THE CORRUPTED CODEX IS HIGHLY

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES MUST THE CONTENTS OF THE CODEX FALL UNDER THE EYES OF UNAUTHORIZED PERSONNEL

 

 

Organized by:

ImpulseWorks

Founder of all Corrupted Sites and Facilities

 

Maintained by T-4 Artificer:

Namesake: Enoch

Internal Name: Artificer of Rupturing

Clearance Level: 1

 

The Codex aims to provide all relevant and updated information on all Corrupted, suspected Corrupted, and all anomalous entities or objects, whether within 1 of 18 functional Sites ran by ImpulseWorks or otherwise.

It serves as a compendium for all Sites and relevant personnel to investigate and expand with as many entries as possible. It is expected that Overseers and Navigators of our Sites refer to the Corrupted Codex when dealing with a known Corrupted.

Due to the anomalous, unknown, and nightmarish properties of the Corrupted, this Codex is our most valuable asset and will allow us to better understand these existential entities.

It is not exactly known how the Corrupted are created, but they are closely tied with the emotional woes of the living, born from nightmares and traumatic events from the psyche of one or many.

In short, so long as we exist, then so will they. Corrupted can be seen as the twisted reflection of deplorable thoughts and aspirations, manifested into a foul – and usually dangerous – entity.

Due to the complexity of the Corrupted, we have formed a naming scheme that will allow relevant identifications at a single glance, called their ‘Code’.

 

 

Threat level determines the danger a Corrupted potentially poses at any given time. There are 7 threat levels + 4 dire threat levels: 11 in total.

 

Relatively safe. You will have to be caught off guard to be injured. Injuries resulting from M-Threat Corrupted can be easily tended to with potions.

 

 

Will cause deep tissue wounds and lethal injuries if underestimated. Like M, dying to these Corrupted are unlikely if proper care is taken. Negative outcome interactions commonly occur on K and M-Threat Corrupted as a result of their general ‘safety’.

 

 

Corrupted will slaughter individuals without proper protection or high enough levels. This is only a taste of what truly powerful Corrupted are capable of. Expect death to occur. Elixirs are recommended, and healers become a necessity.

 

 

Multiple people will perish to their hands. Corrupted are highly aggressive and unpredictable.

 

 

Entire villages can be wiped out by a single Corrupted. In Sites, an entire layer can see upwards of a hundred casualties. Halls will be dyed red. Grasslands will drown in blood. For Overseers and Navigators, please utilize the Cognitio Filters well. You will understand why the Corrupted are so dreaded.

 

 

Extremely deadly Corrupted. Expect mass devastation and near eradication of all local life. In Sites, all Workers across all Floors and Units must work together to fight off this threat. Those that cannot save themselves ought to be abandoned. The weak masses will breakdown. It will be utter pandemonium.

 

 

The worst threats a Site will ever feasibly face, and the limitation of what people can bare to fight or stand against. Every asset must be utilized. Mass sacrifices will be worth it if the Corrupted can be repelled.

 

A single O-Classed Corrupted can take down an entire Site and devastate the world beyond. In the worst-case scenario, Sites will be forced to initiate ‘Zeroed Horizon’ – a self-destruct sequence that involves the total annihilation of all personnel, the Site, and Corrupted via a black hole.

 

The countless thousands beyond will be thankful of their invisible savior. We are sure of it.

 

 

Corrupted of this level will exert an area of control that will begin to change the world itself at a localized scale. Death toll will be in the 10’s of thousands.

 

Entire nations will fall. Species will disappear. Significant changes in the ecosystem, topology and geography will be made by the Corrupted. Death toll will exceed 100,000.

 

Entire countries will be devastated. This is a threat that only the founders of the Ateliers – the Beholders – may stand a chance against. The damage done will be unrecoverable. If left alone, then expect the world to fall.

 

The end of our existence. Not even the Beholders will be able to fend them. We will perish. There is nothing we can do but await the inevitable.

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