Questions/Question 98

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#1 wiki | comment Topics: Edit question: edit busternaut asked on Test Drive Meme - May 2025/Event FAQ at 2025-05-17 Answer date: 2025-05-18	Follow up question(s) if you don't mind, sweet mods!! I think it was stated somewhere (possibly in Thorntail's original... incident???) that people who get hit by the device specifically have to be brought back to patho-gen to be revived. 1) can you tell me (or remind me if it's already been said somewhere and I forgot) how that works? Does the target appear for all intents and purposes to be just, regular old unconscious, except nothing anyone outside of patho-gen will wake them back up? 2) When they do take someone who's been hit with the device back to patho-gen, does that mean the employees there will be able to tell *specifically* that it was one of those devices that caused them to reach that state? (or to put it another way, would there be any hints that characters involved might be able to pick up on which would indicate if that's the case?) Basically the lads are trying to be cautious and mindful of anything that might tip patho-gen off to the possibility that they're experimenting with one of these things.	1. The character would appear to outwardly just be unconscious. It would be notable and strange due to not being rousable by normal means, as though they'd just been... switched off, rather than in a genuine state of sleep. To anyone capable of seeing souls (Aves-types in particular have this ability, but for any characters who are good at sensing this thing naturally as well), it also feels like they're being suppressed on some soul-deep level. Both souls are neutralized, quiet, and completely still. Very much alive, but still. 2. Patho-Gen would be able to tell that it had been one of their devices to trigger the unconscious state. They would probably ask how this had happened, because it's not like anyone on staff (hopefully) would just shut off an Augmented for funsies and just leave them that way. It's possible that they wouldn't jump immediately to 'have you stolen a device', when the more likely culprit (to their eyes) would be 'is something wrong with the Augmenter?' They would like to insist on the unconscious character being kept for some additional tests, to see if it's not oversensitive.... The existence of these clicker devices would not be openly acknowledged at any point, and they would present their concern as the Augmenter making a character unreasonably drowsy, their Natural Soul misaligned, perhaps, causing a strain where it shouldn't.