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Ideally, my involvement has been useful to your team.

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I can’t imagine that not being the case. I know you have a very useful and diverse pool of skills.

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Do you have an estimate of approximately how many similar weapons exist?

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Weapons? A good tally, and there aren’t many. Engineering with the elements in mind is not a very easy feat. Garsun was the most capable of it recorded, by a large margin.

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Then it may be possible to individually secure or destroy them all?

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For the most part, they are. The tower you visited is a special case, on just about every front.

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Special case how?

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*Finally pulls my hand down in a trembling, jerky motion, revealing blood from broken vessels pooling in the sclera*
Right is blurry—
*My left pupil constricts when I look at mom, and the veins around my eye socket tighten and go varicose*

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It’s externally impossible to manipulate. There’s a lot of spacial manipulation that goes into its operation, and Garsun designed a very redundant system controlled from remote locations that have never been found to protect it. It was also explicitly disabled as opposed to destroyed as an act of historical preservation. In the grand scheme of Existence, historical sites and records of Elements and related important knowledge is very hard to come by. Most didn’t want to see it just wiped out, when eventually it could be possible to, say dredge up archives in his technology, or reverse-engineer fully functioning technology from it.

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Ah, the latter reasoning is understandable. Although it does pose a constant danger now.

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That's... not good. Even if it's useful, this could do some serious permanent damage.
*Turns to Storm*
Is there a doctor nearby? The symptoms should be treatable by anyone with decent medical knowledge, but we'll have to see what happens as it does.

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What's happening to Dawn? Why does she look like that?

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That's... not good. Even if it's useful, this could do some serious permanent damage.
*Turns to Storm*
Is there a doctor nearby? The symptoms should be treatable by anyone with decent medical knowledge, but we'll have to see what happens as it does.

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Which is why I plan to address him very shortly. And he'll likely be expecting a visit.

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Are you bringing reinforcements?

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I intend to. Who that will be is obviously still undecided, but I will likely not be going alone.

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No one that I know and trust who's also here. I can try to do some emergency work if you get treatment set up at home. Then I can go talk to someone who knows what they're doing.

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How difficult is direct engagement likely to be?

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Hard to say. He was a more than capable doyen, a few thousand years ago. I suppose we’ll see if modern masters are any better or worse than they were then.

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No one that I know and trust who's also here. I can try to do some emergency work if you get treatment set up at home. Then I can go talk to someone who knows what they're doing.