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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?



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[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-13 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
He lets go abruptly before he can phase through or even more horrifyingly get stuck. His stomach rolls at the mere thought.

"I'm not strong enough to carry you." So you're on your own basically. Even if he were, he can't keep hold of anything. It's infuriating. "I can call someone, one of those stacked up military guys. That's the best I can do for you, toaster oven."
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[personal profile] rk800connor 2018-08-14 06:01 am (UTC)(link)
Connor, unsurprisingly, didn't move from where he was leaning against the wall. Delayed, from when he'd been trying to see if he could at least wiggle his fingers almost ten minutes ago, his fingers wiggled and then stopped.

The offer to help surprised Connor. He really didn't think Miller liked him much. Maybe he didn't, maybe that didn't matter.

"You don't have to carry me anywhere. Or call anyone," His LED flickered before returning to the solid red it had been, "Something's happening on the station. I'm not sure how able anyone is at the moment. I'll be fine here."

He offered Miller a soft smile, "I appreciate the offer though. Really."
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[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-15 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay, kid." Despite himself, he's reluctant to leave him. But there's nothing he can do here and he's sick of waiting around for people to get hurt or die. So he's taking the out, though he will try to track down someone who isn't as sick as they are to come check on him. If there's anyone like that even left. He's got to ask one thing first though, since standing against a wall for hours sounds like torture. To a robot it's probably nothing though, right? "Can you get bored?"
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[personal profile] rk800connor 2018-08-16 04:48 am (UTC)(link)
It's obvious that, despite struggling with his own issues, Miller is reluctant to just leave Connor there.

All Connor could do was offer Miller a fake looking smile, an attempt to reassure the man.

"I'll be fine. And... no, I don't experience boredom. If nothing else I can switch to a low energy mode or hibernation," He said confidently. Connor seemed to resign himself to his current fate, still unsettling calm about the entire situation.

"I can see send and receive messages. Even if I can't move," He was still connected to the network, maybe that was why he wasn't too concerned about being left alone in the hallway.
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[personal profile] pampa 2018-08-18 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
"Alright," he says softly after a moment, processing all of that. If there's anything he could do for Connor now, he would. It's one of his more infuriating qualities. "Well, message me later anyway, huh? Let me know how you made out."

He thumps Connor once on the shoulder, frowning as his fingers phase through at the end and yanks his hand back.

"See you around, kid." And he's off, flickering in and out of sight until he clears the corridor.