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[The video flips on, revealing a brief glimpse of a human form lying unconscious on the baseball field--some poor Greeter who Moody immediately Stunned by reflex upon arrival. If you paused the shot, you might see that he'd caused a fair number of burn marks and charred stains in the area, as well
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You probably won't see this in time for it to be useful. But, just in case, you should be aware that when the sun sets, corruption overtakes the island and monsters come out. The corruption and the monsters vanish again at dawn, but harm done by the monsters - not the corruption itself - persists; for example, people killed by the monsters are still dead.
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Who the hell are you?
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What is this Core? Where's 'here'? And how exactly do you know these things?
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The Core is a combination of magic and technology which over a century ago was tasked with imprisoning everyone on this Earth who had abilities not possessed by normal humans.
I admit that most of what I'm telling you I know from report, not from first-hand evidence, but a number of skeptical people have been looking into the story and not found holes it in.
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I appreciate the story, Frost. Good of you to tell me. And why exactly are you bothering, by the way?
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There's a prejudice from the locals towards those of us who've been kidnapped here, and I'm one of those who believe that the appropriate reaction includes cooperating with each other.
My friends from home took me in and told me this sort of information and generally helped me get on my feet when I arrived. They'd be insulted if I tried to pay them back, but they aren't going to be upset if I try to pay it forward.
I'm an interfering busybody.
I'm too busy with a number of things to go out much, but I often have waiting-for-a-reply pauses in what I'm doing, so meeting people through the network is still doable, and it's at least some form of social activity.
Whyever not? It rarely takes long, I don't have anything else I want to to with the two minutes I use to say this while I wait for more information to load, and while it may or may not do any good it really shouldn't do any harm.
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But all right. You haven't given away that much, after all, Frost. Good on you.
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Define "normal people."
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[He'll be checking if such things -- non-Muggle non-wizards -- exist, of course, and the limitations onthem, himself, as far as it's possible.]
And what about death?
[A vague question, but he wants to hear what she'll say in response to vagueness first. You can always get more specific later.]
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First, there are some ghosts here, at least one of of whom has been Pulled from elsewhere and ... well, here are the posts from the individual I'm thinking of.
Second, this place has little if any connection to the universe you came from, and it Pulls people from different times in the same world. This means that someone who has died might arrive from an earlier time, before their death.
Third, well ... I haven't been following the subject this closely, but I believe this " And if there is anyone here with, how do I put this, with- If there is anyone here who was dead prior to their arrival here, I'd love to speak with you" was sent by someone who was dead prior to her arrival, and I believe she isn't the only one ( ... )
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Timelines. That's crazy but has to be accepted for now. All could be an elaborate ruse, of course.
The third point is really what he was trying to get at, and he makes a note to speak to that woman.
The fourth point he takes enough exception to to respond to.]
Impossible for people to come back from death, except as shadows. One of the fundamental laws. Those resurrections are either ruses... or there's some other force keeping them alive if their physical body was destroyed. [Which is just barely possible...
As for the fifth point, that sounds like a particularly pernicious form of Dark magic...]
Have you ever heard of the term Inferius?
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Inferius as a proper noun? No, I have not. The connotations are unpleasant; the Latin simply means below but it's usually taken as a reference to the infernal in English. If it potentially relates to the darkness monsters, I would like to know more.
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They're reanimated corpses. Creatures of Dark magic with darkness in their veins.
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