[week 2] [backdated to day 318] Gonna wash that man right out of your brain

[fearinahandfulof]

This... may not be useful given how many there are, but psychic healing works on the cultists, at least enough to make them realize their minds have been tampered with. I think removing the tampering would also be possible, but it would take longer - a few days, probably.

The cultist - ex-cultist - I talked to spoke with the Calculator Council about it, and Ghalib. They're... alarmed.

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[levelthreehooligan]

Aye. From what I can see she needs some intensive care.

There are fanatics everywhere if you know where to look for them. A Shared obsession and intentional rejection of the current reality can make people very dangerous. We had to, ah... dispatch a fair few back home.

[fearinahandfulof]

I can help with that, if need be.

I didn't spend a lot of time around the human settlements, so I don't know. I don't think the Awakened Beings ever grouped together in that way, but the situation on our island favored them greatly, so they didn't need to deny reality in that way.

[Well, Priscilla had, but a cultist she was not. People tended not to survive encounters with her.]

[levelthreehooligan]

Hopefully it won't have to come to that, I would rather not spill blood 'less we absolutely must.

You tend to see them form around beings of great power and influence, and generally speaking they aren't good news.
I have met few with good intentions.

[fearinahandfulof]

I think the closest we had to beings of great power and influence were the Abyssals, and of the old ones there were only three. One preferred to be alone, one targeted my kind in hopes of making allies of us, and the oldest had only other Awakened Beings as foot-soldiers. And then he sent them all off to die anyway, because they were no longer convenient to him.

[And that act had come back to bite him back hard... literally. But that's neither here nor there, is it?]

I hope it doesn't come to that, too. Ghalib's victims are just that, and I don't think anyone else here would appreciate us turning our blades on their fellows.