And More BDE Info for your Virus-y Enjoyment

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

As was promised, we have more information for you regarding the BDE of next week.

First, some background on the virus we're going to be fighting. This is an illness designed to wipe out magic users and those who associate with them. Therefore it was made with the express intention of being resistant to magic and other supernatural forms of healing.

The plague has an incubation time of between 24-36 hours depending upon the nature of the exposure and physical health (in other words, it's up to you, but there is an incubation period). It's going to show up as a very high fever, coughing, severe headaches, vomiting, terrible fever dreams and a telltale lacy rash. Because the designers believed in overkill.

Those with magical/supernatural healing powers will be able to use those powers to help reduce the symptoms (bring the fever down, calm the headaches, etc), but the illness will not be destroyed and will return with a vengeance after from a few minutes to a few hours (depending upon how strong the healer is and OOC communication).

The lucky characters who can self heal can decide based upon their canon and how they wish to play it what the results of that talent is. It can remove the symptoms, destroy the illness only to catch the next mutation coming through, become re-infected, however the player wishes to handle it.

Once the clinic is overburdened and the quarantine is declared, a temporary hospital will be set up in the Town Hall. This is where sick characters will need to end up to be treated and cared for by their friends and the doctors, healers, and healers' assistants.

Along with all this sickness and disease, we're going to need a research team. Because if magic doesn't help and medicine doesn't seem to be working, there's got to be a cure somewhere, right?  (and there is, we promise! And when it's found, it will reveal some of the secrets of the island's past)

Classes will continue during this time (as teachers and TAs are able) and stores and the like are encouraged to stay open.

So below in the OCD, there are places to sign up for characters getting sick, assistants to step up to help the beleaguered clinic folks, and researchers.  Also there's an OCD thread for characters who will be leaving the island for the duration of the quarantine. 

Characters can definitely sign up for more than one of these threads - being a researcher or a healing assistant at first definitely doesn't mean the character can't end up ill.

There's no time limit for when you can sign up for these things.  If you don't decide until next Wednesday that you'd like Character X to get sick, that's totally fine.  We're just trying to get an idea of how things are going to fall out so we can plan accordingly.

I think that's it for now.  Information will continue to be forthcoming, but any questions or comments you have are heartily appreciated and will be answered promptly!

ETA:  You can definitely volunteer your characters to do all three things if you want!  The threads aren't mutually exclusive.

Comments

Questions or Comments!

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Have we forgotten something you really want to know? Ask here!

Re: Questions or Comments!

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood?

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[peter--parker.livejournal.com]

How many roads must a man walk down?

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

Who wrote the book of love?

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[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that the researchy people will be given a guide on what info they can find when?

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[the_merriest]

Should characters with similar healing powers coordinate on how this affects them, in case a few of them get sick? (How many Slayers are on the island right now, anyway? *goes to look up*)

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[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Can two people actually become one again? And if you are driving on the Autobahn when it happens, can you still use the diamond lane?

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[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Oh! I have another question.

Are there actually going to *be* classes next week once this is all going on?

Re: Questions or Comments!

[dark_slippy_thing]

What if there are characters or players who simply can't handle being involved in this plot at the moment who don't have any feasible means to leave the island? Is there any way there can be some form of in-game assistance for those of us who, for reasons personal or canonical, have to get out of there for the week? Perhaps a field trip or something, that would obviously include the students, but would also leave open a means for teachers and townies to leave as supervisors, or the like?

It sounds like an awesome plot, and I'm going to have a blast playing through it as Blackheart, because he is smug and evil. But on the other hand, I don't know if emotionally I can handle the "trapped in another end of the world scenario" aspect with Valentine, and the notion of spending a week watching other people dropping like flies to this is something that strikes a chord with me for other, far more personal reasons. But he hasn't got anywhere to go, and even if he did, he has no reason to leave the island in the first place.

I don't know if there are other players about who are having the same problem, but I just figured I'd toss that out there, in case.

Make me Sick!

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

As it says.

Re: Make me Sick!

[honoraryphd.livejournal.com]

Me! Me! Doom's gonna be such a nice and quiet patient.

Re: Make me Sick!

[morpherboy.livejournal.com]

Marco! Because character torment is fun!

Re: Make me Sick!

[southernbender.livejournal.com]

Katara, oh yes.

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[misshargrove.livejournal.com]

Me, please!

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[itsjustlanguage.livejournal.com]

Poor Hoshi. She's going to get very, very sick.

Re: Make me Sick!

[no-archangel.livejournal.com]

As the poor ex-archangel has never been sick before it's about time.

Re: Make me Sick!

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

Kerrigan is going to be the most mannered patient ever.

Really.

Re: Make me Sick!

[spring-lost.livejournal.com]

And by the end of it all, the idiot Nate is going to find himself in this category.

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[aughaughaugh.livejournal.com]

Tim will be all about getting down with the sickness.

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[inthereflexes.livejournal.com]

You! Give me fever. In the morning. Fever all through the night.

Re: Make me Sick!

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny, because he just can't be good at everything, maaan! :D

I Can Help!

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

Volunteers for temporary hospital duty.

Re: I Can Help!

[all4thewookiees.livejournal.com]

Jolee can help. It'll be a nice introduction to Fandom for him.

I Can Research!

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

If you need to be let at those books.

Re: I Can Research!

[vkandis-son.livejournal.com]

Pfft, like you could keep Karal away from the library.

Send Me Away!

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

If you're going to be sending your character away for the quarantine.

Re: Send Me Away!

[iqof39.livejournal.com]

D'Argo'll be off island, woo!

OOC

[tricksy-spy.livejournal.com]

OOC thread on an OOC post. So it goes.

Re: OOC

[threeweapons.livejournal.com]

Alanna: *suddenly feels a great sense of deja vu*