[Game Thread] Lord Windos’ PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

[Dragonstrike]

Spoiler

You almost immediately get a response back, as simple but BIG:

"WHAT?!"

...Before a flood of text comes your way.

'Oh sugar honey ice tea with cookies under neat tiramisu! Wwwwwwwhy does this have to happen NOW of all times?!?!?! Give me EVERYTHING you can. I'm not big on magic, but if you got the designs I can give you my best guess on what the unholy fuck is going on!' 

Unfortunately for the both of you, trying to send direct pictures doesn't work - the Trail doesn't show up on electronic media, while trying to take a picture of The Circle or Pendant nearly causes your Dex to brick, Crude drawings of the later two, however, and the aforementioned descriptions do a serviceable job at getting the details across, however. Several minutes pass before you get a response, and the tone of it makes you think Muse is rather wary and unhappy with the conclusions she's drawn.

'....I can't say for certain unless I can get a good look at it myself, but these symbols and the effect it had on you....it smells of Faith based Magic. Or 'miracles' , if you want to get technical about it. Darkest kind too boot - indoctrination , conversion, and soul fuckery is something only the most Evil or twisted Legends or individual care to risk doing. The glowy stuff is probably 'bleed over' Faith - either it being casted on the poor people, or it literally dripping off someone saturated in it. Not too sure about the Pendant, but it looks like a spiritual thingy you humans like to wear to represent your Faith. Maybe it's involved in the 'miracles' there, maybe it is. It's DEFINATELY related to whoever did this, though - you don't leave stuff like that around willy nilly unless you're trying to send a message or if you have to. That person your Murkrow buddy saw was most likely the one to 'enact' these 'miracles' , given the times and deets you shared. Not sure if this was all set up in advance for them to trigger or if they did it one the spot, though - that's more a 'Erni question, sorry!."

'Oh, and those...bandage you have? I'd say you probably want to Burn them to be on the safe side, but given they appeared to you and what you said....they might be keyed to you in some way. Destroying them without 'Erni or I getting looksee at them might be....bad, to say the least. Spiritual stuff and miracles tend to leave their mark, and messing with it requires a delicate or precise touch most of the time. For now, try to avoid using them unless you have to, okay? They SOUND useful, but as they say - there is no such thing as free art supplies, and certainly not from such a shady source!'

Well, that was Insight! Worrisome too, oh boy!

Seddi's very focused on this conversation as he continues typing away, a little frustrated that the magic is even able to interfere with unrelated technology.  This magic circle is surprisingly slippery despite being a stationary drawing...

Yup, that's about the reaction I expected.  Everyone's been saying that all afternoon.  I've asked the authorities to lock the affected Centers down extremely tightly until this magic is dispersed.  Don't need anyone wandering in there and getting nabbed as an afterthought.  I should be able to get you and Bernhard in to take a closer look at the magic though if you're so inclined, given I'm directly involved with the investigation and Bernhard's got a reputation reputation among the suits.

If you could do me a favor, ask Bernhard to check his messages when he's back in action.  I'm obviously a little out of my depth when it comes to magical mumbo jumbo, so additional more experienced eyes would definitely be appreciated.  That circle would have messed me up pretty badly if it weren't for Leaves counteracting the effect it had on me.  Still gave me one heck of a nosebleed even then.  Definitely wary about what that 'sightless sight' might do to me if I got a little too used to it.  My normal vision's still swimming a little after only wearing those bandages for a few minutes.  Gonna have a sit down and try to recover.

Heeding Muses's warning, Seddi will stow the bandages and the pendant in a separate pocket of his bag from the rest of his items for now.  He's not really injured enough to warrant distracting the doctors, but maybe he can find Oz around there somewhere.  See what she's up to, give her an update on the situation, maybe even give her a helping hand.  He's gonna need to fill some time until Bernhard wakes up, so might as well keep busy for now.