001. VIDEO // UN: ANIMUS

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[ The feed is dark and rustling noises come from somewhere to the left. It’s clear whomever is attempting to use the device is still adjusting to the way it works. There’s a sigh, a click and the feed clears, lightens, and as the figure in front of it leans back it finally focuses.

There sits a stern-looking woman in a long coat with a notebook in hand, legs crossed, staring into the camera. She idly taps a pen against the paper with her other hand—a mechanical one. ]

Hello, Prismatica.

I’ve been here for a short while now and I thought I ought to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Anna Ripley, I’m a scientist and engineer. Mechanics and chemistry are my specialty, but I do have some experience working with arcane pathogens.

It has come to my attention that there is one such pathogen making its way through the Lunatian population.

[ She glances down at her notebook, rattling off information as if by rote. She seems awfully calm about this. ]

Symptoms include paralysis, crystallization of the body, aggression...I’m sure many of you are already aware. Should any of you begin exhibiting signs of infection, please make your way with haste to the Moonlight Medical Center; I’ll be there in the later hours to monitor the progression. For those who haven’t shown symptoms…[ She stares back up at the camera. ]...you shouldn’t need me to tell you to utilize proper preventative measures.

On a potentially unrelated note; I’ve noticed something peculiar since coming here, but I’d like to gain more information:
 

How many of you were dead prior to your arrival? Have you suffered related ill effects since coming here?

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[ Truth be told, Anna hadn’t experienced hers yet either, apart from a vague change in mood. She’d consider herself lucky if she believed in such a thing. The mention of undead doesn’t faze her—she’s worked with people who were less-than-alive in the past—but she jots the notation down in her notepad nevertheless. ]

I am...a new arrival as well, but your information remains of value to me.

As for the pathogen, there’s insufficient evidence to suggest whether or not the illness spreads via touch. The patients I’ve seen so far have all been...physically bitten by another of the infected, so I think it’s safe to say that is a major mode of transmission.

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Mmm. [Her brow creases slightly at the mention of biting, but she nods.] I...suppose that makes it simpler to avoid, at least.

[pause.]

You said "potentially unrelated"...do you think there is a connection? If...there is, I...could try to help...

[Thereth don't volunteer yourself for experiments pls.]

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To that of the once-dead and the virus? Hmm. I have little way of knowing for sure, but as far as I've gathered it takes those who were living as well.

[ She quirks an eyebrow. ]

Why, you don't think you've contracted it, do you?

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Well, no, but...I assume there aren't many other undead here who could...offer their expertise.

[At...being undead. Look, she's just trying to help!!]

Or perhaps I am wrong?