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

[spiria]

[ As someone who had been burnt by someone before (literally ... though she'd kinda rushed into that herself), her initial reaction was a flinch as Rin's flames reached her ... but they didn't hurt her, so she forced herself to calm down.

This whole thing was just too unnerving. She focused now on staying calm through all of this. ]

[fuckthemancers]

[Zulf isn't focusing on the flames. In any other circumstances, he most certainly would. This sort of thing, fire that doesn't burn, is amazing. Beautiful in a way to be so close to it. However, his attention is utterly captured by Colin in a rather intense way. The Okumuras and anyone else close enough or with good hearing can probably hear him muttering.]

Don't blow up, don't blow up...

[Perhaps because he's not so focused on the fire and rather Colin away from the rest of the group, Zulf notices the sensors. He pauses in his muttering to stare at them before straightening up.]

Rin, hurry. The sensors are doing something.

[hellpyre]

[Oh god oh god she can feel the ground moving beneath their feet. Not enough that they've actually begun gliding back towards the Bastion yet, but there's certainly a rattle that confirms what Zulf has yelled out to her.

It very nearly makes her falter, makes her lose her concentration, but she clamps down on any frightened, doubtful thoughts and grits her teeth. Her hands grip the sword so tight her knuckles blanch white. The flames continue to move outward, curling and blossoming out the more power she puts in to them.

Come on... come on, don't hold back now... you can do it! Everyone is countin' on you!

She feels her demonic side welling up in her chest, a tight, heavy weight like something attempting to claw free, fueled by the power she's releasing. A faint growl sounds from her, and her hands even with their tight grip on the sword start to tremble.

No! I won't let it happen!

Breathe in, breathe out, focus... focus... almost... almost...]

[bastionpc]

[Whatever Rin is doing, it seems to be working. At least, the tower isn't catching on fire, and any disease that is there would likely be burned away.

The same is true for the people, too: anyone touched by the fire is cleansed from any external strains of the disease remaining.

Of course, that only affects anything on the outside. For those who breathed in the disease already...well, they'll find out in a few days if they're infected or not.]

[hellpyre]

[And that's about all Rin can take. Even on the mountain with the extra help, she had collapsed once all was said and done, and this time it's no different. It was a strain to keep that much control with that much energy expended at the same time, and once she's sure it's reached everyone, her hands drop limply to her sides, the sword falls away from her fingers and she collapses to her knees, keeling forward on to the ground.

The flames fade away with that, pulling back in to her as the source of all of them, and while she's still semi-conscious she's certainly not moving from where she's fallen.

Probably a good thing (relatively speaking) that the sensors finally kick in and begin to pull the piece of land back towards the Bastion.]

[freedom_engineer]

... Well.

[He's still alive and unexploded, and now the island seems to be moving.]

We'd best hope that was enough, because it's too late to do anything else now...

[spiria]

[ She can't help herself as she gasps and rushes to Rin's side immediately upon her collapse. ]

Rin!

[ It looks like she'll need to be carried back to the Bastion ... oops. ]

[doctor_dragoon]

[Yukio quickly kneels down on Rin's other side, sheathing her sword before laying a hand on her shoulder.]

She'll be okay...

[fuckthemancers]

[It looks like everyone else has Rin covered. Zulf will just stand to the side, finally letting out a breath and letting his shoulders slump.]

I'm sorry about that, everyone...

[He seems to be taking this personally.]