Player Handout 1: For those who played "Caaried
Away"
At the conclusion of “Caaried Away,” heroes
with 5+ ranks in Treat Injury were given the option of assisting in research
to determine the origins of the anti-Caarite virus. Those of you who played
“Caaried Away” thus know a bit more now than you did when that event ended.
Heroes without the requisite ranks in Treat Injury still could have opted
to help out in defending or providing other forms of support for the research
effort, so if you have any reason to believe your hero would know the following,
treat it as in-character knowledge. (Oh, and one out-of-character comment…
all who took part in the “incident” on Tilnes have been asked to keep things
quiet, so as not to raise a panic; thus, if you’re playing with someone
who has yet to play “Caaried Away” at this table, speak of the events of
the module only in roundabout terms, and don’t reveal the location or the
individuals involved unless it becomes inevitable over the course of the
event.)
The virus…
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was constructed to target Caarites
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is absolutely an engineered creature; the
cellular structures bear the “signature” of a genetic scientist, though
not a scientist whose signature you recognize (note that this “genetic
signature” is roughly equivalent to a squiggle on a subatomic particle,
an ego-mark that no one but the scientist him- or herself is likely to
recognize definitively)
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most likely was not intended to mutate Caarites
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could probably be reconfigured by its original
creator in a matter of weeks, maybe less
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shows signs of having been modified at least
a dozen times in the past, based on the signature history
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was respiration-dependent, in its Tilnes form,
but could easily be modified to be airborne or contact transmissible
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can be modified, using a combination of chemicals,
to go temporarily dormant when immersed in normal water
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is destroyed if it is frozen (liquid nitrogen
works; putting it in a normal freezer generally doesn’t)
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is probably something you’re immune to in
its present form, since you’ve already been exposed to it
You can fill in any hero who was not
involved in the events on Tilnes once the group is all together…