Questions/Question 474

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit viciousabyss asked on FAQ/Main FAQ at 2025-07-08 Answer date: 2025-07-11	Thank you so much for this info!! We decided sometime late Aug-Sept they're going to find a house (or several with adjoining yards for Maximum Garden) outside the barrier. So no rush to answer these Q's as it's not very time sensitive! As for location, this is a rough idea what I was thinking: <img src="https://i.imgur.com/RhSvQyA.png" max="max" width="500px" class="imageshrink-actualsize"> Assuming that the small village outside the border is about in the rough area of that blue circle and they'd pick a spot (red star) that is near the outskirts of that village, the Karterian barrier, and the Woods. Few quick Q's about this spot: 1. Eli will undergo spectral death in August and then become undead- I read that this makes him immune to some (all?) effects of Katalyth- does that also make him immune to this advanced corruption/mutation that Pom experienced? 2. Does the village outside of the Karterian barrier have their own power/plumbing grid that the boys could tap into, or are they completely off-grid with no electricity or plumbing? 3. Related to that, it looks like there's a river nearby- is this river safe to drink from, wrt Katalyth levels? 4. I'm thinking Eli may try to help out in this village outside the barrier. Is there anything they obviously need aid with? Medical care? Finding food? Do they want aid from the city? He is also going to vibe with the fact that they don't like Patho-Gen... Definitely not Silco level of class war incitement but a little bit as a treat. Edited 2025-07-08 05:52 am (local)	That location should be just fine! As it's outside the barrier, it's up for grabs to any Augmented who want to live out of the city. 1. Being a Proper Spectral at that point would make him largely impervious to arcane radiation, yes. Eli would have to dedicate himself to unwise decisions (never going into Karteria, always being alone outside the barrier) for an extended period of time before he noticed any sort of negative effect (such as more mutations). It would take like an unbroken year of being a hermit in the woods for it to harm him. 2. That decaying village does have its solutions for water and electricity, but they are very limited. Their water supply is from wells, collected rainwater, and the nearby river. All of it requires boiling to be potable (not that this removes the mild levels of radiation from it). They have a few electric generators, older models that still run off of Katalyth (as do their anti-radiation generators... creating more radiation just to survive). Most of the village doesn't have electricity at all- and what they do have is used as a community, rather than attached to any individual home. They barely have enough to go around as it is, and would likely not take terribly well to strangers trying to tap into their resources. 3. The river is lightly contaminated, but Augmented drinking from it shouldn't have any particular trouble handling it. (It might still be a good idea to boil it first, for general health.) 4. The village is honestly in need of everything. Their health is failing more rapidly than that of Karterians inside the barrier- given that they're inherently exposed to much more arcane radiation, their limited generators not anywhere near as effective. Medical supplies (of really any sort) and food are the biggest problems. They are, however, something of a paranoid and skeptical group- and while they could use the help, most would be reluctant to accept it from sources unknown to them. (They're also reluctant to take charity from the city as well, for similar reasons of paranoia. Many still venture into Karteria for brief periods, scrounging up supplies personally- which most view as 'safer' than anything given to them.) Of course, it's not impossible to get to know them, share in the conspiracy theories of the day.