exsiliumlogs | Epidemic Exsilium: Stage Two

Date & Time: June 8th - June 14th
Location: Throughout Exsilium
Characters: Anyone participating in hunting down the sleeper agents; anyone participating in taking care of the ill, or being ill themselves.
Summary: Stage Two of the Super Virus Epidemic strikes; sleeper agents of the United Earth are revealed.
Warnings: Illness, violence, needles. (Those IVs, man!)

Sniffles and coughs aren't unusual during the spring, with people combating allergies even in the far future, and colds being as present as always. But with more and more people falling ill, and none responding to antibiotics, things are starting to get worrying.

The first death is of an infant, on the night of the 7th. It's not the only one: three more are recorded not long after. It's unknown about the state of patients who never presented for medical assistance. Those familiar with viral infections fear the worse, especially as the usually healthy demographic starts arriving, coughing and displaying symptoms of the same sort of illness.

If that's not enough out among the natives, the Initiative has received its own information and insight into the true nature of the virus. "Wasmannian" Agents, spies of the Initiative in the United Earth, have reported back information at great cost to their security in their undercover positions. There is a super virus headed your way. They've been shipping it in to the island since December 3312. These are the manifests. We've deciphered most the code-names. Good luck.

Now the Initiative turns to the Transports for additional manpower to hunt down the United Earth's sleeper agents, pick up the shipments of the virus, and track down its physical origins in order to do something to stop the impending decimation of Exsilium's population.

Things are getting scary. It's a sick, sad world out there. Where are you, in the middle of it all?

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Yeah. That's how I felt when I first got here.

( She sympathises, she really does, but... ) I dunno. It's messed up, here, badly. I met some heaps good people, but. The kinda ones you want to hold onto.

( Steph, Coll, even Jim "the bloody great pain in your arse" Kirk, and she has to smile a little, because he was the one that hauled her in here. She'll kick him for it later - for now, she kinda owes him big. ) The hospital probably has a few of them knocking about. They're either gonna be being heroes, or in here because they tried to be a hero.

( Instead of some weird bug, and she takes another few seconds with the mask, raising her eyebrows a little. ) It's okay. No one here's heard of Wirrawee, either. It gets pretty weird when they don't even know about Australia or Earth. We got ourselves into a big bloody mess.

[ heroes. alisha kind of needs one in the shape of a pale, short kid. but lingering on this thought doesn't last long. it's the last thing ellie says, about places and people not knowing them, that has her brows knitting together. she's met some strange people, but she's also met strange people back home. she never realised, possibly out of ignorance, that some people were far, far away from home here. ]

[ alisha's eyebrows rise. ] You're shitting me, yeah? People here don't know about Earth? You're saying some people are from Mars?

I dunno about Mars, but they definitely aren't from Earth.

( A bit hopeless, she shrugs. ) They talk about all sorts of weird stuff. And there's-- elves and aliens and everything. I mean, some of the weird stuff does come from Earth, just like, different versions.

( Normally, here, she'd make fun of England, buuuut ) There's a lot of Americans. They might as well be from Mars. And people from different times, and that.

( But really, now. Americans. )

[ alisha rolls her eyes, scoffing. ] Americans. Shouldn't they have all the answers or something? Especially if -

[ that's when she recalls, after just a few beats, that ellie has said something that is way too fucking strange for her to simply pass up. alisha's met individuals who aren't exactly normal here, but none of them have had pointy ears or a resume for working in the south pole. (no offense, elves.) ]

[ her eyebrows rise almost to her hairline: ] - You really did say elves, yeah?

They reckon they do.

( No, she actually loves some of her American friends here, but that won't ever mean that making fun of Coll and Steph for being "bloody yanks" will stop being entertaining.

And cue: one grin. That's the sort of double take she was doing when she first got here, too. Except, hers was usually angrier. She swipes her finger across her heart.)

Hope to die. There's wizards, elves. Imps and stuff, too. ( Ugh, Vanadi. )

Uh. I dunno if-- I come from a world without superpowers and stuff, but that's kind of a normal thing here, too.

( Just as a heads up. )

Uh, yeah. Superpowers is kind of the only thing I don't find shocking. My world isn't very interesting, especially when you compare it to all the wizards and imps and … whatever the fuck else is out here.

[ she shakes her head. she's not quite sure why this is surprising, considering someone could kill them with milk. but alisha moves further into the room to hesitantly sit in a chair by the bed. her desire to walk about has quickly come to a halt at the sight of a good conversation. ]

Makes you wonder why we're here, yeah? It's not like I have a power. [ anymore. in denial, alisha! ]

Epidemic Exsilium: Stage Two

i tried so hard to whip out a pun but i have nothing

i would've made a that's what she said joke, but.

we're just trying to keep it classy, that's all

gotta keep this shit pg rated in terms of fun

WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN

FED THEM TO DINGOES AND CROCS TBH