Log - August 2026
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The Main Event event on 2026 August 5 posted here. This was the event for August 2026.
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| #1
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Answer date: 2026-08-06 |
If anti-gen members are talked to/interrogated (by someone with ruminantia lie-detection), will they confirm that they have no involvement in the katalyth incursion and attacks? Adding on to the answer about creating a dream bubble of the reconsciousness, verso can create light producing things from chroma, if he makes one in a dream bubble, will there be anything to see? if he uses perissodactyla shape-shifting to take on the form of what they are so afraid of/claim they were ignorant of, will that produce anything? |
Anti-Gen members will be firm (if slightly shocked over the accusation) about having not placed any Katalyth, or attacked any Augmented. Their phrasing is particular, and technically true- that they, personally are doing neither of these things. ...Which is indeed very suspicious and not wholly honest. They know what's going on (if not all to the same degree); they're certainly involved with it, but they're still really focused on Patho-Gen being the true culprit. If it weren't for Patho-Gen, none of this would be happening. Anti-Gen themselves won't admit to anything, even if attacked. (Nor will they turn hostile, but will defend themselves/try to talk any aggressor into leaving.) They'll reiterate that they want what's best for Karteria and the Augmented. That is still true, by whatever personal definition they're using. As for Perissodactyla shape-shifting inside the patient dreams... it's hard to give what they're afraid of a concrete shape. It's something disease-ridden and destitute; it's years of being underground, starving and furious and blind; it's being observed from every angle, cut apart and pieced back together, thoughts joined with a myriad of other voices; it's feeding blood to a wolf and knowing that it will obey you hereafter; it's to see everything that was done to lead to this point, and to know that it's hopeless. That it was hopeless centuries ago, and they're just now catching up. Being that this is what the patients are presently experiencing, they won't react to having more of it inside the dream bubble. |
| #2
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Answer date: 2026-08-06 |
The deeds the augmented are being accused of from their past, is that things they believe they did, or things they actually did? | It can be both! Characters can be haunted by things they know they've done, and things that they are innocent of but believe otherwise. (As an extra note, they can also be accused of real things they don't remember doing.) |
| #3
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Answer date: 2026-08-06 |
This one just occurred to me, but - given Fungi souls are stated to be good at absorbing arcane radiation, while Momo is trying to investigate the culprits behind the Katalyth drops could he theoretically also take advantage of this ability to lower the lingering radiation levels in areas the Katalyth was planted by at least a little bit, since the source would've been removed? Also throwing this on here as well - aside from fungi shenanigans, would Momo's sleep dust (which induces dreamless sleep specifically unless he throws his spores in with it) have any appreciable effect on the state of the reawakened meat patients? Likewise, would a positive fungi-induced fever dream provide any reprieve? Edited 2026-08-06 02:00 am (local)
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Given that Fungi are fantastic at radiation absorption, Momo could do a lot for the local environment just by virtue of his presence. With the Katalyth not having been there for very long, he could return things to near-normal. (This will naturally be less effective if Katalyth is deposited somewhere and not noticed for a time. There's only so much one Fungi-network can do....) And his dreamless sleep dust would work to put the meat patients back under. Whenever they wake up, they'll be back to their old nightmare... but their unconscious state would be peaceful and empty, at least. And they'll be physically healthier for being able to sleep without disruption, even if it is unable to fix their mental state. The fungi-spores are... differently effective. They definitely work, but without his direction, the fever dream will only amplify the madness they're already experiencing. A horrifically bad trip, something that's already broken made to find new angles to bleed by. Momo can still control it, however (though it's a bit harder in this case than usual), in which case it'll be more like his wingdust- in that it'll help them for the duration, before reverting to their prior, maddened state. |
| #4
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Answer date: 2026-08-06 |
Ooo! Exciting. And if one were to summon a light, would that be possible or would it be swallowed up by the darkness? (Totally understand if you want to save further details for the log!) | A light could be summoned up, and it would work to briefly illuminate the surrounds. It... looks about as one might expect, given the texture. It's like being inside something alive. There are a disconcerting amount of eyes for anything, but they're all closed; even if touched, they won't react, as though they either don't notice, or are determined to stay shut. The illumination doesn't last for very long before being suffocated by the atmosphere. Rather than being snuffed out entirely, it turns into a streaky, flickering grey, giving the surrounds more of a corpse-like pallor. |
| #5
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Answer date: 2026-08-05 |
Preemptive FAQ |
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| #6
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Answer date: 2026-08-03 |
How is attempting to track/find out more information on those who are smearing the Augmented (or track the source of the Katalyth drops) likely to go, or will there be more info on the post? Momo has his lie detection/enhanced senses and if there'd potentially be a way to get more info out of someone with fungi shenanigans, may be willing to resort to that (though not the fatal variety)... Also on the note of fungi shenanigans, with regard to the Collective Reconscious quest, would him reasserting his fungi presence on people he's infested before go any way to help break them out of the post-coma state? (Or would he be able to get any different sort of vibes from the influence they're under aside from what he felt on during meat rescues?) |
While the smearers are quick to abscond once they've made their speech (or if the tide of opinion around them turns against them), they are still normal people and can be caught by a quick or canny enough Augmented. Doing so in view of the public could still count against the Augmented, if they're too rough or scary about it (even if the Augmented are just defending themselves...). But they are also possible to track. The attackers aren't anyone remarkable. With Arthropoda-senses or similar, it'd be easy to pick up that most of them don't even particularly dislike the Augmented. (Those who perform the physical attacks at night are more heavily skewed towards dislike, but even then there's not many who actually hate them.). Some of the people involved are from the defector camp just outside Karteria. This group is largely after a payout; they've been promised opportunities to live back inside the city, and/or having their criminal history expunged. The rest are a part of the lower-middle class; there's almost no one from the lower classes taking part. These sorts are more idealistic, if anything; they're more likely to believe what they're saying. As for what they're saying: they're all getting their lines, their orders from someone else. The defectors honestly don't know who's behind it, but can be pressed to guess that it's probably someone official. Has to be, right? They don't know if what they're saying is true, and they don't particularly care. Being informed of anything incorrect is met with indifference; they were hired to say some shit, push some Augmented around, they're not vetting it for accuracy. The middle class sorts know more, though it varies from person to person. Some will admit to working for the government, others for Patho-Gen, others for Anti-Gen... and they all seem to believe it? (Or, they might claim one as a lie, and would reveal their truth if caught out at it.) They've all been paid in some way for doing this, whether that's through numis or material goods, or securing business connections. Most of them believe what they're saying about the Augmented, but they're not 'committed'- as in, they think they're doing something akin to honest work, getting these truths into the open air, and will be surprised (if dubious) to hear that it might not all be accurate. A very few are true believers in a strange way; they absolutely refuse to admit who they're working for (apart from claiming that they're doing it at their own initiative, and... mean it?), and largely know whether what they're saying is true or not. They feel that what they're doing is 'necessary'; they're oddly the most sympathetic to the Augmented, but also believe they shouldn't be there. Some have backgrounds in science or bureaucracy, and some just work in shops. There's an almost manic energy to these few, as though they're on the edge of some kind of breakdown, despite being otherwise the most passionate and articulate. In all cases, some group (or groups?) is giving them targets to find among the Augmented, and providing them with information specific to them. For the people performing attacks at night, they're given less information, only physical descriptions and the places they're most likely to be. The source of the Katalyth drops will be much harder to track. Anyone who's caught as a part of the Augmented-smearing won't know anything about it... mostly; it seems that these groups are kept separate. They'll try to keep up the pretense about believing it's the Augmented doing it; some of them might even believe it. (The exception is the odd group of before, who know the Augmented aren't behind it. Besides that, they clamp down hard about it. It's true that they don't know personally who's doing it, but if their actual feelings are forced out of them, they amount to a sense of, "It's not enough." They find it regrettable that the Katalyth was cleaned up.) As for reconnecting with his old fungi spores on the patients, that continues to go... strangely. They still don't listen to him in the way that fresh spores do (Resporing now will work to get the patients to calm down, at least, or otherwise do what he wants- but it's only due to puppetting them into compliance, rather than a genuine 'calm'. If he gives up active control, they will return to a maddened state.). But given that he's the originator of the fungi sporemind, he could force his way into this new 'circle' now that it's awake- but it would try to assimilate Momo back. Those disloyal spores have learned a different song, and Momo could feel the edge of what the meat patients are going through. There's an immense impression of grief and guilt- as though existing itself has put them into crisis, having become a part of something immeasurably wrong, that was broken from the start. It's despair pitched black, and it's hard to see a way out from it- and hard to find any sliver of the patient's mind left inside of it. The voice that they're using might come from their own throat, but it's speaking for something larger than them, something that lacks a thought besides to hurt. His old spores are adding to this voice, and though he could potentially wrest them back into some kind of compliance, they're unable to revive the people they've been growing in. |
| #7
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Answer date: 2026-08-03 |
For the collective reconsciousness, would a perissodactyla be able to manifest what they saw in the form of a dream bubble or peek at their dreams when they sleep to get some knowledge of it? | A Perissodactyla would be very much able to get inside their heads this way! The dream bubbles... they don't show anything promising. It's dark, too dark to see much detail, and in a way that eyes could never adjust to- even if one was possessed of an excellent nightvision. It's like the world itself is restricting sight, squeezing it to its most minimal in the way that breath might be crushed out of a throat. What remains is a pulsing atmosphere, a slow throb in all directions in a deep red. There's space to move, but it feels claustrophobic all the same; there's wetness in most directions, and to press upon it, it's soft and yielding to a point. To move forward is to have the space that's behind disappear- but when it's all the same, it's not much to lose. But there's no desire to move- that's clear immediately. If there had ever been a desire to escape, it has vanished, and besides the Perissodactyla, there's no 'person' in the dream, no individual identity. There's voices in the pulsing, and it's hard to tell whether they're hallucinated or not, something that's been dreamed up for the sake of company. An insane company, but it's there, an utter misery lining the viscera of the bubble. Nothing sensible is being said, it's all echoes of the kinds of things that are being said out loud, muffled through layers of organs. There's a pervasive sense of loss, something that's torn to shreds what had once been an identity, and has been replaced with more pain. Every patient's dream bubble follows the same pattern. Each is experiencing the same thing, solitary cells layered atop one another, their guilt shared through the throbbing of the walls. (As an extra note, Spectrals would also be able to involve themselves in their dreams in some way, though at much greater danger and more cost to themselves. What they would 'see' would be similar, but they would be stuck inside of it, with a greater chance of being overwhelmed and trapped.) |
| #8
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Answer date: 2026-08-02 |
Has the bell ringing and all the effects from it from the last post stopped? | The bell ringing has entirely stopped, and everything it brought with it, yes! The forbidden side of the building is eerily quiet these days.... |
