bastionpc: (Zahi)
Bastion NPC ([personal profile] bastionpc) wrote in [community profile] thebastion2014-06-22 11:27 pm

Day 201 [event post]

Who: Zahi and everyone who wants to go hunt down the cure
Open: Open
When: 201- onwards
Where: the monument, and then out on the Skyway
What: People in the Bastion are falling sick, and Zahi knows where a cure can be found. Unfortunately, it won't be easy to get to.
Format: action
Warnings: none

[On Day 201, after several people have fallen ill, another meeting is called. This time, however, it is not Nathaniel who has called for everyone. It's Zahi.]

Okay, I know everyone's been worried about the people in the hospital, and it looks like our fears weren't unfounded: some of the people who went on that last trip, they caught something.

I've been watching the symptoms, and I think I know what this is. A long time ago, back before Zayna was born, there was a terrible illness that claimed the lives of many Ura. Everyone who fell sick here, they had the same symptoms as those who caught the disease before.

On the plus side, this means that it can be cured. I know of a clinic, way out in the Terminals, where there should be some medicine stocked. Not only can we cure the sick, but we can give another kind of medicine to those who aren't sick yet, so they won't catch it at all.

The downside is that it's gonna take a while to get there. It'll be at least two days there, and possibly more to track down exactly where the clinic is, and then the same amount of time back. We're looking at a four-day minimum, which means we won't be much help to those who are sick right now. They'll either be dead or getting better by the time we get back.

Then there's the fact that it's really dangerous out there. Zayna and I were out on the Terminals before we came here, and let's just say that there's a reason we went looking for somewhere safer to stay.

If you'd rather stay here, I can understand that. The Bastion is an amazing place, and I wouldn't be surprised if someone here managed to save everyone. But I'm not a fan of putting all my eggs in one basket, so I figured it's worth a shot to go and try to get some of the medicine.

What do you guys think?
yinyangfox: (sympathy)

[personal profile] yinyangfox 2014-07-16 05:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Not just a big request, a cruel one. Guilt eats at him like worms at a corpse, crawling through his heart and stripping away layer after layer of pride and conviction. The pain is terrible, worse than anything he's ever experienced both physically and emotionally, and now Kaoru is asking him to do the impossible?

Yet when had he ever denied the boy? Why would now be any better time to start than all the other opportunities? There was never a good reason to hurt the ones you loved and if it meant helping Kaoru hold on long enough for his cure, couldn't the onmyoji live a little longer? It was already the worst suffering he'd ever endured, so what would it matter it he took it a little longer?

He can't speak, he can barely open his eyes and his bones feel like dry twigs strained to the point of snapping, but he twitches pale fingers against Kaoru's. He may be too weak to grasp firmly, but he tries with what he has left to promise.

He'll hold on.

For now. ]
individuates: (lean on me)

[personal profile] individuates 2014-07-16 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you…

[lifts himself up shakily a moment to press a kiss to Seimei's forehead, his thumb stroking Seimei's hand gently]

Save your strength now, my love. I'm here. You're not alone anymore.