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

[hellpyre]

Y'know if you'd let me in I'd be able to give you light.

[Well more like "let her come in without freaking out" but she's waiting to see how long he's going to keep that up before just stepping in anyway.]

[fuckthemancers]

No.

[It's a bit sharply said.]

If I can have my way, I'm not letting you anywhere near these filthy bodies. [In fact, more than a bit sharply. It's almost venomous, the way he describes them.]

[hellpyre]

[Christ Zulf you act like she doesn't have the immune system of a fucking rhino.]

Burnin' them would make it a lot less disgusting don'tcha think?

[fuckthemancers]

[He still doesn't really know how your weird demon bullshit works, okay?]

So you want to burn down the building and everything in it before we get all the things you were making such a fuss over?

Not that I'm opposed to setting it all on fire right now, mind you. Anything Nathaniel needs he can well enough get from the Monument.

[hellpyre]

[If you wouldn't go smoke every time she tries to explain it you'd know this crap already jfc Zulf]

I can control it. God, I ain't completely useless.

He could get the supplies but that don't mean he and Colin can make everythin'. This just means less work for them, and stuff gettin' done faster.

[fuckthemancers]

[...Listen his smoking is the only thing helping him survive the end of the world ok]

I'd rather us going slow than everyone dying, to be frank.

[hellpyre]

[Rin disagrees and if you got your head out of the smoke you'd understand your fellow survivors a lot better.]

Look we're already here, ain't that risk enough? 'least the two of us ain't gonna keel over from this.

[fuckthemancers]

[There's a bit of silence, not even the sound of footsteps or papers rustling.]

...You're sure? I might be wrong, you know. It might not even be the same disease.

[hellpyre]

... y'know. If you'd listen to me instead'a hidin' with your weed every damn time I try to talk about myself, you'd know this.

[Actually pinching the bridge of her nose here]

I don't get sick. ... I mean I don't--... don't pick up illness or whatever. Even when other kids in school were comin' down with crap, I never got it. And that was before my powers unlocked. The only time I've ever had a problem was after that crap at the observatory, but that was my powers bein' affected.

For whatever reason, bein' a demon also means fightin' everythin' off that comes around. If you're immune 'cause you've been around it already, I'm immune because that's just how my body is.

Got it now?

[fuckthemancers]

I don't do it all the time- I've listened before you know.

[Rude. There's a huff of air, before another pause sets in.]

...I just don't like taking chances. Especially... I just don't.

[hellpyre]

The last time I tried to talk about how I heal, you looked like you were gonna pass out and went off to smoke.

[So you do it enough.]

... who else can take this chance here besides us?

[fuckthemancers]

...Alright.

[hellpyre]

[About damn time.

And look she can even open the (still broken) door and come in like a civilized person.]

Here. Better?

[fuckthemancers]

I'm in a room full of corpses that are festering with the same disease that killed of an untold amount of Ura including my parents and there's still the fear- however irrational- that now you're going to die just like Night.

I don't believe there's a better for me right now, but thank you for asking. How bright can you make your fire?

[hellpyre]

... I mean the light, you dork. God...

[Seriously, Zulf.

Rin shakes her head at him, moving her hand up. The flame was just in her palm before, but now she makes it spread over her entire hand, stopping just below the elbow. It's not light bulb-bright but it's still better than darkness.]

[fuckthemancers]

Let that be a lesson to you in being clear, then.

[He'll angst all he goddamn wants, Rin.]

[But with that light now available, he grabs one of the bags and starts to carefully put some of the radio equipment in it. Are these important? Fuck if he knows, Rucks is the technology guy in their group, not Zulf.]

[hellpyre]

[Save it for later.]

Yeah, yeah, gimmie a hard time 'bout everythin' ever...

[She pokes idly at one of the papers with her other hand.]

God it still smells in here... what's this stuff say, anyway?

[fuckthemancers]

[You underestimate how much angst he can possess and keep going with.]

...Letters to the loved ones they lost to the Calamity. Things such as how they would see them again.

One of them talks about how the group got the disease.

[hellpyre]

[She doesn't doubt that. It just needs to be stowed until they can get through this.]

... shouldn't we take that stuff back with us then? It... it might help...

[Just in case.]

[fuckthemancers]

I was already planning to.

...They may not have been a part of the Bastion, but they don't deserve to be forgotten.

[hellpyre]

... we can take them to the memorial, right? The papers, I mean.

[fuckthemancers]

That's what I was thinking.

[Something occurs to him, and he stops shoving things into the backpack so that he can go back besides Rin. He wants to take a look at that one bitter letter again to skim it.]

I wonder what happened to the original plaguebringer?

[bastionpc]

[The letter doesn't say directly, but it's probably safe to say that they died, since the letter talks about how everyone is dying. 'Everyone' would include the initially infected too.]

[hellpyre]

Uhh. Dead. Probably.

[Really, Zulf?]

Pretty sure we woulda heard some one screamin' for help by now.

[fuckthemancers]

[There's a flat look for you, Rin.]

I meant the corpse. I don't have any doubt that they're with the Mother now.