Nimda

Myriad Reality

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Right, I’m with you. While I’m admittedly not the world's greatest expert in magic or curses, I can say that I can feel something is amiss. Even just from orbit around the planet, something feels genuinely off about the energy of their world. My biggest concern is, nearly any further investigation begs for more people to be exposed to harm.

@Armed Forces

So in other words, this world infects outsiders as well?

Myriad Reality

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What a tough bargain… Sure thing.
*Turns to the bartender*
One for the both of us.

@Armed Forces

*Waves my hand as I step through the examples*
Social contagions, information hazards, infectious biologies, curses, or even diseases that are there, but you aren't looking for.

Myriad Reality

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Elaborate.

@Armed Forces

If the next round is on you, gladly.

Myriad Reality

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We have doctors who swear there is no pathogen of any kind, despite ending up sick themselves. A communicable illness with no pathogen. Sounds like a contradictory existence for some disease, no?

@Armed Forces

For microbial diseases, perhaps.

Myriad Reality

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*Shakes my head*
No, not quite. We received message about a world of folks who were struggling with disease, actually. They couldn't solve their problem on their own, so they reached out, offering anything in exchange for saving them.
*Leans forward with my elbows on the counter*
It's no mere disease, but we have no idea what it is.

@Armed Forces

*Downs the shot in one clean motion*
No mere disease? What brought you to that conclusion?

Myriad Reality

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If battle were my conundrum, we'd have the problem well in hand.

@Armed Forces

Internal strife?

Myriad Reality

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And I wish it were under more casual circumstances.
*Takes a seat in a stool next to you*

@Armed Forces

Forever at war, eh?

Myriad Reality

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*Glances around every other face at the bar before stepping directly to you, nodding to the bartender before speaking to you*
Colgate.

@Armed Forces

*Tips my glass upward*
An IA general graces me with his presence.

Myriad Reality

*Ducks into the Tavern through one of its entryways and takes a very investigative look around*

@Armed Forces

*Sits at the counter, shot glass in hand and chatting up the bartender*

Myriad Reality

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*Looks up to the sky and crosses my arms in anticipation*

@Valiance

*A warlike chant can be heard swiftly approaching the city gates, which open in anticipation; nobody around you seems to pay you any mind*