Sepsis

* Sepsis
* Retief

Sepsis was the third member of the Ennead Council.

## Character

A god of pestilence and famine, Sepsis was a massive god - comprising the entirety of the Iris' "Conscious Mind". The interior of Sepsis' body was comprised of diseased flesh. The main ability of Sepsis is unknown, however, Sepsis is shown to be able to create extremely vivid hallucinations and mindscapes. An extremely cruel god, Sepsis (along with the other Ennead Council members) planned to subjugate the entirety of reality - killing, warping, or just torturing whoever objected to their rule.

## History

The third member to join the Ennead Council after Odin and K'eph, Sepsis was present for Ha'kleth's conscription into the Tsiad.

A few months after this, Sepsis commissioned Dr. Bratwurst of Meatballica to create a recipe for pasta. During this transaction, Sepsis stole the blueprints for the recipe and used it to form the first Skinwalker. After several years of Skinwalkers building onto his body, Sepsis formed the Iris around him and began to use it to warp planets - including Haxos.

This lasted for billions of years before the Iris travelled into the Sol system. The Iris began orbiting Earth - sending out Skinwalkers to attack Earth. Earth was evacuated for three years before a group of Commandos entered into the Iris. This was followed by the Vanguard after Ankarstian caused the Vanguard to randomly jump into the Iris. For most of the Resistance's stay in the Iris, Sepsis lay in wait. Eventually, Sepsis linked minds with the nearly-dead Cobalikus after he had been attacked by a giant Skinwalker - warping him into his servant. Cobalikus then attacked the Resistance and Commandos along with several Skinwalkers to make sure that they didn't attack the "Conscious Mind". This attack largely failed. Sepsis then warped Cobalikus into his body and tortured him.

Around the same time, Ankarstian and Poseidon warped into the "Conscious Mind". Sepsis created a hallucination of Haxos. Cobalikus was thrown into the Conscious Mind and managed to break free of Sepsis' claws during this. After they fended off a Skinwalker attack, Sepsis showed himself to Ank and Poseidon. Disguising himself as a scared psychic child named Retief, Sepsis attempted to get Ankarstian to pity him. This failed and Sepsis began torturing Ank. Sepsis left Ank for dead - ending the hallucination - and then began torturing Cobalikus even more due to Cobalikus breaking free from his control. Cobalikus managed to warp himself out of the Conscious Mind. Ank and Poseidon had also warped out of the Conscious Mind - back onto the Commando's ship.

A forward charge to the Conscious Mind then began. The Daleks (who had followed the Resistance into the Iris) joined in on this charge. After several hours, the Commando's ship entered into the Conscious Mind. Sepsis then revealed himself. Warping the Commando's ship out and providing an invisible floor, Sepsis then revealed his plan - to control every part of reality using the Iris as the Resistance watched. Sepsis then sicced his Skinwalkers on the Resistance. Around this time, the leader of the Dalek timeship - a Black Dalek - offered Dalek support for Sepsis' plans. Dr. Phage attempted to get Sepsis to change his mind on his plans. To spite Phage, Sepsis had one of his Skinwalkers take over Ankarstian. After seemingly taking over Ank, Dr. Loboto attempted to use Cobalikus' Cyberman suit to destroy Sepsis. This failed, with Sepsis trapping Loboto into an infinite loop of the suit self-destructing with him right in the blast zone. Loboto's body was mangled beyond recognition by this, however, he lived. Sepsis then made Loboto into something of a puppet. Sepsis then revealed what Skinwalkers were - the mangled and mutated nervous systems of previous victims. Dr. Bratwurst then took over Loboto's robot arm and attempted to attack Sepsis. This failed, however, Ank then stood up - revealing that the Skinwalker take-over had failed. Spamton (who had been absorbed by the Iris for an extremely long time) then informed Ank that she could control the Skinwalkers. Ank used this powers to turn them off. Sepsis was enraged by this - allowing H'darri Slo to attack him.

Pummeling Sepsis using a giant fist, H'darri used his powers to warp the Commando's ship back. Ank then revealed that she planned to sacrifice herself by using the MDD Bomb (that the Commandos brought to destroy the Iris) to destroy the Iris while H'darri distracted Sepsis by punching him. Staying behind to arm the bomb while the rest of the Resistance left the Iris along with Agent Five, Ank was nearly stopped by the Black Dalek, however, Ank whacked its head off using the MDD. H'darri then stopped punching Sepsis. Ank then threw the MDD at Sepsis. Sepsis - in the last seconds of his life - attempted to disarm the bomb. This failed and Sepsis was atomized along with the Iris by the MDD. Ank - along with Agent Five and H'darri - managed to escape death after Ash warped Ank's TARDIS around the trio. (TAL: Journey to the Center of the Iris).