DEC

Infected sites/downloads/links/domains

Can be transmitted through mind cyberspace

Immediately infectious

1. Exposure to Corrupted Echo Points
2. Description: Certain Echo Points, anomalies left by failed experiments or unstable energy, are “tainted,” meaning they emit chaotic or toxic energy that can contaminate any FLX that comes into close contact. Practitioners who attempt to harness or study these points risk tainting their energy and bodies.
3. Effect: Practitioners experience a gradual breakdown in control over their FLX, feeling an almost addictive pull to return to these sites, as if the energy itself is drawing them back.
4. Emotional Extremes and Moral Conflicts
5. Description: Corruption often arises when a practitioner is in a state of deep emotional turmoil or moral conflict, especially if they use Energetics in a way that conflicts with their personal values (e.g., a healer using highly destructive techniques out of desperation).
6. Effect: Emotional instability can “taint” the user’s FLX, warping it to mirror the practitioner’s inner turmoil. Their energy becomes darker, erratic, and may reflect harmful intent, creating techniques that are uncontrollable or damaging.
7. Forbidden Techniques and Primordial Threads
8. Description: Techniques that draw from the most potent energies, especially forbidden or Primordial Threads, require intense mastery and control. Practitioners who attempt these techniques without proper training risk falling into Corruption as the energy overwhelms their own.
9. Effect: Using these Threads irresponsibly can create a feedback loop of chaotic energy, where the practitioner’s FLX and the forbidden technique’s energy collide, resulting in corruption that manifests as uncontrollable power surges or irreversible physical and mental changes.

Symptoms and Manifestations of Corruption

1. Physical Changes
2. Appearance: Practitioners exhibit visible changes such as darkened veins, discoloration around the eyes, or skin that appears cracked or shadowed, often resembling burned or decayed flesh. Severe cases may result in “Ethereal Scarring,” where the corrupted energy leaves permanent marks or fissures that glow faintly.
3. Symptoms: Corrupted practitioners may experience extreme sensitivity to light, weakened physical constitution, and difficulty interacting with untainted energy sources, as their corrupted FLX rejects pure Energetics.
4. Energetic Instability
5. Description: Corruption causes a practitioner’s FLX to become volatile, leaking or pulsing unpredictably. Attempts to channel energy result in erratic surges, sometimes stronger or weaker than intended, making controlled use nearly impossible.
6. Symptoms: These practitioners are prone to random bursts of power, which can be dangerous in combat. They also lose the ability to perform refined techniques and must rely on brute force or raw energy bursts instead.
7. Emotional and Mental Alterations
8. Description: Corruption manifests psychologically, amplifying negative emotions like anger, jealousy, or fear, and suppressing empathy or self-restraint. Over time, practitioners lose their original sense of self, becoming consumed by their darker emotions.
9. Symptoms: This often results in an altered personality, with practitioners displaying antisocial behavior, paranoia, and aggression. They may experience hallucinations or even hear whispers from their own energy, often perceived as external voices encouraging destructive actions.
10. Loss of FLX Control
11. Description: Corrupted practitioners lose control over their energy pathways, leading to “energy bleeding,” where their FLX escapes their body involuntarily, creating a continuous drain.
12. Symptoms: This makes sustaining even basic techniques exhausting, as energy leaks away faster than it can regenerate. Severe cases lead to rapid energy depletion, fatigue, and susceptibility to further corruption or physical breakdown.

Abandon energy, go pure.

Eventually, dissonance will reach its climax and a short state of psychosis will occur, and then instant death.

All cybernetic individuals.

Anyone with cybernetic implants that carry and use energy as a life source.

Stronger digital protection

Firewalls

etc.

Carriers are feared and usually killed.