[//PSA: Just to be clear, when I put something in a named spoiler, it means I want to limit who reads it. In future, that might mean effectively cutting the entire update into parts, such as if the players were in two or more competing groups. Not particularly important just yet, but I thought a clarification was best. I'm not doing this to reduce update size. You can do the same thing for restricted IC communication, though that's entirely discretionary.]
//runscan.psych.flx.trc
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>Psychic flux appears to be dream-oriented, with an emphasis on use of dreams to contact subrealities, likely released by the breaking of the entity's connection to one of said.
//memtrace {[living specimen].frgtnbst}
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>Living specimen ident confirmed as "Skalewyrm" further examination time-consuming, best carried out after hazard cleanup.
//commsend.pysch.lang.drag {What happened?}
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>Message sent, awaiting response.
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> Input overload.
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>Processing.
The Stranger attempts to probe the light ahead for clues of its nature, only to find something coming the other way. An undirected, overpowering pulse of meaning.A WORSE HATED THING WAS AND NOW IS NOT DIED IN FIRE OF THE UNHATED THESE UNHATED ARE NEAR YET FAR I WILL FIND THEMAs everyone in the group is hit by the overwhelming pyschic force before them, the shadows behind rear up and form a solidity, something beyond meaning, a wall of absolute black twisted into a mind-tearing shape, the edges of the thing's mind brushing yours with chaotic nonsense-words as the universe shatters around you and the night splits open in fire.BE NOT LOST SCOUR THE VOID IN HATE FOR UNSCOURED IT IS FULL OF EMPTY SPACES{It's late as shit here so g'night, also yes that text is supposed to be obnoxiously massive, opaque, and lacking in punctuation why do you ask.}