The Synodiporia Psychic Network

So we've learned a few things.

That Tithe we've been hearing about? Didn't always used to basically exile. Actually it was a diplomatic thing. The Tithe would go to the White Tower for this thing called the Concordance, where they meet up with all the other Tithes from the other city-states in the Federation of, uh, Hel. Not Hell Hel, mind you - so don't you bloody start screaming at us, Jules - just an unfortunate resemblance.

It was one of the Tithes that brought the plague.

Jules, that's not an invitation to start screaming either, this was goddamn ages ago. If this thing's still around it's clearly not running rampant.

Anyway. The big symptom of the plague was lesions, but they found that sunlight halted the progress of the disease and made them less painful. So they made the infected keep to the day, and the uninfected to the night. This whole Lightside / Darkside divide? That's their quarantine. And they used supplements in the food to enforce it - they made the infected blind at night, and gave the uninfected better night vision. And I think they're still doing it. There's a guarded facility in Gritta that's making a lot of shipments to grocery stores, but they don't mix the Lightsider and the Darksider shipments.

But what we do not understand is why the quarantine is still in place. Because if there was still a need for it, the Dusklings screw it all up. Apparently there were only a few dozen of them after the plague, but there's a whole district of them now - and they're running around all over the city, interacting with both sides. If the plague was still around, they'd be spreading it. Either they're doing a phenomenally bad job of enforcing their quarantine, or they're keeping this divide up for other reasons.

I think it's unlikely that the plague's still around, but just in case I've written down some details of how they tested for it. It's not my thing, though, so I'd appreciate it if someone who understands this sort of thing better would take a look.

[[ooc: takes place late in the 2nd mingle, after this thread. I think I've managed to have Matthew repeat all the important information, but feel free to poke me if there's something I've forgotten that needs to get mentioned]