Day 196 : Start of the "Sickness Inside" plot

[bastionpc]

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...

Comments

[notduchess]

The problem for Duke is that magic is a cure all for most things - while the knight didn't specialize in disease, there were those who did, and made such things easy to clean up. Here? That's a bit more of a problem. Have the sticks, Rosethorn, Duke doesn't need them.

Duke is ignoring you, Seimei, because the idea of quarantine was not one that the knight was looking forward to. "... I think you might want to stay here." Excuse Duke, little pecker, but it just occurred to the knight that you have probably been eating that dead sick person. And it's a bad idea to be that close to you.

[bastionpc]

[YEP

Sorry Duke that bird has been eating something that carries contagions that affect humans. But it can be easily shooed away, at least?

There's not much to see of the body, even if it's only been dead a day or so, there are a lot of hungry Peckers, and they want to eat before it becomes rotten. But there seem to be no injuries to the body, outside of what the Peckers have done. The one noticeable thing is that the person had been dehydrated and hungry, before dying. Loss of appetite and desire to drink water are possibly symptoms of this disease.]

[yinyangfox]

"Well, there is no use troubling over it now. What is done is done and if its a disease communicable by air, we already have it - by touch as well, thanks to your friend there," Seimei murmured, gesturing vaguely to the Pecker. He didn't blame them - most animals didn't understand disease between species.

"We really should burn all the bodies," he remarked after a moment of thought, eyeing the Peckers and wonder quietly if they too would require extermination. They obviously weren't infected by anything but they could be carriers. Looks like its time for an ultimatum.

"I apologize for the inconvenience, but as this sickness you speak of is obviously very dangerous to...the wingless ones, we have to put fire to the bodies. You are also possibly dangerous to us. If you travel a little farther--," he turned left and right, trying to get his bearing before pointing in another direction, "--that way, there is quite a lot of area we have not tread yet and there should be food. But we have to get rid of these, so please go somewhere safer for now," the onmyoji asked, though his tone stayed particularly cool. He would kill every last one of them if necessary. The needs of the many outweighed the desires of the few.

[notduchess]

"I was almost going to ask what would stop them from eating it after we burned it, and then I realized you didn't mean the char it to a crisp sort of burning, but something closer to cremation.

Although this was another thought. "... Anyway to shove bits of skyway in different directions? I mean, its floating here, and I have some wind spells. .. And a rather large force one, if I get it to focus its hits, we could probably knock this away?"

Or the knight can use them on the pecker colony. Sorry little shoulder bird friend.

[yinyangfox]

"Incinerate it and blow the ashes away? I can accomplish this easily enough. My shikigami harness the elements. Fire and wind are hardly complex by their standards," the onmyoji remarked thoughtfully, folding his hands behind his back and leaning over the nearest corpse curiously.

"Between you and I we could feasibly clear out the area. Being as we have already put ourselves at risk and the lady has run off to explain the situation, it would be sensible for us to avoid unnecessary contact with the others. At least until we know we are not infectious...or infected," he remarked, gazing pointedly at Duke.