revivalproject | 001 | display name: leprechaun

WHO: Delta and you
WHERE: Network
WHAT: Text broadcast
WHEN: Now
WARNINGS: None at the moment

Good afternoon to all. My name is Delta, and as no one else has stepped up to do so, I will volunteer to be your network administrator. If you have any questions or difficulty regarding your device or how to post with it, please feel free to contact me.

It seems several of you have been in a situation like this before. In my case, I was taken to a city called Proles where we were expected to help the residents hold off biologically modified "zombies". We were fitted with spinal ports said to help us resist the infection, but often these ports would "glitch", causing us to hallucinate, act strangely, modify our memories, experience physical changes, or fall into a deep sleep. We took them at their word, as we had little other choice. However, since coming here, my ports have not glitched. I have been in full control of myself for the first time in a very long while.

Until I visited the caves.

There is a strong electromagnetic interference there that immediately caused a minor glitch in my ports. If anyone else has biomodifications or metallic implants, I strongly recommend caution around the caves. Alternately, if anyone has discovered an effective type of shielding, I would be most interested.

Thank you.

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Certainly. It would be advantageous to share such information.

Do you have a quantification for "weird"? Was your glowing in a similar fashion to the animals we recently encountered, or unique?

Well, I usually glow, but just my hands, it was kind of full body version of that for me. Blue. But Tommy doesn't, and he was glowing the same, but sort of a minty green. His speed was turned up to like 11. And my electrokinesis was going haywire like it was allergy season in there, I couldn't stop sneezing.

[Tommy's green? Delta's interest perks up. (Look, he has a thing for green.)]

Hmm. Electrical interference would corroborate the interference I experienced. Did it feel amplified, or as though the 'frequency' had changed? Apologies if it is an insufficient metaphor; we lack magic in my timeline.

[Tommy's all about green.]

I'm not the most versed in proper magic technique myself, I kind of break most of the established rules. But...yeah? I think so. It's not a bad way of describing it. It felt stronger.

What is the point of having rules if they can be broken? The scientists from my timeline would be quite vexed.

As I see it, there are two primary possibilities. Either it is specific to the location itself, or it is a property of the minerals in the cave. If it is the minerals, we could process them to make the effect portable and study it better. Do you have opinions or observations that would support either theory? Or a different theory?

That's kind of my whole thing. Or it's supposed to be, eventually.

Huh, that makes sense. I guess it would be easy enough to test if we could chip away some of the cave wall and see if it still makes us glow, or makes me sneeze, or...whatever, once we're way aways from the actual cave?

That could be advantageous in a number of ways, provided you can control the ways in which the rules break. If unpredictable, that may not be as good.

If the sneezing does not cause you undue distress, yes. Carrying around an allergen might become problematic if you require concentration.

It's a bit complicated, but I should be able to eventually.

So long as no one is close enough to get shocked. I can't really control where the electricity goes when I'm sneezing.

Complexity is better than unpredictability. Complexity can be learned and manipulated in ways you desire.

Hmm. I believe it would be worthwhile to test, but it is ultimately your decision.

No one ever died of sneezing, right? I don't mind being a guinea pig.

Do you want an honest answer to a question I presume is rhetorical?

Please be safe.

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