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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

Re: Classroom

[necroyalty]

Not at all.

[ She puts the marker down. ]

How can I be of assistance?

[katzenpfote]

Oh, no, I... I was just coming to get some spare paper. Writing some notes down, trying to see if I could get some thoughts onto paper until I find my spellbook.

[necroyalty]

This certainly is one of the better places for it.

[ She takes one of the English textbooks out of the desk and flips through, before putting it aside. ]

[katzenpfote]

... It almost makes me miss school. The... eh... other teachers, I mean.

[necroyalty]

...I certainly know that feeling.

[ It was a little bit better for her. Mostly because she never had crystals shoved into her arms before being set loose to kill her family, but also because it was a chance to get away from her father. ]

It's...been some time since I kept up with most of the people I knew from the Academy. I know one of the girls I roomed with lives in an observatory she built in Sigil, but between the distance between us and my own duties, I haven't seen her in years.

[katzenpfote]

... Your friend... went to Sigil.

Well, all right, I suppose? From what I hear it's hard to get your hands on a key to one of the gates there.

[necroyalty]

I didn't ask how, or what she's been up to since then; all I know for sure is that it happened.

[ Honestly she sounds just as amazed as you are, Caleb. ]

[katzenpfote]

... I should learn to stop being surprised at things in this place.