[Irene]

Even with the news from the witch, the disease continues to spread, albeit at a slower pace.

Certainly, people continue to die, and it's no use trying to completely cure the disease. As mentioned before, you either need two or more Hexers, or a faithful Mercalan to do so.

However, doctors can still slightly delay the poison from doing its work, as already proven by past attempts to cure it.

With that said, people still seem to be killing each-other. In that manner, there's nothing one can do unless they're a therapist and even then, a therapist could only very, very slightly delay the victim from eventually sinking into insanity.

Victim count has raised to thirty-eight dead Zerans.


Likely out-of-subject, but adventurers also claim that there are slightly less black doors around Alstalsia than usual, and that most of the ones they find are rated too low of a level for them to care. This, however, only seems to happen to the ones who favor adventuring at night, rather than during the day.