Vilous | Eroded Lab - Talyxian Outbreak [+Pre-reading of the Raw Concept]

 The time period is not determined, however, the presented location is a laboratory found within a desert area. The location is somewhere within the Southern or Eastern lands from Gold Ring. Centered around the more Eastern area, buildings such as this laboratory or forts which the Red Gardeners manage and make use of are scattered across the desert areas.

The structural integrity of this laboratory is getting slowly eroded away by Talyxian biomes after what seems to appear like an accident. On the wall surfaces and pillars, grotesque Talyxian sessile organisms which appear to the average eye as inner organs would, have attached themselves. These sessile organisms can be seen within the middle layer area of the Magoe forest as well. On the floor, red bodily fluids are scattered about, one might consider they have flowed out from the outbreak of Talyxian creatures.

Although this building has already been ruined, it seems not that much time has passed as the situation would indicate.

There are Eltus people adorned in armor and equipment built to adapt to the alien environment present within Talyxian biomes, they are visiting this place in order to investigate. An Agudner man is carrying a “green plant”, an Eltus plant which is encased inside of a capsule container. This plant is one of the Eltus hydroponic plants which this lab was growing indoors. This one has been fortunately kept intact from the outbreak of eroding Talyxian organisms, which, luckily, the Eltus found and rescued!

In order to reconstruct this fort, it would take a more large-scale decontamination and process to deal with the Talyxian organisms. Due to this, the building has been abandoned for now as the number of people charged with such tasks are insufficient.

There are a large amount of Talyxian flying bugs surrounding the people. Talyxian sessile organisms which are taking up root here may be the emitting source of these flying bugs. Or, they may have reached this area after travelling across the desert, all the way from the forest area where they were born. These flying bugs can be seen in the Magoe forest frequently. They are usually lurking in folded conditions, nestled between the gaps on a stem belonging to large-sized Talyxian sessile organisms. When the emission season comes to pass, they will all fly out together with Miasma. As a huge number of them will cover up the entire area of sight there, this type of sight or scene has been referred to as “a gust of flying bugs” in colloquial language.

With regards to the “forts which Red Gardeners manage”, they have a function and role comparable to that of observatories, lighthouses, resting places and inspection stations. These forts are built upon the nearby areas of the Salt Road in order to enact inspection of cargo and merchant identification. In addition, these forts are built at regular intervals in the desert near the forest area as well. 

Some forts function as the manager's residence as well, and some are usually left uninhabited. Ono the Agudner, is managing a small fort which is located a little distance away from the Salt Road, and she also has her house near there. She is carrying out research and observation within that fort.

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These forts which the Red Gardeners manage are known to exist mainly in a direction aimed towards Eastern Lands from Gold Ring. However, there are actually some forts aimed in direction towards the Western lands as well. From these Western forts, people can observe the direction of the Nev Mountains range.