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In that case, I'm not sure if this would help. I could temporarily erase your presence, which would ensure your act doesn't draw attention. But there are a number of complications with this method. The main one being that there's no way of knowing how long you'll have to be "dead" for, correct?

Perhaps it's better for you to look into a chemical substance that could put you into a catatonic state.

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Yeah, I tried looking around in the clinic. But the stuff in these bottles looks pretty

rustic

I don't suppose any of this medicine is from your time period is it?

But when you said erase your presence

What do you mean? What part of my presence?

I'm not familiar with any of the medicine of this time, no.
I suppose the nurses don't seem particularly reliable, either. Never mind.

[ he does not want to be responsible for like, causing anakin to get poisoned by ye olden potions 😔 ]

Anyway, all living things naturally emit an "aura."
It's the presence that makes other people be able to sense that you're there.
That "aura" can be shut off temporarily, greatly increasing your stealth. It makes it more difficult to sense that someone alive is around at all - that's why we call it "erasing your presence." Have you ever been surprised by someone being in the room, because you didn't hear or sense them come in? It's something like that, though more advanced.

In your case, being in this state might help you not draw the attention of whatever must be moving the bodies, so long as you were hidden among other corpses - assuming your plan is to get to the bottom of that.

That being said, I'd only be able to force your "aura" off for a short period - probably only long enough for whatever is moving the bodies to pick them up. And it would be painful for you.
So this should be more of a last resort.

[in kurapika's defense, anakin would probably get poisoned by ye olden potions all by himself.]

[It gets a small smile out of him anyway, to see the words the nurses don't seem particularly reliable. How many times has he had to peel that bear off the ground and send him home?

But the rest...
To be surprised by someone else's presence because they went unnoticed, that it would be a temporary disguise. That makes sense from a stealth perspective. Or if he'd been trying to hide his lifesigns from scanners back home.]

Good in a pinch
Okay, I'm following you.

Is it something you could do from a distance?

Yes. Within reason.
I'd have to be able to see where you are, but I wouldn't have to be nearby your body.

[ still, he does wonder if it would be enough - hiding presence like that alone. It depends on whoever, or whatever is moving the bodies, whether they're particularly in tune with telling the dead apart from the living. ]

More importantly, no matter what method you choose — are you confident you could survive if caught?

[Even as these other details come trickling in he still can't picture it. To be able to erase someone like that without being nearby, only needing to see a target. What kind of ability is that? What would it look like?]

I'll be honest, it's hard to offer a guarantee when we don't know what the cause is.

But I've gotten out of some tough spots before. And you might be surprised by how many people have offered to help.

[ he's gonna taze you with an invisible chain anakin... but no, Kurapika is too concerned about typing out his abilities #online to go into further detail. ]

Well, you're right about that.
The turnout is surprising.

Everyone's abilities are so varied that I'm fairly certain someone among us can give you a passable disguise.
And you likely have some skills of your own that will help you if things don't go as planned, don't you?

[sounds like a fun thursday night]

I've been in a scrap or two. And I've been told I've got a hard head, it's why I figured I'd volunteer.

What about you? Managed to drum up anything interesting?

[ that makes him Almost smile... yeah, he can now imagine the type of person mr "un: skywalker" is, based on this conversation and their last. Hardheaded and bold, but thinking about others all the while. ]

Yes... and no. I'm not sure if "interesting" is the word for it.

Those beasts that come at night— have you seen them?
I captured one along with someone else. It was sick, like villagers.

I haven't seen them up close, but I can't say I'm too surprised either.

[The beasts...
The mention of them brings Anakin's brows together, not in confusion because in his gut he can't say he's surprised that they're sick as well. But because he doesn't understand how this fits into the bigger picture. He's seen bioterrorism at work and while he doesn't recognize those signs and signals here, there's just enough evidence being dug up to suggest intelligent involvement. A person might not be the cause, but they haven't been helping either.]

When we first got here I noticed even some of the plant life looks like its rotting. Whatever's causing this sickness, I think it's equal opportunity.

What did you do with it by the way?

We left it there. It died very quickly from its illness.
Based on what I saw, the illness doesn't originate from the animals, so bringing it back to town to be studied as I originally planned would have been a waste, anyway.

It's wise for all of us to try and minimize contact with anything infected, anyway.
You haven't caught it yourself, have you?

I can feel something. But I'm a little hardier than most so to be honest, I don't know if it's because I haven't been in direct contact with whatever it is, or if I've just got an unfair advantage.

I know how it sounds, but if a bunch of us are exploring different parts of the town, figuring out whoever comes back sickest will probably give us a line on where ground zero is.

Trial and error isn't exactly how I'd prefer to do things.
But I don't suppose we have any qualified medical professionals among us to figure it out for us, otherwise...
Unless you know of someone aboard that I don't.

No. Plenty of combatants, but not any medics.
I know making assumptions isn't in our best interest, but it's hard not to draw a few conclusions from that.

You think the mastermind purposefully kept medics from coming aboard?
That's an interesting theory. And a plausible one, at that.

I'm of the opinion that these cars must be some sort of selection process.
If that's true, I'd assume them keeping first aid from us is meant to be another way to whittle us down.

[Unfortunately for Kurapika, Anakin does think. Just not with much complexity.]

Mostly I just noticed all the combatants. There are people here with all kinds of powerful abilities.

Maybe it's our experience that made us worth taking.

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