Post #25: Pondering - The Effects of Creatures on the World

 As Hannah stated in her previous post, work on the Anti-Azoth is still ongoing, finding a way to preserve the blood cells from the finger that I've acquired a while back when they come into contact with Azoth, without them dying out in the process and ending up polluting your body with dead cells has been quite a chore, nothing I tried worked. Recently I was e-mailed by a person who has something in his possession that very well might help, so at some point I will be heading out to meet up with them, for now, the person and the item in question will remain unnamed.

In the mean time, I felt bad that Hannah has been the only one keeping this blog active, so I decided to contribute with a bit of an informative post, mainly inspired by Hannah's subject she covered recently.

John Smith's a.k.a. ProxieHunter's blog, I believe, was a very informative piece of work, mainly because it came at a time when all the other creatures were just appearing on various other blogs, prior to that it was just the Slender Man, hence why his blog was valuable, I believe it was the first informative blog that tried to inform the people caught up in all of this of the other creatures other than the Slender Man. Because of the informative nature of the blog, ways of how these Creatures tend to operate were discussed at great length, referencing the hauntings of other survivors, which is really nice, it's a great cyber map for those who want to begin studying these anomalies.

However, as informative as it is (And this isn't unique just to ProxieHunter's blog) text doesn't exactly convey how these Creatures tend to impact the overall world that we all inhabit. So in this post I would like to concentrate on interesting world anomalies, which, in my opinion, are exactly that. Now fair warning, 2020 has been a tough year so far, so if you had enough of bad news on how the world is suffering right now, then I urge you stop reading from here on out, because this post will feature nothing but bad news from various parts of the world.

2020 has been quite the eventful year indeed so far and I believe it is all due to the Creatures becoming increasingly active, so let's start off with the obvious one, shall we?

The Plague Doctor was arguably the reason for why this year has been going the way it's been going, what with the way COVID-19 has impacted the world so far. Now, whether the Plague Doctor created this virus, or released it, or whatever, I do not know, but what leads me to believe that is his doing rather than the work of nature, is due to how insanely resilient this virus is and how transformative it is. It's been almost half a year now with how long this Virus has been studied for and to this day, new symptoms are discovered on a regular basis, the most recent being, apparently, the loss of hearing. This adds to the list of symptoms, such ass: Loss of taste and loss of smell. We have never faced anything like this, it blows my mind the amount of symptoms this virus carries within itself and how we can't spot them until it's too late, bringing the world into a devastating era of uncertainty.

The media coverage didn't help things any, filled with incomplete reports and speculations at the time, quickly sending the world into panic. Wasn't long until various rules were put in place to calm the public down and as a result, the people were told to self-isolate, so as to limit the amount of possible infections. In some countries, people are forced into self-isolation, in other countries they are lawed into self-isolation and in some they are just recommended to self-isolate. Regardless of which one of those you land on, the reality of the situation is that "self-isolation" has a severe effect on the mental health of the populous, specifically a spike in depression rates due to the fear of isolation. Guess who benefits from that? That's right, the Cold Boy, all of this created the perfect stalking-ground for him and you can bet that he contributed to that spike.

However, while The Plague Doctor seemed to have started the year off with a bang, it seems like The Brute is the one who intends to finish it off with a nuclear explosion. Civil unrest has been spiking all over the world throughout the year, with new conflicts emerging suddenly and out of nowhere, all nearly at the same time, which is exactly what leads me to believe that The Brute decided to take it upon himself to try and wreak more havoc than The Plague Doctor. I'm sure I don't need to tell you about the tensions that have recently evolved into shootouts and riots between the Police and The People within the USA and which have lasted for a bigger part of the year now. But this isn't the only conflict that erupted, over in Belarus you have more of the same, as well as in Bulgaria and many more. Meanwhile, we got wars brewing between several countries, the first to show signs were China and India, next to follow just recently were Armenia and Azerbaijan. All of which happened in a relatively short time frame of one another.

I can recount several accounts of various Servants claiming that the Creatures are not allies, they can be if there's a mutual benefit (Prime example would be how the environment that The Plague Doctor created, tends to also benefit The Cold Boy), but in general, they tend to conflict with each other over who the populous of our world fear the most. So it is no surprise that amidst all this chaos, other Creatures are also trying to jump in, such as The Convocation and EAT.

While this all looks bleak, there is a useful lesson out of all of this, I have various networks setup in my hideout, which all filter through various news articles that are published every day, in order for me to see the areas of activity where these Creatures are operating, this allows me to see what areas are relatively safe and where not to go. I highly recommend doing the same, despite how depressing it may be, or demoralizing, if you have the chance, then I suggest keeping an eye on the world developments as a Survivor, it can give you an idea on what areas to steer clear of.