Greetings, Pinecones! Welcome to our latter March event and the first of our metaplot-related events. As with all metaplot to come, when and how the event ends will be highly dependent on characters' participation and choices, so don't hesitate to get their hands dirty.
Without further ado!
OUTBREAK
ENVIRONMENT EVENT: Foreign Contaminant EVENT DATE: March 22th - ???
Just when you thought you'd seen the last of the hospital, something like this happens. At first it doesn't seem so severe, maybe just indigestion from that big lunch you just ate, or maybe you forgot to take Lactaid before dessert at Lagomarcino's (but that homemade ice cream? Worth it!). Only it doesn't seem to wear off once you've... eliminated the problem. In fact, it seems to have pretty quickly progressed to full on nausea, complete with sharp abdominal pain.
Okay, so maybe food poisoning. Did you check the expiration date on the ingredients you used for that sandwich? You may need to have a talk with French... If you can make it downtown. By the end of the day, what feels like severe pins and needles ranges down your limbs all the way to your extremities — even your face.
After a couple more days of this there's no mistaking the severity of your symptoms for indigestion. Your mouth stays parched no matter how much water you drink. It's hard to take a full breath, no thanks to the feeling that something is caught in your throat, too. Others may try to speak to you, but you're inexplicably having a hard time forming your words when you reply, and you keep misjudging the distance to the floor when you try to get out of bed. You may want to find another way to the hospital, my friend, because you most definitely should not operate any heavy machinery.
IN CHARACTER
DON'T FEAR THE REAPER
Symptoms begin as early as the morning of the 22nd, or may not start until a bit later in the day. Either way, those exhibiting symptoms will universally experience nausea, diarrhea and abdominal pain.
Within 12 hours, characters will be feeling the aforementioned tingling or burning in their arms, legs, hands, feet, fingers and toes, and even in their face.
Two days after the onset of symptoms, by the 24th, the above have increased in severity and may also include dry mouth, shortness of breath, a choking feeling, confused or slurred speech, and even loss of coordination.
The town doctors seem to be making the expected effort to treat the symptoms of those affected, though they claim to be at as much of a loss as anyone to explain the sudden widespread illness, initially attributing it to likely food poisoning themselves. However, on the 25th they are able to release the information that symptoms seem to worsen with hydration, and the hospital is now requesting volunteers to donate blood in an effort to engineer a treatment. They encourage those afflicted to check themselves into the hospital, though doctors are also available to make house calls.
OUT OF CHARACTER
THE BREAKDOWN
You will find three top-levels below for your plotting needs! Again, the course of the event will depend on you the players, so we encourage you guys to really make use of these. Feel free to start utilizing them right away, though you can also do so at any point during the event.
Top-level #1 is for players to ask questions of mods, both general questions and questions with intent to solve the mystery surrounding these symptoms. Ideally, if you ask a question looking to solve the mystery, we'd prefer that you limit yourself to questions that your characters themselves would actually investigate. This will, after all, be solved ICly. For example, If Joe has been feeling queasy and Barack sits at his bedside to feed him soup, will Barack get sick? Ideally, the mystery will be solved OOCly sooner rather than later so that everyone is on the same page when they're threading things out.
Top-level #2, meanwhile, is where you can volunteer your character to donate blood to the hospital. The doctors will only be needing donations from those exhibiting symptoms. The more volunteers the better!
Top-level #3 is for players to plot with each other. Bring the details you receive in top-level #1 to discuss them with your fellow players here, and plot out your next move (and which further questions to ask). Conversely, if your character has nothing to do with solving the mystery but you'd like to plot out threads involving the symptoms, that goes here too.
Jack isn't a doctor in any capacity, but he does have healing magic, so once the event picks up he's going to take an interest in trying to help people out for the first few days! Given that we now know what's causing symptoms, healing might only be temporary, depending. Hit me up if you'd like a teen helper!
His morbid humor miiight also be the thing that helps crack the problem open. As things get worse, he'll (rightfully) joke the contamination is in the water, but it won't cross his mind as a serious suggestion, SO. If any any smarty pants or doctor-y characters would like to play that out and run with it, hit me up for that, too! He'll be hanging around the hospital as more people he knows gets sick, but he can found just about anywhere.
EDIT: For players in need of physical relief of symptoms!
As an optional mechanic for anyone who still wants their characters cured/healed of symptoms at some point during the event, Jack is available as a plot device to that end! He's already going to be healing Nyx, so if you also want to handwave saying he healed your sick character using magic, we don't have to have prior CR, just leave a note saying which character and we can work out how it could've maybe happened (at the hospital, maybe they were really struggling in the grocery store, etc.).
I'm TENTATIVELY INTERESTED in Bucky getting healed. I'm still debating if he'd be down with somebody he doesn't know using magic on him, so I suppose it depends on 1) the alternatives (ie where we're at with a cure-- mods?) and 2) how such an offer for healing might've come up with Bucky and Jack. Up for hashing out how it might've happened?
OBVIOUSLY NOT A MOD but from what I gather symptoms abate so long as characters stop ingesting the contaminated water, if that helps you with Bucky any?
We can def work something out that could get Jack involved! For Jack's part, he's pretty casual about magic since it's not considered a big deal where he's from and he probably wouldn't think twice about offering if he saw Bucky looking like he needed it. (The only reason he may be a little hush-hush about showing off in public is because he wouldn't want the whole town finding out and coming after him for a cure. :S)
Is Bucky still snooping around the hospital? Maybe we could say they crossed paths at the hospital?
OH THAT MAKES SENSE lmao how did I miss that. (This is why I tend not to participate in IC or OOC investigations shhhhhh.)
But yeah, Bucky would have been at the hospital on the 25th, though he likely would've left after he snooped all he could snoop. Jack might've seen him on his way out, since Bucky's being stubborn and staggering around, trying to power through his symptoms to get home.
sdlfkjgf Asking about the healing thing is the only reason I found out, IT'S OKAY, I feel you on there being a lot of info to comb through. V___V
Jack would likely come back there after finding the body, so meeting on Jack's way in and Bucky's way out could work! If he noticed Bucky doing his stubborn dead man walking routine, he'd be like YO DUDE, YOU GOOD?
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His morbid humor miiight also be the thing that helps crack the problem open. As things get worse, he'll (rightfully) joke the contamination is in the water, but it won't cross his mind as a serious suggestion, SO. If any any smarty pants or doctor-y characters would like to play that out and run with it, hit me up for that, too! He'll be hanging around the hospital as more people he knows gets sick, but he can found just about anywhere.
EDIT: For players in need of physical relief of symptoms!
As an optional mechanic for anyone who still wants their characters cured/healed of symptoms at some point during the event, Jack is available as a plot device to that end! He's already going to be healing Nyx, so if you also want to handwave saying he healed your sick character using magic, we don't have to have prior CR, just leave a note saying which character and we can work out how it could've maybe happened (at the hospital, maybe they were really struggling in the grocery store, etc.).
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We can def work something out that could get Jack involved! For Jack's part, he's pretty casual about magic since it's not considered a big deal where he's from and he probably wouldn't think twice about offering if he saw Bucky looking like he needed it. (The only reason he may be a little hush-hush about showing off in public is because he wouldn't want the whole town finding out and coming after him for a cure. :S)
Is Bucky still snooping around the hospital? Maybe we could say they crossed paths at the hospital?
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But yeah, Bucky would have been at the hospital on the 25th, though he likely would've left after he snooped all he could snoop. Jack might've seen him on his way out, since Bucky's being stubborn and staggering around, trying to power through his symptoms to get home.
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Jack would likely come back there after finding the body, so meeting on Jack's way in and Bucky's way out could work! If he noticed Bucky doing his stubborn dead man walking routine, he'd be like YO DUDE, YOU GOOD?