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[ and now that we're shrieking about vore... ]

Got the other document from somebody, too. Found it in engineering I think. Check it out.

[ (phoenix voice) take that! ]

[ head picking up a bit when he hears the voice on the first video and just. moves to peer over at this new video log hi. ]

The beginning of that... hey.

[ extends paw. may he see? ]

[ hewwo. ]

It's kinda convenient you're here, actually. [ gibs. have look. ]

[ a little tired smile. ]

Fortunate... I remember that voice. Let me just... see what they look like...

[ just replays the beginning again and reaches to scrub through some of the footage until it hits the voice belonging to the girl with the black, wavy hair arranged in an updo. she also has a prosthetic arm. he lingers a little bit and then pauses it. pointing carefully.

his brow twitches a bit and he pulls away after, eyes closed. ]

... Worked in the medical bay with me. That's Ellya.

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[ making note of that, though he frowns a little since...well. she's obviously gone now. ]

Was she helping you with your research, too?

[ hesitates unhappily, just staring at the paused moment in time. we are just going to block out the horrors of what they were witnessing for the moment... ]

Mmm-hm. We were working round the clock...

[ ...tries to nudge the log a little ahead so the screen isn't as horrifying, perhaps. ]

What...is space madness, do you think?

[ it's fine. there are worse horrors like what he saw happen to someone else in a log earlier this week. this is tame by comparison. ]

I've met with diseases before, ones that have a mind of their own. The Sand Pest wasn't unlike that. It thought, it plotted, it devised ways to improve it's own survivability... it's why I considered that maybe this madness could be driven by such a thing.

It's violent, spreads in such a way where it flies beneath the radar, hides itself until the time is right... maybe I'm wrong. But.

I don't think you're necessarily wrong, just that we might be missing finer details. This is similar to what I've been thinking, too. For a little while I thought it was a ghost or something but before that, I thought it was nanites. And then after I gave up the ghost I went back to thinking it was a virus that's able to detect and pinpoint certain factors in us to choose a new host. It has to have some level of intelligence to know when to be active, when to be dormant, and when to control our friends to say and do certain things.

That doesn't mean its perfect. If someone tries to fight back, it could become unstable. [ ... ] I guess what I'm saying is...I don't disagree in the possibility. At all.

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... another coworker of yours, huh.

[just. taking one of his hands.]

[ he's just going to allow this because he's tired and there has been a lot of information surfacing. ]

Yeah. I... believe you've found them all for my team by this point... good...

Mm. ...sorry about them, Io.

[it's good to remember, sure, but. probably makes it all hurt in a different kind of way.

this place is so--]

We'll get this figured out.

[ a faint smile, far-off. ]

I know.

[ it doesn't bring them back, but. ]

We're well on the way to it. I'm grateful.

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...

Io, do you mind if I ask you about the guy seen in the beginning of that log? Do you know who he is?

I don't. But considering they're calling for Adra... might be someone from intelligence. That'd be my first call, the corresponding team.

Our groups intermingled, but she'd be your best bet to recognize who it is for certain.

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[ he nods. ]

I'll ask her. [ maybe without the video because yikes. ]

Thanks.

[ he looks like he's considering asking something else but sad man is so sad he's not sure it's a good time. ]

[ don't be a coward. he laughs a little tiredly and leans back on his hands. ]

If you've got something else to ask, you should ask it. What's the worst that'll happen?

[ i pass out and die? ]

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[ also looking at him like

who was this man who got three minutes of peace before death? :( ]

[ ... ]

Well, I guess I shouldn't be shocked we're getting a ton of death logs now.

Yeah. I've been thinking this was like a fast-spreading virus for a while, and the more we're seeing the more I'm thinking that possibility's high. I was gonna show you tomorrow but...same reason as you. Figured everybody should know about this one since we're sharing the other pieces right now.

Eugh, yeah... I'm just hoping the source is more—I dunno, tangible? I just want there to be some sort of source we can remove to stop this.

Assuming that what Nera was eating was a fungus, it's possible that it's still here somewhere and it's being filtered into people. Maybe spores through the air, I don't know. I don't...really know yet. That's assuming that is the actual cause and not an unrelated incident.

... Maybe that's why the mess hall food is so bad!

[ this is probably a joke ]

[ well. it startles a laugh out of him, so there's that. ]

That's one explanation. [ this is the worst thing to joke about. ]

Yuck.

But... maybe all this fleshy stuff that's been spotted around is related...?