As Rumor City aged, its impact on its inhabitants became increasingly pronounced. The city had a peculiar effect on its citizens; some were driven to madness long before they met their ultimate demise. These individuals, besieged by intrusive thoughts during moments of fractured sanity, sought solace beyond the city’s encroaching wilderness, hoping distance from its populace might offer some reprieve. Yet, it was the Narrative Nexus that beckoned them, leading to a transformation far more permanent and profound than that wrought by The Phenomenon.

They morphed into grotesque forms, condemned to roam the wilds beyond the city’s overgrowth. These beings, trapped in monstrous bodies, endlessly sought essence, driven by a relentless hunger for their sane counterparts. They believed consuming essence might restore the sanity they had irrevocably lost. This belief was futile; they remained monsters, destined to wander until their eventual demise.

But there’s no animals in Rumor… Right?

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