To all Heroes of Light,
I'm sure most of you are by now aware of the unusual illness that has been going around over the past week. Thanks to the help I've received from a number of you, I have some important information to share.
It seems the virus started spreading about a week ago from the Behemoth that was recently given to the Monster Arena. However, it's not a type that is normally carried by Behemoths, or by any other monsters for that matter. More tellingly, the virus only infects Heroes of Light -- though it might be more accurate to say it infects our Crystals. I won't bore you with the technical details, but based on its structure I can confirm the virus is man-made and specifically engineered to be very easily transmitted.
While I'm confident I can create a cure, I will need help gathering the necessary ingredients. Most are available in Aqures Ixen, but there are three particularly important ones that are harder to get a hold of:
1) Cactuar sap. Cactuar Island is your best bet here.
2) An extraction from a very rare toad that can only be found in Aerilon. The toad can change its genetic properties very quickly to avoid predators, so be wary.
3) A chip from three Hero Crystals: one red, one blue, one clear. The last one I can provide myself, so I need two volunteers with red and blue Crystals to visit the lab for the procedure. Do not try to break off a chip yourself if you value your existence.
To my knowledge, there have been no cases with severe symptoms yet. I wouldn't count on this state of matters to continue. Whoever targeted us wouldn't have gone through all this trouble just to bother us with mild inconvenience. With that in mind, I ask anyone willing to look for the ingredients to do so at the earliest opportunity.
Sincerely,
Jade Curtiss
[OOC: There's a log for getting the special ingredients here. Anyone can take part and the threads are not modded, so go wild! Duplicates of the same ingredient are fine.]