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QuestionText:	[https://kelesis.dreamwidth.org/8246.html?thread=10024246#cmt10024246 Back in November] Sheryl had the idea that (1) some of the original Augmented likely came from marginalized areas of Karteria twenty-five years ago and (2) they might still have friends/family who remember something about them. Since then, she's increasingly spent time performing in East Sophia and asking adults if they remember anything about the original Augmented or if they had friends/family who disappeared about twenty-five years ago. She's also occasionally hummed tiny bits of Peacock's reassurance song to see if it triggers anything. [https://kelesis.dreamwidth.org/8246.html?thread=10024246#cmt10024246 Malkuth has been asking similar questions, including also in Gloria] and [https://kelesis.dreamwidth.org/8246.html?thread=10073910#cmt10073910 Five asked once or twice but was too much of a slacker to do it more than that]. <br><br>Would this have turned up any notable reactions or information?
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AnswerText:	So sorry it's taken a while to get back to this. It's a process. Bear with us!<br><br>I love this line of investigation, and here are the sorts of responses characters might get if they try it often enough! In East Sophia, many citizens won't know much about this and won't be able to provide anything... but there will be <i>some</i> who attest to this: yes, they had family members who became Augmented. These same family members were sicker than hell, they say; one citizen might remark that it was his father who became Augmented, who tried his best to provide what he could by working on ships before that became too dangerous. He fell ill with arcane radiation poisoning, predictably... and before he knew it, he received news that he'd been <i>helped</i> by way of this Augmenting process.<br><br>What he can recall from when he was a boy is that he got to meet his father "before the fur and claws really started." His dad was hale and hearty; he was strong and energetic, like nothing had ever happened. It was astounding! He had to go back for routine checks with Patho-Gen, and one day, he regrettably informed his family that he needed to go. Where, he didn't say, but he said it was Patho-Gen's desire to keep Karteria's citizens safe while they continue to learn and understand the nature of their Natural Souls, and how they'll impact them.<br><br>That was the last he'd seen of him. He received a few letters; the last one he received was very scribbled. He doesn't have it anymore; living like this in East Sophia with nothing to his name means that he's lost what he has over and over, and his keepsakes are lost. But he doesn't particularly want it back. <i>"It was written like my father'd lost his mind."</i> Something to the effect of missing his wife, his kids... Missing home, as a father would. But the son details that the paper was crumpled and shredded, and the lines of his script were scribbled and wrong. <i>"It just kept saying the same stuff, like he was a beast with a single purpose."</i><br><br>A pointed look at the Augmented; he doesn't mean to be derogatory, but that left an impression on him.<br><br>Then they received news that the Augmented had gone to Lupê, and... that was that. Around then he received formal news that his father had died there, working to protect Karteria from Lupê's designs. The man, who was once a boy, is stolid and sure that this is what happened. There may be two other individuals they can come across with similar stories: an older woman who details the near-loss of her spouse, the way tentacles and suckers started popping up on her wife's body and the way she resisted going to Patho-Gen, but she started acting "not like herself, cold and cruel"; another man who recalls his younger brother, merely seven years old at the time, who had taken on the traits of a rabbit.<br><br>... Curiously, this Glire-type Augmented One he speaks of was <i>similarly</i> recalled to Patho-Gen at the same time as the rest. His brother had communicated with him for a time, but had started becoming increasingly shy. Before he knew it, his family received news that he'd passed; they said it was an accident, one that ran adjacent with Lupê's attack.<br><br>All of this to say, some residents of East Sophia will indeed claim a relative who they've lost, who'd formerly been Augmented. They all met the same fate: death.<br><br>As an extra layer, asking these people if they know anyone else who had an Augmented family member... Almost as if by design, they don't know anybody <i>well</i>. But some of them can attest that they saw other families with similar experiences, only a rare few here or there; it seems some were also from middle classes, even upper-middle classes. They do not know the identities of other affected families, though some are aware that Celia's sister was one of the Augmented.

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