#+to avoid potential issues with small fast-multiplying species like insects or bacteria i have come up with two solutions:

[stars-obsession-pit]

Nature abhors a vacuum, and the Ghost Zone abhors a portal.

There’s a reason natural portals don’t exist for long. Their presence is unstable, going against the natural order of the realms. Usually, the issue is balanced out by the brevity of their existence; they collapse before things can shift too far.

But the Fenton portal didn’t vanish. They forced it to stay open, and in the process unknowingly upset that balance. Things were alright at first, but then the issues began to compound. The natural progression of souls ground to a halt.

It wasn’t immediately noticeable. But soon, the effects became undeniable.

People had lost the ability to die.