Spiral: How long have they been like this? Where they like this when you found them or after they manage to get here?
Cabinetta: Yesterday, they were rescued in the middle of the night but not before being inflicted with a plague. Their life force is safe but they’re in a state of limbo so to speak. They’ll respond to simple stimuli but they’re incapable of doing much else.
Cabinetta: They’re fairly defensive on touch however. My assistant was bitten a few times attempting to give them medicine.
Cabinetta: I should introduce them to you later….
Cabinetta: They were sickly when they got here and ended up progressively worse over the night until they stopped responding.
Steady: Sounds like some sort of venom.
Cabinetta: Mm, very much the case. You do not want to be bitten by the creature that lurks around here at night.
Cabinetta: My friend in town was able to ward them off from the worst case scenario but…
Cabinetta: I don’t really know what to do.
Cabinetta: The thing appeared relatively recently in the history of this town and has absorbed many into itself. I’ve never had one get poisoned and survive
Cabinetta: Well… aside from myself of course.
Spiral: Is there anything we can do to help out? We’re here to find our co-worker and now that we know more, we’d like to.
Fiddle: Mmm, this creature seems like a danger to everyone. Can’t have that roaming freely.
Spiral: Also are there uh.. Any soul diagnostics you have?
Cabinetta: They seem healthy in that regard but they would benefit from a more efficient medical center… they’re stable for now but the state they’re in worries me.
Steady: No kidding.
You turn to your friends.
Spiral: Would a scan be any good here…?
Fiddle: With your basic level scanner? Maybe if we could get a signal to someone out there. Those at the home base can make better sense of the data we collect.
Cabinetta: Scan?
Steady: We’re researchers of sorts! Scan all sorts of life to make fancy body mods, improve the condition of others and all that.
Cabinetta: Ah! Do you have a device for such? I am curious…
Steady: Yep, we got a fancy scanner that records biological data and all, Wanna give it a try?
Cabinetta: I’ve always been curious about the process of mod work so… certainly!
Steady nudges you.
Spiral: Me?
Steady: Yeah! Make it look slick though.
Fiddle: Mm, put some personality into it.
The spider looks at you expectantly, as if waiting for a magic trick.
You just need to maintain contact for a few seconds…. You could just hold their hand but there’s pressure on you.Something sweet like sweeping them off their feet? Or the old school gladiator handshake?… could suplex but not sure how much they’d appreciate that… maybe they would actually? How are we doing this?