[Days 197 → 200] Goodnight song, played so wrong... [OPEN]

[bastionpc]

Who: Quarantined survivors who came back from the  Radio Tower mission, anyone who wants to risk visiting them.
Open: Open
When: Day 197 → Day 200
Where: The Hospital, in the wing that Colin sectioned off
What: So that Radio Tower mission didn't exactly go according to plan, did it? Despite Rin's efforts to cleanse everyone with her flames, Colin has insisted on Quarantine and has shoved everyone involved in to the hospital to wait it out and hope that no symptoms show up. Boredom, Pokemon egg hatching and other such shenanigans ensue.
Format: any
Warnings: The designated Patient Zeros are involved in this, and will beginning showing symptoms starting Day 200, kicking off the second part of the Sickness Within plot.

[Basically what it says at the top. Individual threads for the different days are set up below, so thread around as you see fit!]

NOTE: This comment has information about the disease that can be used during this event.

Comments

[fuckthemancers]

There's no helping for that.

Sometimes, you simply have to let it heal at its own pace.

[spiria]

Moping doesn't exactly help things, though ... I know I need to just keep going. They'd want me to keep going. It's really hard, though.

[fuckthemancers]

Mourning isn't moping, and anyone who tells you that needs to be slapped right about the face.

[spiria]

Nobody's really told me that ... nobody's really had the chance to tell me that. It's a conclusion I came to myself.

[fuckthemancers]

...It's not good to think that way. Trust me.

[spiria]

Why not?

[fuckthemancers]

Getting swallowed up by your emotions can be a bad thing- [Trust him, he knows] -but if you don't give yourself time to mourn, time to let them escape, then they'll just fester in the background of your mind.

[spiria]

Mn ...

I think there's a part of me that's still hopeful I might see them again. It hasn't really sunk in to that part yet. Which is why I keep telling myself not to mope about being away from them, because what would they think of me if they knew I wasn't out here, doing my best for the people here?

And then there's the part of me that has actually accepted that I probably will never see any of them again that wants to sit in a dark place and do absolutely nothing for a long time.

I don't think either part of me is exactly healthy.

[fuckthemancers]

...I'm not sure how much it will help, but... has anyone told you about the Pantheon? The Gods that Caelondia and the Terminals once worshiped.

[spiria]

[ She shakes her head in response to that. ]

No, I don't really know anything about them.

[fuckthemancers]

Ten gods make up the Pantheon... At the head of them all is the one who bore this world, the nine others that came after, and all life here. Micia, the God of Loss and Longing, the Lorn Mother.

Micia is also the one we all see when we die, her star heart guiding us back to her. In the night sky, when the moon is new, it's exceptionally bright. Along with a few select nights in the year, those nights are said when the earth and the night sky where the souls of the dead reside are exceptionally close.

If your friends are still out there... They'll find their way here to the Bastion. There's not much else to go to. If your friends- aren't... Then they might still visit you on those nights, whether you know it or not, guided to and back with the Lorn Mother's help.

That's one of the things I've been thinking of, at any rate, to help me cope with my own. Prayer as well.

[Sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't.]

[spiria]

[ Ah ... she had never really thought of anything even close to that, and hearing it was a little bit of a comfort. If she thought of it that way ... then it wouldn't be the same, granted, but the idea of them being so close every so often was a nice one. Kohaku nods. ]

That is a nice way to think about it ...

[fuckthemancers]

...Hopefully it helps.

[spiria]

Thanks for the advice, and the information. If it helps you, maybe it'll help me, too.

[ She tries to smile at him. It's kinda working?? ]

[fuckthemancers]

I hope it does.

[Awkward smiles all around!]