Questions/Question 572

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit trounce asked on Test Drive Meme - January 2026/Event FAQ at 2026-01-27 Answer date: 2026-01-28	Resident low-key Fontainian werewolf in Karteria took on a hearty serving of the tainted katalyth’s bad vibes and pulled off a pro-gamer strat of using his shifted form to more or less scrape the growths off the walls directly. Because I have no idea how to cleanly segue into the goofy question I have concerning potential character death, but that’s the TL;DR. Wriothesley was only able to clear the growths on the first few floors of the creeping tainted katalyth, and it’s completely understandable that there’s no way he can even begin to breach the worst floors with this method. But at least it sped up the initial sample collection, in some way hopefully? Please pardon the mess on the ground floor and on the stairs leading up; an attempt was made at least... But what would Wriothesley’s realistic healing, or dying, timeline look like after this stunt? In the aftermath, he’s being passed around like a crispy hot potato among his imprints to hug out the pain, with Dan Feng’s healing magic potentially being his only other option to ease the more serious wounds in case of emergency. But if death by “using tainted katalyth as an impromptu backscratcher” is the unavoidable outcome, then I'm completely okay with those consequences! He figured, under duress, that his natural soul was hardy enough to tank his reckless decision-making, and that thug hugs via imprints would be good enough to patch him up afterwards. I’d love to see how doomed or salvageable he actually is... or if he's a potential case study on the effects of touching the no-no rocks. (okok)	cw: some body horror That's a lovely and in no way exceedingly reckless strategy Wriothesley has! It would certainly be effective, so long as he's capable of enduring the emotional battering and physical misery of not only spending time around the dark Katalyth but actively clawing at it. At least he 'only' set himself the modest task of clearing some of the lower floors.... As his effort is being followed with a significant amount of aftercare from his imprints + healing (and being a Carnivora-type helps, with their regenerative tendencies)... it's possible that he might survive his good idea. It will not be pleasant. Especially when his body's healing- whether it's as a Carnivora, or assisted by Dan Feng- does not proceed normally. While it may patch up open wounds- skin that split of its own accord, blackened by boils- it will do so incorrectly. Claws and teeth will appear inside muscle, as though attempting to bite or scratch their way out of it, along with malformed hands. Entire limbs- each swollen with errant fangs and nails- burst from wounds, grasping of their own accord for anyone who's in reach. And nor are they gentle, as these extraneous parts reflect the desperation and agony that his body is being put through. Jagged jaws open wide to snap onto any wayward helpers- and worst of all, perhaps, is that any wounds they create will generate more corruption. More teeth, more unnatural digits, more eyes. Wriothesley's madness will spread, his body unable to contain it all. Even the 'normal' parts of Wriothesley's body gain additions, which may or may not make sense. His jaw may split into multiple, each with their own row(s) of malformed teeth, or they may grow eyes instead. Or develop other viscera, the kinds of things that should be kept on the inside of one's body, it's now bleeding and leaking, helplessly growing as it attempts to heal. This all comes with a matching amount of physical and mental anguish. The close presence of imprints will be a massive boon when it comes to the chance of keeping some sort of sanity amidst it all, but he'll be set with vivid hallucinations, and inescapable terror and grief. Anything he hears or sees (through all those extraneous eyes and ears) will feel unnervingly real. His imprints will have their work cut out for them, managing their own wounds, while keeping Wriothesley in some kind of shape.... (Or he could just die, which would somewhat spare him from being aware of much of this. Patho-Gen would have to take him in to revive him, and he'd still be in rough shape afterward. But it would be the 'easier' outcome.) How awful you'd want to get with his condition is entirely up to you, but these are the kinds of things that would happen to someone rubbing themself up against the Big Katalyth.