Who made this?

[emet_sulk]

Type: Text
Sender ID: emet_sulk (Emet-Selch)
To: Public
Subject: Who made this?
Warnings: Cursed horse

[ It's just a photograph taken of one of this month's bounty targets and presented with nothing more than a simple, terse message: ]



Who made this?

Comments

[musicien]

Once the number is painted, it happens in an instant, on the same day every year.

[emet_sulk]

An anomalous event connected to the painting of the number then.

[ If he seems to be taking this calmly, it's because...well...he has kind of seen something similar happen before. Although in a far more indiscriminate way. Whether that's more or less horrifying than what Verso describes is up to personal opinion. ]

So this Paintess counts down your time remaining, essentially. The Nevrons guard the Paintess. Naturally, since you would have made attempts to stop her.

You said it was a long story however so it surely cannot be so simple.