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Entry tags:
- !mod-event,
- altered carbon: takeshi kovacs,
- angel sanctuary: sakuya kira,
- castlevania: adrian ţepeş,
- danganronpa: gundam tanaka,
- devilman crybaby: akira fudo,
- homestuck: dave strider,
- marvel comics: kamala khan,
- mcu: daisy johnson,
- mcu: elektra natchios,
- mcu: frank castle,
- mcu: karen page,
- mcu: matt murdock,
- persona: minato arisato,
- persona: naoya toudou,
- persona: ren amamiya,
- star trek: jim kirk,
- star wars: jyn erso,
- the expanse: josephus miller,
- the last ship: mike slattery,
- tinker tailor soldier spy: peter guillam,
- xcu: rogue
( 004 » ENSEMBLE ) decay
» WHO? EVERYONE
» WHEN? August 1 - 31
» WHERE? the entire station
» WHAT? Characters begin suffering mysterious and varied symptoms. (More info can be found HERE.)
» WARNINGS? illness, body transformation, loss of limb, general body horror, blood, gore
Characters start suffering from a light fever. They’ll feel tired and achy, more inclined to bundle up in a warm sweater (if they have one) and drink tea or have chicken soup in bed than anything else. Unfortunately, the food fabricators still don’t provide the best comfort food.
Admittedly: some people are more affected than others. Some don’t seem to be affected at all.
For some characters, the fever will go away and they will feel fine for a brief period. It was probably just a cold, right? And then new symptoms set in: something dark and black spreads from their heart toward their extremities through their veins, making them stand out strongly. It hurts a little, or maybe a lot and no one knows what causes this or what it is that is spreading so darkly through their veins.
For some other characters, the fever will also go away and they will feel fine for a brief period before different symptoms set in: something hard starts spreading beneath their skin, making movements just a little more difficult for affected areas. The pain of this ranges from light discomfort to severe.
For yet other characters, the fever grows worse. They experience hallucinations of their extremities turning to dust, just the way it looks when someone arrives on or disappears from the station. They lose sensation in their extremities during those hallucinatory episodes, so if they reach out to touch something with a hand they think has disappeared, they’ll feel nothing. If they try to walk and then hallucinate their legs disappearing, they’ll stumble and fall to the floor.
For some characters, the blackness spreads and brings additional symptoms and worsening conditions with it: their skin starts to rot and fall off, toe or fingernails or entire toes or fingers might rot and fall off, wounds open that ooze a black and foul smelling, thick fluid dripping without looking to stop even if pressure is applied. It’s painful, and the open, infected looking wounds will not close, however much characters try to treat them.
Slowly, these characters’ bodies seem to rot and decay while they still live. For non-organic characters, it’s as if their wires are melting down, metals merging together and seeping through components.
For other characters, the hardness spreads and brings additional symptoms and worsening conditions with it: some of their joints may no longer move at all, their skin turning hard and impenetrable. Characters will also their sensory perception of affected limbs/surfaces, becoming unable to notice when someone touches them on an affected area. They may also lose any other sense if the infection spreads to their eyes, their ears, their mouths. Moving is slow, difficult, painful, until it becomes practically impossible. The noises their joints make seem robotic.
Slowly, these characters seem to turn into something else. Something hard and metallic, something unfeeling and impenetrable. Something inhuman?
For those who were still suffering from the fever, it seems like there is finally some good news: the fever lets up - but then affected characters find first their skin and increasingly the entirety of their body turning translucent and insubstantial. It will start with their skin and spread to the tissue beneath. One moment, they are able to see their own organs working, their heart pumping as their ribcage turns see-through… and a while later, well. Have you ever watched someone’s heart disappear? Now’s your chance.
It might reappear for a moment, as though flickering in and out of existence. It might disappear entirely. Slowly, these characters seem to fade from existence.
The tables turn as characters’ bodies gain ground in the fight to return back to normal, but some changes disappear sooner than others and some might even seem to be permanent.
What is wrong with you? What is wrong with everyone? What caused it and how can these symptoms be treated, halted, reversed?
Is there a cure or is it possible to at least understand what’s going on?
» WHEN? August 1 - 31
» WHERE? the entire station
» WHAT? Characters begin suffering mysterious and varied symptoms. (More info can be found HERE.)
» WARNINGS? illness, body transformation, loss of limb, general body horror, blood, gore
0 0 1 » STAGE 1
Characters start suffering from a light fever. They’ll feel tired and achy, more inclined to bundle up in a warm sweater (if they have one) and drink tea or have chicken soup in bed than anything else. Unfortunately, the food fabricators still don’t provide the best comfort food.
Admittedly: some people are more affected than others. Some don’t seem to be affected at all.
0 0 2 » STAGE 2
For some characters, the fever will go away and they will feel fine for a brief period. It was probably just a cold, right? And then new symptoms set in: something dark and black spreads from their heart toward their extremities through their veins, making them stand out strongly. It hurts a little, or maybe a lot and no one knows what causes this or what it is that is spreading so darkly through their veins.
For some other characters, the fever will also go away and they will feel fine for a brief period before different symptoms set in: something hard starts spreading beneath their skin, making movements just a little more difficult for affected areas. The pain of this ranges from light discomfort to severe.
For yet other characters, the fever grows worse. They experience hallucinations of their extremities turning to dust, just the way it looks when someone arrives on or disappears from the station. They lose sensation in their extremities during those hallucinatory episodes, so if they reach out to touch something with a hand they think has disappeared, they’ll feel nothing. If they try to walk and then hallucinate their legs disappearing, they’ll stumble and fall to the floor.
0 0 3 » STAGE 3
For some characters, the blackness spreads and brings additional symptoms and worsening conditions with it: their skin starts to rot and fall off, toe or fingernails or entire toes or fingers might rot and fall off, wounds open that ooze a black and foul smelling, thick fluid dripping without looking to stop even if pressure is applied. It’s painful, and the open, infected looking wounds will not close, however much characters try to treat them.
Slowly, these characters’ bodies seem to rot and decay while they still live. For non-organic characters, it’s as if their wires are melting down, metals merging together and seeping through components.
For other characters, the hardness spreads and brings additional symptoms and worsening conditions with it: some of their joints may no longer move at all, their skin turning hard and impenetrable. Characters will also their sensory perception of affected limbs/surfaces, becoming unable to notice when someone touches them on an affected area. They may also lose any other sense if the infection spreads to their eyes, their ears, their mouths. Moving is slow, difficult, painful, until it becomes practically impossible. The noises their joints make seem robotic.
Slowly, these characters seem to turn into something else. Something hard and metallic, something unfeeling and impenetrable. Something inhuman?
For those who were still suffering from the fever, it seems like there is finally some good news: the fever lets up - but then affected characters find first their skin and increasingly the entirety of their body turning translucent and insubstantial. It will start with their skin and spread to the tissue beneath. One moment, they are able to see their own organs working, their heart pumping as their ribcage turns see-through… and a while later, well. Have you ever watched someone’s heart disappear? Now’s your chance.
It might reappear for a moment, as though flickering in and out of existence. It might disappear entirely. Slowly, these characters seem to fade from existence.
0 0 4 » STAGE 4
The tables turn as characters’ bodies gain ground in the fight to return back to normal, but some changes disappear sooner than others and some might even seem to be permanent.
0 0 5 » INVESTIGATION
What is wrong with you? What is wrong with everyone? What caused it and how can these symptoms be treated, halted, reversed?
Is there a cure or is it possible to at least understand what’s going on?
Fever bordering on stage 2
He walked through the mess hall to one of the replicators and raised his hand, pressing his palm against the machine. After a few minutes, the skin on his hand seemed to recede to reveal a shiny, white plastic exoskeleton underneath and the replicator lit up. The LED on his temple flickered blue and the replicator produced a bottle of blue liquid and then another.
He took both, one in each hand, his skin sliding back into place as he turned away from the replicator.
As he turned to leave he spotted Daisy, his gaze seemed to linger on her for a moment with a neutral, almost curious expression before offering her a polite smile.]
Hello, Daisy. [He tilted his head to the side, eyes still locked on her.] May I suggest, maybe, water or orange juice. Your temperature is higher than normal. It might be a good idea to get some extra rest as well.
no subject
I’m not sure how much good orange juice would do for me now, but, thanks.
[She’s been resting when she can, but it wasn’t easy for her to just lay in bed all day. Not when her mind was racing all the time. Moving to lean into the wall as standing for this long was becoming difficult, Daisy’s gaze drifts to the bottles in his hand, unable to control her curiosity, Daisy forces another smile before asking...]
What is that?
no subject
Vitamins can still help, even if you're already feeling unwell.
[Connor's focus moved to the two bottles of thick blue liquid in front of him.] Thirium, which I've been told either doesn't exist or, possibly, hasn't been discovered yet in other universes. It fuels androids where I'm from. It's used to transport energy and information throughout my body.
[So, why did he have two bottles of it? He conveniently omitted that the thirium inside him seemed to be crystalizing and that he was going to try to drain some of the contaminated thirium from his system and wanted to be ready to replace it.]
no subject
[She appreciates his concern though. Daisy looks genuinely surprised by his explanation, she thought androids were just plugged in to recharge, if anything.]
So it’s like your version of food?
no subject
Like food? Mmm... no, not quite. [He frowns a little, unsure of what to compare the thirium to.] It's more like blood, in a way. It does not need to be replenished very often. Androids can run for a number of years without consuming more thirium. Unless damage results in a significant loss of thirium.
[Luckily, he didn't have to plug into anything to recharge.]
no subject
Are you sick too?
no subject
... Androids do not get sick.
But...
[But there was no denying something strange was happening to him.] My self-diagnostics indicate that the thirium inside of me is crystalizing. Somehow. It shouldn't be possible.
[He glanced at the two glasses in front of him, a determined look washing over his features.] I'm going to try to flush my system of the contaminated thirium before my symptoms become worse.
[In short - yes. He was sick, too.]
no subject
And if your symptoms get worse, what happens?
[Should she be asking? Maybe not. But she’s never heard of an Android getting sick before so she’s a little curious.
And also wanting to be prepared for what might end in him not being in control of himself anymore. Or maybe she’s just being paranoid.]no subject
Right now my movements are slightly delayed, but if it worsened... Paralysis.
[No need to worry, he wouldn't lose control over his body, he'd just become a giant paperweight.]
no subject
Yeah, that’s also alarming.]
Some sort of alien virus affecting humans I get, but how could it be affecting androids too?
[Daisy doesn’t expect him to have the answer she’s just thinking out loud.]
no subject
[His LED flickered for a moment.]
It shouldn't be possible. I don't have any information about any incidents where thirium has crystalized, but that seems to be exactly what is occurring. It's... alarming.
[Very alarming. Connor refused to admit that he was scared, but he vaguely recognized the feeling. He'd felt it before once.]
no subject
Well we need to figure out what exactly is going on before any of this gets worse.
[As if she knows where to even begin with any of this.]
no subject
Your mention of a virus affecting those onboard... was that a hypothetical situation, or is there something happening? Are a number of people exhibiting symptoms?
[He sounded nothing but concerned and maybe a little guilty that he'd been so preoccupied with his own situation.]
As far as I know, I'm the only android on board who runs on thirium. Furthermore, as an android, I don't experience pain. Or emotions. [That was debatable, but he was still sticking with that particular script, unwilling to accept that he might be deviating from his programming.] I would strongly insist that humans are the primary focus of this investigation.