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[greatwork]

[So as the feed turns on, it won't show the person recording. Instead, it will pan over several rather detailed anatomical sketches of several Digimon- Gazimon and Tailmon, Greymon and Kimeramon, Devidramon and Damemon... It seems, after a while, like most of the Digimon inhabiting the city have been drawn here. Each of the sketches also has several notes attached, along the lines of 'strong bite' or 'heat ray from hands', or 'weak vision'.

Rather than turning the camera to show herself, Alex will just talk from off-screen]

So, since a certain fuckhead of a biologist dropped off the face of the Earth before he got me the information he was supposed to, I've been working on a project of my own. A Digimon encyclopedia of sorts, all known ones, their abilities and hopefully weaknesses if we know those, too. Spread the knowledge and give everyone a better chance to survive whatever bollocks shows up this time. Any information on Digimon capabilities would help, if you lot care to share it.

Though, I did notice something while I was doing these.

[She shuffles the papers around until several Digimon drawings are on top- Sakuyamon Miko Mode, Lilimon, Bastemon, Lotusmon, and Darcmon, specifically.]

I get that Digimon are apparently spawned from the data from the internet. That explains why most of them appear to have recognizable forms rather than being completely alien to us, I think, something like Gazimon could have been given form by data on canine form and behavior. There's also a bunch of cat-looking ones, and since most of human output is total shit, I think that explains the Damemon as well.

But why the hell are most of the humanoid Digimon I've seen so far all women, and on top of that, they all look like that? Tits and bikinis, the lot of them. Even Lilimon is an inch of skirt away from showing the world if Digimon get underwear data or not. Where, exactly, is this Digital World getting its data on humans from? Why the fuck is it so skewed right towards knockers the size of my head and wearing less than a street corner hooker? Is this place just getting its data on humans from adult sites, or have I just been extremely unfortunate in my encounters so far?

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[greatwork]

Then you deal with it. It's all pretty when it's hypotheticals. How's this for a hypothetical? What if we all fail and all those worlds are destroyed, because the world thought following its stupid rules was "the right option"?

You make your choices and you deal with them.

[heartdive]

We won't fail.

[greatwork]

You know how we could make sure of that?

[heartdive]

By believing and depending on each other.

[greatwork]

By actually letting me make proper medicines. Seriously, the shit I have to work with here is so goddamn basic I can barely even make proper painkillers, much less treat actual illnesses, and you know what our enemy is? A fucking virus. Why don't I go whip up a batch of antibiotic oh wait I fucking can't because this world doesn't let me use alchemy. So far the best uses for what does work here have been explosives and poisons.

[heartdive]

[ at least she didn't shoot him down completely. ]

Better than nothing?

[greatwork]

Actually, no, it is significantly worse than nothing, as I am trained as a medic yet it has taken away everything I can do except cause horrific, indiscriminate damage, and then taken away my ability to do anything to help with the damage caused by that.

[heartdive]

Wouldn't have thought you were the healer type.

[greatwork]

I am an alchemist, that is half the bloody point.

[heartdive]

I've never met one before.

[greatwork]

[SIGH.]

And now you have. We follow Hermetic principles to bring balance to the human body and soul, allowing it to purge all ills and achieve immortality.

Being able to treat pain and injuries are also required skills.

[heartdive]

What is it, exactly? Alchemy...

[greatwork]

Didn't I just explain?

[heartdive]

I mean... How does it work.

[greatwork]

... I'll make you a deal. Explain that darkness you were talking about before, and I'll explain alchemy.

[heartdive]

There's not a lot to explain. It's darkness. Like the opposite of light?

[greatwork]

Not its opposite, its absence.

Unless you mean you freaked out the first time you saw night, I have no damn clue what you're talking about.

[heartdive]

I'm not talking about it like that.

It's like two forces. Light kind of is the better parts of a person while darkness is the negative. Everyone has light and darkness in them. Some people give into the darkness and others just stick to the light.

[greatwork]

... Okay, then, if you're talking about that, how can something be "swallowed by the darkness"? Is that a metaphor?

[heartdive]

Yeah and no.

A person's heart can be consumed and lost to darkness. Since each world has its own heart, it can also lose itself to darkness. The world will just... Disappear. Like it wasn't there in the first place.

[greatwork]

.... Nigredo.

[heartdive]

Huh?

[greatwork]

The first step in the great work, the black process. Putrefaction. The impurities within the substance are brought to the surface, cooked through to a uniform black matter. Some shitheads say it represents the shadows of the soul.

It sounds like you've applied that process to a whole damn world.

[heartdive]

I don't know about the rest of it, but shadows of the soul? Sounds about right to me.

[greatwork]

... And what about the rest? What happens after the first process?