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[open] 🔥 a research project of sorts
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Sender ID: phoenixdominant (Joshua Rosfield)
To: Open
Subject: Research into medical conditions, sicknesses and diseases.
Warnings: Tba.
Hello, I am Joshua Rosfield. I fly under the corsair's banner with The Hideaway.
Of late, I have set myself to the task of compiling a reference, a compendium, if you will, of the many maladies, curses, afflictions, and fevers known to manifest upon this star. My concern lies not with ailments familiar to our home worlds, but rather with those that are native to this star alone. Born of its soil, sky, and magics.
This work will encompass all that is known. Recorded symptoms, confirmed cases, and such cures or countermeasures devised by learned minds or discovered through hard-won experience.
Here are a few of those examples that I've gathered:
While there remains much yet to study regarding the myriad of ailments afflicting this realm, I pen these entries in hopes they may one day form the foundation of a true medical compendium, for the benefit of others.
On that note, my current inquiries lie with the nature of petrification in all its varied and vexing forms. I seek not only to understand its onset, but to uncover means by which to slow its advance, or better yet, reverse it. Should you possess notes, I would be most grateful for your shared insight.
And, as I am aware, this is hardly the most uplifting or interesting fare for one's morning coffee ... do share instead tales of your most recent voyages across the seas? I love a tale.
[And that concludes this giant nerd post.]
Sender ID: phoenixdominant (Joshua Rosfield)
To: Open
Subject: Research into medical conditions, sicknesses and diseases.
Warnings: Tba.
Hello, I am Joshua Rosfield. I fly under the corsair's banner with The Hideaway.
Of late, I have set myself to the task of compiling a reference, a compendium, if you will, of the many maladies, curses, afflictions, and fevers known to manifest upon this star. My concern lies not with ailments familiar to our home worlds, but rather with those that are native to this star alone. Born of its soil, sky, and magics.
This work will encompass all that is known. Recorded symptoms, confirmed cases, and such cures or countermeasures devised by learned minds or discovered through hard-won experience.
Here are a few of those examples that I've gathered:
The Drowning Sickness:
📌 A rare and insidious illness, marked first by the appearance of a deep black bruise upon the skin. Often on the hands, at the base of the neck, spine, or over the heart. The bruise is tender to the touch and slowly grows in size and intensity, becoming inflamed as the affliction progresses.
While waking symptoms are troubling, it is during sleep that the sickness reveals its true nature. Those afflicted are haunted by vivid, suffocating dreams. Visions of drowning in dark, endless seas. With each sleep, the dreams deepen. Patients note the sensation of lungs filling with water, of being pulled under by unseen hands, or of sinking into deep, endless water.
Upon waking, the sufferer experiences acute breathlessness, as though having truly emerged from drowning. Over time, rousing from sleep becomes increasingly difficult, and some fall into a slumber from which they never wake. Death comes quietly, the body showing signs of asphyxiation. Lungs filled not with water, but with nothing at all.
If untreated, it is always fatal. The interval from first bruise to death varies. Between three to nine nights, depending on the patient's strength and resistance.
📌 Treatment: While no universal cure is known, skilled healers have reported partial success through use of aetheric purgatives combined with dreambinding incantations. Removal or destruction of the bruise by mundane means (burning, lancing) has no effect and may hasten decline. Smelling salts or ingesting powerful angelic jellyfish have shown some success in staving off deeper stages of the dreams, though their effect is temporary, offering only reprieve rather than remedy. What appears to be definitive is surviving the drowning dream, itself.The Crystal Affliction:
📌 A rare condition said to be contracted by those who venture too deep into the forgotten caverns and shadowed mountains of remote, uncharted isles. Victims first notice sharp, painful growths erupting upon the skin. Jagged shards of crystal or glass-like rock, as though the land itself seeks to reclaim their flesh.
Left untreated, the affliction progresses. The crystalline formations spread, encumbering movement, disrupting vital functions, and slowly petrifying the body from within. In time, the victim is left encased in a gleaming, translucent prison. A statue of living crystal, robbed of will and warmth.
Those in the later stages suffer from extreme lethargy, dulled senses, and an emotional emptiness that renders them pliable, easily manipulated and easily controlled.
📌 Treatment: Healers across all the Leviathans have developed a method to remove the crystalline growths through careful surgery, thanks to a local riftfarer’s extensive knowledge of crystal. The procedure is long and taxing, requiring potent sedatives or enchantments to ease the pain. Even so, few emerge unscarred and this procedure has yet to be mastered.The Thornbind Curse:
📌 A highly contagious, creeping ailment marked by vine-like growths that first appear upon the hand. Over time, these thorned tendrils thicken and climb the body, binding tighter with each passing day. The afflicted are left with painful welts, bruises, and skin pierced by sharp thorns.
Evidently, the vines seem to grow faster in those weighed down by deep, unmet desires, as if the affliction feeds upon longing that is left to fester.
📌 Treatment: A medicinal cure was created that can be taken topically to cure the affliction completely. Trials have proved extremely successful. A full entry on the cure can be found here.
While there remains much yet to study regarding the myriad of ailments afflicting this realm, I pen these entries in hopes they may one day form the foundation of a true medical compendium, for the benefit of others.
On that note, my current inquiries lie with the nature of petrification in all its varied and vexing forms. I seek not only to understand its onset, but to uncover means by which to slow its advance, or better yet, reverse it. Should you possess notes, I would be most grateful for your shared insight.
And, as I am aware, this is hardly the most uplifting or interesting fare for one's morning coffee ... do share instead tales of your most recent voyages across the seas? I love a tale.
[And that concludes this giant nerd post.]
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[He pauses, unsure if he should comment further, but eventually ventures:]
I know not of the situation to which you refer... but I think I understand.
[He doesn't want to be a burden, either.]
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[Yep, he doesn't want to be a continuous burden. And to keep asking Emet-Selch to help him with the impossible would be embarrassing. He can't just have an Asian delete or fix things all the time.]
Yet... I cannot help but ponder how the flow of aether within the body might be influenced by the application of gold needles... There is much more that I hope to know.
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When laid out so plainly, I can see how such a simple concept might prove effective. After all, the petrification I'm studying does seem tied to the blockage of aether and the body's overcompensation in response.
If I may ask... are you a scholar as well?
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...I suppose I am a scholar of sorts now, aren't I?
[Erichthonios' own smile has a sort of nervous quality to it. He's never thought of himself as particularly smart-- the feedback he'd received from his parents and from other adults as he grew up leading him to believe the precise opposite.]
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I suppose it does. Emet-Selch has shared fragments of your history with me. Glimpses into the Ascians and the myriad mysteries they once studied.
[Alongside some more ... interesting information about them. But.]
I'll admit, I've always wanted to know more.
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[He tilts his head, curious. That is a term that rings unfamiliar to him as ascribed to a people.
He is from before that time and no one has told him yet.]I fear I have not travelled as much as Emet-Selch. I know of no people who call themselves such. I could only tell you of Amaurotine studies, for 'tis in Amaurot that I study.
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Would you mind telling me more about your studies? I'm especially curious to hear about these Amaurotine studies.
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As I said before, I study with the Words of Lahabrea. In Akadæmia Anyder, you'd find them in the phantomology wing. Fantastical, powerful entities are their passion. Yet whereas many of them focus on creating such entities, my focus is primarily on how to contain the ones that turn out to have a... less than amicable disposition upon manifestation, ere they attempt to burn the star. Or drown it. Or eat it.
Wards, spatial transformation magicks, and binding magicks of various types are some of the things I have been seeking to learn.
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Your focus lies in the containment of entities that have grown perilous or unruly? And the magicks needed to do so? ...A noble field of study.
[And a bit scary. But something that Joshua is painfully experienced with.]
I've cultivated a modest repertoire of binding spells over the years. Should you wish to learn, I'd gladly try to help. That said, I cannot speak to how my aetherial methods might translate across stars.
[His repertoire is not modest he's able to contain god dang GODS OF DEATH.]
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[Luckily, he hasn't had to break out the powerful ones just yet. But who knows what shall happen in the future?]
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[Sometimes there are a few rare times an Eikon needs to be contained...]
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[:)]
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Fare you well, friend.
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