About
The entity known as Serrai has been classified as a type 3 anomaly -- inapproachable chaotic neutral metaflorm -- which makes it difficult to study, unpredictable, and not subject to known laws of science. The entity acts on and leaves behind material which is indistinguishable from magic; some stuff I cannot fathom the composition nor architecture of. The one thing I did manage to crack the science of, and replicate, is the portal technology used to jump between various dimensions and areas. Serrai is known to use portals to lead denizens astray to limbo, or psychochrophibic dimensions. Studying these dimensions was no easy task and reconstructing the relation to Serrai was even more of a challenge
Events
A-Breaking Laboratory upon OT Royal Society's orders was tasked in devising a portal severity scale in order to identify which portals were safe enough for investigation and which portals had to be quarantined. The scale is as follows:
EpSiLoN - avoid at all costs; Royal OT Society prohibits entry
DELTA - highly recommended to avoid
Beta - undesirable location
alpha - likely stable
null - entry permited at will
- https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/4061941 - limited juristiction
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/4701388 - outside juristiction
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/4709824 - outside juristiction
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/4728847 - outside juristiction
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/4782959 - outside juristiction
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6001261 - outside juristiction
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6027622 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6034634 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6076256 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6139546 - type null
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6139548 - type null
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6141225 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6194537 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6210067 - type null
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6210814 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6249370 - type null
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6350733 - type null
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6350734 - type null
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6746547 - typa alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6760779 - type null
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6856461 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6876147 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6891403 - type Beta
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6913304 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6928446 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6958579 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6959124 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6972745 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6972750 - type DELTA
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/6992620 - type alpha
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/7004214 - type DELTA
https://osu.ppy.sh/forum/p/7005737 - type EpSiLoN UPDATE: reduced to type Beta
Results
The gathered information regarding the portals reveal that Serrai is creating progressively dangerous portals. If this pattern is to continue, it is very possible that OT can experience mass hysteria and decrease immunity against Trashipitus to practical nonexistance. Additionally, the more dangerous portals are known to leak out residue that is known to be very toxic and poisonous to denizens of OT, and have been shown to be the perfect breeding ground for the Trahipitus Virus.Correlating these portals to Serrai, I and my team obtained a clearer picture of what kind of entity Serrai really is. The biggest clues were left here, the prediction of a future, and here, describing the apocalyptic outcome of a distant land Serrai hailed from. It is more than that, however. Serrai is not simply a refugee from there. The way Serrai behaves is a lot like a restless ghost that haunts until put to rest.
When you think about it, it makes sense. The land Serrai comes from was suddenly ravaged by cruel lords and caused a mass genocide of content. Serrai was likely one of the denizens caught in the crossfire and died that day. By some freak accident a part of Serrai turned away from Vallalha and came back to find a land similar to the one that fell. Since then Serrai has been giving cryptic messages, some that makes sense, some that don't, trying to tell us something.
One thing still does not make sense, however. The portals have not always been a thing Serrai used, and now they are frequent and been becoming more violent. I have suspicion that Serrai has started to realize that it is not what it used to be and starting to escape whatever, wherever, it is. However, I don't think it knows how to and just shoots in the dark into random dimensions to hopefully get the right one. This has created a dangerous situation and an very unstable entity.
Going Forward
Since the discovery that Serrai is an entity with lesser physical attributes, the Serrai Apprehension Task Force has been suspended, and focus have shifted to approaching the problem from a different angle. First we shall develop the methods needed to mitigate damaged caused by Serrai's tech -- mainly from portals and psychovisual residue. Second, we shall use what we know about this entity to reach its "source". Details regarding that are still in development, and are expected to be finished within the next presidential elections.Royal OT Scientist has been reverse engineering the portal technology used by Serrai in hopes of finding something of use. However, his methods are questionable at best. When interviewed about how he plans to achieve that, he said, "A portal to somewhere is something Serrai can do any day. My mission is to beyond that. I need a portal to within a portal, and outside itself. Reshaping the holofabric that separates the portal from us will allow me to create not a flat portal but one with interesting curved shapes. You can't physically touch a portal, and nothing I know of can approach it like a material object. So I shall summon the ultimate portal that allows me to put portals through portals and mitigate the damage that can be done by them that way."