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]

[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.

[hellpyre]

[RUDE.]

How would you even tell it apart from...

[sweeping motion with her other hand.]

Hell, they might not even be in this room. There was three others besides this one.

[fuckthemancers]

[You're rude at him ALL THE TIME]

If the letters have any more information on them, that could narrow it down even to just which room it is... If the person wasn't outcast once it was realized what a danger they were.

[Something that could likely have happened, honestly.]

Who they were, if they were from Caelondia or the Terminals or another world entirely... and where they picked it up from. That's what I want to know the most.

[hellpyre]

[YOU'RE RUDE RIGHT BACK]

If I had somethin' for you to light, I could go check out the other doors and see if any of 'em are locked.

[fuckthemancers]

Let's just finish in here really quick. [Deciding not to look through them anymore, he starts to just grab all the papers in as neat piles as he can make and starts to shove them into Bag #2.] I'd rather the two of us not get separated.

[hellpyre]

Right right...

[He has a point. And she'd be lying if she said she didn't find this place pretty damn creepy...]

[fuckthemancers]

[Zulf finishes as quickly as he can. The papers are easy and quick. The equipment is a bit more guesswork but if Nathaniel has any issues with it, he can fucking come into the room full of dead plague victims himself.]

Can you carry the equipment? You're stronger than I am.