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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?



floriographys: (p20)

[personal profile] floriographys 2018-08-13 04:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[Jun laughs at that. At least the guy was acknowledging it.]

Hm... Well. It's not a very nice story... [It was probably easier for the others. Jun never thought of himself as particularly strong.]

When I was young, there was an evil entity that fused with me and became my Persona. He was volatile and wicked, and isolated me from those I cared about. Eventually, my friends defeated me... and him... and freed me from his control, and I learned to utilize Personas of my own volition.

But the others learned to do it on their own. [He tugged nervously on an ear as he frowned. He hated thinking about Nyarlathotep, but he couldn't pretend it never happened, either.]

So there must be some kind of innate aspect to it, right?
episodically: (stbeyond_00814)

[personal profile] episodically 2018-08-13 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, because I really don't think my body would react well to some...evil entity deciding to make me its home. There's a lot of awful crap inside me right now.

( after the radiation and now this, why anyone would want to co-habitat his body was beyond him. )

So, does Chronos, does he have his own thoughts? Like his own mind, I guess?
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[personal profile] floriographys 2018-08-14 02:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I think you've certainly got enough going on in you right now without... that.

[He's sure other people would be able to handle it better than him, usually, but this disease was terrible. The poor guys was already losing his fingers over it. And Jun wouldn't wish Nyarlathotep on anyone.]

Well, Chronos did speak to me upon meeting me, but he's been quiet ever since. That said, a Persona does tend to read their user's emotions, and tends to reflect that. He doesn't feel like he has any differing thoughts from me, at the least.
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[personal profile] episodically 2018-08-14 05:05 pm (UTC)(link)
This could be because I feel like shit but that sounds so cool. I know that, if I were a little more clear headed, I might worry about sharing space with someone else but it sounds really cool right now.

( bones is a damn good doctor but having something like this on the enterprise would be incredibly helpful. jim doesn't want anyone to die (unless it's him) so something like this would prevent that. )

I'd probably piss him off though. He'd want to leave my head before we even became friends.