thebastion | Day 196 : Start of the "Sickness Inside" plot

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Day 196 : Start of the "Sickness Inside" plot

Who: Nathaniel (NPC) and everyone else who wants to be involved
Open: Open
When: Day 196
Where: Near the monument --> Out on the Skyway
What: Nathaniel needs a radio tower. He's enlisting the help of others to get said radio tower
Format: any
Warnings: Dead body discovery in the radio tower threads. Mentions of throw-up when Zulf joins the Okumura group.

This is the post for everything related to Day 196 of this particular event. The starter is in the comments, and important threads will be linked here as they are made.

Important threads:

START: by the monument

At the radio tower and the surrounding area

Regrouping

Meanwhile, at the Bastion...

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[YEAH WELL

She is a jerk.

She knows that.

But she's a jerk who wants to try and be a hero when so much of her life has been mired in failure.

That does make her stop, though, door half broken down at the bottom and fists balled up at her sides, a pale glow of blue around her.]

I have... I kept people away from me because it was safer for me that way. And I hated it.

But... but now that I have friends I want to protect I can't do that anymore! I have to take risks or else... or else none of you are gonna survive this place! I'm takin' risks so that no one else has to because I have to be strong enough that no one else is gonna die for me again!

[Jesus Christ you two.

In the room there is actually a lot of radio equipment. It looks like this was the storage room for spare parts, so it has pretty much everything Nathaniel would need for his little project. Assuming that he still takes the tower back, this stuff could come in handy.

But with all the dead bodies around, it's very obviously going to be difficult to grab anything without tripping over someone.

There's also notes written everywhere. On the walls, on paper, wherever. They're in Caelondian, so only Zulf can read them, but they say things like "STAY AWAY" and "YOU WILL DIE IF YOU STAY HERE". Those are the tame writings, by the way, if Zulf picks up any of the papers, he will read worse things.]

Edited 2014-06-10 05:05 (UTC)

[No one needs your sass, narration!]

[That makes Zulf pause as well, matchlight flickering over the foreboding message that seem to fill every bit of space that isn't taken over by a corpse.]

...I don't want to lose anyone else either, Rin. I already lost my friends and family to plague before.

And- there's nothing in here but papers and corpses. [Fuck you Nathaniel] The papers... are just warnings to stay away.

[Even though it makes his stomach turn, he will give an awkward hop over one of the corpses to make his way to some of the papers on a desk and start to go through them.]

[RUDE NARRATOR. JUST RUDE.]

... please tell me there's somethin' in there we can use.

[She lets out a pained sigh, resting her forehead and hand against what's left of the door.]

Please tell me this isn't all for nothin'...

[Those papers are hastily scrawled final letters from the people who died there. Mostly written to loved ones who are already dead because of the Calamity, and a couple mention 'meeting them again soon'.

One is an angry diatribe against one person in particular, because it's all their fault everyone got sick, because they tried to help a sick person or something. It's full of bitterness.]

[Zulf starts reading one of the first letters and has to stop himself just a sentence in, eyes squeezing shut and hands starting to tremble. It takes some will to remember to respond to Rin.]

...Bring me one of the packs and I'll see if there's anything worth putting into it. Just- don't come in. Promise me.

[She stands there, waiting, holding her breath even though it will do nothing. Hand trembling on the wood, wanting to call out to him though her voice has fled.

But then he speaks, asking something of her.

This is now how she wanted it to go, but they're at an impasse where arguing is simply going to make things worse at a time when they don't need that.

Her pack thunks on the ground again, footsteps retreating, returning, a second one joining. Her handkerchief is set on top of the second one, both getting shoved in through the hole in the door by her foot.]

At least make sure you ain't breathin' in that crap any more than you gotta.

[By the time her footsteps are returning, Zulf has made his way back to the door. The match is snuffed out so that he can use both hands to help pull the packs in.]

Don't worry. I've spent enough time with the dead. I only want to be with them when I've joined the Mother once again.

Along with your brother, you can make sure that everyone else is warned about the situation in here, can't you?

...And Rin?

[Yeah she's not leaving you, Zulf. Yuki can cover that.]

... what?

[There's the click of the doorknob, and the door cracks open so Zulf can peer out. He looks paler than usual, and he's still shaking a bit. Maybe it's the light shining so harshly on him while he's still in that dark room. Maybe he's just that shooken up.]

...I never actually locked the door. You could have opened it at any time instead of breaking it down.

You--

[Actually flabbergasted here. And a touch annoyed, too.

She stares at him, mouth open for a bit until her jaw snaps shut, lifting her hand to illuminate both of their faces in pale blue light.]

Yer an ass. Now hurry the hell up.

I just closed a door. I don't see how that makes me an ass of any sort.

[besides his ass is mostly a mystery, what would you know about it]

[There's a pause, 'tho. She isn't... moving...]

...Didn't I ask you to leave?

Y'acted like you were gonna lock yourself in there just 'cause I wanted to-- ugh! Whatever, never mind, forget about it!

[And]

AND. I ain't leavin' until you do. So hurry up.

Why- [He cuts himself off with a sigh.] Nevermind. I suppose this is as good as I will get with you.

Do you know if this place has a basement?

Damn straight it is!

[Rin you are such a child.]

No, there's just a few more rooms down the hall. I think this was supposed t' be like a small office or somethin'.

I wonder what is keeping the power then...

[He's going to try and search to see if there's a light switch or something similar on the walls now. Better than his match or Rin's flame at any rate. He keeps talking as he goes back into the room.]

Because something about this is worrying me more than just discovering all of this in general.

I'unno, but the lights ain't givin' a whole lot off.

[Like it's a back up generator that's barely holding on anymore, as opposed to a full on power source.]

... more than dead bodies and fucked up notes?

[He'll keep looking for a light switch anyway. He doesn't want Rin inside, but he also can't carry some of these things by juggling an easily droppable match.]

The Bastion and the amulets act as translators for the spoken word, but not the written one, don't they? If you wrote something done, only other people from your world would understand it. Right?

[If you would just let her in--]

Well, yeah, that's why I can't read any of...

[motioning with her free hand at the papers]

What's that got to do with anything?

I can read all of these- they're Caelondian. Every single word I've read in here so far has been something I've been able to read.

[He'll let the realization of what that means sink in for her.]

[Zulf have you forgotten how dumb Rin is?]

Yeah but wasn't your adopted dad Caelondian?

[Why wouldn't he be able to read it? She's not getting it.]

[....Rin....]

Nathaniel said that this didn't look like it belonged, like it was from another world. If these are all written by people who know Caelondian, then they can't be from another world.

. . . !

[Wait just a second--!]

Caels didn't have radio technology did they?! That's somethin' from my world!

[And probably others but hey small victories that she figured out that much.]

[You're getting so close, Rin.]

These people must not have been able to find the Bastion... but they found this instead...

One of the letters mentions that this group helped someone, and they brought with them the plague.

Is it--... I mean there's diseases in my world that are pretty bad if they don't get treated. A-are you sure it's... the same one?

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SOME HOW I DELETED THIS COMMENT I'M SORRY FORGIVE ME

JENI HOW

I AM MADE OF FAIL /falls to knees

your mod team, everyone

quiet you

never

B|

ovo

/abandons forever!

you can't leave us, then you're leaving this game in my hands

... touche

new event: everyone turns into birds

wow if you love birds so much why don't you go to bird school. which is for birds.

excuse you i am bird principal at bird school which is for birds

look at you mr. high and mighty

all hail me

I'd rather not

heathen

/hairflip