Event Log: Flu Season

[hadrielmods]

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.
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Comments

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[ex_break829]

[ Jack is only at the early stages of the sickness, though it's hard to tell: he has a pink nose and red-rimmed eyes, but that's beneath the false perfection of the mask he wears. There is a little fluid though, around the nostrils, the inner corner of his eyes where the little catches are. And, oh yeah, when he speaks it's there in his lungs. ]

Hey so,

[ And he saw the network post, he did, but Jack's world has basically eradicated colds and shit so he doesn't know what to do but come see the only doctor he knows. Sometimes he manfully toughs shit out, sure, but the rest of the time he's a big baby. ]

I'm uh, probably dying?

[ He sniffs pathetically. ]

[hot_mes]

[Aside from the persistent dark circles Law doesn't look sick anymore, but he's at the worst point as far as other people are concerned. His paranoia wavers between closing himself alone in a back room of the clinic to "research" and hunting down anyone very clearly sick to stop them from spreading the disease. Jack, well, a little from column A and a little from column B...]

You've caught it, haven't you? I can hear it. If you let me use my ability, I can verify for certain.

[after Caedra patients get...a modicum of warning before he brings up the Room. But it's also to lure them into a false sense of security. Can't blame him if they give permission, right?]

[ex_break829]

Uh...

[ Jack squints at ability but fuckin' magic is what people have in place of hard science here, and he knows if Law didn't have some kind of medical ability he probably wouldn't be allowed to work in the local clinic. So. ]

Sure. Sure, yeah. Do your worst, doc.

[ That's... that's a joke. He scratches his jaw, swallows back some crap trickling at the back of his sore throat, fuckdamn this is the worst. ]

[hot_mes]

[why yes he will thank you. No, his worst is much worse than this.]

All right, then. Room.

[the translucent sphere of aura surrounds them both, he's in it so it definitely doesn't come off as doing anything to anyone so much as sharing in the possibilities. And, for a moment, Law really does do his due diligence, gesturing with his fingers to Scan for information. The lack of virus causing any of this still freaks him out, this is just not right but...]

Ah. So that's what you're hiding, behind the surface.

[a Scan can also pick up scar tissue...]