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Phage has a minion!

Motura the Little Collector

Phage
Legacy Name: Tissari

The

Graveyard Charlie
Owner:

PUNK

Age: 16 years, 6 months, 1 week

Born: October 16th, 2007

Adopted: 1 year, 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Adopted: February 10th, 2023

Statistics

Level: 31
Strength: 75
Defense: 76
Speed: 76
Health: 75
HP: 75/75
Intelligence: 9
Books Read: 8
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Stock Worker

STORY

I am Motura, of the Vidiian Sodality. We lure other species here so we can gather replacement organs and suitable bio-matter. It is the only way we have to fight the phage. The virus attacked our people over two millennia ago. It consumes our bodies, destroys our genetic codes and cellular structures. Our immuno-technology cannot keep up. The phage adapts. It resists all attempts to destroy it. Our society has been ravaged. Thousands die each day. There is no other way for us to survive.

Dereth, my associate, is my 'honatta'. His task is to find the organs I need for survival. One of the symptoms of the early stages of the phage is excruciating joint pain. Some who have been infected have been known to die from the agony itself. We try to extract organs from the dead, but sometimes, when the need is immediate...more aggressive actions are required.

For generations my people have been searching the quadrant for a species immune to our disease in the hope that it would lead us to a cure. We believe some species' genetic structure has phage-resistant nucleotide sequences. Soon we will begin a series of procedures replicating that genetic code and attempting various methods of integrating their DNA with our own. In time we'll be successful and eliminate the phage forever.

I may have a grotesque appearance now, but I assure you my instincts are finely honed, and I do have feelings. Hard as it may be for you to imagine, my people were once handsome and vigorous like yours, and with your help we will be again. Perhaps when that time comes I will not disgust you quite so much as I do now.

It must be impossible for you to understand how any civilised people could come to this. Before the phage began, we were known as educators and explorers, a people whose greatest achievements were artistic. I myself am a sculptor of note on my world. All I can say is that when your entire existence is at stake...

If I am captured, if the punishment for the act of my harvesting DNA, organs and biomatter is a death sentence - so be it. At least it will put an end to my suffering...

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