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[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

To sum up the explanations John and ANI provided:

The Malnosso were fiddling with the barrier and did something wrong. We became 'unprotected,' and this led to certain individuals being possessed by the spirits. The new forms assumed -hybrids, as he referred to them- are considered abominations; they were apparently so dangerous, the Malnosso decided that death was the only solution. John made an agreement with them, and somehow flushed the spirits' influences and repaired the barrier. Those affected are feeling ill as an aftermath, but have returned to how they were before.


Facts

-John referred to the hyrbids also as a form of evolution.
-The Malnosso are familiar with whatever the hybrids are, and fear them.
-The spirits weren't "meant" to exist.
-ANI said the effects of this phenomenon are world-wide (those within the Malnosso were also affected, and detained).
-The weakening/altering of the barrier allowed this to happen.
-John can repair issues with the barrier the Malnosso can't, and raise barriers on his own.
-Most affected had a certain affinity with the spirit that possessed them.
-Most of the unaffected didn't have any sort of elemental affinity.




My conclusions

-Those affected outside the barrier are still affected.
-Whatever the affected turned into are somehow related to whatever the Malnosso believe they're "protecting" us from. Possibly the third party itself.



Any input from anybody?

Comments

[silversnowfall]

I don't know if you included it by association already, but the implications were that some of the Malnosso were also...altered.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, the effects being world-wide; she'd implied before that there were others aside from the Malnosso "organization," so I thought to just include them in that general statement. I'll specify though, thanks.

[silversnowfall]

Without meaning offense...I'm not sure if everyone would pick up on that implication.

[god-is-a-dude.livejournal.com]

What they're "protecting" us from is something they're fighting. And we're somehow relevant to their ability to defeat it all. Probably.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Or we're relevant to finding their way home, one of the two. Probably both.

[300yrswandering.livejournal.com]

Is there any chance that the closer their affinity to the spirit are, the more affected they get?

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Possibly, though I didn't think to ask. I'm not sure how you could gauge that sort of thing.

[perplexme]

Though if that's the case, those affected outside the barrier still being affected, why does the barrier keep getting pushed back and Luceti keeps getting bigger?

My theory is they're prepping us with these experiments to get ready to fight the affected on the outside since they can't do it themselves.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

The affected? So you think they've been around since the beginning?

[canyonsiniowa.livejournal.com]

Huh, interesting.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Captain; how are you?

[dissonates]

If the Malnosso were affected, but they weren't before, wouldn't that mean they're in the barrier territory as well?

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

That'd depend on what caused this, really.

[amazingasa1ways.livejournal.com]

I do not take kindly to being called a hybrid.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

I apologize; the terminology is a bit offensive.

[blackteriques]

Nice to know this stuff when it doesn't help our situation at all.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

I imagine there's little that can, really.

Are you well now, Mr. Walter?

[turtletea.livejournal.com]

If the spirits were getting in We still couldn't get out?

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

As far as I know. The barrier wasn't completely removed, from what I gathered; just...broken? Changed, somehow? I don't know the specifics.

[galcianismine.livejournal.com]

Your summary is very helpful, thank you! I'm very curious what this third party turns out to be and how they add up to the hybrids. Or if, indeed, we are talking about the same group then altogether.

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

You and me both.

I'm sorry, you don't look very familiar; I'm Guy. Could I have the honor of knowing your name?

[ghostsnaps.livejournal.com]

But we don't know why the spirits exist?

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

Not yet.

[chikaidestroyer]

[He's been following the previous discussions, but what really drew him to saying anything at all was something that Raine had offhandedly mentioned earlier.] Despite us being able to summon the spirits, we can't summon our own external summons unless the barrier is down. And when the barrier was cracked, the spirits that may reside outside of the barrier were able to get inside the barrier.

I had shared a theory with Jacob before that the very environment of Luceti is hostile. What if that is the case? The barrier could be a means to minimize our exposure to the spirits outside of the barrier in the event that the spirits that populate this world act up.

It may explain why our "world" within the barrier continues to expand. As the barrier expands, we may slowly be exposed to more spirits that were previously outside. The Malnosso could very well be acclimating us, and themselves, to the influence of the spirits by imposing the barrier.

[blah blah blah. tl;dr, Albert]

[count-gardios.livejournal.com]

But has the number of spirits grown since the barrier's expanded? I wasn't here for very long before it did, so I wouldn't know.