Editing Questions/Question 490

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|Link=https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/1341.html?thread=670525#cmt670525
|AskedBy=creepyfingers
|DateAsked=2025-09-08
|QuestionText=I'm shuffling my butt back in here betwixt the balance of doing game things, and furthering Florian's Agenda:<br><br>Fantastic! Let's say someone [https://kelesis.dreamwidth.org/5063.html?thread=7764167#cmt7764167 does manage to smuggle] in one of those shards o' Katalyth into the city. I understand Katalyth emanates a dreadful feeling, so I know having too much of it might be easily noticed even by citizens... Are there consequences to storing it in the basement of a shitty townhouse in Gloria?<br><br>Lastly, for the kicker: exposure to Katalyth = arcane radiation poisoning for Karterians, and is generally inadvisable even for Augmented. Let's assume that a character is evil and deliberately tries to embed just a shard of Katalyth into a citizen, like a shard of glass in the foot. So small! What happens?
|DateAnswered=2025-09-08
|AnswerText=<b>Katalyth in a basement:</b> Too much—a concentration of it larger than the size of a golf ball in total, even in fragments—will cause most <i>sensitive</i> Augmented Ones to feel something's amiss. This includes NatSouls that are generally more sensitive to arcane radiation, as well as Augmented who are more empathic in general. Just as described, the feeling will be dreadful. Even Karterian Citizens will walk past the house and feel unwell. Florian himself is a Terra-type; he'll be sensitive to Katalyth, so be wary of that. Characters who go near the Katalyth-haus will feel its dreadful influence even from beyond the front door; the closer they get to the basement, the more repulsive.<br><br><b>Katalyth embedded into a citizen:</b> speedrunning awful. bad florian.<br><br>A larger piece would be incredibly toxic. It would likely ravage the host body so quickly that the individual would go to the hospital, and have the piece found. They would, inevitably, die with that level of contact anyway, even with the intervention... and the doctors aiding them will get that much sicker.<br><br>But a very, very <i>small</i> piece is... both the same, and different story. Eventually, the end result is death. But a small fragment, like a tiny shard of glass embedded into a victim, will result in <b>gradual disfigurement.</b> The signs of your typical arcane radiation poisoning will arise, with black boils, hallucinations, fatigue, and eventual cardiac arrest... but especially Karterians who remain inside of their barrier will be so slowly poisoned, that they'll start to grow teratoma-like masses, or find themselves with extra disfigurement. Their death can be expedited by leaving Karteria, but so too will this cycle of rapid, cancerous growth: beyond the barrier, they'd grow more arms, more legs, more teeth... Within Karteria, the effects are less severe, but the boils they grow will eventually ravage them. The end result is the same: they'll die.
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