Thalia found a metal switch that she flipped but it was a trap and she was shocked by blue electrical sparks. She shouldn't have taken much damage as a deity but was still unconscious for several days.
When she woke up she discovered that there was now a way to label distances as times such as a pair of shoes that was five years tall, two weeks wide and four hours deep. This confused her greatly, why had The Reporter decided on such a strange course of action?
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It looked like Carmen finally had enough evidence and his people were making an arrest, ready to bring it to his court where it would be tried.
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Shape-shifters like Emma had to be careful as there were certain diseases that only affected some forms, such as one that only targeted those with features taken from rabbits, and others that lay dormant until taking a specific form.
Unfortunately for her, but not so much for Emily, Emma had taken the form of a pig and come down with a case of a flu like illness that could affect the quadrupedal form. She was feeling thirsty but was unable to drink easily. Perhaps reverting to a biped would solve the issue but the illness was triggering changes between other forms and had hijacked her power to change shape.
The magic that was entangaling the two identies was being slowly eroded as distinctive features unique to Emma were being formed.
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Jaron was the name of the avatar of the core of the demon dungeon. People were staring to experience what they were calling Jaron adjacent encounters where they met others of the same species outside the dungeon and they were hostile. It seemed Jaron was the only sapient of that species.
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John was one of those currently engaged in a melee centred on just one such creature. He was working with many of the demons adventurers to at least drive it off to a place where it wouldn't be a threat to the craftspeople. They thought killing it would be possible but resource intensive. The trick he'd perfected with hovering bottles above a target then pouring the contents using Telekinesis was working but not fast enough and others were wounded during the fight, especially those confronting it with hand-to-hand weapons. About half of the combatants would need to rest and recover once they succeed and things were moving in that direction, one more major injury and it should retreat. There it was, the muscles on its left arm partially exposed and then cut meaning it was no longer usable became its motive for retreat. They'd herd it beyond the city walls, to the place that others of its kind were now living.
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Rajesh was trying to set a Suduko. He had been exposed to the puzzles during his visit to Earth and had an idea where he wanted to see if he could limit it so that every number was either three or four away from its neighbours. It was proving harder than expected, he was beginning to think that he might need to break the rule with indicators somewhere. He was already into territory where in the convention he was using going between the four and eight would need to be indicated - and he'd just realised it was impossible without duplication in a row or column when he noted that, maybe just an anti whisper rule which would turn it into a 159 style puzzle instead? In the end he decided to just make it a long line crossing the whole grid where numbers did have to be a minimum of four apart instead of the maximum he'd originally planned.
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Two beings discussed their encounter with a dragon and how it would be one of the surviors of the swarm since it lived outside the affected territory by quite some distance. One claimed they had discovered how to recharge magic items, which was likely given it was far easier under the new rules. The other expressed a desire to research planar magic so that they could take a company of mercenaries back there and have revenge. Then they started drawing up a charter for a proposed mercenary company.