un: abnormalitylover

[abnormalizes]

Okay, so, IDEALLY none of you will ever have to know any of this, because IDEALLY either Binah or I will be supervising the two Abnormalities that have been brought to Ellipsa at all times and no one will ever be alone with either of them. But in the event that, say, we're both flowers for some other reason, they might breach and it's important to know how to deal with them.

This is Punishing Bird.



Punishing Bird is a TETH-level Abnormality, meaning that while it may cause injury, with proper responses it should be easily manageable. Punishing Bird tends to breach when other Abnormalities are worked on or someone in its vicinity panics.

When Punishing Bird breaches, it targets a random person, prioritizing anyone who is panicking, and starts pecking at them. Its pecks do very little damage - they still hurt, don't get me wrong, but they're not a serious threat. If left alone, it will peck at a person for about thirty seconds, and then calm down on its own.

If you attempt to hurt it while it's pecking at you, you are probably fucked.



An enraged Punishing Bird can kill even experienced agents in one bite. There is no reason you should ever be in this situation! Just don't try to hurt it and you'll be fine. If you do enrage it, if you can evade it for a full minute it should calm down anyway, but it's a fast little guy so good luck. It will also calm down after it bites the person who hurt it, so there's that.

This is Big Bird.



Big Bird is a WAW-level Abnormality, meaning it can easily kill dozens of people if you're not careful with it. It becomes closer to breaching the more people in its vicinity die. But like, from fully pacified it needs 25 people in a day to die to breach, so it shouldn't breach if you don't mess with it! If it isn't attacking people, just leave it the fuck alone and you'll be fine.

But if it does breach, it will cause a blackout where it is. It will use its lamp to hypnotize people and lure them to its location; forty seconds after the person is hypnotized, Big Bird's eyes will turn red and anyone in front of it will be decapitated. It's immune to damage while its eyes are red, so don't bother attacking it then. The hypnosis can be removed if you get the person out of the blacked out area within forty seconds.

Big Bird will not calm down on its own and does need to be suppressed violently. It resists physical damage but is weak to mental and soul damage. Again, this shouldn't happen unless things around here change dramatically and people start dying by the dozens, but it's irresponsible not to have the information out there just in case.

Abnormalities: honestly, you could've gotten so much worse! Some of these guys breach when not enough people die. These two shouldn't cause much trouble.

Yes I know how ironic it is that I'm posting this with my username.

Comments

[roundandaround]

Is this a prank

[abnormalizes]

It'd be a pretty lousy prank.

un: douglass

[privateeyed]

what the fuck
i dont want to know how to get to sesame street anymore

[abnormalizes]

What's sesame street?

un: dojima - Text

[detectiveforhierophant]

[ ...What the f u c k ]

I see.

You have a lot of hands on information about these things. Did you used to work with them in your world a lot?

[ The fuck. The fuck? What the fuc-- ]

What exactly are these 'abnormalities'? They're monsters of some kind?

[abnormalizes]

Yep! My job was working with them for energy extraction, seeing to their needs, and suppressing them when they breached.

Abnormalities are monsters originally from the human psyche. They're all pretty much immortal, so that's not a viable solution unfortunately.

un: devilishelvish - voice

[attempted_purity]

My that's... quite a lot to deal with. So these are an example of the abnormalities you've had to deal with?

One bit of solace is I suspect I could deal with this Big Bird handily if you and your friend are incapacitated. They're used to dealing with humans that don't use magic, and I have access to my own magic as well as the abilities my Season provides me.

The real concern, ironically enough, is Punishing Bird. All we can really do there is make sure your information is seen and known about.

[abnormalizes]

Yep! Pretty standard as far as Abnormalities go.

The magic should be handy - I haven't seen how they respond to magic yet, since thankfully I haven't had to suppress them here.

Punishing Bird's harmless as long as people know not to retaliate, but that's harder to make sure of with so many people, not all of whom read the network.

Text | UN: mayorinfan35

[mayoninofukucho]

Are you people CRAZY????? How could you bring these fucking monsters here???

[As if they were given a choice...]

These things are probably more dangerous than anything else around here, and we're all just supposed to accept potentially being subjected to them going apeshit???

[abnormalizes]

I didn't bring them! Tell the power holders off for bringing them, I just do containment.

And yes you are supposed to just accept that. They're unkillable.

video // un:hakureireimu

[fantasy_heaven]

Those are some pretty extreme monsters you've got crammed in there...

I could add some seals to make sure they don't break out. I'm pretty good at that kind of thing.

[abnormalizes]

You'd have to run that by Binah since they're in her house, but I'm not against it. We don't really have magic in our world so I don't know how they'd react.

text; un: architect

[unnecessaryflourishes]

What, precisely, is "soul damage"?

[abnormalizes]

In my world the four classes of damage are red (physical, self-explanatory), white (mental - think sanity loss), black (mixed physical and mental), and pale. Pale damage targets the soul directly and it's very rare that anything resists it, but also few Abnormalities deal pale damage in the first place.

A soul can be destroyed, like anything else.

un: echidna_2

[lost_soldier_echidna]

Tell me that isn't in our apartment.

[abnormalizes]

They're in my coworker Binah's house.

un: devilbreaker

[nihilmancy]

Well. Duly noted. Just because this is close to my area of expertise, does not mean that I wish to tangle with that on my own.

[abnormalizes]

Sensible! Usually you'd have a whole team of people suppressing Big Bird at once if it ever breached.

text; un: jean

[rustyhonesty]

Huh. So that's what some of them look like.

[abnormalizes]

Yep! They get a lot weirder than this, these two are pretty normal looks-wise.

text; un: kouthegreat001

[trafficsafety]

Is there a special way to take care of them? The big bird thing kind of sort of look like things I'm used to? Not exactly but sort of and if somebody needed help then I'd want to help if I could!

[abnormalizes]

That's very generous of you but I really really REALLY want to leave taking care of them to the professionals! Just working with them is dangerous for the unprepared even if they don't breach.

un: shinkirou

[kingside]

[........ Are. Are these the nonhumans you want to, uh. Date. ??????????? Actually, no, don't answer that. Instead—]

I see. Thank you, this has been [help] edifying.

[abnormalizes]

[She asked permission to make this post and Binah told her specifically not to mention that so!!]

You're welcome. Like I said: none of this should ever come up! But forewarned is forearmed and all that.

[egomitochdavar]

A kind endeavor, child. Care that you do not take on the burden of others' failures as you write it.

For those concerned, I am the one the Abnormalities arrived alongside, and they pose no threat to me. Cast aside your delusions of heroism, and it will pose no threat to you as as long as I am here.

[abnormalizes]

I try not to let it get to me, at least.

[You can't just not think about how many of your coworkers have gotten killed, because then you won't learn from their mistakes and will end up one of them. But the number is too great to really internalize.]

One guy said you needed to stay out of danger and I couldn't explain to him how funny that was.

un: ungeziefer

[roached]

And let's just hope no more show up.

[Because boy the ones he met are not great most of the time!!!!!!!!!]

Might need to keep a record or something of this just in case things happen and we can access the info later.

[abnormalizes]

If someone brings Judgment Bird or fucking WhiteNight I don't have a good answer to that. We'll deal with that if it happens.

[populares]

Forgive me for asking, but you are sure they're being adequately contained, yes?

[abnormalizes]

100% positive. Like I said, this shouldn't ever come up for any of you, but forewarned is forearmed and all that.