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reveriemod ([personal profile] reveriemod) wrote in [community profile] reverielogs2018-08-01 07:17 pm

( 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





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?



charlieoscar: (stand)

[personal profile] charlieoscar 2018-08-09 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mike looks around, as if suddenly expecting to see something that wasn't there before. Pink elephants on parade. (Christine and the kids, smiling and waving...) But the room was it had been before, full of the same tired, wane faces.

He shakes his head slowly.]


What're you seeing?

pampa: (061)

[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-10 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Nothing, it's- it comes and goes. [ he rubs at his wrist, chewing on the inside of his lip. ] It's like, like I keep seeing my fingers disappear. Turn to dust. Trippy shit.
charlieoscar: (do not want)

[personal profile] charlieoscar 2018-08-13 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
[Mike's brow furrows into a deeply displeased frown. He glances down at his own hands, spoon shifting slightly between his fingertips. Then, again, he shakes his head, even slower.]

Yeah, I'm not seeing that. [He looks back up, wheels in his brain grinding slowly behind his eyes.] How else are you feeling?
pampa: (077)

[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-13 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Great. [ he intones sarcastically before trying to sit up a little, elbows on the table now like he needs the extra support. ] Like shit left out to bake in the Sun.

[ not like he even knows what the sun feels like, but it seemed like an apt descroiption anyway. ]
charlieoscar: (do not)

[personal profile] charlieoscar 2018-08-16 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mike manages a low snort.]

Welcome to the club. [Forcing himself to focus, he straightens up slightly, setting down his fork at last. (Not like he was actually using it anyway.)] You been by medical yet?
pampa: (024)

[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-18 07:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he swallows and tips his head, trying to ignore how everything in his vision's path vibrates a little. god, that's not normal. ]

Nah. At first, thought it was just a cold. Think they'll have anything down there for us?

[ he thinks they should probably look, even if all he really wants to do is sleep for 70 years straight. ]
charlieoscar: (bemused)

[personal profile] charlieoscar 2018-08-21 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm still sick, but I'm also not seeing things.

[He shrugs.]

My advice, don't spend your time in the beds thinking about how much they remind you of a coffin.
pampa: (030)

[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-22 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he makes a thoughtful noise. ]

Good advice, sailor. I take it you're not comin' with me.
charlieoscar: (side)

[personal profile] charlieoscar 2018-08-27 10:36 am (UTC)(link)
[He manages a smirk, a corner of his mouth curving upward - if tiredly - but concern darkens his eyes. Miller doesn't strike him as the type to ask for help idly.]

Want me to hold your hand, Miller? I'm touched.
pampa: (to rouse her into laughter)

[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-27 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ miller snorts and shakes his head. which turns out to be a mistake and his hand comes up to touch at his temple a second later. ]

Even the most minor illness makes a loop around a space station this size... we'll be diggin' a mass grave in the sky.

[ that is, if there's anyone left to airlock the dead. and further to the point, if they stay dead. ]

Happens to rock hoppers all the time. And just like them, no one will even miss us.
charlieoscar: (bemused)

[personal profile] charlieoscar 2018-08-27 02:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Mike's expression flattens. His tone dries. Slipping a hand under his tray, he pushes his chair back and stands.]

Have you tried motivational speaking? You'd make a killing.

[Literally.]
pampa: (006)

[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-27 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ wait, where is mike going? miller gets up to follow, too quick. all the blood rushes to his head and he hisses, squeezing his eyes shut as a wave of vertigo passes over him violently. ]

Says the UNN sailor whose main commodity is sarcasm.
charlieoscar: (stand)

[personal profile] charlieoscar 2018-08-27 03:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[As he rounds the table, he pauses and reaches out to steady Miller by the elbow.]

I know when it counts.

[He waits a beat longer, then nods his head toward the recycler.]

Come on, Sunshine, let me take this back and we'll get you some drugs. Maybe me too, who knows.

[Plague for all, like a fucking party.]
pampa: (010)

[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-28 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ he gasps when mike reaches for him, sure he won't be able to touch him. sure he isn't solid at all. except the man has no trouble holding him steady and he looks up at him like he doesn't understand. ]

Okay, asshole. The buddy system. [ slowly, he pulls his arm out of mike's grip. ] Not that kinda buddy. After you, big guy.
charlieoscar: (sidelong)

[personal profile] charlieoscar 2018-08-28 10:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Mike watches him carefully, ready to grab him again if Miller suddenly tries to take a header, but covers it by slanting the look sidelong.]

Like you could have me.

[Satisfied then that Miller would keep it together for the time being, he turns to lead the way.]
pampa: (and the mome raths outgrabe)

[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-30 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he stays on his feet after a brief wobble and moves to follow the taller man.you win this round, mike!! ]

Like I'd want to.