Editing Questions/Question 549

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	|QuestionFaqPage=Test Drive Meme - January 2026/Event FAQ
    |Link=https://kelesis.dreamwidth.org/10476.html?thread=11308012#cmt11308012
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    |AskedBy=wondrously
	|DateAsked=2026-01-05
	|QuestionText=For the Destabilization prompt: would the calming techniques the Katalyth talkers/musicians developed [https://alogos.dreamwidth.org/1341.html?thread=619581#cmt619581 here] have any effect on the super nasty Katalyth as far as shrinking it a bit? 
    |DateAnswered=2026-01-05
    |AnswerText=This nasty Katalyth (which I am affectionately calling Dark Katalyth) is like the Katalyth Jayce is used to, on steroids. The sheer amount of dread and despair concentrated into these masses seem to have "aspected" it into sheer agony; it isn't the result of ambient despair and pain, but rather, the direct result of <i>concentrated</i> torment.<br><br>The calming techniques, therefore, are <b>hit or miss.</b> They work sometimes; the Katalyth may respond to the calming techniques by shrinking very slightly, albeit at a pace more sluggish than commonplace deposits of Katalyth. (And a <b>Golem-type</b> like Jayce may have better luck at it.) But other times, these techniques may have the opposite effect, and even agitate the Katalyth into growing and flaring up, as though unable to be calmed. Sometimes, pain and despair responds to soothing by lashing out, like a wound opened up through tenderness. The same is true for this Dark Katalyth.<br><br>It would take intense patience and care that nobody can really afford to give given the urgent circumstances, to truly shrink it down to nothing. But perhaps it might be shrunken down into more manageable specimens.
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