Questions/Question 556

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit yesdoubt asked on Test Drive Meme - January 2026/Event FAQ at 2026-01-05 Answer date: 2026-01-07	Since it sounds like touching Katalyth is still Extremely a no-go, what methods would characters be using to transport the funky Katalyth out from the top of the pillar? edit to add: also does the patho-gen experiment room work like kelesis wrt recording and photography. a.k.a. if i'm making momo a jellyfish cnidaria for the unfitting soul prompt could he take a photo of his cnidsona and still have it after he exits the dreamspace or whatever exactly it is that's goin on Edited 2026-01-05 04:59 pm (local)	Re: Katalyth Handling. The Augmented will still be the most equipped to handle getting close to it, but indeed, in the past Patho-Gen has often advised characters to simply note the location of outcroppings, rather than make any direct contact with it. In these dangerous circumstances, they have to resort to giving characters their own methods. (This probably would have been wise to include in the body of the text; I think I may well put a succinct version of this answer as a highlighted EDIT in the post itself, since I think many may have this question.) This circles back around to this: How has Patho-Gen been handling Katalyth, if it's so dangerous? They will provide the Augmented with as much PPE as they can. Thick suits or gloves; long metal foreceps, so as to keep as much distance between themselves and the Katalyth. Chisels, welder's masks, vests that have the same feeling as those radiation shields used during X-rays. If characters wonder if this is remotely enough to protect the average human from even average Katalyth outcroppings... it wouldn't be remiss to question it. Patho-Gen staff who provide such PPE have scarcely ever had to use it themselves, and for those who have, their contact with Katalyth has ever been fleeting and limited. Too much time around it is dangerous. Strangely, nobody who can be spoken to has ever been tasked with physically going out into the environment to deal with it. Re: the experiment room and photography/recordings. It works similarly to Kelesis! That is to say, recording and photos work with a level of glitchiness to it. Some noise here, something that wasn't originally there in the background over there, a couple silly artifacts but nothing groundbreaking. Momo may absolutely document his Cnidaria-type-sona.