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

[fuckthemancers]

If you're certain.

[With that, he heads back into the room, glancing back at her just to make sure she's doing alright.]

It looks like this was converted to a sleeping area...

[hellpyre]

[She's pallid and shaken and not at all like some one who claimed to be "alright", but she soldiers on regardless.]

They found shelter and used what they could I guess... I wonder if any of 'em ever even got that tower workin'.

[fuckthemancers]

[It's exactly because of that state that Zulf doesn't drift from her side. He really wants to know more and go through everything, but he wants to make sure Rin stays safe more than that.]

We'd have to ask Colin or Nathaniel on the state the tower is in... I didn't read anything in the letters that made mention of it. They were mostly farewell letters, like I said.

Do you think it would have done them any good if it did?

[hellpyre]

Colin... might'a been able to pick up on... on somethin'.

[But that's a thin, useless hope for a group of people who have already perished.]

I'unno...

[fuckthemancers]

[Sometimes you can't save everyone. But Zulf doesn't say that.]

Just let me know if you start to feel sick again, okay?

[hellpyre]

[She's learning that.

Slowly. And not without a little bit of reluctance to believe it.]

I will...

[fuckthemancers]

Alright.

[Aaaand time for another search check!]

[hellpyre]

... are you doin' okay?

[She has to ask.]

[fuckthemancers]

I believe I answered that.

But- as long as it doesn't spread, I think I'll manage.

[hellpyre]

I mean-- ... never mind.

[Damn it, Zulf.]

[fuckthemancers]

...What?

[hellpyre]

This is the same, isn't it? You said so...

[The same as what happened to his parents, to his people.]

[fuckthemancers]

...It caught me off guard when I first came inside. I wasn't expecting it.

However, you must understand something- things like this weren't an uncommon sight in the Terminals during the plague. Perhaps not always in such number like this... But I can't count the number of times I'd make my way into an abandoned den hoping for a bit of food or a blanket only to find an entire family dead.

That was "normal" and you got used to it after a while until it became strange when the temple finally got it under control and were able to start clearing out the bodies of the dead.

I suppose it's easier to slip into old habits than I thought.

[The entire time he talks, his shoulders are a bit slumped and he keeps his face away from Rin. There's a kind of dullness to his tone.]

[hellpyre]

[Rin listened intently, stomach still churning, calmer than before. When he finished, she reached a hand to his shoulder gently.]

That ain't gonna happen again.

[fuckthemancers]

How can you be so certain of that?

[hellpyre]

We've got two pain in the ass genius' here, and a lotta people who know a fuck ton about medicine! I've got faith that if somethin' happens they'll have a way to fix it!

[fuckthemancers]

...Do we truly have "a lot" of people who know a great deal about medicine...

[He's pretty sure they're actually a bit low on doctors, last he checked]

[hellpyre]

Well... there's Rosethorn, but her's is like herbal stuff. Yukio, of course! Duke knows how to heal, and I'm pretty sure the Ryu's do, too. Ippo is pretty good with injuries since he's a boxer. Oh, I bet Ryuuji probably remembers a lot from the demon pharmaceuticals class. He could probably work with Rosethorn and maybe even Tris. Seimei-san, too!

... that's a lot, right?

[fuckthemancers]

...You realize that disease is a lot different from physical injury, don't you?

[hellpyre]

Duh. Why else would I mention people like Rosethorn?

[God Zulf she's not a complete idiot.]

[fuckthemancers]

So we have Rosethorn, possibly Colin, and Yukio.

[are you sure tho]

[are you sure]

[hellpyre]

Oi, don't doubt my brother, okay? He's awesome. He's gotten me out of a lotta tight spots before.

[Yeah she's sure.]

[fuckthemancers]

I'm not doubting him. I am, however, saying that is not a lot of people.

[hellpyre]

Yeah but geniuses can do like... genius things!

[Rin...]

[fuckthemancers]

...You're now officially relegated to "move the most decomposed bodies to a pile and set them on fire".