sturdy and sharp claws, long teeth, fur... '''This is where Augmented characters are the most monstrous they can look.''' These will be forms that are even more intense than their final, developed corruption (see more about that below), and will gradually drain the user's energy.

Shifting will be mildly uncomfortable for character to engage, and might take some practice at first. But it may feel comfortably intuitive for others who are capable of focusing inward. At first it may be easier to perform a "Half-Shift," where only some of the most monstrous features are engaged, such as a bulky limb with dangerous claws. '''Within two months, characters will be fully capable of harnessing their Shifting abilities. And sometimes, these forms might accidentally be Shifted into during intense emotional outbursts.'''

'''Shifted forms are where ALL of a character's most monstrous traits should be activated.''' They appear most fearsome when Shifted, and are strongest when they're Shifted too. And not only that, but their most '''primal, animal senses will be strongest—and most difficult to ignore.''' With practice, the Augmented will be capable of great things. Two souls are better than one, in this world. And who knows? This is only the beginning.<ref name=":0">https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/2153.html</ref>

== Corruption ==
'''The Permanent Transformation'''

'''(... the everyday look!)'''

Patho-Gen will warn you about this, erm, unfortunate side-effect. With great power comes a small price... if becoming hairy, feathery, scaly, or undead is your idea of a 'small price.'

'''Over the span of FOUR to EIGHT months, all Augmented characters will find themselves gradually corrupted by the soul they've inherited.''' This is what happens when the Natural Soul influences its host, resulting in '''physical, mental, and behavioral changes''' that reflect that of the Natural Soul's. '''These will be permanent changes, separate from their ability to Shift into a monstrous form.''' A Carnivora-type soul will develop a prey drive, distorted dentition, and plenty of fur; a Terra-type will find that down to a cellular level, they've developed plant cells, and may have an instinct to do whatever it takes to survive.

Be warned: '''these will be some painful months.''' Bone, organs, musculature, and even vasculature may distort and twist; bodies will demand a lot of calories, diets may change, hair distribution and texture may change... Their bodies may require new or different resources to survive as they're corrupted by their brand new soul-buddy. How you choose to subject your character to this bodily distortion is up to you, and depending on how much they change, they will experience pain like they've never experienced before.

The nitty-gritty of these changes can be explored on each individual Natural Soul's page, listed above and below. Each soul type is influenced not only by its genus, family, or category, but also with some folklore inspiration. If Patho-Gen is asked ''why'' a person with an Aves-type soul can do things no mere bird could, such as commune with the dead or manipulate wind... who knows! Perhaps there's more to learn about these Natural Souls, eh?<ref name=":0" />

== Soul abilities (WIP) ==
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" |Type
! colspan="6" |Improved/reduced sense
! rowspan="2" |Elemental manipulation/magic
! rowspan="2" |Mental
! colspan="2" |Physical
|-
!
!
!Sight
!Hearing
!Smell
!Taste
!Touch
!Other
!Self
!Others
|-
| rowspan="10" |Natural souls
|🦚 Aves<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3300.html Aves</ref>
| ++
| +
| -
|
|
|Soul and wind sight
| Wind
|Mental coercion through song
|
|
|-
|🐅 Carnivora<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3594.html Carnivora</ref>
|
| ++
| ++
|
|
|
|
|
|Regeneration, healing
|
|-
|🦋 Arthropoda<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4118.html Arthropoda</ref>
|
|
| +
| +
| -/+
|Othersense
(for Katalyth)
| Soul dependant
|Intent detection
|Soul dependant web/silk spinning
|Soul dependant poisons etc.
|-
|🐙 Cephalopoda<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4674.html Cephalopoda</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Water
|Curse placement
|
|
|-
|🦌 Ruminantia<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/5330.html Ruminantia</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Earth, rock
|Lie detection
|Shapeshifting (retain weight)
|Poison breath
|-
|🐇 Glire<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3356.html Glire</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|Shapeshifting (retain weight)
|
|-
|🌲 Terra<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3890.html Terra</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Plants
|Psychotropic type mental effects
|Regeneration
|Type specific: poison, healing, parasitism
|-
|🐍 Reptilia<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4471.html Reptilia</ref>
|
|
|
| +
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|👻 Spectral<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4935.html Spectral</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| One element of:
Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Dark, Electric
|
|Shapeshifting to one of:
bats, wolves, owls, rats, goats, spiders, cats, opossums
|
|-
|💎 Golem<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/5628.html Golem</ref>
|
|
|
|
| -
|
| Earth, metal, rock
|Susceptible to suggestion
|Immunity to poisons
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |Wild souls
|🍄 Fungi<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/11850.html Fungi</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|🦏 Perissodactyla<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/12526.html Perissodactyla</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|🪼 Cnidaria<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/12753.html Cnidaria</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|Marsupialia<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/12130.html Marsupialia (WIP)</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|}

== Additional Souls ==
Additional souls can be obtained with [[Rewards]] points.

These come with flavour text. So far, the following have been received:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Character
!Date
!Type
!Flavour
|-
|Momo (yesdoubt)
|2025-08-10
|Fungi (Wild)
|What Momo hears is particularly unearthly... or particularly ''earthly'', to view it another way. It's like his ears are being clogged with something, distorting everything around him into a dull, oddly-meaty ''throb''. Is it a pulse, or some other kind of beat? It grows louder, closer, and conveys with it a sense of ominous suffocation, as though his own heart, his own essence was being drowned out along with the rest of the world....
It vanishes just as quickly as it came, and the sudden clarity in its wake might be its own form of disorienting. Altogether the experience only lasts for a few minutes, but it might have felt like it took much longer.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=628120#cmt628120 link])
|-
|Johann (hallankind)
|2025-08-06
|Spectral
|wow it turns up i'm not doing flavor text here either
([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=619416#cmt619416 link] lol)
|-
|Northly (northling)
|2025-09-01
|Arthropoda
|Congratulations to Northly on her acquisition of one(1) stray Arthropoda soul!
Along with the immediate pain at the soul's acquisition, she will hear a quiet skittering, chittering sort of noise in the back of her head. It will ''feel'' like something is crawling in there too, a disconcerting sort of invasion, as though her bones were being trampled upon by an uncertain amount of very small, very light legs. It's itchy in the worst sort of way, and the sound builds into a hiss. It's hard to tell whether it's from one or many throats, or whether it's a throat at all that's producing it.

After a handful of minutes it fades away, and Northly is free to enjoy her new soul buddy.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=663192#cmt663192 link])
|-
|Mel (opposed)
|2025-10-18
|Carnivora
|There is always space for more Horrors....
Alongside the considerable discomfort of the wayward soul slotting itself into place, are voices, just at the edge of Mel's hearing. Beyond her hearing, really, as the conversation slips in and out of range.

''"--too simple, too limited..." "...even raising predators for?"''

''"...settled..." "--can be culled, but we can't send just cattle--"''

Even in its near-unintelligibility, it provokes a sense of immense '''frustration.''' But there's nothing to sink your teeth into.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=786584#cmt786584 link])
|-
|Hubert (bloodypath)
|2025-10-18
|Perissodactyla (wild)
|In addition to the physical discomfort, Hubert will also find himself abruptly unconscious. How delightful! He could probably use the rest; holidays are exhausting in their own way.
Hubert should also be used to by now, the carnival version of the Katalyth music. Here it is again, invading his dreams. With it is a bubbling of voices all around him, the conversation of a crowd, just out of sight.

<code>...maybe this will help? Even if, oh-</code>

<code>I think we're too late? ❌ He's already 🥺</code>

<code>We can't take it back that's okay ...</code>

<code>Please take good care of it. 🥹Please take good care of us</code>

...somehow the emojis are audible too. But it ends, and Hubert may awaken, free to explore whatever the hell just happened.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=789400#cmt789400 link])
|-
|Vanitas (bleude)
|2025-10-24
|Spectral
|Vanitas really out there enhancing his lifestyle....
It's barely audible- mostly inaudible, really- but in the midst of that pain as the second soul settles in, there's voices whispered deep in his head.

''"Where do you think-- ...? No one's seen-- .....for years now."''

''"....this again... but it would be convenient-- ...our own."''

With it, even sharper than the pain, is an absolute '''wrath''', a suffocating blackness of utter hatred, but you drown in it before you can drown anything else.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=803480#cmt803480 link])
|-
|Elijah (viciousabyss)
|2025-10-24
|Cephalopoda
|Eli living the luxurious life here, complete with a new soul friend....
When the soul arrives, alongside the requisite pain of its implantation- are voices, just at the edge of his hearing.

''"--you to stop talking with it. It's not real debate- just imitation--"''

''"...when you-- ...it almost looks like it's still intelligent."''

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=803992#cmt803992 link])
|-
|Pom (feistro)
|2025-11-22
|Carnivora
|What is a Pom for, but to fit ever more [https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/file/153723.png dogs] inside?
There's the pain, as this strange new soul slips its way in, finding a home for itself in the cold of the world. But with it are voices, faint and fading, as lost as everything else it had once been.

''"...third time this week. Is this batch faulty... ...the implantation?"''

''"...back yet... but what do you bet we're only using these because there's so many?"''

You feel '''trapped'''. The words mean progressively less to you until there's nothing left.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=870040#cmt870040 link])
|-
|Pal (megatheorem)
|2025-11-29
|Cnidaria (wild)
|A pal to cnidarias the world over, or at least to this specific wayward soul. A sharp pain comes with its implantation, as though on the receiving end of intangible stingers.
In the midst of it is sound, sharp and oddly clear, though piecemeal, as though only fragments have survived of some much greater piece.

It's something ''old''. The conversation clips in and out, but the speakers (at least two of them, but it's hard to tell for certain) sound insistent, even desperate. What they're saying is incomprehensible. But it doesn't feel like gibberish; it's a language, but not the one currently spoken on Pathos, the one that's been implanted inside every Augmented One to ease communication with the locals.

You feel... '''detached'''. This has very much to do with you, but you're indifferent to it. You're patient, and in their haste they will leave an opening. All you have to do is wait.

....The sound cuts off, taking the foreign impressed emotions with it, leaving nothing behind but a sore neck and a new friend.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=893080#cmt893080 link])
|-
|Dorothea (reprisings)
|2025-12-02
|Arthropoda
|The pain is sudden, the sharpness coming all at once, a throb that's in itself almost deafening. At the edges of it are words, like a conversation held at Dorothea's periphery.
''"...surprised, you know. ...things, but the souls, they're as large as...."''

''"... ...heard? ... ....most of the souls we're working with need... .....broken down, allowed to meld together to create something more..... using the result."''

Your head is a mess, as if a thousand different voices were screaming at once, and not in any kind of unison. One after another they die out, until yours is the only one left.<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=917656#cmt917656 Dorothea Arthropoda soul</ref>
|-
|Tighnari (sighnari)
|2025-12-05
|Fungi (wild)
|Has all that effort communing with the mushrooms paid off, or is it a coincidence that Tighnari has gotten himself worse than spored....
No voices accompany the arrival of this soul, only the pain, the burn as it attaches itself, demanding a place even if it had been welcomed in. Which isn't to say that there's not still sound of a sort, though it's more of a ''sensation''. A moment of feeling '''connected''' to the ground beneath him, but in a way that's different from that of his Terra soul.

A sense of being connected to the whole of the island- even radiating beyond it, stretching towards the rest of Pathos, with the faintest of echoes coming from across the ocean. Immense pain comes with it, but it's also... detached, peculiarly endurable, agony turned into an abstract concept. A heightened awareness of Katalyth, of arcane radiation? This feeling of being connected passes quickly, but it leaves a lingering impression of the ''enormity'' of radiation in the world. And that it's '''old'''. New to Pathos, perhaps, but old.<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=922264#cmt922264 Tighnari Fungi soul</ref>
|-
|Rowan (ralliesprotests)
|2025-12-06
|Carnivora
|Unrelated is the sudden attachment of a new soul, a piercing pain in their neck akin to having jaws closed around it. Somehow, rather than aggression it conveys '''desperation.'''
Alongside it is sound, a nearly-inaudible itch of it, in the back of their head.

''"....to train. ....manageable than the first batch. Look, it stopped."''

''"...don't like it. It's eerie... ....malformed, I don't... ....getting out. ... ...the point, to be dangerous, but we need better failsafes than the Calling."''

<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=922520#cmt922520 Rowan Carnivora soul</ref>
|}

Natural souls

2025-12-08T12:39:46Z

2.215.95.71: /* Player souls */

Natural Souls protect [[Augmented]] from [[Arcane Radiation]].

== Types ==
=== Natural Souls ===
* Aves
* Carnivora
* Arthropoda
* Cephalopoda
* Ruminantia
* Glire
* Terra
* Reptilia
* Spectral
* Golem
=== Wild Souls ===
* Fungi
* Perissodactyla
* Cnidaria
* Marsupialia
=== Player souls ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="2" |Type
!style="width:5em"|Count
!style="width:5em"|Initial
!style="width:5em"|Additional
|-
| rowspan="10" |Natural souls
|🦚 Aves
|style="text-align: right"|11
|style="text-align: right"|11
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🐅 Carnivora
|style="text-align: right"|24*
|style="text-align: right"|21
|style="text-align: right"|3
|-
|🦋 Arthropoda
|style="text-align: right"|9
|style="text-align: right"|7
|style="text-align: right"|2
|-
|🐙 Cephalopoda
|style="text-align: right"|5
|style="text-align: right"|4
|style="text-align: right"|1
|-
|🦌 Ruminantia
|style="text-align: right"|4
|style="text-align: right"|4
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🐇 Glire
|style="text-align: right"|5
|style="text-align: right"|5
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🌲 Terra
|style="text-align: right"|14
|style="text-align: right"|14
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🐍 Reptilia
|style="text-align: right"|6
|style="text-align: right"|6
|
|-
|👻 Spectral
|style="text-align: right"|27
|style="text-align: right"|25
|style="text-align: right"|2
|-
|💎 Golem
|style="text-align: right"|8
|style="text-align: right"|8
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
| rowspan="4" |Wild souls
|🍄 Fungi
|style="text-align: right"|1
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|2
|-
|🦏 Perissodactyla
|style="text-align: right"|1
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|1
|-
|🪼 Cnidaria
|style="text-align: right"|1
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|1
|-
|Marsupialia
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> 24 souls, 23 Augmented as 1 Augmented has two Carnivora souls.

Last updated 2025-12-06. <ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/790.html</ref>

== Shifting ==
'''The Temporary Transformation'''

'''(... the more fearsome and monstrous form)'''

Patho-Gen will tell all new Augmented arrivals that their ability to fully transform should be available... now! Yes! Immediately, characters will find that once they tune into the Augmenter implanted in the most vital part of their body, they can tap into the neighboring soul that resides within their body. This is called '''Shifting.''' Shifting is exactly what Patho-Gen wants from Augmented characters, because it gives them those incredible powers!

'''Characters will have a fully bestial figure that they can Shift into at will.''' This form will be monstrous and exhibit the formidable nature of their soul type. For example, one who bears a Cephalopoda-type soul may have many tentacles, slick skin, suckers, an enlarged cranium, the whole kit and kaboodle. Likewise, a Glire-type soul will have their ears, strong legs, sturdy and sharp claws, long teeth, fur... '''This is where Augmented characters are the most monstrous they can look.''' These will be forms that are even more intense than their final, developed corruption (see more about that below), and will gradually drain the user's energy.

Shifting will be mildly uncomfortable for character to engage, and might take some practice at first. But it may feel comfortably intuitive for others who are capable of focusing inward. At first it may be easier to perform a "Half-Shift," where only some of the most monstrous features are engaged, such as a bulky limb with dangerous claws. '''Within two months, characters will be fully capable of harnessing their Shifting abilities. And sometimes, these forms might accidentally be Shifted into during intense emotional outbursts.'''

'''Shifted forms are where ALL of a character's most monstrous traits should be activated.''' They appear most fearsome when Shifted, and are strongest when they're Shifted too. And not only that, but their most '''primal, animal senses will be strongest—and most difficult to ignore.''' With practice, the Augmented will be capable of great things. Two souls are better than one, in this world. And who knows? This is only the beginning.<ref name=":0">https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/2153.html</ref>

== Corruption ==
'''The Permanent Transformation'''

'''(... the everyday look!)'''

Patho-Gen will warn you about this, erm, unfortunate side-effect. With great power comes a small price... if becoming hairy, feathery, scaly, or undead is your idea of a 'small price.'

'''Over the span of FOUR to EIGHT months, all Augmented characters will find themselves gradually corrupted by the soul they've inherited.''' This is what happens when the Natural Soul influences its host, resulting in '''physical, mental, and behavioral changes''' that reflect that of the Natural Soul's. '''These will be permanent changes, separate from their ability to Shift into a monstrous form.''' A Carnivora-type soul will develop a prey drive, distorted dentition, and plenty of fur; a Terra-type will find that down to a cellular level, they've developed plant cells, and may have an instinct to do whatever it takes to survive.

Be warned: '''these will be some painful months.''' Bone, organs, musculature, and even vasculature may distort and twist; bodies will demand a lot of calories, diets may change, hair distribution and texture may change... Their bodies may require new or different resources to survive as they're corrupted by their brand new soul-buddy. How you choose to subject your character to this bodily distortion is up to you, and depending on how much they change, they will experience pain like they've never experienced before.

The nitty-gritty of these changes can be explored on each individual Natural Soul's page, listed above and below. Each soul type is influenced not only by its genus, family, or category, but also with some folklore inspiration. If Patho-Gen is asked ''why'' a person with an Aves-type soul can do things no mere bird could, such as commune with the dead or manipulate wind... who knows! Perhaps there's more to learn about these Natural Souls, eh?<ref name=":0" />

== Soul abilities (WIP) ==
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" |Type
! colspan="6" |Improved/reduced sense
! rowspan="2" |Elemental manipulation/magic
! rowspan="2" |Mental
! colspan="2" |Physical
|-
!
!
!Sight
!Hearing
!Smell
!Taste
!Touch
!Other
!Self
!Others
|-
| rowspan="10" |Natural souls
|🦚 Aves<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3300.html Aves</ref>
| ++
| +
| -
|
|
|Soul and wind sight
| Wind
|Mental coercion through song
|
|
|-
|🐅 Carnivora<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3594.html Carnivora</ref>
|
| ++
| ++
|
|
|
|
|
|Regeneration, healing
|
|-
|🦋 Arthropoda<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4118.html Arthropoda</ref>
|
|
| +
| +
| -/+
|Othersense
(for Katalyth)
| Soul dependant
|Intent detection
|Soul dependant web/silk spinning
|Soul dependant poisons etc.
|-
|🐙 Cephalopoda<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4674.html Cephalopoda</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Water
|Curse placement
|
|
|-
|🦌 Ruminantia<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/5330.html Ruminantia</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Earth, rock
|Lie detection
|Shapeshifting (retain weight)
|Poison breath
|-
|🐇 Glire<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3356.html Glire</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|Shapeshifting (retain weight)
|
|-
|🌲 Terra<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3890.html Terra</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Plants
|Psychotropic type mental effects
|Regeneration
|Type specific: poison, healing, parasitism
|-
|🐍 Reptilia<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4471.html Reptilia</ref>
|
|
|
| +
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|👻 Spectral<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4935.html Spectral</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| One element of:
Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Dark, Electric
|
|Shapeshifting to one of:
bats, wolves, owls, rats, goats, spiders, cats, opossums
|
|-
|💎 Golem<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/5628.html Golem</ref>
|
|
|
|
| -
|
| Earth, metal, rock
|Susceptible to suggestion
|Immunity to poisons
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |Wild souls
|🍄 Fungi<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/11850.html Fungi</ref>
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|-
|🦏 Perissodactyla<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/12526.html Perissodactyla</ref>
|
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|
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|
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|-
|🪼 Cnidaria<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/12753.html Cnidaria</ref>
|
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|-
|Marsupialia<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/12130.html Marsupialia (WIP)</ref>
|
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|
|
|}

== Additional Souls ==
Additional souls can be obtained with [[Rewards]] points.

These come with flavour text. So far, the following have been received:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Character
!Date
!Type
!Flavour
|-
|Momo (yesdoubt)
|2025-08-10
|Fungi (Wild)
|What Momo hears is particularly unearthly... or particularly ''earthly'', to view it another way. It's like his ears are being clogged with something, distorting everything around him into a dull, oddly-meaty ''throb''. Is it a pulse, or some other kind of beat? It grows louder, closer, and conveys with it a sense of ominous suffocation, as though his own heart, his own essence was being drowned out along with the rest of the world....
It vanishes just as quickly as it came, and the sudden clarity in its wake might be its own form of disorienting. Altogether the experience only lasts for a few minutes, but it might have felt like it took much longer.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=628120#cmt628120 link])
|-
|Johann (hallankind)
|2025-08-06
|Spectral
|wow it turns up i'm not doing flavor text here either
([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=619416#cmt619416 link] lol)
|-
|Northly (northling)
|2025-09-01
|Arthropoda
|Congratulations to Northly on her acquisition of one(1) stray Arthropoda soul!
Along with the immediate pain at the soul's acquisition, she will hear a quiet skittering, chittering sort of noise in the back of her head. It will ''feel'' like something is crawling in there too, a disconcerting sort of invasion, as though her bones were being trampled upon by an uncertain amount of very small, very light legs. It's itchy in the worst sort of way, and the sound builds into a hiss. It's hard to tell whether it's from one or many throats, or whether it's a throat at all that's producing it.

After a handful of minutes it fades away, and Northly is free to enjoy her new soul buddy.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=663192#cmt663192 link])
|-
|Mel (opposed)
|2025-10-18
|Carnivora
|There is always space for more Horrors....
Alongside the considerable discomfort of the wayward soul slotting itself into place, are voices, just at the edge of Mel's hearing. Beyond her hearing, really, as the conversation slips in and out of range.

''"--too simple, too limited..." "...even raising predators for?"''

''"...settled..." "--can be culled, but we can't send just cattle--"''

Even in its near-unintelligibility, it provokes a sense of immense '''frustration.''' But there's nothing to sink your teeth into.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=786584#cmt786584 link])
|-
|Hubert (bloodypath)
|2025-10-18
|Perissodactyla (wild)
|In addition to the physical discomfort, Hubert will also find himself abruptly unconscious. How delightful! He could probably use the rest; holidays are exhausting in their own way.
Hubert should also be used to by now, the carnival version of the Katalyth music. Here it is again, invading his dreams. With it is a bubbling of voices all around him, the conversation of a crowd, just out of sight.

<code>...maybe this will help? Even if, oh-</code>

<code>I think we're too late? ❌ He's already 🥺</code>

<code>We can't take it back that's okay ...</code>

<code>Please take good care of it. 🥹Please take good care of us</code>

...somehow the emojis are audible too. But it ends, and Hubert may awaken, free to explore whatever the hell just happened.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=789400#cmt789400 link])
|-
|Vanitas (bleude)
|2025-10-24
|Spectral
|Vanitas really out there enhancing his lifestyle....
It's barely audible- mostly inaudible, really- but in the midst of that pain as the second soul settles in, there's voices whispered deep in his head.

''"Where do you think-- ...? No one's seen-- .....for years now."''

''"....this again... but it would be convenient-- ...our own."''

With it, even sharper than the pain, is an absolute '''wrath''', a suffocating blackness of utter hatred, but you drown in it before you can drown anything else.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=803480#cmt803480 link])
|-
|Elijah (viciousabyss)
|2025-10-24
|Cephalopoda
|Eli living the luxurious life here, complete with a new soul friend....
When the soul arrives, alongside the requisite pain of its implantation- are voices, just at the edge of his hearing.

''"--you to stop talking with it. It's not real debate- just imitation--"''

''"...when you-- ...it almost looks like it's still intelligent."''

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=803992#cmt803992 link])
|-
|Pom (feistro)
|2025-11-22
|Carnivora
|What is a Pom for, but to fit ever more [https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/file/153723.png dogs] inside?
There's the pain, as this strange new soul slips its way in, finding a home for itself in the cold of the world. But with it are voices, faint and fading, as lost as everything else it had once been.

''"...third time this week. Is this batch faulty... ...the implantation?"''

''"...back yet... but what do you bet we're only using these because there's so many?"''

You feel '''trapped'''. The words mean progressively less to you until there's nothing left.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=870040#cmt870040 link])
|-
|Pal (megatheorem)
|2025-11-29
|Cnidaria (wild)
|A pal to cnidarias the world over, or at least to this specific wayward soul. A sharp pain comes with its implantation, as though on the receiving end of intangible stingers.
In the midst of it is sound, sharp and oddly clear, though piecemeal, as though only fragments have survived of some much greater piece.

It's something ''old''. The conversation clips in and out, but the speakers (at least two of them, but it's hard to tell for certain) sound insistent, even desperate. What they're saying is incomprehensible. But it doesn't feel like gibberish; it's a language, but not the one currently spoken on Pathos, the one that's been implanted inside every Augmented One to ease communication with the locals.

You feel... '''detached'''. This has very much to do with you, but you're indifferent to it. You're patient, and in their haste they will leave an opening. All you have to do is wait.

....The sound cuts off, taking the foreign impressed emotions with it, leaving nothing behind but a sore neck and a new friend.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=893080#cmt893080 link])
|-
|Dorothea (reprisings)
|2025-12-02
|Arthropoda
|The pain is sudden, the sharpness coming all at once, a throb that's in itself almost deafening. At the edges of it are words, like a conversation held at Dorothea's periphery.
''"...surprised, you know. ...things, but the souls, they're as large as...."''

''"... ...heard? ... ....most of the souls we're working with need... .....broken down, allowed to meld together to create something more..... using the result."''

Your head is a mess, as if a thousand different voices were screaming at once, and not in any kind of unison. One after another they die out, until yours is the only one left.<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=917656#cmt917656 Dorothea Arthropoda soul</ref>
|-
|Tighnari (sighnari)
|2025-12-05
|Fungi (wild)
|Has all that effort communing with the mushrooms paid off, or is it a coincidence that Tighnari has gotten himself worse than spored....
No voices accompany the arrival of this soul, only the pain, the burn as it attaches itself, demanding a place even if it had been welcomed in. Which isn't to say that there's not still sound of a sort, though it's more of a ''sensation''. A moment of feeling '''connected''' to the ground beneath him, but in a way that's different from that of his Terra soul.

A sense of being connected to the whole of the island- even radiating beyond it, stretching towards the rest of Pathos, with the faintest of echoes coming from across the ocean. Immense pain comes with it, but it's also... detached, peculiarly endurable, agony turned into an abstract concept. A heightened awareness of Katalyth, of arcane radiation? This feeling of being connected passes quickly, but it leaves a lingering impression of the ''enormity'' of radiation in the world. And that it's '''old'''. New to Pathos, perhaps, but old.<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=922264#cmt922264 Tighnari Fungi soul</ref>
|-
|Rowan (ralliesprotests)
|2025-12-06
|Carnivora
|Unrelated is the sudden attachment of a new soul, a piercing pain in their neck akin to having jaws closed around it. Somehow, rather than aggression it conveys '''desperation.'''
Alongside it is sound, a nearly-inaudible itch of it, in the back of their head.

''"....to train. ....manageable than the first batch. Look, it stopped."''

''"...don't like it. It's eerie... ....malformed, I don't... ....getting out. ... ...the point, to be dangerous, but we need better failsafes than the Calling."''

<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=922520#cmt922520 Rowan Carnivora soul</ref>
|}

Natural souls

2025-12-08T12:37:40Z

2.215.95.71: /* Player souls */ added Rowan/complete up until 2025-12-06 GMT

Natural Souls protect [[Augmented]] from [[Arcane Radiation]].

== Types ==
=== Natural Souls ===
* Aves
* Carnivora
* Arthropoda
* Cephalopoda
* Ruminantia
* Glire
* Terra
* Reptilia
* Spectral
* Golem
=== Wild Souls ===
* Fungi
* Perissodactyla
* Cnidaria
* Marsupialia
=== Player souls ===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
! colspan="2" |Type
!style="width:5em"|Count
!style="width:5em"|Initial
!style="width:5em"|Additional
|-
| rowspan="10" |Natural souls
|🦚 Aves
|style="text-align: right"|11
|style="text-align: right"|11
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🐅 Carnivora
|style="text-align: right"|24*
|style="text-align: right"|21
|style="text-align: right"|3
|-
|🦋 Arthropoda
|style="text-align: right"|9
|style="text-align: right"|7
|style="text-align: right"|2
|-
|🐙 Cephalopoda
|style="text-align: right"|5
|style="text-align: right"|4
|style="text-align: right"|1
|-
|🦌 Ruminantia
|style="text-align: right"|4
|style="text-align: right"|4
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🐇 Glire
|style="text-align: right"|5
|style="text-align: right"|5
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🌲 Terra
|style="text-align: right"|14
|style="text-align: right"|14
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
|🐍 Reptilia
|style="text-align: right"|6
|style="text-align: right"|6
|
|-
|👻 Spectral
|style="text-align: right"|27
|style="text-align: right"|25
|style="text-align: right"|2
|-
|💎 Golem
|style="text-align: right"|8
|style="text-align: right"|8
|style="text-align: right"|
|-
| rowspan="4" |Wild souls
|🍄 Fungi
|style="text-align: right"|1
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|1
|-
|🦏 Perissodactyla
|style="text-align: right"|1
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|1
|-
|🪼 Cnidaria
|style="text-align: right"|1
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|1
|-
|Marsupialia
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|
|style="text-align: right"|
|}
<nowiki>*</nowiki> 24 souls, 23 Augmented as 1 Augmented has two Carnivora souls.

Last updated 2025-12-06. <ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/790.html</ref>

== Shifting ==
'''The Temporary Transformation'''

'''(... the more fearsome and monstrous form)'''

Patho-Gen will tell all new Augmented arrivals that their ability to fully transform should be available... now! Yes! Immediately, characters will find that once they tune into the Augmenter implanted in the most vital part of their body, they can tap into the neighboring soul that resides within their body. This is called '''Shifting.''' Shifting is exactly what Patho-Gen wants from Augmented characters, because it gives them those incredible powers!

'''Characters will have a fully bestial figure that they can Shift into at will.''' This form will be monstrous and exhibit the formidable nature of their soul type. For example, one who bears a Cephalopoda-type soul may have many tentacles, slick skin, suckers, an enlarged cranium, the whole kit and kaboodle. Likewise, a Glire-type soul will have their ears, strong legs, sturdy and sharp claws, long teeth, fur... '''This is where Augmented characters are the most monstrous they can look.''' These will be forms that are even more intense than their final, developed corruption (see more about that below), and will gradually drain the user's energy.

Shifting will be mildly uncomfortable for character to engage, and might take some practice at first. But it may feel comfortably intuitive for others who are capable of focusing inward. At first it may be easier to perform a "Half-Shift," where only some of the most monstrous features are engaged, such as a bulky limb with dangerous claws. '''Within two months, characters will be fully capable of harnessing their Shifting abilities. And sometimes, these forms might accidentally be Shifted into during intense emotional outbursts.'''

'''Shifted forms are where ALL of a character's most monstrous traits should be activated.''' They appear most fearsome when Shifted, and are strongest when they're Shifted too. And not only that, but their most '''primal, animal senses will be strongest—and most difficult to ignore.''' With practice, the Augmented will be capable of great things. Two souls are better than one, in this world. And who knows? This is only the beginning.<ref name=":0">https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/2153.html</ref>

== Corruption ==
'''The Permanent Transformation'''

'''(... the everyday look!)'''

Patho-Gen will warn you about this, erm, unfortunate side-effect. With great power comes a small price... if becoming hairy, feathery, scaly, or undead is your idea of a 'small price.'

'''Over the span of FOUR to EIGHT months, all Augmented characters will find themselves gradually corrupted by the soul they've inherited.''' This is what happens when the Natural Soul influences its host, resulting in '''physical, mental, and behavioral changes''' that reflect that of the Natural Soul's. '''These will be permanent changes, separate from their ability to Shift into a monstrous form.''' A Carnivora-type soul will develop a prey drive, distorted dentition, and plenty of fur; a Terra-type will find that down to a cellular level, they've developed plant cells, and may have an instinct to do whatever it takes to survive.

Be warned: '''these will be some painful months.''' Bone, organs, musculature, and even vasculature may distort and twist; bodies will demand a lot of calories, diets may change, hair distribution and texture may change... Their bodies may require new or different resources to survive as they're corrupted by their brand new soul-buddy. How you choose to subject your character to this bodily distortion is up to you, and depending on how much they change, they will experience pain like they've never experienced before.

The nitty-gritty of these changes can be explored on each individual Natural Soul's page, listed above and below. Each soul type is influenced not only by its genus, family, or category, but also with some folklore inspiration. If Patho-Gen is asked ''why'' a person with an Aves-type soul can do things no mere bird could, such as commune with the dead or manipulate wind... who knows! Perhaps there's more to learn about these Natural Souls, eh?<ref name=":0" />

== Soul abilities (WIP) ==
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" |Type
! colspan="6" |Improved/reduced sense
! rowspan="2" |Elemental manipulation/magic
! rowspan="2" |Mental
! colspan="2" |Physical
|-
!
!
!Sight
!Hearing
!Smell
!Taste
!Touch
!Other
!Self
!Others
|-
| rowspan="10" |Natural souls
|🦚 Aves<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3300.html Aves</ref>
| ++
| +
| -
|
|
|Soul and wind sight
| Wind
|Mental coercion through song
|
|
|-
|🐅 Carnivora<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3594.html Carnivora</ref>
|
| ++
| ++
|
|
|
|
|
|Regeneration, healing
|
|-
|🦋 Arthropoda<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4118.html Arthropoda</ref>
|
|
| +
| +
| -/+
|Othersense
(for Katalyth)
| Soul dependant
|Intent detection
|Soul dependant web/silk spinning
|Soul dependant poisons etc.
|-
|🐙 Cephalopoda<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4674.html Cephalopoda</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Water
|Curse placement
|
|
|-
|🦌 Ruminantia<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/5330.html Ruminantia</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Earth, rock
|Lie detection
|Shapeshifting (retain weight)
|Poison breath
|-
|🐇 Glire<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3356.html Glire</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|Shapeshifting (retain weight)
|
|-
|🌲 Terra<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/3890.html Terra</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| Plants
|Psychotropic type mental effects
|Regeneration
|Type specific: poison, healing, parasitism
|-
|🐍 Reptilia<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4471.html Reptilia</ref>
|
|
|
| +
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|👻 Spectral<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/4935.html Spectral</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
| One element of:
Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Dark, Electric
|
|Shapeshifting to one of:
bats, wolves, owls, rats, goats, spiders, cats, opossums
|
|-
|💎 Golem<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/5628.html Golem</ref>
|
|
|
|
| -
|
| Earth, metal, rock
|Susceptible to suggestion
|Immunity to poisons
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |Wild souls
|🍄 Fungi<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/11850.html Fungi</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|🦏 Perissodactyla<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/12526.html Perissodactyla</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|🪼 Cnidaria<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/12753.html Cnidaria</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|-
|Marsupialia<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/12130.html Marsupialia (WIP)</ref>
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|}

== Additional Souls ==
Additional souls can be obtained with [[Rewards]] points.

These come with flavour text. So far, the following have been received:
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Character
!Date
!Type
!Flavour
|-
|Momo (yesdoubt)
|2025-08-10
|Fungi (Wild)
|What Momo hears is particularly unearthly... or particularly ''earthly'', to view it another way. It's like his ears are being clogged with something, distorting everything around him into a dull, oddly-meaty ''throb''. Is it a pulse, or some other kind of beat? It grows louder, closer, and conveys with it a sense of ominous suffocation, as though his own heart, his own essence was being drowned out along with the rest of the world....
It vanishes just as quickly as it came, and the sudden clarity in its wake might be its own form of disorienting. Altogether the experience only lasts for a few minutes, but it might have felt like it took much longer.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=628120#cmt628120 link])
|-
|Johann (hallankind)
|2025-08-06
|Spectral
|wow it turns up i'm not doing flavor text here either
([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=619416#cmt619416 link] lol)
|-
|Northly (northling)
|2025-09-01
|Arthropoda
|Congratulations to Northly on her acquisition of one(1) stray Arthropoda soul!
Along with the immediate pain at the soul's acquisition, she will hear a quiet skittering, chittering sort of noise in the back of her head. It will ''feel'' like something is crawling in there too, a disconcerting sort of invasion, as though her bones were being trampled upon by an uncertain amount of very small, very light legs. It's itchy in the worst sort of way, and the sound builds into a hiss. It's hard to tell whether it's from one or many throats, or whether it's a throat at all that's producing it.

After a handful of minutes it fades away, and Northly is free to enjoy her new soul buddy.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=663192#cmt663192 link])
|-
|Mel (opposed)
|2025-10-18
|Carnivora
|There is always space for more Horrors....
Alongside the considerable discomfort of the wayward soul slotting itself into place, are voices, just at the edge of Mel's hearing. Beyond her hearing, really, as the conversation slips in and out of range.

''"--too simple, too limited..." "...even raising predators for?"''

''"...settled..." "--can be culled, but we can't send just cattle--"''

Even in its near-unintelligibility, it provokes a sense of immense '''frustration.''' But there's nothing to sink your teeth into.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=786584#cmt786584 link])
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|Hubert (bloodypath)
|2025-10-18
|Perissodactyla (wild)
|In addition to the physical discomfort, Hubert will also find himself abruptly unconscious. How delightful! He could probably use the rest; holidays are exhausting in their own way.
Hubert should also be used to by now, the carnival version of the Katalyth music. Here it is again, invading his dreams. With it is a bubbling of voices all around him, the conversation of a crowd, just out of sight.

<code>...maybe this will help? Even if, oh-</code>

<code>I think we're too late? ❌ He's already 🥺</code>

<code>We can't take it back that's okay ...</code>

<code>Please take good care of it. 🥹Please take good care of us</code>

...somehow the emojis are audible too. But it ends, and Hubert may awaken, free to explore whatever the hell just happened.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=789400#cmt789400 link])
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|Vanitas (bleude)
|2025-10-24
|Spectral
|Vanitas really out there enhancing his lifestyle....
It's barely audible- mostly inaudible, really- but in the midst of that pain as the second soul settles in, there's voices whispered deep in his head.

''"Where do you think-- ...? No one's seen-- .....for years now."''

''"....this again... but it would be convenient-- ...our own."''

With it, even sharper than the pain, is an absolute '''wrath''', a suffocating blackness of utter hatred, but you drown in it before you can drown anything else.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=803480#cmt803480 link])
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|Elijah (viciousabyss)
|2025-10-24
|Cephalopoda
|Eli living the luxurious life here, complete with a new soul friend....
When the soul arrives, alongside the requisite pain of its implantation- are voices, just at the edge of his hearing.

''"--you to stop talking with it. It's not real debate- just imitation--"''

''"...when you-- ...it almost looks like it's still intelligent."''

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=803992#cmt803992 link])
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|Pom (feistro)
|2025-11-22
|Carnivora
|What is a Pom for, but to fit ever more [https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/file/153723.png dogs] inside?
There's the pain, as this strange new soul slips its way in, finding a home for itself in the cold of the world. But with it are voices, faint and fading, as lost as everything else it had once been.

''"...third time this week. Is this batch faulty... ...the implantation?"''

''"...back yet... but what do you bet we're only using these because there's so many?"''

You feel '''trapped'''. The words mean progressively less to you until there's nothing left.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=870040#cmt870040 link])
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|Pal (megatheorem)
|2025-11-29
|Cnidaria (wild)
|A pal to cnidarias the world over, or at least to this specific wayward soul. A sharp pain comes with its implantation, as though on the receiving end of intangible stingers.
In the midst of it is sound, sharp and oddly clear, though piecemeal, as though only fragments have survived of some much greater piece.

It's something ''old''. The conversation clips in and out, but the speakers (at least two of them, but it's hard to tell for certain) sound insistent, even desperate. What they're saying is incomprehensible. But it doesn't feel like gibberish; it's a language, but not the one currently spoken on Pathos, the one that's been implanted inside every Augmented One to ease communication with the locals.

You feel... '''detached'''. This has very much to do with you, but you're indifferent to it. You're patient, and in their haste they will leave an opening. All you have to do is wait.

....The sound cuts off, taking the foreign impressed emotions with it, leaving nothing behind but a sore neck and a new friend.

([https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=893080#cmt893080 link])
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|Dorothea (reprisings)
|2025-12-02
|Arthropoda
|The pain is sudden, the sharpness coming all at once, a throb that's in itself almost deafening. At the edges of it are words, like a conversation held at Dorothea's periphery.
''"...surprised, you know. ...things, but the souls, they're as large as...."''

''"... ...heard? ... ....most of the souls we're working with need... .....broken down, allowed to meld together to create something more..... using the result."''

Your head is a mess, as if a thousand different voices were screaming at once, and not in any kind of unison. One after another they die out, until yours is the only one left.<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=917656#cmt917656 Dorothea Arthropoda soul</ref>
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|Tighnari (sighnari)
|2025-12-05
|Fungi (wild)
|Has all that effort communing with the mushrooms paid off, or is it a coincidence that Tighnari has gotten himself worse than spored....
No voices accompany the arrival of this soul, only the pain, the burn as it attaches itself, demanding a place even if it had been welcomed in. Which isn't to say that there's not still sound of a sort, though it's more of a ''sensation''. A moment of feeling '''connected''' to the ground beneath him, but in a way that's different from that of his Terra soul.

A sense of being connected to the whole of the island- even radiating beyond it, stretching towards the rest of Pathos, with the faintest of echoes coming from across the ocean. Immense pain comes with it, but it's also... detached, peculiarly endurable, agony turned into an abstract concept. A heightened awareness of Katalyth, of arcane radiation? This feeling of being connected passes quickly, but it leaves a lingering impression of the ''enormity'' of radiation in the world. And that it's '''old'''. New to Pathos, perhaps, but old.<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=922264#cmt922264 Tighnari Fungi soul</ref>
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|Rowan (ralliesprotests)
|2025-12-06
|Carnivora
|Unrelated is the sudden attachment of a new soul, a piercing pain in their neck akin to having jaws closed around it. Somehow, rather than aggression it conveys '''desperation.'''
Alongside it is sound, a nearly-inaudible itch of it, in the back of their head.

''"....to train. ....manageable than the first batch. Look, it stopped."''

''"...don't like it. It's eerie... ....malformed, I don't... ....getting out. ... ...the point, to be dangerous, but we need better failsafes than the Calling."''

<ref>https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/7832.html?thread=922520#cmt922520 Rowan Carnivora soul</ref>
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