"I'm as real as anyone else is in this City."
"So sayeth." The doppelganger giggles as if it made a joke.
The light flickering around your antlers only grows brighter and brighter. Your head is on fire on right - Every neuron in your brain is frying apart as you try to establish SOMETHING with the doppelganger. A deep, spiritual connection through your antlers.
>49...>PASS but not without <span class="mu-r">SUFFERING.</span>https://youtu.be/RgNyMouowLM - A GLIMPSE
<span class="mu-r">She is your own flesh and blood.</span>
<span class="mu-r">A month worth of biological samples harvested from your missions. From everywhere in the City.</span>
<span class="mu-r">The farthest stretches of the Infinite Sea. The frozen abyss of I-Corp.</span>
<span class="mu-r">An abandoned P-Company facility. An W-Corp mine. The streets of D, L, Q and R-Corp's districts. A rich restaurant found in U-Corp's district.</span>
<span class="mu-r">You have your permanent mark on the City. Even your blood and sinew lives on.</span>
<span class="mu-r">As your body continues to twist and morph in on itself. As you become of a statistical anomaly than a human being.</span>
<span class="mu-r">More and more of these entities, these byproducts from you, will manifest.</span>
<span class="mu-r">They are your sub entities. Minions created by you, all believing themselves to be the real Nicole.</span>
<span class="mu-r">You are no longer human. You are a concept. A concept that will stain the waters of the human subconscious <span class="mu-s">PINK.</span></span>
<span class="mu-r">Your time is limited. Your human vessel can not hold forever.</span>
The last thing you remember before everything goes black is the sound of water boiling and the sound of something hard shattering into a billion tiny pieces.
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...
When you next wake up, you find yourself laying on the lobby's floor. Pink liquid stains the floor and floating amongst them are tiny fragments of bone. You reach up to touch your antlers but they're...fine?
As your eyes focus, you see Wendy staring down at you. Your head is resting on her lap which, you will admit, it feels pretty nice to rest on.
"Hoo." Wendy shudders out a sigh. "The others heard something pop out here and. And I knew something was wrong. You were. I."
You feel something wet on your face. It's not that pink fluid - Wait. Wendy's eyes are watering.
"I thought you died. I know, I know, that's silly. You're too much of a disgusting aberration to do that. But."
[HUNTER OF THE CITY? + SHARED SOULS] "No, no, I shouldn't be pitying an aberration like you are but. You're."
Wendy is torn between acting on her beliefs as a W-Corp rep and her friendship with you. It seems that for now, the latter wins out. For now.
"Are you okay?" She whispers.
"I. Everything hurts but I'm fine." You rub your head. "I'm going to be okay."
>-2 RESTRAINT. You now have 6/14. >FLESH WEAVERY has been upgraded. You can now regenerate limbs on a long cooldown. This will matter.>WHISPERS OF THE CITY has been upgraded. You can now detect when someone is actively pursuing you. Currently, <span class="mu-r">two targets are pursuing you.</span> 