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

wolfgirl579 - Text

[luckyescape]

Follow up Question...

Can we figure out why she did this? Or how the first epidemic started?

text; @ryo.asuka666

[apt666]

Impressive work. Thanks for the update.

text | p.parker

[madeupnames]

Oh man, that's so scary.

I'm glad I missed it I guess, but I wish I could have helped. is everyone okay?? ☹️

text; un: shadowfox

[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.

text; stark

[inebriety]

So not quite revenge.

And congratulations on the scoop.

voice @frankenstein

[jolting]

Thank you for the report, Alex.

Something to add: I was working on a cure using blood samples from those who were still infected as well as those who were immune. But I checked on the samples recently and traces of the virus are gone from the infected blood.

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 | un:breq

[breqintopieces]

An impressive collection of information.

I imagine that her access to the materials for nanite creation will be severely restricted even if she is released, but I have to wonder if there are other kinds waiting to be released. Or, if she did deactivate them herself, a system that can be taken advantage of.

Though that may be more a question for the police, or Dr. Frankenstein.

Do you plan on interviewing her?

[dancingmd]

Any chance that you will get to interview her, at some point?

text; un: worstwitch

[bastardofipswich]

laaaaaaaame

[ He doesn't mean this report is lame! He means that the whole, you know, situation is. ]

text; un: rogue

[backwaterbelle]

What do the police plan on doing with her?