Event Log: Flu Season

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Who: All characters
What: The event log for the Flu Season event
Where: All over the city
When: March 20th-March 30th
Warnings: Gross sneezing, sick people, and paranoia

It starts with a cough, a sneeze, a sore throat - something small and simple, easily ignored. But then your symptoms get worse. It's probably been awhile since you've been sick, that sort of thing doesn't usually happen here. You might be able to raid the shops for some tissues and tea before it gets too bad, and hopefully you've got a friend to help out until you get better. Surely it'll be over soon, right?

Until the fever sets in, and you start to understand why your friend is really there. They don't want to take care of you. They want to make sure this is the last anyone will ever see of you. They want to learn all your secrets. They want to steal your most precious possession. You know they're plotting against you, you know they're keeping something from you. What will you do to find out what it is?

Then, as the sickness fades, you realize it was all in your mind. Let's hope you didn't do or say anything too awful. But that friend of yours... they seem to have picked up your cough. Maybe you should help them out?

► This log covers March 20th-March 30th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
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► If your paranoia ends in murder, please let us know here.

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[puzzlingly]

Sure, let's do that.

「Here goes the switcheroo. There is not way this is not gonna be weird.」

[dragonsgrasp]

[Kain takes the other heart in hand, definitely still feeling unsettled by this whole process… but it's almost over now, right? They can only hope. He's especially careful while making the trade-off, not wanting to drop or accidentally scratch the heart or something.]

[He's just as cautious as he puts this next one in… He frowns a little as he considers how it feels. Is it wishful thinking, or does this one seem much more fitting?]

I'm not sure... but wait, hm... it does feel... somewhat better than the last...

[hot_mes]

If you can't grasp the heart or even detect the hole, then it's yours. It's already fallen into place.

Atem-ya...? [it's all on you now bro! do you have the right heart or will it be door number three?]

[puzzlingly]

「Atem stares between the one he got from Kain and the one Law is holding with a concentration worthy of a Duel Monster's duel. This is it, there is only one chance (not really, no) and he's going to bet everything on....

the one Law is holding! Gotta believe in the heart of his... heart? Something like that... Hell, yeah. He offers that one in exchange and tries it on.

...

He waits, and smirks.」

There we go.

「Yessssss.」

[dragonsgrasp]

That's it, then. We're set.

[Kain breathes a sigh of relief. He's not very good at trusting his own intuition, sometimes, fearing that he might ultimately be wrong about this. But it seems to have taken, the heart beating regularly in his chest, in sync with his own pulse. Huh... weird to think that Atem had this heart in his chest just a few moments ago... his heart.]

It... feels better having that back. It was too strange without it...

[He'd questioned sometimes if he was even alive, even if the other physical signs pointed to the fact that he was.]

[hot_mes]

Good. I'll make sure this one gets back to its owner. [wrapping it back up in the cloth, not to protect it but so no one else can see him walking around with a heart. His pockets at current won't fit it.]

I don't even know what I was thinking in that state. Probably to incapacitate without killing, which, given how compromised I was, is a stroke of luck for you guys. I could have easily killed everyone to protect myself.

[what? it's true. Law just wants to explain himself, since he already apologized.]

[puzzlingly]

「Stange doesn't begin to cover it, actually having it back feels a little odd, good odd, but odd.

Luck? He wonders, to which he simply smirks.」

Oh, yeah, we are so lucky.

「Wink. You, softie pirate, you. He remembers what he said when he took his heart. His secret is safe.」

[dragonsgrasp]

Well... death would have been more inconvenient in many ways, you're right.

[He's certainly not eager to try it again, anytime soon. He glances down toward his chest, surprised by how normal it all feels right now. So there won't be any lasting effects, that's all the better. He looks back up after that.]

It certainly could have been worse. At least it was easily enough resolved.

[hot_mes]

[yeah, yeah, tease him all you want, Atem. He's just going to sheepishly shrink away now.]

If you'll excuse me, I want to get this to its owner.

[talk amongst yourselves, or don't. He's made his apology and rectified the situation, now to find Jack and then get himself torn to bits by the Visitor no big deal]