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[butweneedyou]

I have an announcement, and it may not come as such good news.

We have determined the cause of the illness, and the issues that have plagued the City. Our side has worked diligently, and it is not the clock, it is not the barrier.

It is the removal of the curses.

So it is with a heavy heart that I inform you that the curses must resume, to keep the Citizenry well. However, we found something, through this trial, so all is not for naught, but we need you.

There may be a way to permanently disable the curses and keep the City stable. But we are not enough. We need you. We need your minds and your abilities, to help us. We will be, soon, arranging for missions and trips, quests and expiditions, in the coming time, and for those, your aid will be needed.

We can stop this.

We can, together.

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[recognize_an_opportunity]

I'm hardly surprised. What, exactly, are these "missions and trips" going to entail? How much more aid can we possibly render?

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[butweneedyou]

How much aid have you rendered thus far?

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[recognize_an_opportunity]

A great deal of us pitched in to help rebuild the City after the... rebellion.

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[butweneedyou]

Did you think it would be easy?

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[recognize_an_opportunity]

Hardly. But the way I see it, a fair amount of people're going to find this whole return to curses pretty disappointing.

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[butweneedyou]

We're not thrilled about it.

[valentineluke]

Not surprising. It does need to eat after all.

[butweneedyou]

Is that what you think the mechanics are?

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[recognize_an_opportunity]

That may be true. There're those who'll think that you intended for this to happen all along.

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[butweneedyou]

And they would be wrong.

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[recognize_an_opportunity]

Can you provide any proof of that?

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[butweneedyou]

We have been open with our activities.

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[recognize_an_opportunity]

Have you? One of the easiest ways to obfuscate is to present just enough information to make people feel that they're in the loop.

[valentineluke]

City's 'alive' and the popular theory is it feeds upon the emotions produced by curses.

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[butweneedyou]

And you think we're doing that?

[butweneedyou]

That's a theory.

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[recognize_an_opportunity]

I think there's a distinct possibility.

[valentineluke]

Based on the poor shape of the environment and some of those within it, one that may have some truth to it.

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[affectioning]

[ Wait. What? ]

People were getting sick because you got rid of the curses? [ How does that cause sickness? ]

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[mortemscintilla]

How does removing the curses make everyone sick?

Unless the City is sentient. And the curses were a form of 'self-regulation' to balance the environment's negatives and positives.

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[butweneedyou]

Yes. That's right.

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[butweneedyou]

The City does not need to be sentient for that to happen. There are physics in play that we did not anticipate.

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[butweneedyou]

You have every right to think so. But you would be wrong.

[butweneedyou]

Keep thinking.

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[recognize_an_opportunity]

I certainly hope so.