Teenagers Scare the Living Shit Out Of Me etc. etc.

[dyingtohealyou]

[Characters passing by the bulletin board may notice a new message tacked to it!]

Drinking party at the bar at 8pm. Under 21 only. Adults will be persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Fun and games included, party hats optional. Don’t be late!

[Sure enough, there’s a gathering of teens (and maybe some not-so-teens?) to be found in the bar! While the posting mentions this is a teen only event, adults are in fact allowed as long as they are cool. OOCLY please be aware there are going to be teens drinking alcohol and possibly smoking! Also additionally, please let the teens/players have fun; again, adults are allowed but only if they’re cool enough to play along without snitching them out!

All party game top levels are going to be made under Ahito’s account but please assume ICly that Akira instigated/explained them! Once the game toplevels are up you can also post your own toplevels to mingle freely if you like IDK IT’S A PARTY HAVE FUN]

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[erythropoiesis]

[It takes him a moment to mull it over, trying to find the right words to say it.]

It's like a complete corruption and dominance of the mind. Those who have been tempered lose their own will, and are completely in a primal's thrall. They cannot think for themselves and make their own choices, entirely dedicating their entire being to following the primal's will while being entirely unaware of the world around them. They're shells of themselves with their only goal being summoning their primal and getting more under its sway.

[Those who have been tempered are dangerous and a threat to the world, but that goes unsaid. It feels cruel to blame victims for actions they're unaware of.]

[leewards]

[Ithaqua taps a finger on the wooden table as he listens, and thinks. Definitely not anything similar to what he knows and has experienced. It's no cult fanaticism at all, and he's mistaken. It's definitely disheartening. Still, he keeps it off of his face, just to not bring the mood down more than it already has.]

You've been able to make a proper cure... And yet it is so oddly specific-- [He shakes his head.] If only something similar could be done for other ills of the mind.

[erythropoiesis]

[Hand to chin, thinking... He knows a few things about healing and the manipulation of aether, and he's more than familiar with how memories work and with how people can twist the minds of others for good and ill, so he's still optimistic.]

It's certainly possible, depending on the source of the illness. If it's biological it may be more difficult, but were it the result of an outside influence or conditioning...

[Briefly, he thinks of those in Kholusia, under Vauthry's thumb, but that's perhaps just as irrelevant as tempering is for whatever Ithaqua's concerns are.]

I would need to see for myself, but I think... there's always a chance.

[leewards]

[He's about to say "torture", it's on the tip of his tongue. But he controls himself, this is not the venue for it. So he simply nods.]

I do hope that we shall one day be able to resolve my problem one day.

Have a good night, G'raha. I shouldn't take up all of your time.