#it was meant to fill in some gaps in our roleplay's world building

[luxlitemidnight]

(This fictional piece of creative writing contains themes of medical abuse, torture, and death. Read at your discretion)

A stained and torn paper is found in an alleyway. This is what's written on it.

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Official Report

Living Limbo: a study on persistent God's Blood effects with Subject 388.

FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY

Rumors of a condition dubbed "God's Limbo" have been appearing around Harthta for thousands of years. Legends tell of people who should be dead with grievous injuries continuing to live. They were seemingly immortal, undead, prone to psychosis and had supernatural abilities. For a long time, people were uncertain of it's origin, the name coming from the idea that they could be gods held in limbo, before making the connection to God's Blood.

Most of our knowledge comes from a singular afflictee known as "Himmel", an African Wild Dog. Himmel was killed by an arrow strike to the throat approximately 267 years ago. We had the opportunity to interview him and despite the grevious injury to his trachea and esophagus, he was in high spirits. He could only communicate through sign language as he was illiterate and the arrow had destroyed his larynx.

God's Limbo is a condition that occurs when a subject who is actively under the effects of God's Blood dies. The substance in the subject's system appears to restart the brain of the subject while stopping any decomposition. No outside source of nourishment is needed. The subject is, effectively, a living corpse.

Subjects can fall into a psychotic state marked by irrational behavior, dramatically stronger powers, and changes to eye color. Himmel entered this state once during our interview, requiring 8 guards to subdue. His powers are reminiscent of the ancient human legend of Midas, his touch having the ability to transmute people and objects into other substances, with ice being his primary choice. Only due to anti-magic devices were our guards able to stop him, but the tragic loss of one of our guards was suffered. He went into extreme distress when he came out of this state and learned that he had killed a person. He refused to continue the interview.

Around 6 years ago we had the business opportunity to aquire some God's Blood from a supplier known as Bolin. We had a hypothesis that the state of God's Limbo where an individual could have the effects of God's Blood permanently could exist in a still living subject.

Subject 388, one of our older subjects who was coming up on time for her retirement, was the perfect subject. By creating an experience that tricks the body into believing it is dead, the God's Blood effects became permanent in them. However it was not a perfect process. Before the subject's system could be stabilized, subject 388 escaped from the northwestern facility. Not long after, our source of God's Blood dried up with the apparent disappearance of our business partner.

The retrieval of subject 388 and finding a new source of God's Blood is the key to continuing this project. Both of these items are high priority to the company.

Dr. A. Keltner.