Editing Questions/Question 122

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    |AskedBy=monoceroscaeli
	|DateAsked=2025-08-12
	|QuestionText=Walks in here several months late with Starbucks<br><br>OK so we wanted to actually thread out the decision of whether they'd tell Patho-Gen about Phantasia, and this is <a href="https://enochlesis.dreamwidth.org/5388.html?thread=3237388#cmt3237388">what they decided on.</a><br><br>Ultimately, Childe <b>will tell Patho-Gen that Phantasia still exists</b> but they need their barrier strengthened and maybe some supplies if they can be spared.  He's not going to offer many details outside of that, but he will offer to go himself to create a teleportation point for this to be able to happen if Patho-Gen would like to offer aid.<br><br>He's hoping that if the people can slowly detox from the Katalyth poisoning, maybe some of them will want to come to Karteria where they'll be safer than where they are right now.
    |DateAnswered=2025-08-16
    |AnswerText=1. Patho-Gen will aid in the efforts to build teleporter waypoints to help Augmented Ones make it to Phantasia. This will be helpful if they want to offer any aid to these faraway citizens, who <i>chose</i> to remain there despite the warnings that they needed to seek the shelter Karteria offered.<br><br>2. Their barrier could use a tune-up. This, Patho-Gen would agree with. They take pity on their suspicion of them, and decide it might be best to leave these efforts in the hands of the Augmented. In this case, Patho-Gen will <b>offer whatever they can</b>... Tools, special diagrams that might help with the constructs that create their barrier—something to help improve it compared to the roughshod one they have.<br><br>However, Patho-Gen scientists <b>do not think it possible to undo the effects arcane radiation is having on these people</b>. It hasn't been demonstrated to be possible as of yet... Not to say that they don't think it's valuable to offer them greater protection nonetheless. Even if their mentalities can't be helped, their bodies can be, and their physical health is something worth saving even if they remain paranoid.<br><br>The greatest obstacle Childe and Eli will face in attempting to work on the barrier may be the <b>Phantasians themselves.</b> They are extremely protective over their barrier; one wrong move, and ???? barrier fails?? Sure, the end times are coming, but nobody is allowed to take what life they have left and if that barrier goes down, it's over, right?! It'll require having some grace and patience, as they'll be reluctant to even talk about this save for a solid "no, we don't need your help."<br><br>... At least there's a way to convince them. If they're just waiting for their barrier to break, why not let someone attempt to fix it to avoid that fate? Similarly, Patho-Gen scientists will offer the advice to Eli/Childe that should something go awry with a single beacon that creates the structure of the barrier, it will only <i>weaken</i> the barrier rather than break it. Reasoning with locals that a single mistake won't completely destroy their barrier may help them reluctantly agree to the tune-up.<br><br>3. The people of Phantasia will remain completely reluctant to travel to Karteria, even after the overtures of assistance. The more this idea is pitched, the more they dig in their heels. It is not a friendly subject to them.<br><br>Over time, however, some may reveal <i>something</i> of the reason... And in future, more of this information may come to the forefront: <b>some of their ancestors came from Lupê, very long ago.</b> They are far removed from these ancestors, but citizens of Phantasia have been taught that Lupê rejected technology, and favored taking only what they needed. Moreover, Lupêans did not control nor tame their environment via Controlling magic or industrialization: they grew with it and existed among it. They were a peaceful, rational people who lived within their means, and the city just isn't their vibe! They live here out here to connect with the culture Lupêans had; their ancestors always warned them of the city. A complaint they have of Karterians, and everyone else, is that nobody is willing to <b>"face the music."</b> To them, this means... well, accepting doom.<br><br>(Interestingly, if one returns to Karteria to attempt to trace the lineage of any of these people (obviously using the names of parents or grandparents mentioned, as most individuals in Phantasia have been there since birth at this rate), <b>they are not related to any Lupêans.</b> Most of them, at least: there are a scant few who are. Similarly, their ideas about Lupêan culture is contrary to what Karteria has to say about the militaristic, vicious, unreasonable Lupê.)
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