Hello to all of the Continent of Sapience,

Are you feeling particularly emotional of late? Are you not but those emotions are manifesting into the material world and trying to kill you anyway?

A combined effort by several cities is underway to solve this. We cannot fix your emotional issues, but we can at least try to stop them from taking physical shape and trying to eat you. Eventually.

Project Brief
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Deployment Date
-24 Daedalan 978

Location
-The Manticore Caves outside of Genji. In a Great Cave. Common coordinates are 10151.

Scope
-A ritual will be conducted in two phases.
1) A Cyrenian effort to draw the four Children of Sorrow, Rage, Fear, and Joy using the power of music and song to the above location and into a spirit trap. Once we are joined by these entities, we move to the next phase.

2) A Mhaldorian effort to bind the entities within the caves, forcing a reunion or - and this is important - otherwise nullifying the threat. Mhaldor will be planning for a few contingencies just in case.

We shall be nimble and flexible because experience tells us that any plan will need to be adjusted as soon as it confronts reality.

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Preparation
-Thanks to the spectacular work of the Dicondron Academy's Chief Requisition Officer, a rather unassuming box has beem constructed. The 'shard' entities that plague you go in it. The box will reduce the corpses down to a more efficiently usable energy source.

Relevant Entities:
-Rageshards, Gleamkits, Tremorlots, Sorrowshreds

-NOTHING BUT THESE FOUR THINGS GOES IN THE BOX. What'll happen if you do? No idea. But if something bad happens an angry Requisition Officer will probably hunt you down and put you through the worst suffering you can imagine. Sometimes science is more art than science, with lots of wishing and hope. That makes no sense, but go with it.

-The ritualists, likely of both cities, will be able to use this to increase the impact of their efforts. As we are working rapidly, great impact is a tool we cannot turn our nose up at.


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How you can assist
-Many many many of these entities are spawning and that is bad. The silver lining is they can be a plentiful energy source. Please murder them. And then take them to the above location and put their corpses in the box. The box will swiftly annihilate them, converting them to mystic power.

-Side note, if the box's appearance changes, please let me know. I don't know if it will, but a change like that is always informative.

-There is no upper limit to this of which I am aware but if the apparatus starts acting funny, we will adjust our strategy. The expectation from Logistics is every minute counts so it can logically contain a lot.

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Who do I ask for more Info?

The following are my points of contact in various cities. This list may not be complete, this is just who I have been reaching out to.

Ashtan
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Overseer Alashi Shiva, Archaosa Shiva
-Overseer Shiva has indicated he may not be present this month, and this month is all we've got. I invite any Archon or Minister to reach out with questions, but I do ask that answers be shared with the population of Ashtan at large.

Cyrene
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Darona Firedancer

Eleusis
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Speaker Ilsefi Stormsong, Argwin Meraki, Xylarys Diaboli
-Argwin was at the initial planning, Speaker Stormson and Xylarys were at the followup where the cities reviewed the chosen venue. Like the Overseer, the Speaker indicated her availability may not allow her to respond in a timely fashion, so has designated Mr. Diaboli as her representative for questions.

Hashan
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Regent Fendo Sehr'asa-Corten, Supervisor Ildiko Zuiho_sho, Seneschal Minkai Shin, lots more, ask and ye shall receive. I am also happy to assist.

Mhaldor
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Tyrannus Zorina Aristata

Targossas
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Caefir Aeowynn Banazir

Rogues
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Feel free to ask anyone above or myself.

I'm also going to flag Scarlattan Taelle Starling as a contact, as he is involved in preparing for the ritual concert portion, phase one.

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Thank you all for reading this missive and best of luck in the hunts and that which follows. Always happy to answer inquiries.

Countess Nezaya Visindi
Witch

Penned by my hand on the 20th of Sarapin, in the year 978 AF.