malnosso | [Locked to Residents]

Greetings, Luceti. I see you've managed to open the proverbial Pandora's Box. I was wondering when that would happen.

More seriously, however- no doubt most of you have noticed the widespread issue that's resulted from that decision. Some might even recall a similar experience occurring years ago. If you're concerned about the affected residents meeting their unfortunate ends once again, well, that's unlikely. Death wouldn't be a particularly beneficial alternative to what you've unleashed this time.

However, there's still the matter of sorting out the spirits now. I'm interested in hearing what you lot have already tried when it comes to dealing with what you've unlocked, but my advice for getting the black spirit to relinquish control is to let the rest do the work for you. Last time this happened, I was able to fix it, but it's beyond my power now.

Discuss it amongst yourselves, trade your theories; I'm sure you'll come up with something. I'll help with what I can. Sooner would be better, though- I make no promises that my former comrades won't take measures to deal with you if this isn't resolved internally within a few weeks.

[ooc: arright kids, true to John's word, he'll be overseeing the discussion. He won't be telling people how to fix this problem, but he'll answer whatever questions he can and give some advice here and there. see what you can work out amongst yourselves and feel free to ping me if I'm needed and don't show up. if nothing comes up within a week, we'll throw you a more obvious bone or two. tally ho~]

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Haven't thought to look, to be fair. It seemed weirder to think the cultists would be born with the ability.

I figured that had to do with their cult.

Meaning they'd believe in it more than anyone, even if the mechanics are different.

True.

[A beat...] I've never seen one with Nala or Hyt's powers, I think. Let alone Twila. Have you?

Just Nala. [He raises his chin, thinking back.] That one guy... Vash. The cultists would come along and heal all the ones he didn't kill.

Huh, so they can do that. I've never really seen them do it.

And then there's the General.

Speaking of, it's not like the normal soldiers use the magic. Sometimes they do that floaty thing, but nothing that looks like the spirits.

They're not as spiritual, could be.

[The General had pure mastery over all of the filial magic - at least the ones he had known of at the time. He'd also seemed like a lunatic, convinced of his beliefs with all of his talk about the Planet and sacrifices.]

Hmmm. Actually- know how some of the Elites have invisible weapons? That could be Hyt.

[...oh] That's an idea. I don't know if it felt like that when I used it... but I didn't know what I was doing at the time either.

I remember in school they brought up people could do illusions with it, so, invisibility might fit.

Maybe, but that'd be something else. It's weird to think about now, but at the time, it felt like I was making something out of thin air.

Eeeeh?

Like I thought about it and it was there? Something to that effect.

I'm still not sure I follow.

[Sigh.] That mission I took.

[Even keeping the mental trauma to himself, he would've mentioned meeting the General and that dream world, which Kotetsu talked some about too.]

We could do that there - anything the cultist's could besides fly, really.

Oh, right - you did mention something about that. Just a little bit. So you'd know more than me.

Like I said. That's how it was.

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