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exsilium MODS ([personal profile] initiates) wrote in [community profile] exsiliumlogs2013-06-14 06:21 pm

Mission: Bad Science Saves the Day

Date & Time: Mid-Day, 3310 | Present Day June 14th-16th
Location: Andersfeld, in the (far former) state of Alaska. (Also known at one time as Anchorage, Alaska.) | Back in Exsilium, those manning the Transport Pads, or working on developing the antibiotics and administering them to the ill throughout the city. Yet others will need to hop-scotch through time gathering sufficient supplies to save lives.
Characters: Volunteers to alter medical research, people working on antiobiotic cures, people distributing appropriate cures, and those who are doing minor missions into the past to retrieve adequate supplies to treat the sick in the present.
Summary: Transports are asked to help save tens of thousands of lives, first by traveling two years into the past and altering scientific research. Second, by helping with the manufacture and development of antibiotics or other cures, once the mission is complete. Third, by distributing the cure to the affected parties. Fourth, by going on pointed supply missions solo, or with up to two other people, in order to get enough supplies to save people in the present.

Whatever your character decides to do, the weight of saving lives is on their shoulders, unasked, and perhaps unwelcome. What will they do when faced with this decision?

Warnings: Illness. Freezing cold. Possible death. Drunken scientists.

In Andersfeld, the snow falls in thick, fat flakes, winds blowing in gusts up to 60 kph. Everyone is bundled up against the weather. Spirits are generally low, if not outright alcoholic. Safety lines and lights guide those brave enough to venture outdoors from building to building.

For the Transports with a six hour window to alter a future that will kill over a hundred thousand people in three weeks, it's a dangerous and necessary bravery.

In Exsilium, the success of the mission to Andersfeld is felt as soon as scientists notice the virus responding to antibiotic treatments. It becomes a race to finding the most effective means of combating the now bacterial infection, and of mass producing any working cure for distribution.

Some help with the production.

Others hurry to cart the supply out to the places hit most heavily. Yet others work directly with administering the antibiotics, in most cases, via an IV line. Those less heavily affected will be granted ridiculously large antibiotic pills, needing to be coaxed down spasming throats.

Those who need action, or who are no good with the sick, are asked to make countless small trips through time to secure the supplies needed to produce enough of the cure to save the tens of thousands who are ill but not yet deceased.

And for those too ill to assist, now is the time to rest, heal, and get better. In a world like this, one never knows what surprise might next lie in wait. The Transports and the Initiative have thwarted total disaster for now.

Mostly.
dawningsun: (But I let you inside)

[personal profile] dawningsun 2013-06-15 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Good.

[He frowns, not at Belthazar exactly, and peers down at the pills.]

Very well, then. I do hope it helps.
arcanepower: (nope.)

[personal profile] arcanepower 2013-06-17 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
[Belth crosses his arms, waiting for Kirian to take them.]

... They're not going to get any more tantalizing if you stare at them.
dawningsun: (from my haunted past)

[personal profile] dawningsun 2013-06-17 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
I am aware of that.

[He frowns slightly, and then takes the pills easily, washing them down with the flavored water. An appreciative "hmm" at the water.]

...thank you, Belthazar.

[He looks away when he says it. It's hard to admit that he was thankful.]

Perhaps, when all of this is over, you'll let me properly measure you? A man cannot do with only one set of presentable clothes.
arcanepower: (avoiding.)

[personal profile] arcanepower 2013-06-17 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
[Belth looks surprised, nearly dropping the tray as he tries to pick it up.]

Uh... it's... um... no problem. Sir.

[Yeah, he's not sure what to do about being thanked.]

Y-you don't have to trouble yourself like that. I'm capable of buying clothes. [He just doesn't.]
dawningsun: (there's a degree of difficulty)

[personal profile] dawningsun 2013-06-17 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll not have you looking like a ragamuffin, as the humans say. You need presentable clothes.

[This conversation is over, Belth. You're not gonna win over the stubborn old man.]
arcanepower: (ok whatever.)

[personal profile] arcanepower 2013-06-18 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
I have presentable clothes. I am wearing them!

[Wow, the nurse is getting riled up before the patient.]
dawningsun: (from my haunted past)

[personal profile] dawningsun 2013-06-18 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
One pair, yes, but it simply would not do to have you running about in the same clothes all the time.

[Honestly, boy, do you even understand the rules of fashion?]
arcanepower: (stop that.)

[personal profile] arcanepower 2013-06-18 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
I have two other pairs of robes, and it's not as if I step outside much. My studies keep me very busy.
dawningsun: (sprite - sigh)

[personal profile] dawningsun 2013-06-18 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
[FROWNING INTENSIFIES.]

...very well, then. I cannot force you.

[Not mad, just disappointed.]