What a Day

I know I don't usually do titles like that, but it's been one hell of a day.  It started when I was visiting the Oathbreakers' hospital to check on the results on Hippie, and when I got there is was all normal enough.  The Oathbreakers were still preforming their experiments and still not giving me any useful information.  Except for one thing, those infected by Hippie's field can be a lot more subtle than any of us thought.  It turns out there were actually five doctors that had been "friendified" as one of the Oathbreakers put it.  What happened next was the friendified Oathbreakers all attacked the normal ones in order friendify them as well.  They all described being friendified as a gift, but naturally the rest of us didn't agree with the idea.  Long story short it eventually came down me and Hippie.

H:  Warrior I know in your own way you were trying to help me, but you were going about it the wrong way.  Now I'm going to help you, friend.
W:  Like hell you will. 

Then as we were getting ready to fight a guest appeared.

Spectator:  Oh hey there you are.  Hey War didn't I tell you you had somewhere to go?  This *he gestured* is not what I meant.
W:  Oh I'm sorry I didn't follow your really vague hint to go somewhere when I have business to attend too.
H:  Um, excuse me friend but we were in the middle of something.
S:  Not important.  Hold on did you call me "Friend?"
H:  Of course.
S:  Hm,.  *looks over Hippie*  Oh I see you're of of his.  Hey how you doing!?  I didn't know you were active too.  Tell me is the other guy up too?...  Oh I see no answer.  Well I'm sorry about this, but I'm in a hurry so.. *appears right behind Hippie and twists his neck* bye-bye.  Anyway where were we War?
W:  You were complaining that I didn't follow your really vague clues.
S:  Well I thought it was obvious, but if you need a hint how is this?  *Spectator gave he a push and the next thing I know I'm stumbling in front of someone else's door knee deep in snow.*  How's that?

I knocked on the door like I suppose I was supposed to do.  A middle aged man opened up the door as surprised to see me as I was to see him. 

M:  Uh, can I help you?
W:  Sorry but I was told that I was suppose to be here and so yeah.  Sorry if I'm bothering you. 
Girl in the background:  Who is it dad?  Oh god you're not a proxy are you!?  *she yelled once she saw me.*
W:  No, not anymore.
GiB:  Anymore?

Then came the biggest surprise of all.

V:  Fred?
W:  Virgil?

Yeah Spectator brought me to see Trish and Virgil who are both staying with her dad it seems.  We both filled each other in on what's been going on to us which I will summarize because the full talk would take too long to type.  Virgil told me that after he checked on Trish's family he noticed that Trish's dad moved into a friend's house.  According to him the friend is visiting family over the next month or two and he asked if he could stay there will house sitting because he and his wife have been fighting.   Why have they been fighting?  It seems the mother took in a poor little girl that was homeless a month ago and is really overprotective about her.  To the point Trish's mother threatened the dad if he tried to spend time with her.  Oh and this girl doesn't talk.  Virgil and Trish already told the dad about the Unnamed Child and it seems like they are planning on a way to get rid of the child.  I guess I'm suppose to help. 

Results: Hippie

• Hippie's friend field seems to only be active when he is conscious.
• When he is unconscious he isn't necessarily defenseless as the above would imply.  Sometimes the field will randomly spike and generate stronger effect than when Hippie is awake.  The Oathbreakers seem to think this has something to do with the nature of his dreams, but they have no way to prove it.
• While they haven't found a reason for the field they did report that Hippie has an unusually high amount of Dopamine in him which they tell me is a natural pleasure/reward thing in the brain.  They also tell me that barring schizophrenia he has none of the disorders he should have.
• Lastly it seems that Hippie has a slightly better healing rate than normal though nothing huge.  The Oathbreakers tell me you wouldn't even notice if you weren't looking for it.

That's all they've told me so far.  It seems that Hippie is a hard case to crack.

Short Report

This post will mostly be a quick update on what I did with Hippie.  I gave him to a team that would be willing to do some less than ethical things to try and figure out what is up with Hippie.  Oathbreakers.  Not the smartest move but I didn't know anyone else, they were close by, they don't really have something personal with me, and when I asked if they could could see if it was biological they were thrilled at the possibility of weaponizing it.  "Imagine being able to neutralize others just by being in a close vicinity to them.  Or using sleepers to make an whole groups willing to just line up to be test subjects," one said to me and other typical evil doctor sayings.  Before you ask no I don't trust them but for now they are too useful.  They told me they'll have some results tomorrow, so I'll post the details then.