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==Overview==

'''Dimensional Research List''' is a tip contact that offers [[Tour Guide Missions]] in [[Cascade Archipelago]].

===Introduction===
'''Cascade Cleansing'''

''Exploration Mission''

Firebase Zulu has equipped you with a list of outstanding topics they are looking for data on within the Cascade Archipelago. Being far better equipped and combat-ready than most scientists or military officers; these jobs require a super-powered hand to have any hope of success this far from the normal operational limitations and without support.

You review the material in the document. While not an official assignment, helping the effort to understand and confront Rularuu will pay dividends for all, so it's worth lending a hand if you have the time.

*{{green|Gather data within the Cascade Archipelago.}}
*{{green|Science will have to wait.}}

=== Too Busy ===
Your hands are pretty full right now with the tasks you have taken on. Gathering data in the Cascade Archipleago will have to wait.

=== No More Missions ===
You run through the numbered list. It looks like you have cleaned up everything Firebase Zulu was looking for concerning the Cascade Archipelago. This should make some scientists quite happy.

== Accolade ==
{{BadgeBox|Cascade Cleansing}}

== Missions ==
=== <u>Castaway</u> ===
'''Briefing'''

The scientists at Firebase Zulu are constantly searching for new methods to provide soldiers with more resistance to what they have dubbed ''"Shadow Shard Sickness"''. This is a phenomenon where the loss of reality-grounding elements leads to various psychological issues.

They have prepared a list of things to try whilst staring into the abyssal void below. Losing yourself in this dimensional infinite is documented to cause the most severe symptoms, so any means to combat it would be invaluable to the expedition's progress. You were brave and volunteered. Now it is time to put your doubts aside.

*{{green|Become a psychological Castaway.}}

As you spend more time in this upside-down dimension and come to terms with its influence on your mind, you begin to question if it is really just the loss of things that grounded you to reality.

What if this feeling of anxiety is a subtle psionic attack? Maybe this paranoia is also Rularuu whispering in your ear.

You are stronger than some strange dimension and its master. Time to prove it!

'''Mission Objective'''
*Test Marooned Shore's impact on psyche
{{BadgeBox|Castaway}}

=== <u>Peace Walker</u> ===
'''Briefing'''

Various surveillance logs have been submitted regarding a hollow located within the '''Marooned Shore''' that reported to be completely safe from Rularuu's armies. This claim seems like an impossibility, but if true could be game changing for the expedition into the Shadow Shard.

Unfortunately things too good to be true often are. You will verify the location for Portal Corp, to give Firebase Zulu a reprieve from Rularuu's onslaught is too lucrative a lead to pass by. You start heading towards the coordinates in the reports.

*{{green|Validate being a Peace Walker.}}

Could this hollow truly be a safe haven? If so, how does it stay the hand of Rularuu's ire? Such power would need to be scrutinized just as closely as the Shadow Shard's master himself.

There is impressively little in this dimension that is truly understood and reliance on the unknown would be inviting disaster.

'''Mission Objective'''
*Confirm Marooned Shore's tranquil hollow
{{BadgeBox|Peace Walker}}

=== <u>Being and Nothingness</u> ===
'''Briefing'''

Here is an odd task: the scientists are trying to confirm if objects of relative mass in the Shadow Shard could repel each other out of their positions within incongruous gravitational space. In other words, they want you to try jumping on small floating rocks to see if you can move them.

They have marked the coordinates of rocks that would be ideal given your own size and weight. Something about the way these chunks of stone are suspended in nothingness makes you feel uneasy but are unable to say why.This one won't be a problem, you head towards the assigned location.

*{{green|Challenge Being and Nothingness.}}

This task should be easy, but the closer you get, the more concentrated an intrusive feeling of unease becomes. As you move through the Shadow Shard, it feels like a magnifying glass is focusing all the anxiety in your mind into a single piercing beam.

It is not a sensation you would like to endure any longer than necessary.

'''Mission Objective'''
*Confirm mass effects atop Air Shoals
{{BadgeBox|Being and Nothingness}}

=== <u>Hearing Voices</u> ===
'''Briefing'''

Numerous claims have been put forth that maddening chanting is heard near the aptly named '''Chanting Islands'''. This strange occurrence has impacted many operations within the area, causing soldiers to become gibbering and senseless, often requiring their comrades to restrain and extract them. Scientists believe this is something different from the normal symptoms of ''"Shadow Shard Sickness"'' and are asking for more data.

You put your name forth as a candidate to venture into these islands; your mental fortitude should permit you to confirm the phenomenon and perhaps uncover more about it.

*{{green|Look into Hearing Voices.}}

The scientists had you listen to recordings of the strange chanting before you left Firebase Zulu. It was bizarre and senseless, with nothing coherent to be heard. Yet as you near the Chanting Islands, your recollections of the chants are somehow becoming more lucid.

One word begins resonating strongly in your mind, over and over: '''Rularuu. Rularuu. Rularuu.'''

'''Mission Objective'''
*Test influence of Chanting Islands
{{BadgeBox|Hearing Voices}}

=== <u>Liquid Memory</u> ===
'''Briefing'''

The Cascade Archipelago is host to a strange phenomenon located in the largest cluster of islands: bizarre blood-red fluid flows from above, creating great waterfalls that have come to be known was the '''Crimson Falls'''.

The exact nature of this substance has been the topic of much speculation, and so you have been tasked with the collection of some samples for study. You were cautioned that exposure to the liquid has caused ''"memory recollection surges"''. You are not sure what that means, but now curiosity is getting the better of you.

*{{green|See what is meant by Liquid Memory.}}

There were a handful of reports regarding soldiers who were briefly exposed to the blood-red liquid. While they were visibly shaken, each was later examined and found to be entirely unharmed.

With no permanent damage on-record it would ''probably'' be okay to sample a very small taste, '''right?'''

'''Mission Objective'''
*Sample Crimson Falls river
{{BadgeBox|Liquid Memory}}

=== <u>Usurper of Worlds</u> ===
'''Briefing'''

A strange phenomenon has been reported from a location dubbed '''Tyrant's Rock'''. There have been strange behavioral anomalies witnessed in personnel within this relatively high-elevation area. Their hypothesis is that the individual's own cognition sees themselves as closer to the Shadow Shard's ''"higher being"'', Rularuu, and by association triggers psychological degradations.

There is a documented risk involved in this task, but you've tackled worse. The scientists have provided a list of mental techniques to use in resisting this region's impulses.

*{{green|Climb towards the Usurper of Worlds.}}

You wonder what having a higher vantage point has to do with distorted behavior. Perhaps seeing everything below makes you realize how beneath you it all is; how your power is above such menial trifling and the lowly worms should perish under heel in service to their god... you stop.

It seems that letting your mental guard down for even a moment could prove your undoing.

'''Mission Objective'''
*Test influence of Tyrant's Rock
{{BadgeBox|Usurper of Worlds}}

=== <u>No Turning Back Now</u> ===
'''Briefing'''

Of particular importance to the area are the gravity geysers. Their utilization for fast travel is crucial for keeping operational time minimalized and exposure to danger controlled. Despite this reliance, they are not truly understood, and research is on-going.

On your checklist is a task to collect scanner readings from a lone geyser. Its relative isolation could provide answers as to the nature of the anomalies as well as potential means to harness them. With minimal local hostiles, this assignment should prove easily within your capacity to fulfill.

*{{green|There's No Turning Back Now.}}

For some reason, thinking about the gravity geysers is causing you to have strange thoughts. Your mind rambles about the pull going beyond just the material. Rularuu has drawn you into this unrelenting void and it is only a matter of time until his influence's pressure crushes you, compacts everything you are until there is nothing that remains...

Taking a moment regain composure, you recall to be wary of letting your mind wander.

'''Mission Objective'''
*Scan the isolated gravity well
{{BadgeBox|No Turning Back Now}}

=== <u>The Heart of Memory</u> ===
'''Briefing'''

The composition and mechanics of the Crimson Falls' bizarre blood-red waterfalls is a highly researched topic amongst Firebase Zulu scientists. Defying all climatology knowledge and with no known precipitation in the Shadow Shard, how the substance arrives at the top to flow downwards is a great mystery.

A great mystery that you are now assigned to help answer. You imagine you are looking for the highest point in the Crimson Falls cluster, but have no idea of what to expect. Knowing how unpredictable the Shadow Shard can be, you steel yourself.

*{{green|Seek The Heart of Memory.}}

There was caution issued regarding the fluid causing what scientists described as an ''"undue lapse into the greater unconscious morphogenetic field"''. Long-term exposure carries the risk of the subject being stripped of all memory and individuality, as their mind becomes an indistinct slurry within the field's confines. '''That sounds bad.'''

You like being you, and the world needs your {{Archetype}} skills, so having your memories washed away is something you will try to avoid.

'''Mission Objective'''
*Locate source of Crimson Falls
{{BadgeBox|The Heart of Memory}}

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