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                File VII: Thoughts on Outsider Mages
[k]

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I doubt I'll live much longer.
[k]

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I was a fool for allowing myself to be lured here by a fat paycheck and incredible benefits.
[k]

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And I was a fool to think no Eastern mage-wannabe could ever get the better of me.
[k]

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Before I knew it,[sr]this mountain had me in its grasp.
[k]

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I can barely remember my own name now,[sr]let alone my incantations.
[k]

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They say our goal here is to achieve immortality.
[k]

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That's why they've been luring mages here:[sr]to use them as test subjects.
[k]

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They're not choosy about their methods, either. They're trying magecraft, science, curses...whatever might get the job done.
[k]

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How could some Far East yokels have made so much progress in two thousand years...
[k]

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...with no one ever finding out about them?
[k]

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...Something doesn't add up.
[k]

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These people may use magecraft, but they aren't mages. They may use science, but they aren't human.
[k]

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They're insects.
[k]

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A writhing mass of insects focused exclusively on the singular goal of achieving immortality.
[k]

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I'll be dead soon.
[k]

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Now that I've spilled the secrets of my clan's magecraft, I doubt they have any further use for me.
[k]

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To think that our proud family would fall for the tricks of mere peasants... How humiliating.
[k]

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I only hope these scribblings will find their way to other mages as a warning, before it's too late...
[k]



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