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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.
gevurah: (points a lot when mad)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-24 07:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Enough of this crap. [ She raises her good hand and aims to slap him across the face. ] You don't get to lecture me and then pull the same stunt later!
retraced: (THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-25 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Reaction time being what it is, he doesn't even see it coming. The next thing Gilbert knows, his face hurts and he's reeling to the side, one hand reaching up to sloppily drape his fingers across his cheek and eye.]

Ow?! W-what was that for?!
gevurah: (i do what i want!!)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-26 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[ She keeps him supported upright, but her grip is tight and angry. ]

You needed some sense knocked into you.
retraced: (they've discarded their dreams)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-26 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
You couldn't have just yelled at me instead...?

[Sense hurts!!]
gevurah: (gurl you nasty)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-26 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
Would it have worked? [ She doubts it. She tugs him along, this time she's not stopping for anything. ]
retraced: (and store it deep inside of me)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-26 04:21 am (UTC)(link)
Probably. Your voice is intimidating.

[In complete and total honesty. He doesn't give any resistance as he's tugged, apparently having given up entirely.]
Edited (I need sleep) 2013-06-26 04:21 (UTC)
gevurah: (need a pantless cowl)

go to sleep sarah

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-26 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm flattered. [ That means she's doing something right. She leads them into one of the halls and then turns in the direction of the clinic. ] If you want to be of any help to anyone, you need to stay alive.
retraced: (or cut off my pride)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-28 03:33 am (UTC)(link)
Something like this won't be enough to kill me.

[He frowns after he says it, though, like he's not so sure himself.]
gevurah: (:|a)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-28 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[ She pauses. That's a strange thing for him to say and it bothers her more than it probably should. ]

Just save your breath, Gil.
retraced: (let it rain let it pour)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-28 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
I still don't know your name.

[He laughs a little under his breath, but it sounds more like a weak cough.]

But I'll probably forget it if you tell me now...
gevurah: (bats eyes at)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-28 04:13 am (UTC)(link)
[ After a stretch of silence and within distance of the clinic: ] It's Kate.
retraced: (it's driving me mad)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-28 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
Kate.

[He repeats, trying his best to commit it to memory.]

...That's surprising.
gevurah: (coconuts migrate?)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-28 04:34 am (UTC)(link)
Surprising?
retraced: (this is the last time)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-28 04:38 am (UTC)(link)
For some reason I assumed your name would be more complicated.

[It's been a long day, this makes perfect sense at the moment.]
gevurah: (not a vampire guys)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-28 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ She arches an eyebrow. ]

Seriously? Like what?
retraced: (I have faith and reason)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-28 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't know. You just seemed like...someone unpronounceable.

[There's a lot of people like that here. People from worlds with names he doesn't recognize, powers that don't make sense, faces that look out of place and voices with accents that don't fit anywhere.]
gevurah: laughs he who laughs last (shadow blobs)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-29 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Kate's simpler than Katherine.

[ The clinic is a mess; it's overflowing with patients and doctors and nurses all about the place. There's an overwhelming sense of disease as she pulls Gilbert through the door, looking for a doctor to maybe tend to him now.

Maybe not.

She'll just have to take him to a bed that's unoccupied. ]
retraced: (sweet blowing wind)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-29 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Even simpler than shortening his name, he agrees, but he doesn't voice it. He's concentrating too hard on sitting down as gracefully as he can on this bed, which is to say, not at all. The chills from before have turned back into sweltering heat, and he can't decide which one he'd prefer now. He rubs at his eyes again and fights to stay upright no matter how badly he'd like to faceplant right into this pillow.]
gevurah: (whoosh)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-29 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Kate makes sure he's settled as properly as he can be on the bed and begins to pull away from him. ]

I have to go. I'll get you a doctor.
retraced: (that boy's got woe)

[personal profile] retraced 2013-06-29 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[He lets go, though immediately reaches down to grab the sides of the bed to keep himself steady.]

Wait...I...

[He clears his throat, but it's useless in getting it to sound even halfway decent.]

Thank you. You helped me...even though I'm...

[Slowly, his eyes start to close and he really does end up faceplanting, safely! - right into the pillow. Lights out.]
gevurah: (bats eyes at)

[personal profile] gevurah 2013-06-29 10:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ She sighs and heads out of the door. At least he's safe her for now. ]