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[undyingcrow]

In light of recent events, I believe we're past due for more information gathering.

First, I'd like to discuss the tower we encountered last month. There were... interesting messages scrawled across its surface, which I thankfully wrote down before its destruction.

They read:

"This remnant-

Carved from [...] First Impact Remains [...]

Meant to be left alone. The Tears used it in their ritual-

Now it's out of control, changing everything it can"

The Convoy Database regards the Silver Tears as effectively the antithesis of the Steel Wardens. Reverent to the moon and its "blessings" (the transformations). I've no doubt they're the ones behind the scattered shrines we encountered some months prior...

And, obviously, we're well acquainted with those wretched Wardens, with their hypocritical obsession with "purging" this world of monsters.

The words "First Impact" stick out to me as significant. I actually spoke with Blake-san about it as well, and she encountered similar mentions of an impact in scavenged books that had a great deal of information scrubbed clean.

There is clearly something that one of the factions does not want us to discover. Given my previous findings, we know that something of significance was broken in two, that the moon goddess suffers in anguish, and a ritual failed, with us as replacement participants to "share her pain" and "put the ritual right."

But now, thanks to that sagebrush, some of us have been gifted with visions, and I believe that if we share our findings, we can come closer to the truth.

In my case, I witnessed a woman dispatching a monster before turning to panicked civilians and murdering one of them in cold blood. Presumably, she went on to kill the rest of them, but the vision ended there.

For the sake of this post, I believe the most pertinent information is:

• Where you had the vision.
• The description of the vision...

An optional detail:

• The object that sparked the vision.

Mine was in the battleground, and the vision came as I tried ripping the sword from a fallen cyborg's hand.

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[hexrot]

In the Hospital:

• Partially transformed patient on an operating table. Doctors were tattooing sigils on them.
• The door to the room is blasted off its hinges, with armed figures on the other side. They open fire.

[undyingcrow]

Thank you, Jayce-san.

[That has... implications. Rather unpleasant ones, at that.]

I imagine the armed figures were either the Wardens or the beginnings of a faction that would one day become the Wardens.

But I have to wonder if the doctors were their own group outside the Tears and the Wardens. The sigils are... concerning. Perhaps precursors to our own sigils?

[hexrot]

They were incredibly similar to ours, I'll give you that.

We'll need more evidence to support it. It could be possible the groups formed afterwards. Might just be my hunch, but it feels more likely for commonfolk to see the work of medical science as a miracle than doctors themselves.

[undyingcrow]

To those without an understanding of science, there's little separating it from magic. There comes a time where one's left to question what truly distinguishes the two.

What strikes me is the writing on the tower. If it was formed from "First Impact remains," then that begs the question of when this "First Impact" transpired.

If I had to wager a guess, it may have been the inciting incident. The very first Moon Warp.

[hexrot]

[..... huh. ]

When I was experimenting with the runes, I had a reoccuring dream of a Moon Warp, right over an active population. A city.

It didn't look like it'd happen before.

[undyingcrow]

It's possible that this First Impact occurred at that precise time, placing your memory before the tower's construction.

The tower was also used in sacrificial rituals, explaining the monsters attached to its surface.

It's proof enough that the Tears are not wholly good or altruistic.

[hexrot]

There's no good at play here. Only contrasting interests.

[undyingcrow]

Differing extremes, opposing ideals...

And then there's us, thrust into a conflict that has no bearing on our own realities.

[hexrot]

As if we didn't have our own problems to solve.

[undyingcrow]

I think it's rather likely that we all have loose ends left hanging, as a result of our untimely arrivals.

Worse yet, we've no idea if time passes while we're here.

Sanada-san is from the past, but we share a world. That could be promising, yet there are hardly enough examples to make a solid assertion one way or another.

[hexrot]

Viktor is from our past. I'm from our future.

That's if our timelines are compatible. Quantum mechanics aren't singular or linear.

[undyingcrow]

True. We can't rule out multiverse theory, even if the parallel realities share similarities.