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Elda Marker

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[manufactured]

At this rate we're going to have to make some sort of chart. I remember knowing about yet another virus that an insane scientist developed and then infected herself with...that I wanted a sample of for presumably the same reason I wasn't satisfied with the twelve other things I wanted samples of.

...I hate how I have to clarify that that's an exaggeration, I haven't recalled twelve of them, but here we are.

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Honestly, a chart with them, the immediate effects, symptoms, and if you know of any countermeasures for them might help in the long term.

[manufactured]

Don't be surprised if I don't know of many countermeasures, if any. A fair amount of the time I was working with experimental things that wouldn't have any known to us, and the rest I was using to spread as much chaos as possible. And when it came to my friend and I...well, I wasn't the stronger researcher between us.

But I can try to come up with something like that, I suppose.

[matchbreaker]

No, no, I know.

But I also know you're a gifted researcher now, so it's possible you'll have analyzed what's in your blood now at least? Or can work out what you can deduce.

[manufactured]

My concern here is twofold. One is that the world I came from distinctly didn't like making any sort of logical or physical sense. The second is that when it comes to things like Uroboros, the only countermeasure built into it is "Set it on fire and maybe it will leave you alone because it doesn't like that; otherwise, I hope you have giant lasers at your immediate disposal."

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... Well I guess there's those dragons.

[manufactured]

[...............]

I'll be sure to note the lasers where relevant, then.

[matchbreaker]

Well where else is anyone going to find a big laser?

[manufactured]

Oh, I'm not arguing it.

...Honestly, I would like to see those dragons fight half of what I've seen.

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I mean there's those movies with the giant lizard that shows there's an audience for that.

[manufactured]

Believe me, it would be entirely worth the price of admission.

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[ Joke about charging for it...?

... Nah. ]

I'd bet, yeah!

[manufactured]

[...don't worry elda he is making comments in poor taste right along with you in spirit]

Most of the larger things weren't like the one you've seen, actually - there were several of us that could do large transformations at will. I've never done it, but it's something I'm theoretically capable of now.

[matchbreaker]

What.

[manufactured]

...More or less.

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So in addition to eating flesh and growing itself in people who have a freak immunity it cane make them ... what, virus monsters?

[manufactured]

Something along those lines.

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Oh!

Wow?

[manufactured]

The ones I've seen have all been rather fascinating, if a bit dubious in a lot of ways.

That incredibly Soviet man you saw was one of the people who could do it, incidentally. I wrote notes on it after the fact, back then, but they boiled down to a somewhat pretentious "Well, that told me more about Sergei than I'm comfortable knowing."

[matchbreaker]

So he has Ouroboros too, or are the other viruses also... mutant-makers?

[manufactured]

God, no. Sergei died long before I developed Uroboros, if I have the timeline right, and even if I don't I certainly wouldn't have given it to him. With my luck he would have survived it, and no one needs that.

...Rather, in what's possibly the least comforting news I've had to offer someone all day, I think everything had potential to do that. I made a giant out of Las Plagas and something like four people once. So it's not just the viruses, it's everything.

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[ . . . ]

Okay Albert I cannot believe I am asking this, but did you used to be opposed by men and women in spandex? Was it some superhero world?

[manufactured]

Don't worry, we were opposed by the military like civilized people. I did get compared to a comic book upervillian to my face once, though.

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[ I mean she's.

Not surprised but.

Wow. ]

You know for as sobering and terrifying those memories are when you look at the whole picture there's also a lot of nonsense involved too, isn't there? It's sort of like how in mine there's people with purple and green hair despite everything.

[manufactured]

[oh my god elda you're an anime

why the hell do you get to have all the fun when you're not dealing with everyone dying]

Oh, absolutely. I fully acknowledge that mine are...highly nonsensical, to be generous. The last fight I remember took place in a volcano. I believe my former subordinate punched a boulder out of his way despite not having any powers to his name. There was nothing about it that wasn't the stupidest thing I've ever seen.

...The boulder-punching former subordinate was the one who compared me to a comic book villain, incidentally.