To: SIS | From: OIC | Subj: Hazardous Materials

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Identification: Taskmaster Escher
Affiliation: Octavarium Intelligence Commission

To: Secret Intelligence Service

Subject: Cold Remedies
Encryption: There is nothing to see here, citizen.
Location: The Spider's Watch, Canberra Star City, Tau-44

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Not long after contacting you, I received a message from Holiday promising a sample of the cure. Curious timing, I'm sure you would agree.

I believe it would be best that we delay this until such time as I confirm the antidote's delivery and formula. Should it arrive and be as effective as promised, that would save considerable effort on your part. Even if Holiday properly secured the sample we provided, these were found on a Cultist installation. We have no reason to believe they cannot create more of these.

I will, regardless, want this sample secured somewhere away from here. And perhaps further research can devise a way to deactivate them instead of reactively curing those that are infected. But it would be better to solve two problems in one trip.

Taskmaster Escher
Octavarium Intelligence Commission

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