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~~To My Adoring Public,~~ People, animals, and whatever else it out in the audience tonight,

It's been awhile, hu? I've been pretty busy, probably like the rest of you with everything that's been goin' on in the city lately. Those monsters stompin' about are turning out to be a real handful. I've heard there's quite a number of folks tryin' to take care of them out there though. Here's hopin' the best for them. If you're not familiar with Sin, you should direct yourself to the post made here by my good 'ol pal. He's got quite the history on them. He's the guy you're gunna wanna go to if you've got any questions about 'em.

Another guy made a useful post on the message board concerning missing people recently. We haven't had one of those since the kidnappings so you might want to take a look at it here if you've lost someone or are looking for somebody. There could be someone out there looking for you without you even knowing it.

Not much has changed regarding the Organization since I last checked up on them. It hasn't stopped some people from speaking with them either. Go figure. They're still a threat and as dangerous as ever. They're a manipulative bunch of liars who care for no one but themselves. Heartless and Nobodies are also considered dangerous. To avoid sounding like a broken record player, whatever that is, my last post has information regarding both the Organization and these Heartless and Nobodies. If you haven't checked it out, it might be a good idea.

So the big thing on the agenda today is the recent news concerning the citizens in Paixao. Apparently guests like us can, and have turned into citizens. I'm talkin' about your hair turning blonde hair, your eyes blue, and your memory of life outside the city gradually fading away. Citizens are seemingly shy 'bout the subject and afraid to share much information, but more then one case has appeared in the city. I'm not too sure what could of become of the animals in the city, but I have my guesses.

In all the time I've been here, and it's been quite some time, trust me, I've never seen anyone make this transformation. But who knows how long citizens who claim to have once been guests have been here. I'm hoping to find out more information about this soon and, as always, will accept any new information involving anything you think could be important.

I think that's about it.

Sincerely,

You Know Who

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My, my a mysterious transformation it would seem.

Sounds almost like magic.

Magic? Please, everyone knows there's no such thing.

In general, the word "magic" describes a process that we haven't yet discovered the physical laws behind. So with how little we truely know about Paixao, quite a lot of it is "magic."

Don't be silly, Edward. That would make things like Psynergy and Alchemy "magic". Just because we don't understand a thing... ~~well, our ancestors understood them in the Golden Age...~~

I understand alchemy perfectly, it's science to me, but I have heard plenty of people call it magic. By 'psynergy' do you mean mind-reading and such? I haven't figured out how that one works yet, but I'm sure it's just as logical...

We're talking about the citizens here, not fortune tellers or mind readers.

You're right, but the point remains that the process by which visitors became citizens, not just in choosing to live here but in transforming into people that resemble the local population in every way, will be 'magic' and therefor uncontrollable until we have more information, documentation and find out why it happens.

I still haven't seen proof that it does happen. Timon, where exactly did you hear this from?

Some citizens over the message board spoke up about it.

Can you show me?

Check the Doc's post from awhile ago.

... Of course it would be Jupiter Adepts whose powers are best known.

Exactly. These things have a... a pattern to them, they have rules and trends, and we can recognize the patterns, we just don't understand what causes them to work that way. So it's not magic ~~but it still is fun to scare the powerless people with fire~~.

All science works on paradigms. If you go far enough into any kind of belief, eventually you'll hit the paradigm wall and the entire science or belief system doesn't work unless you accept that un-provable paradigm. We accept that 1+1=2 and so math works.

It just depends what world your on as to what alchemy is referred to.

I would be referring to mass-conversion based upon molecular structure for the most part. Not the lead-to-gold thing. That's an urban legend based upon fraud and counterfeiting during the middle-ages.

Maybe not where you're from...there are worlds without it and worlds with it.

Lemme guess, you're from one with it.

My you're a smart one aren't you~

Naturally.

So you're saying we'll just kind of... disappear? Change until we're not ourselves any longer?

Well, mate, that lightens things up considerably.

I ain't exactly the barer of good news these days.

Can't say I've seen anythin' about this, and I keep my eyes wide open to the happening's of this city. Still. Quite the currrious theory...

I thought so too. I wonder why citizens are only speaking up now about it.

Wait - so we'll actually turn into those mindless natives and lose ourselves completely the longer we stay?

Well... We might remember a few things. That's what it sounds like, anyway. The citizens who had mentioned the transformation could remember a bit about what they looked like, arriving in the city, and things they liked to do before... But they said they might even forget that in some time.

D-Damn...this is just like Veldime...

Veldime?

It's where I'm from. An Overlord put a curse on Veldime that was turning everyone into demons. Well, everyone but me.

When you turn into a demon you lose your conscious and your memories of when you were human.

... You don't think some demon might be behind all this, do you?

It's possible.

It would actually be nice if that was the case, the solution would be simple.

Sure, if we actually knew who was responsible for the 'curse'.

Then that's what we gotta do: figure out who's responsible.

Easier said then done, especially in a place like this.

We'll find out, somehow. We're with quite a lot of us 'visitors' so if we all work together I'm sure we'll figure it out.