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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.
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[personal profile] retraced 2013-08-19 02:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"Gilbert," he answers, but he doesn't give the same wave in return. His arms feel like stone all of a sudden, tiny rocks imbedded in the skin. That's probably not a good sign.

"At any rate, thanks for your help. I don't think I would have ever figured that out."
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[personal profile] lazyinlove 2013-08-20 02:46 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah, doubt it."

Isn't honesty so refreshing?
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[personal profile] retraced 2013-08-20 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Eh--"

You don't have to rub it in!!

"Yeah..."
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[personal profile] lazyinlove 2013-08-20 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
"Think they'll let us leave now?"
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[personal profile] retraced 2013-08-21 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, back to the mission and task at hand.

"If that's all you were told to do, you should go," he says. "I still have something else to take care of."
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[personal profile] lazyinlove 2013-08-22 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
"With a computer?" Stanley asks, knowing this guy isn't exactly suited to that kind of task. He wasn't given anything specific anyway, so it's not like he has a quota to fill. Just however long it takes them to agree to let him leave. Hopefully soon. He's hot and uncomfortable and kind of dizzy, among other things. And this other guy doesn't look any better.
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[personal profile] retraced 2013-08-23 04:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, I need to collect...some things."

Things on a list, most of which are the same type of thing as the computer; things that he doesn't understand. But he's not going to ask Stanley for any more help than he's already given.

He clears his throat again and starts for the door.

"Thanks for your help."
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[personal profile] lazyinlove 2013-08-23 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. The dude must not think he's all that competent, either. Stan watches him walk away. It's too much effort to call after him. Maybe if he finds a quiet corner he can curl up for a nap somewhere until he gets zapped back to the future.