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[reveriemod]

» 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?

Comments

[possidetur]

I hope so.

( he seemed to have such faith in her, such a belief that she was right. vanessa hoped that she was, almost not wanting to let his faith down )

Are you able to stand?

[onlydoubts]

[ right now, it's difficult to keep to that faith and hope. but he wants to believe in the hope that she has, so even that small part of him that does - that's enough, for now.

when Bodhi thinks of it, he doesn't want to die like this. he swallows, nods. ]

I think so.

[ with a deep breath, he's trying to manuever himself onto shaking legs that are none too happy to take the weight. ]

[possidetur]

( vanessa moves first, resting her hands on him, willing to take his weight to help him. she was slight though their similar heights should help.

she's quiet, waiting until he's stood and semi-stable before she moves )

Do you recall our first meeting?

[onlydoubts]

[ standing, he tries not to put too much of his weight on her once they get moving, but keep it balanced.

force, he hates this, though. how even the most simple tasks are this difficult. Bodhi nods, at the question. ]

You were looking for something, yeah?

[possidetur]

( vanessa gives a nod, adjusting her hands so that their walk is more comfortable. she was thinking of the observation deck, somewhere where they'd seemed to speak frequently )

I was and I still am. The library is somewhere that could enlighten us to much here.

[onlydoubts]

[ it shows how badly he's been, that he hasn't thought to give notice of something that he and Jyn had worked long and hard at figuring out. given the station's status, he doesn't think anyone will be upset. ]

We got it open, you know. I didn't say earlier because of -- [ vague sweeping gesture ] But we did manage. If you want to go there, now.

[possidetur]

Perhaps once we're recovered.

( though vanessa did wish to see the library she wasn't certain how much she would appreciate with how she was feeling -- and how he was )

Though I would be interested in knowing how you gained access.