Questions/Question 312

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit megatheorem asked on Log - August 2025/Pre Event FAQ at 2025-08-02 Answer date: 2025-08-02	me again, lumping all my questions for my guys into one comment, wheeze pal question: since saturn will be hiatused under the "augmenter maintenance" hiatus model, if pal tried to come and visit her, would he glean anything at all from a little patho-gen visit? see anything, be told anything specific about "augmenter maintenance," etc? or would they just tell him to please not disturb her, go home squidboy.... pal question 2: necromancer edition: following the above question about katalyth music and studying the samples, if he does his necromancer touchy touch thing on a seedling person (since he's not going to approach the main plant and get his ass kicked), would he get any unique reads on The Energies? lorenz question: I'm planning on his shift having either a healing magic effect if some leaves are ingested or a carnivorous plant reaction if otherwise physically touched, so if he were to panic-shift and catch a few seedling plant zombies in his big tree shift, would either of these effects... be effective? and even if chewing the plant parasites out of the seedlings doesn't do anything for them, would it do something to him? octavian question: the new mole and the weird scar. would patho-gen give him medical records of his new body... growth?? transfer?? and what would these say if so? also if he roped in someone with basically xray powers (law) to look at the abdominal scar, would there be anything noteworthy in there, like actually it IS an appendicitis scar? would he be able to tell how old it is? and, horrible: if he cut it open again would he find anything strange... this is a last resort... thaaaank youuu as always	Pal Question #1: Indeed, Patho-Gen staff (dressed in whites; they are of the medical branch!) will advise Palamedes that she is committed for "Augmenter maintenance." What this entails, they don't really know... They are here to care for Saturn, not to monkey with Augmenters. If he wished to visit her, they will instruct him that they have visiting hours as many hospitals do. Saturn will be unconscious. Stable, but unconscious. Staff are strict about visiting hours. Get out when visiting hours are over, after 8pm. No coming back until 8am. 12 hours is plenty. Pal Question #2: Not approaching the main plant is wise. Touching a seedling, one that has branched off of the main plant, will give such a fragment of a glimpse of its past that it's difficult to parse. But perhaps with enough focus, Palamedes could glean that this creature has a history indeed. It is about 50 years old. It offers a great portion of that life underneath artificial lights. The reason light is so important to this creature is that the sun feels novel to it; however, the sun is too intense, it feels. The sun is somehow agitating, but it's not the primary source of agitation. Lorenz Question: Oh dear. Lorenz. That would be a horrific time. To capture plant zombies, particularly Karterian citizens-turned-plamt, would be more likely to simply engulf them into his person. A sort of coffin for an already dying individual... Perhaps his healing abilities would at least mollify them as they're sapped and consumed by his body, their energy drawn into Lorenz's Shifted form. Chewing up any part of the plant will be highly nutritious! Plant zombies (those are citizens, do not forget this!) or part of the plant creature/its smaller pieces are all edible. Octavian Question: There is a removed appendix. It is a real appendicitis scar. The appendix was removed at least 10 years ago. As for medical records, he has the very same records most all Augmented have in the sense that Patho-Gen documents what they find in their newly-Augmented charges. There is... a bit sparser of information regarding the physical condition of Octavian's body upon "recovery" compared to most characters. Not that it would be particularly easy to tell: they will only let Octavian see his own files, but only after being annoyingly bureaucratic about the process ("fill out this form" "wait 5 business days" "moshi moshi this is patho-gen can you give me your first and last name, your first born, your birthday, your blood type" "which documents are you requesting" "do you have a document code for this (nobody knows what the codes are)" "ok wait 3 business days" "sorry what were you looking for again" etc). There is, at least, one small morsel of a prize waiting in those hard-to-obtain files: "Successful implantation." While it might be easy to assume this is referring to the augmenter, this note is under the field documenting the body's condition upon retrieval... Fun!