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[strangerpeople]

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[The blight is all-consuming.

Within days dozens are confirmed infected, and you and your unexpected new scientist friend find yourselves trying to work on a cure. If not a cure, a stopgap of some kind. Anything to prevent this thing from destroying everything. It's hard work. It's not going very well. Really, it feels like with every step forward, you're taking ten steps back. Discouraging is an understatement, to say the least.

A week passes, and the death toll rises. It's really starting to look bleak. You constantly second-guess yourself, and even get into a fistfight with your new ally one night. It's getting to the point where you are working on fumes.

Then, unexpectedly, you get a phone call. It's been a long night, and the sun is beginning to rise above the mountains, when it happens.

You and the scientist are not the only ones looking for a cure. In fact, there are at least a dozen others-and they think they may be close to a breakthrough.

But-and you can't believe you're hearing this, after all of the failure you'd experienced throughout this blight-they need your help.]


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[To say that the end of last week sucked would be an understatement. To say that no one knows what this week will bring is not even in question. Yet even as you wake, you feel a cloud lift from your mind, as one of the truths you've been living with since the beginning has suddenly changed.]




[But is it possible to abide by this new truth? The Hosts, and IT beyond, seem intent on making that impossible. And the rat...well. Obviously the rat's not an ally. Let's not kid ourselves.

There's only one way to find out if more deaths can truly be prevented-and that's to keep going, and hoping that the new floor that has opened up will offer something in the way of an opportunity.

In the meantime.


There are 11 strangers left in this place.]

Comments

[belovedsuffocator]

While I'm concerned that it seems like it's happening again, that's not it. And even if you're...magic doesn't work here, it should still work where you're from, right?

That's what I need to talk to you about.

[She clearly hates that she's talking about it, but it's necessary in her mind.]

[necroyalty]

...about that.

[ She's a wizard. You need a cleric. ]

I'm afraid resurrecting the dead is specifically in the realm of divine magic, but if I can pull a few strings with a certain archbishop...

[belovedsuffocator]

[She just. Sighs, and pinches the area between her eyes.]

Fine, whatever, just-find a way to bring people back, okay? Figure something out.

…at the very least, do it for Atsuko.

[She's surprisingly reserved at the last part. She knows she and Ambroine don't get along, after all. And everyone wants Atsuko back, don't they?]

[necroyalty]

You have my word.

[ Roll insight all you want, Felicity, she's being sincere. ]