anemoi | [video] you're lucky it only took him a day and a half to notice

[Rex has been a tad preoccupied all week. First and foremost on his mind was updating his journal, keeping track of everything. He can't predict when he'll blank out, but he can prepare, and that's what's been on his mind. In fact, it was only when he stepped out of the apartment building to get some more photos that he began to realize something was off.

He got a photo of some eight-legged spider-llama before it opened its mouth and assaulted him with spider webbing. With him immobilized, it dragged him into the forest to a clearing filled with various animal monsters. It led him to the middle and the animals appeared to start...cheering? They closed in on him, but thankfully Rex managed to escape and fly up above the horde. It's then that he finally gets a closer look at the animals. The spider-llama, an oversized beetle with three mouths, a bear-spider, a suddenly animate tree...and a large rabbit with sharp, jagged teeth.

He tests his hypothesis by trying to cure the group of animals...and succeeds. He rushes back to town to see what's happening there. Destruction, EVOs running rampant...it's not pretty. He doesn't know how long this has been going on for, but now's as good a time as any to explain what's going on.]

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Okay, everyone stay calm! Good news, I know what's going on here with all the monsters.

Bad news, the monsters all around town--they're EVOs! I don't know how it could've happened, but there must be nanites here, inside everyone by now, probably. They don't normally do anything, but they can turn any normal person or animal or even a plant into these EVOs! They usually get turned into monsters who don't know what they're doing, but not always--it can pretty much be anything.

Long story short? If you're noticing anything new or weird about yourself now, chances are you're an EVO too.

The other good news is, I'm an EVO too--and I can cure other EVOs. I don't know if I can get every single one, or cure everyone before someone gets hurt...but that's not going to stop me from trying.

Just...whatever you do, don't kill anything--they could be your next door neighbor. And if you spot an EVO, take it down without killing it! I don't know how this started, but I'm going to put an end to it.

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I bet someone can cast Raise.

Just--fine, where are you? I'll take care of them and then you won't have to burn anyone to death, okay?

No, wait, I've got an even better idea!

[The video will suddenly turn off before Rex can respond. Maybe from seeing the background, he can guess that Palom's on the hill outside the main laboratory, though.]

[Rex doesn't have the time to respond, but he has a bad feeling about this. He isn't entirely sure where this kid is--somewhere near the labs, maybe? But he has a bad feeling about this.

He groans and heads off in the direction of the lab.

If this is what responsibility feels like, he doesn't like it.]

[Rex can follow the sparks of magic and the screams of little boy. Whenever he crests the hill, he will find Palom doing battle...

With a small horde of pigs and frogs.]

Go, Mr. Toady! Cast Insta-warts!

[He catches up to Palom and has to stop and stare for a moment.]

Are you...fighting them with frogs?

Huh?

[Palom glances up from his war games.]

Oh, it's you. ...No, I just turned them all into frogs. They keep doing funny things like growing more heads or turning into monsters again, so I have to keep changing them back.

...So let me get this straight. You turned the EVOs into frogs. And then the frogs started going EVO again...so you turned them back into frogs again?

Yup!

[pause]

No, wait.

That one's a pig.

[It oinks. And begins to drool something resembling bubbling acid.]

[Rex facepalms with one hand and cures the pig with the other.]

Pretty good, huh? And they all get to see what it's like being a frog! I bet they'll like it so much that they'll be really happy to have me practice changing 'em back and forth afterwards.

Yeah, except for the part where they're not frogs.

They'll like it better. They get to eat flies.

[He walks over to another frog that's beginning to mutate and cures it.]

Eating flies generally isn't very high on someone's list of things to do.

They just don't have their priorities in order.

[Palom is poking at one that's swelling alarmingly. It's the size of a small dog already.]

[video] you're lucky it only took him a day and a half to notice

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