Maea
It's not a demon at your door
Unfortunately for everyone involved, the results remained maddeningly inconclusive. Ellyra fails to notice anything beyond the spider's intent on trying to flee its prison, and finds little help in Edmund's experiment.
Talyson's sweetgrass was quickly set upon by both the serpent and the spider the moment it was dropped into the crate, but just like before it was hard to tell if it was an infection spreading or simply the result of injected Void venom. The plant did begin to shift slightly in color however, so something definitely did happen after a bite.
For Thalassa, her clever choice of switching things up unfortunately didn't result in anything noteworthy. Perhaps it was simply because the infected sweetgrass didn't do more than emit a subtly unpleasant aura, but her hanging snake kept well clear of the plant, curling itself into a corner where it flicked its tongue nervously at her.
Sah's question was an interesting one, that had Maea looking up with some curiosity. "I don't know. You're welcome to try, if you wish." For the time being, he was able to spot the moment the spider in his care made a testy launch at the plant, afflicting a streak of purpling damage onto the plant.
Fortunately forEdmund's snake, though less so for them as their purpose of doing any of this was to uncover evidence of the rate of the spread, nothing much happened at all within his crate even with the new snake. It could simply be because it was smaller and faster than the spiders; it kept evading their attacks by coiling and hissing up a storm in a very brave way.
Maea passed through the group again, just like last time, but when she returned back to her own crate and realized that the results were just as confusing as last time, she looked up at the others with a grim expression. Taking in their expressions, she could see the growing conflict between discovering information and discomfort of exposing the animals to danger like they were.
"I'm going to end this early," she said quietly. "Since the result remains inconclusive, I'm not going to subject any of us to this any longer. This is my take; the Void taint spreads through bites. How fast anything is infected remains unclear.
"Are you all okay with that? Do you have any suggestions for another way to test this? If not, we can move on to the final step."
Round 9
Maea suggests halting the experiment and leaving it as inconclusive! State whether your character wishes to try something else or move on; the next task will be determined by the majority vote.
For Thalassa, her clever choice of switching things up unfortunately didn't result in anything noteworthy. Perhaps it was simply because the infected sweetgrass didn't do more than emit a subtly unpleasant aura, but her hanging snake kept well clear of the plant, curling itself into a corner where it flicked its tongue nervously at her.
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Maea passed through the group again, just like last time, but when she returned back to her own crate and realized that the results were just as confusing as last time, she looked up at the others with a grim expression. Taking in their expressions, she could see the growing conflict between discovering information and discomfort of exposing the animals to danger like they were.
"I'm going to end this early," she said quietly. "Since the result remains inconclusive, I'm not going to subject any of us to this any longer. This is my take; the Void taint spreads through bites. How fast anything is infected remains unclear.
"Are you all okay with that? Do you have any suggestions for another way to test this? If not, we can move on to the final step."
Round 9
Maea suggests halting the experiment and leaving it as inconclusive! State whether your character wishes to try something else or move on; the next task will be determined by the majority vote.
It's just your shadow on the floor
