Wilson's Journal

## Excerpts from Journal

**Excerpts about The Parts and the Ink Machine:**

### The Doll

By using the doll, you no longer will need to worry about calculating specific doses for different individuals. Every patient will receive the same dose and have the same reaction. This is because the doll has the ability to adjust itself to the specific needs of each individual. However, using the doll by itself is risky.

Upon contact, it takes a sample of DNA and imprints with the individual. The doll then changes its appearance to match its ‘host’. Something as small as a drop of blood, a hair, a claw, etc. is enough for it to imprint. Once the doll has imprinted, anything that happens to the doll will affect the host. Pain, injury, and even death are possible consequences of being a host. Yet, mending the doll will also heal the host as long as the individual is still alive. However, there is a limit to the doll’s healing abilities. It can only save the host from physical injuries, not cure sickness. It was only meant to reflect the physical body, not the smaller matter particles that make up an individual. Using the doll with the Ink Machine causes a few notable changes to the doll’s abilities. It will still change to the form of the individual, but it won’t need a DNA sample. Without this DNA sample, some of the dangerous imprint side effects will be diminished. Also, the doll will affect the other parts of the machine in that it will alleviate any complications with the dosing for the ill. Specifically, it directs ‘tool’ so that it erases only the infection from a person and not the entire person. The individual's body will accept the treatment now.

With the doll in use, you are ready to assemble the parts that actually perform the treatment. What proceeds next are those parts.

### The Cup

The chalice of living water is used for its healing, purifying effect. Expanding on this, without the machine, it relieves the pain and injuries of the user for a short time. Sparing use from the chalice can cure small health issues. Consistent use will make a person younger again temporarily. One peculiar ability of the chalice is that the water never runs out. It will stop producing water when not in use, going into a type of hibernation. Also, using the living water as a cure repeatedly will cause addiction. It is strongly advised that you not use the cup more than a handful of times.

When used in the machine, the living waters will clear and heal the user’s immune system, restoring the individual to the peak of their previous health. Specifically, it is returning the user to a time before there was an impurity in their system. This is why the cup is needed for the machine, as it removes the taint from the person’s body. As mentioned in one of the previous section of this description, this part is one of two needed to get past the temporary nature of the living water’s cure.

Without the living water, there is no way to completely remove the ink and restore health to the individual. The taint will return if not fully cleansed.

### The Instrument

Insert the instrument next, but use a lot of caution. It’s music halts the movement of the illness by stunning it. The instrument pauses the break down of a person’s body and immune functions.

In addition to this, the instrument has a strong effect on a person’s emotions through hypnosis. It can strengthen awareness and reaction. Without the machine, it can cause any emotion to become overwhelming to an individual, whether it is anger, sorrow, joy, hunger or any other physical reaction. This could cause a person to go mad or worse.

Using the instrument in the machine, unfortunately, does not remove all of these side effects, but they are lessened and made temporary. Yet, this part is still essential to the machine, without it there is no way to halt the spreading of the illness. Therefore, these risks are ones that must be taken, despite the discomfort caused to the patient. It is the only option for those suffering this illness.

### The Cog

As when working with the instrument, while using the cog, one must be cautious. Used in the machine, this part will kill the illness within the individual after it’s growth has been halted and before it has been cleansed.

The cog is an especially dangerous item, even while being used in the machine, if it is placed into the machine wrong. The placement of this part will be explained in the next section. Nevertheless, the cog’s reality changing abilities fight the illness unlike any of the other parts. The reason for this is still unknown. There are some theories about this in later sections, but for this informational segment what’s important to know is that without it there is no way to remove the illness from the individual without killing them.

By itself, the cog is very dangerous in that it can change the bodies of those exposed to it. It is unclear if this item acts only on the mind and senses or if it truly does change the fabric of reality. Regardless, the effect on the sufferer is the same, complete madness. Some individuals have even disappeared after acquiring the part.

These are the reasons one must be very careful and cautious while handling the cog.

### The Brush

Next to be placed in the machine is the brush. It repairs and replaces the damage caused by the illness on the patient. It will essentially replace the ill parts of a person’s body, only after the living water cleanses the individual, to function normally. This solves an issue found in the healing power of living waters, which is that the effects are only temporary. It also keeps the patient from suffering through the pain of a failing body after the illness and tainted body parts are removed. Used in the machine, the brush is at it’s most powerful and all risk associated with it is nullified.

By itself, the brush still repairs, but it can only do what is within the knowledge of its user. For example, in the hands of a knowledgeable healer, the lives of many on a battlefield could be saved. However, if it was in the hands of one of the warriors, unpracticed in the art of medicine, it would not restore the functions of essential organs that warrior is unaware of. The brush also can fix anything mechanical, as long as the user had the wisdom and kindness of heart to use it. This is not a tool to be used by the ignorant.

### The Ink Machine

The machine itself has been carefully crafted to balance out the unique qualities of each of the parts to create a cure for the illness. It not only removes the illness but causes the instant and painless recovery of the ill. To date, three hundred and sixty-three souls have been saved. The specific placement of each of the items and application of the proper runes has proven essential to controlling the artifacts quirks and dangers and helping the machine run smoothly as a whole. Because of this the parts don’t overwhelm or cancel each other out entirely, though they do affect each other.

The proper application of runes is also important because runes are the best protection against the negative effects of the parts and help balance the machine. Using the wrong runes with the machine could bring about the worst case effects of each of these items.

Any mishandling of the parts or misplacement of the runes could, in the best case, kill the patient. At worst, the machine could distort and corrupt the landscape into a scene of untold desolation. Any person within range of this would be lost, beyond powers of saving. For this reason, the assembly of the machine must be done very--