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.
Why yes, in fact, there is someone looking for an excuse to get rid of an ugly car.
When does the cop show up at the river?
Will anyone get in trouble for taking pictures of the crime scene before they all move the body? Or will it just be something where it's okay so long as they don't start showing them around?
The policeman would likely show up on the scene about an hour after Eliza's network post and clear everyone out, plus wrap the area in crime scene tape... But they can't watch everyone necessarily, so it would be easy enough for someone to just slip out of sight and loop back around to the body. From then on out, he'll assume he has secured the area and basically just patrol along the edge of the woods, watching for any sign of someone trying to sneak in. But he's had a long day and his senses aren't the sharpest, so it's possible for him to give him a wide berth and come at the scene from the side (or even the opposite riverbank) and make it to the scene unimpeded.
If the pictures are known to have been taken, they'll be in trouble. However, surveillance in the woods is at a bare minimum and as long as the pictures aren't mentioned or waved around within city limits, it should be fine!
Where have they taken it, if we might ask? And how was it transported?
Okay, so we have a pretty solid (and crazy) plan here.
Junyoung, Bucky, Izumi and Cassian will be joining the site first where initial information sharing happens. After they all get chased off and start forming a plan, Nyx will go ask Rachel Morgan if she has any magic that can help them, while Bucky goes to tell Steve, get Steve's awful ugly station wagon, and Prompto.
Prompto will take pictures of the body and the hole it was buried in. Rachel will put a charm on the body to make it look less like a real corpse. And the others will be smuggling the body in the car back to Steve's house where there might be a mysterious and unrelated string of cameras that don't seem to be functioning as they sneak this thing inside. Never let it be said that Steve is a good influence. This is where Junyoung will play CSI and get his samples.
In order to get the body out unnoticed, Ibaraki will be torching the poor cop's car until it explodes.
Edited (I hate html and shall never use it again) 2017-03-31 13:48 (UTC)
Basically just need the how/why/etc of the scenario.
Does she do it when the cop is close enough to see who did it, or is it just an explosion with no clear point of origin? If the former, what excuse does she present for why it happened? Etc.
Y'know, to figure out whether or not Iba's getting her ass sent to jail. :')
ibaraki has been promised lots of food and sweets to "distract" the cop but nobody's actually told her how to manage that, so she's absolutely making this up on her own.
she does it when the cop is close enough to see it because... she actually shows up from the woods, looking "innocent" in her her jorts, ugly turquoise windbreaker, and dirty bare feet as she gives the human cop man a wave before she screeches "SPIDER! FLEE, HUMAN!" as warning. then, ibaraki lifts one hand and... uh. the air around her kind of warps and distorts as she gathers up as much mana as she can muster, pointing one hand at the car. with a shout, she fires off her noble phantasm. the giant hand smashes down in a fist upon the hood of the car, and then... everything explodes.
very tired, ibaraki immediately sits down in the dirt after, and informs the officer that "i have saved you from the spider, human law man. you may thank me."
The cop is briefly dumbfounded - this, too, is clearly above his pay grade. He then places Ibaraki under arrest for destruction of police property, causing unrest, and on suspicion of sneaking into a crime scene (but he can't prove it).
If she goes quietly, she'll get five days in the local jail. It could be worse!
ibaraki goes quietly...! mostly because she falls asleep on the poor man as he's putting her in handcuffs, and cannot be roused for anything short of a two litre bottle of crystal pepsi and some steak for at least three hours. assuming she gets fed in jail... she'll continue to "behave"
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When does the cop show up at the river?
Will anyone get in trouble for taking pictures of the crime scene before they all move the body? Or will it just be something where it's okay so long as they don't start showing them around?
no subject
If the pictures are known to have been taken, they'll be in trouble. However, surveillance in the woods is at a bare minimum and as long as the pictures aren't mentioned or waved around within city limits, it should be fine!
no subject
Okay, so we have a pretty solid (and crazy) plan here.
Junyoung, Bucky, Izumi and Cassian will be joining the site first where initial information sharing happens. After they all get chased off and start forming a plan, Nyx will go ask Rachel Morgan if she has any magic that can help them, while Bucky goes to tell Steve, get Steve's awful ugly station wagon, and Prompto.
Prompto will take pictures of the body and the hole it was buried in. Rachel will put a charm on the body to make it look less like a real corpse. And the others will be smuggling the body in the car back to Steve's house where there might be a mysterious and unrelated string of cameras that don't seem to be functioning as they sneak this thing inside. Never let it be said that Steve is a good influence. This is where Junyoung will play CSI and get his samples.
In order to get the body out unnoticed, Ibaraki will be torching the poor cop's car until it explodes.
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I... can't find any logistical flaws in this plan, miracle of miracles, so it's safe to consider it official.
Ibaraki - see me in my office. (a.k.a. show your face in here, we've gotta work out the semantics of the cop car flambe`.)
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Does she do it when the cop is close enough to see who did it, or is it just an explosion with no clear point of origin? If the former, what excuse does she present for why it happened? Etc.
Y'know, to figure out whether or not Iba's getting her ass sent to jail. :')
no subject
ibaraki has been promised lots of food and sweets to "distract" the cop but nobody's actually told her how to manage that, so she's absolutely making this up on her own.
she does it when the cop is close enough to see it because... she actually shows up from the woods, looking "innocent" in her her jorts, ugly turquoise windbreaker, and dirty bare feet as she gives the human cop man a wave before she screeches "SPIDER! FLEE, HUMAN!" as warning. then, ibaraki lifts one hand and... uh. the air around her kind of warps and distorts as she gathers up as much mana as she can muster, pointing one hand at the car. with a shout, she fires off her noble phantasm. the giant hand smashes down in a fist upon the hood of the car, and then... everything explodes.
very tired, ibaraki immediately sits down in the dirt after, and informs the officer that "i have saved you from the spider, human law man. you may thank me."
no subject
If she goes quietly, she'll get five days in the local jail. It could be worse!
no subject
ibaraki goes quietly...! mostly because she falls asleep on the poor man as he's putting her in handcuffs, and cannot be roused for anything short of a two litre bottle of crystal pepsi and some steak for at least three hours. assuming she gets fed in jail... she'll continue to "behave"