Day 201 [event post]

[bastionpc]

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?

Comments

[four_quarts]

[He almost laughs at that. Almost. Although it has been a very long time indeed, he still remembers what it was like to lose a sibling. How long ago was it that she lost hers, he wonders?]

Come now, surely my voice isn't quite that high-pitched.

[notduchess]

s'higher than-

[ It ought to be, hers, who knows because hi, coughing fit.

That's a complicated question. ]

[four_quarts]

[Whatever the end of the sentence might have been, her caregiver dismisses it in favor of retrieving a glass of water for when the coughing fit subsides. Carefully rolling Duke onto her side, Ghaleon rubs her back to hopefully speed the process along and softly hums a tune.]

[notduchess]

[ That was a ridiculously long hummed ocarina note at the end there, Ghaleon. Whether the backrubs sped things along or not, the coughing fit ends and Duke resumes the "oh, you feel kinda nice" leaning into Ghaleon's hand.

She does not have the energy to uncurl from however she ended up after that coughing fit. ]

[four_quarts]

[Ocarina note? Clearly Duke's hallucinating if she's hearing an ocarina, because Ghaleon definitely can't make that kind of sound with his voice.]

...Would you like some water?

[notduchess]

[ Duke wants nothing. Wanting something takes too much effort. ]

Should. [ Particularly when her voice sounds this crappy. ]

Don't.

[four_quarts]

[...This is giving Ghaleon some unfortunate flashbacks that he's trying really hard to ignore.]

Would it be too much effort if I were to sit you up and hold the glass for you?

[notduchess]

[ Sorry.

But that does get a tiny bit of a reaction out of her. That... sounds too pathetic for her fried sense of pride. She shifts for a moment but sitting up on her own isn't going to happen. ]

Help sit, straw?

[ Yes, technically, he'd hold the glass then too, but it feels less awkward somehow. ]

[four_quarts]

[Ah, pride. It always stirs a reaction when the threat of damaging it arises.]

Of course.

[He disappears for a moment, but returns quickly enough with the requested straw and deposits it in the drink. Carefully, he sits the pale woman up, holding the water close enough that she need not raise her hands to take it.]

[notduchess]

[ Its stupidly stubborn like that, pride. Why does it matter, when she's clearly not well or completely all there at the moment?

Because pride. And its also why she tucks her hands up near where the cup is anyway, because that totally means she is completely capable of holding it.

Like she is totally capable of holding herself up. Yes. Pride makes complete sense.

And after a bit its intense focus, she almost finishes that cup. ]