call_me_spooky | x - 0009 [Medusa]

[ Viewable to Police Force // Those investigating the stonings]
Case File: X - C0009
Known Victims:
1. Eden McCain
Interviewed an acquaintance of the victim. Although an attack like this is potentially possible in her world of origin, neither I nor Dr. Suresh feel this is a likely explanation for the rash of stonings.
Ms. McCain's discovery was filmed and posted to the Network.
2. Artemis Fowl
Victim returned to normal after a time; evidently the spell lost its effectiveness.

[addendum:]
3. Reno
A video on the Network seems to have been taken immediately after the incident.
It's worth noting that there is a link between this man and one of the stabbing victims, Reeve Tuesti.

Further examination suggests that the effect is in fact magical, although the precise cause has yet to be determined. Victims report feeling an intense cold prior to their petrification, which might point to a link between these attacks and the rash of as-yet unexplained stabbings last month.

Video of the stonings is currently being analyzed in the lab in the hopes that we'll find more information, I'm not sure yet what's come of that-- we got a report yet, Vincent?

If there are other victims I'm missing, or if anyone else has more info on what's here, let me know. I'm sure this is by no means comprehensive.
[ /Filter ]

I'm glad I got away without having to enumerate my near escapes; I wouldn't have had time to listen to the stories the City wanted told.
I thought, once, that I remembered dying, though often I can't tell what I've seen from what I've dreamed. November twenty-sixth. Someone told me that souls mate eternal; that though we don't recall, in some inscrutable way we stay side by side through the years, the lives, the deaths. Born sisters once, mother and child a second time, lovers third; and yet some lives we meet only in passing, lonely and disconnected, seeing for an instant unknown faces that strike a chord deep within us, though we know not why.
We aren't the damned, or the saved, who have fallen down this rabbit hole. Perhaps it's but a dream from which we'll wake, some shared unconscious memory lying at the root of all realities. Perhaps there's no rhyme or reason behind it; a land where dead men walk with figments of dead men's imaginations, where dreams and nightmares mingle with reality.
Is this merely the logical end of a long journey, a walk through darkness begun with eyes open wide in naive fascination? A restless search for a truth I couldn't comprehend, only longed for with a child's stubbornness? Here so many truths lay bare, so many are handed to me, unsuspected-- and questions raised for which there are no answers in sight, questions I could not have asked had I not been pulled off my path.

[ooc: The count for investigators I'm working with is Harry Dresden, Molly Carpenter, Carlos Ramirez, Karrin Murphy, and Vincent Valentine, as lifted from Harry's filters, but if your char has been involved with the investigation feel free to assume they're on it too? ^^;]

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Thanks for the info. I've got the records on Reeve's attack but I hadn't heard about your colleague's petrification, or about the link between them. For what it's worth, if it's any comfort, I suspect that these incidents aren't related to the struggle in your own world-- if only because in both cases, individuals from several worlds were targeted. Though it's quite possible that there is some quality linking the victims, world of origin isn't the defining factor.

I take it that the effect wore off Reno after a time? Or did you succeed in finding something to reverse it?

Where I come from, it's not unheard of for groups of people getting focused on because of shared abilities, talents, or qualities.

It did. About three days. If we had any soft on us, or an Esuna, we would have tried them first.

Oh, there's a pattern, probably. It's just a matter of finding it.

I'm not sure what those are, but all right. Thanks for the information, though. If he remembers anything else that might help, or if you find anything else out-- or obviously, if anyone else you know turns into a rock-- lemme know, okay?

Mm. That's the fustrating part.

Common materials we use for curing status effects. One's just more specific than the other.

I will. I'm also giving the information to Vincent Valentine since it's more his sort of thing.

Always is.

Gotcha. So is petrification a common occurrence where you come from, then?

Common enough if you run into the right kind of monsters in the wilds. Some materia will cause it too if it's powerful enough.

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