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

[kingside]

[Is he getting a headache? He thinks he's getting a headache,]

Wonderful. Again, thank you.

[abnormalizes]

Happy to help! It's my job after all.

[kingside]

[Wait, what?]

It is?

[abnormalizes]

Yeah, didn't I mention? I'm on the Safety Team at L Corp. My job is working with Abnormalities for energy extraction, seeing to their needs, and suppressing them when they breach.

Normally I'd be helping to juggle about a dozen of these, not just two.

[kingside]

[You must be very happy in your work. No.]

Then we're grateful to have you.

[abnormalizes]

[it fucking sucks thank you for asking]

I'm grateful to be here, this is practically a vacation.

[kingside]

[The not being able to bone them part or the death part?]

All the more reason.

[abnormalizes]

[the death part. she absolutely does bone them.]

Also, for the record, these guys came here with my coworker, not with me.

[kingside]

[cool glad we got that cleared up]

I understand.

[abnormalizes]

Okay, good, just as long as you know. It isn't her fault they came here either but she also won't care if people get mad at her.

[kingside]

Of course. I'd assume the bigger worry is her getting angry if they're killed for some reason.

[abnormalizes]

Oh no, don't worry about that, they're basically immortal.

[kingside]

[......................... yeah that's a headache for sure. In case anyone was wondering.]

And they were brought as pets. Unintentionally.

[abnormalizes]

Sure were. Just in case you thought the power holders might be competent or something.

[kingside]

Oh, there was never any chance of that.

[abnormalizes]

You never know! Some people here are weirdly optimistic.

[kingside]

[Hmm, yeah, can't relate.]

True. I honestly wonder how they function.

[abnormalizes]

Maybe their worlds are just nicer?

[kingside]

That does seem the likeliest explanation.

[abnormalizes]

Good for them. Can't imagine what that's like.

[kingside]

[... You're more than a little strange, but he thinks he likes you. Don't mess it up. Also, you're still not allowed to meet Nunnally.]

Took the words right out of my mouth.

[abnormalizes]

[She's heard worse than 'strange', she'll take it.]

Maybe I should have put a few more 'this is totally normal daily work for where I'm from and we have it under control' notices on this.

[kingside]

Couldn't hurt, certainly.

[abnormalizes]

Honestly not sure what kind of reaction I expected.

[kingside]

Forewarned is forearmed, as you said. As long as no one is threatening to hunt you down, I'd consider this a success.