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QuestionText:	So, the Coordinator Carnivora Duo (that is, Dearka and Yzak) are more interested in <i>snooping</i> than looting. Using their considerable home-world experience in ~intelligence gathering~ combined with what they know of Karterian city politics, are there any specific homes of politicians, industrial magnates and/or Patho-Gen management figures that the boys might be able to suss out as good targets worth delving into?<br><br>They’re both pretty cautious and wouldn’t want to repeat the act too many times (since that would risk detection and potentially tank the Augmented’s reputation for everyone), so they’d probably limit themselves to just one, MAYBE two high-priority locations. <br><br>(I can get more into what precise kinds of info they’d be looking for if that’s preferred, I’m never totally sure what the best angle to come at these sort of investigation type questions is... Figured I'd ask what the general flavor of Powerful People they could look into is, first.)<div class="edittime"><em>Edited <span class="datetime"><span class="comment-date-text"> </span> <span title="2026-01-05 02:38 pm (busternaut's time)">2026-01-06 08:38 am (local)</span></span></em></div>
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AnswerText:	OOPS! Discord decided to mark this one as replied to in our chat, and only now did we notice that is not the case! Stellar work. But here we are.<br><br><font face="Comic Sans MS">Welcom...</font> to the homes of rich people. There are indeed a great many politicians who have their roots deep in the city, and the CCD <small>(Coordinator Carn- you get it)</small> may find... a lot of Official Documents! Living trusts, deeds to land, Taxe's, yadda yadda yadda. Even in the houses of Important Figures, there is very little in their homes that are particularly interesting; the wealthiest of the wealthy often keep their important documentation pertaining to <i>business</i> (and thus, the inner workings of the city) in safer places, with accountants and secretaries and, well, <i>other</i> places.<br><br>Snooping in Basileios in general... We can supply a good two "??cool??" things to find, and their locations.<br><br><ol><li>In a towering skyscraper, the top five floors are occupied by the Damon family. Given their proximity to the barrier (that is, Very High Up & close to the edge of the city), they left—but their house is under intense security, guarded by plenty of ServiTons built specifically for the purpose of security.<br><br>During these <i>interesting times,</i> however... the ServiTons are going to be wildly malfunctioning. Once having held fast to their role, they suddenly seem very aware of what they're doing; Dearka and Yzak may find them slumped, their faces static. They spit out garbled phrases, the only coherent bit of them being: <i>"What am I?"</i> ...Best not to engage with them, as if they're spoken to, they brokenly attempt to resume their duties which may involve attempting to subdue and capture intruders.<br><br>The Damon family appears to be a long-standing government family, and one of its members is on the council: Myra Damon. The Damon family is very clearly deeply wound with the existence of Karteria and the Isles of Pathos, and it is clear: the Damon family has been in Orexis since even <b>year 0.</b> Not that they have much to mark that era... but. There is a document that appears to have been unearthed from one such distant time.<br><br><i><tt>"... Ekklisian contacts are becoming reclusive. They talk of a "Mainland," of which there is no premise of its existence, to defend against. If there is such a thing left, it is surely laid to ruin by now."</tt></i> This is an excerpt from a letter from some Damon relative to another, dated to a year so early that it's boggling: 520. (Mind, the current year is 932!) Why this letter appears to be in plain sight... Phew. It <i>is</i> in a locked office—Myra's office, surely.<br><br>Printed logs from computers are laid on the desk beside it: recent attempts at correspondence with Enochlesis, the largest city of Ekklisis. No luck, it seems. These attempts at correspondence appear to have been relayed by way of something akin to Morse code, by the looks of it, though Myra's copies are translated.<br><br>They contain short phrases. 1. <tt>You have breached your own quarantine. This has been documented.</tt> This one was specifically dated to sometime in summer last year—while the Augmented were peering into what Kelesis had to offer. 2. <tt>State your aim.</tt> 3. <tt>Your silence will be construed as hostility. Be aware: our might is greater.</tt> Further context to any of this... is unfortunately missing.</li><br><br><li>Another mighty family takes more of a scientific persuasion, with its members seeming to be very Patho-Gen-oriented. What roles they play in Patho-Gen is anyone's guess; simply by looking at their house, they differ from many of the rich by not having an abundance of valuables. They live in a condo in a high rise, but there's nothing particularly lavish beyond the living quarters themselves.<br><br>This is a solitary member of the Tsakalotos family who lives here: Nestor Tsakalotos. It's kind of creepy how barren his living quarters are of any personal effects... But perhaps in his haste, he left behind a tablet-like monitor that is currently on, logged in. It is about ready to die, however; there isn't much time to dink around. Nestor appears to have a vested interest in <b>extradimensional affairs...</b><br><br>He has a document pulled up from <b>nearly 100 years ago</b> that is detailing the highly-classified experiments that draw a connection between observation that animals appear <i>unbothered</i> by arcane radiation poisoning, aside from some disfigurement... They don't die like humans do. But Nestor seems to have interest specifically in the <i>origins</i> of soul extraction—early experiments that demonstrate the <b>removal and storage of animal and non-human souls.</b> This particular abstract is going over how this procedure <i>fails</i> when used on humans.<br><br>Humans from an unknown source were experimented on. They died. There's a note that the person who accidentally stumbled upon this soul-extracting method, Dr. Knut Svoboda, eventually succumbed to psychosis from his exposure to what are referred to as "extradimensional phenomena." There appears to be an overlap between the extradimensional, and the procedure used to collect souls then imbue them into, well, the Augmented.</li></ol>

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