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A Riverview Investigative Service Report, filed by Alex Reagan
Spreading an artificial plague.
After an extensive investigation conducted by this reporter with great assistance by Dr. Richard Strand and Officer Peter Grant of the London Magical Crime Unit as well as an anonymous source, the ISR has discovered the identity of the person who released the plague that was both a combination of magic and nanite technology as pointed out by both Dr. Victor Frankenstein and Tony Stark the younger in network posts. The culprit is a local woman, Sarah White, 49. Whiteis an engineer who specializes in magically-enhanced robotics giving her the ability and knowledge and skills to release this artificial virus. White is currently in police custody.
The virus was released on May 1st by City Hall, according to multiple witnesses who saw White in the area acting suspiciously. Extremely contagious by design, White artificial virus spread through the population, attacking both native and newcomer like a wildfire without any one set of symptoms or a period of illness. The only thing that the virus had in common in every instance was that the victim spent a period of time in a coma, and then woke up with no sign of having the disease or the ability to catch it again.
No new cases have been reported as of June first, and everyone who was previously infected has been awaken from their comas, with the magic and the nanites stopped.
While this reporter did not interview White herself, extensive research reveals that other than working as an engineer, during the first epidemic that affected the settlement ten years ago, White entire family was killed. Given that she had the ability to kill everyone within Riverview, and didn’t, and the attack happened during the month of Memoria which this reporter does not think is a coincidence.
More updates on the story as we get them.
Update #1
Dr. Frankenstein reported to us that in looking for a cure from immune patients, he'd collected blood samples. Those blood samples show no further signs of the virus. He adds, "My guess is that Miss White deactivated the nanites or sent some sort of command for them to be destroyed once the month of Memoria was over."
text | p.parker
I'm glad I missed it I guess, but I wish I could have helped. is everyone okay?? ☹️
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Welcome to Riverview! Are you a doctor?
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A high school student, actually.
[He can't exactly say oh I'm a vigilante hero who looks for people who do things like this.
Life is hard.]
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You sound eager to help! Nice to meet you, Peter.
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Who knows how much more damage they could've caused, if people didn't jump on this faster.
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I think that if she wanted too, she could have basically killed everyone here. I'm just really really glad she didn't, even if she was being inconsiderate and completely not taking the fact that everyone loses someone into account.
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[He seems to be considering something - or someone - in particular, but it's left unspoken.]
If anything, it should be a reason to protect people with everything you've got.
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Yeah, it's a really stupid reason, but I think that people deal with hurt in different ways. Some people want to protect and some people just want to make people hurt as bad as they are. I didn't get a chance to talk to her, but that's what I think Sarah White was doing.
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You think she'll ever be sorry about it? Or did she seem pretty cold?
[He'd just like to know if she's a potential re-offender.]
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[No you're not, Alex. You went off to turkey to meet an actual confessed mass murderer who is stalking you and actually escaped from an institute for the criminally insane. You are a shit judge of character.]
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She must be really miserable in life. I dunno.
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It's almost enough to make someone wonder if it's punishment enough.
[Almost, Alex is definitely not about letting this woman off the hook for anything.]