A Riverview Investigative Service Report, filed by Alex Reagan

[11calls]

Grief, Sympathy, Madness and Anger:
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."

Comments

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[felinefox]

Ah, making people suffer because they suffered. I'd like to say I'm sympathetic but I'm a little too pissed at how much of last month I lost because of it.

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[11calls]

Yeah, this isn't the sort of thing that helps anyone. I'm just glad she didn't just decide to kill us all off, honestly.

How are you feeling now?

[felinefox]

Have to wonder how much of that was luck more than anything.

Better. Restless, but that always happens if I'm still for too long.

[11calls]

From what has come up in my research, I think if she wanted us dead then we would be. Or at least the estimated fifty percent of us who were infected. I mean, this thing took out people that it shouldn't have been able to touch. If she miscalculated at all...

[The baseline humans like herself would have been dead within the first week.]

When things settle down a little more, I may need to hit you up for an outside the wall adventure. Just to stretch my legs and explore.

[felinefox]

I guess we can't expect everything here to play by the rules we've always known.

Just let me know when. Could use a little getting out of the city myself.

[11calls]

No. That's the both great and shitty thing about being here: so many different viewpoints, and so many different ways of life.

I definitely will. Looking forward to it!

[felinefox]

I don't know, if it means people are more open minded I'd say the good outweighs the bad. Most of the time. But I'll take that over the alternative.

[11calls]

Definitely the same. I mean, back home things are taking a turn away from the good, so I really do prefer it this way.

And I've meet some amazing people here. Like you, for instance.

[felinefox]

I'm glad you think so. I gotta admit, it's nice to find people I can get along with, especially now I'm the only one here from home. It's not something I always find easy but the right people make it easier.

[It probably also helps that she doesn't have the same kind of territorial issues here as she had back with the Mutant X team, at least not at the moment.]

[11calls]

[For a moment, Alex just goes silent, because she hadn't realized that Shalimar had lost people who'd been here since she's been, and she can only think about how much that absolutely needs to suck.]

I'm sorry. I didn't know you'd lost people. [Because sometimes it just needed to be said, and it's clear Alex means it.]

And don't worry, I have a pretty high asshole tolerance. Not that I think you are one, of course. Just that I've had a fair amount of experience with them.

[Just ass her boyfriend with her phd in being an asshole from Yale.]

[felinefox]

It's fine. It could have been a lot worse.

[If things at the flower festival had gone a different way, she'd be taking it all a lot harder. Not that she doesn't still miss Brennan but she's glad it was at least before things had a chance to get messy.]

Assholes are a pretty common breed, unfortunately. You're more patient than I am, I'll say that much.

[11calls]

I have a pretty high asshole tolerance after being a reporter for so long.

[Read: being around Richard Strand for three years.]