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QuestionText:	How is attempting to track/find out more information on those who are smearing the Augmented (or track the source of the Katalyth drops) likely to go, or will there be more info on the post? Momo has his lie detection/enhanced senses and if there'd potentially be a way to get more info out of someone with fungi shenanigans, may be willing to resort to that (though not the fatal variety)...<br><br>Also on the note of fungi shenanigans, with regard to the Collective Reconscious quest, would him reasserting his fungi presence on people he's infested before go any way to help break them out of the post-coma state? (Or would he be able to get any different sort of vibes from the influence they're under aside from what he felt on during meat rescues?)
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AnswerText:	While the smearers are quick to abscond once they've made their speech (or if the tide of opinion around them turns against them), they are still normal people and can be caught by a quick or canny enough Augmented. Doing so in view of the public could still count against the Augmented, if they're too rough or scary about it (even if the Augmented are just defending themselves...). But they are also possible to track.<br><br>The attackers aren't anyone remarkable. With Arthropoda-senses or similar, it'd be easy to pick up that most of them <i>don't even particularly dislike the Augmented.</i> (Those who perform the physical attacks at night are more heavily skewed towards dislike, but even then there's not many who actually <i>hate</i> them.). <br><br>Some of the people involved are from the defector camp just outside Karteria. This group is largely after a payout; they've been promised opportunities to live back inside the city, and/or having their criminal history expunged. The rest are a part of the lower-middle class; there's almost no one from the lower classes taking part. These sorts are more idealistic, if anything; they're more likely to believe what they're saying.<br><br>As for what they're saying: they're all getting their lines, their orders from someone else. The defectors honestly don't know who's behind it, but can be pressed to guess that it's probably someone official. Has to be, right? They don't know if what they're saying is true, and they don't particularly care. Being informed of anything incorrect is met with indifference; they were hired to say some shit, push some Augmented around, they're not vetting it for accuracy. <br><br>The middle class sorts know more, though it varies from person to person. Some will admit to working for the government, others for Patho-Gen, others for Anti-Gen... and they all seem to believe it? (Or, they might claim one as a lie, and would reveal their truth if caught out at it.) They've all been paid in some way for doing this, whether that's through numis or material goods, or securing business connections. Most of them believe what they're saying about the Augmented, but they're not 'committed'- as in, they think they're doing something akin to honest work, getting these truths into the open air, and will be surprised (if dubious) to hear that it might not all be accurate. <br><br>A very few are true believers in a strange way; they absolutely refuse to admit who they're working for (apart from claiming that they're doing it at their own initiative, and... mean it?), and largely know whether what they're saying is true or not. They feel that what they're doing is 'necessary'; they're oddly the most sympathetic to the Augmented, but also believe they shouldn't be there. Some have backgrounds in science or bureaucracy, and some just work in shops. There's an almost manic energy to these few, as though they're on the edge of some kind of breakdown, despite being otherwise the most passionate and articulate.<br><br>In all cases, some group (or groups?) is giving them targets to find among the Augmented, and providing them with information specific to them. For the people performing attacks at night, they're given less information, only physical descriptions and the places they're most likely to be.<br><br>The source of the Katalyth drops will be much harder to track. Anyone who's caught as a part of the Augmented-smearing won't know anything about it... mostly; it seems that these groups are kept separate. They'll try to keep up the pretense about believing it's the Augmented doing it; some of them might even believe it. (The exception is the odd group of before, who know the Augmented aren't behind it. Besides that, they clamp down hard about it. It's true that they don't know personally who's doing it, but if their actual feelings are forced out of them, they amount to a sense of, <i>"It's not enough."</i> They find it <i>regrettable</i> that the Katalyth was cleaned up.)<br><br>As for reconnecting with his old fungi spores on the patients, that continues to go... strangely. They still don't listen to him in the way that fresh spores do (Resporing now will work to get the patients to calm down, at least, or otherwise do what he wants- but it's only due to puppetting them into compliance, rather than a genuine 'calm'. If he gives up active control, they will return to a maddened state.). <br><br>But given that he's the originator of the fungi sporemind, he could force his way into this new 'circle' now that it's awake- but it would try to assimilate Momo <i>back</i>. Those disloyal spores have learned a different song, and Momo could feel the edge of what the meat patients are going through.<br><br>There's an immense impression of grief and guilt- as though existing itself has put them into crisis, having become a part of something immeasurably <i>wrong</i>, that was broken from the start. It's despair pitched black, and it's hard to see a way out from it- and hard to find any sliver of the patient's mind left inside of it. The voice that they're using might come from their own throat, but it's speaking for something larger than them, something that lacks a thought besides to hurt. His old spores are adding to this voice, and though he could potentially wrest them back into some kind of compliance, they're unable to revive the people they've been growing in.

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