[IC] Myriad Reality

[Etcetera]

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*Opens the door to allow you all in*

@Multifarious

*Walks inside*

[Multifarious]

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*Walks inside*

@Etcetera

*Follows you in once everyone steps inside, and leads you into what looks like the aircraft's control room. A pair of engineers sit next to each other in the corner of the room, enveloped in their work*
There's a decently sized strip of land on the bottom of our planet that we've never been able to approach. Not since it was... Corrupted. We're not sure what happened, but the entire continent was swallowed by the corruption. All the creatures, and all the people there were taken by it. They've become abominations, and they're such a threat that we've done all we can to keep them from coming ashore
*Points to on a map in the center of the room*
We've managed to forcefully funnel any attempts by the corruption to come ashore to the shores of one of our cities, Glask. But even then, it takes so much effort to hold them back.

[Etcetera]

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*Follows you in once everyone steps inside, and leads you into what looks like the aircraft's control room. A pair of engineers sit next to each other in the corner of the room, enveloped in their work*
There's a decently sized strip of land on the bottom of our planet that we've never been able to approach. Not since it was... Corrupted. We're not sure what happened, but the entire continent was swallowed by the corruption. All the creatures, and all the people there were taken by it. They've become abominations, and they're such a threat that we've done all we can to keep them from coming ashore
*Points to on a map in the center of the room*
We've managed to forcefully funnel any attempts by the corruption to come ashore to the shores of one of our cities, Glask. But even then, it takes so much effort to hold them back.

@Multifarious

Corruption?

[Multifarious]

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Corruption?

@Etcetera

We don't know exactly what it is. That's the best way I can describe it.

[Etcetera]

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We don't know exactly what it is. That's the best way I can describe it.

@Multifarious

What does it look like and do?

[Multifarious]

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What does it look like and do?

@Etcetera

You can't really see it itself. But you'll know it's there when the land begins to lose color and all the living creatures become feral.

[Etcetera]

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You can't really see it itself. But you'll know it's there when the land begins to lose color and all the living creatures become feral.

@Multifarious

That sounds like something out of a video game.

[Multifarious]

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That sounds like something out of a video game.

@Etcetera

Perhaps it does, but no one here has enjoyed the situation. I can only imagine how the people in Glask feel...

[Etcetera]

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Perhaps it does, but no one here has enjoyed the situation. I can only imagine how the people in Glask feel...

@Multifarious

Are people affected?

[Multifarious]

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Are people affected?

@Etcetera

Yes. If we were immune, this wouldn't have been such a major problem.

[Etcetera]

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Yes. If we were immune, this wouldn't have been such a major problem.

@Multifarious

What does it make people do?

[Multifarious]

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What does it make people do?

@Etcetera

They become unresponsive to external stimuli, and largely unresponsive to actions taken against them period. I'd almost describe it as zombie-like, but that's not quite what it is. They all still appear to move with a purpose, and studies showed that the corruption doesn't actually kill them, even if it may seem like they're dead. They almost exclusively seem to want to just keep everything away from the Dead Stretch to the south. They defend that place without hesitation. We can't go there, and we can't see anything there through any means of observation we have.

[Etcetera]

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They become unresponsive to external stimuli, and largely unresponsive to actions taken against them period. I'd almost describe it as zombie-like, but that's not quite what it is. They all still appear to move with a purpose, and studies showed that the corruption doesn't actually kill them, even if it may seem like they're dead. They almost exclusively seem to want to just keep everything away from the Dead Stretch to the south. They defend that place without hesitation. We can't go there, and we can't see anything there through any means of observation we have.

@Multifarious

Kind of sounds like you have the solution there. Whatever is causing this plague wants to be protected.

[Multifarious]

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Kind of sounds like you have the solution there. Whatever is causing this plague wants to be protected.

@Etcetera

Yes, but we can't get to it.

[Etcetera]

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Yes, but we can't get to it.

@Multifarious

Aerial forces?

[Multifarious]

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Aerial forces?

@Etcetera

Nope. Believe me, I'd be the first to fly in there and take out the problem at its source if I could. But, well, anything that crosses a certain point in the air will suddenly find themselves on the other side of the planet, equidistant to the Stretch.

[Etcetera]

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Nope. Believe me, I'd be the first to fly in there and take out the problem at its source if I could. But, well, anything that crosses a certain point in the air will suddenly find themselves on the other side of the planet, equidistant to the Stretch.

@Multifarious

Why doesn't that apply on the ground?

[Multifarious]

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Why doesn't that apply on the ground?

@Etcetera

Because anything in the water doesn't even make it. The corrupted, as you called them, "sea monsters" in the Vile Waters are too effective at the art of destruction and carnage.

[Etcetera]

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Because anything in the water doesn't even make it. The corrupted, as you called them, "sea monsters" in the Vile Waters are too effective at the art of destruction and carnage.

@Multifarious

But why not make the same shield there for the sake of protection?

[Multifarious]

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But why not make the same shield there for the sake of protection?

@Etcetera

These are starting to be beyond my knowledge, these questions.