fhplotterywheel | And More BDE Info for your Virus-y Enjoyment

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.

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Volunteers for temporary hospital duty.

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

Count Karal in!

Isabel will help

Forget Johnny getting sick. He wants to help instead. : )

Re: I Can Help!

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Anathema is up to helping.

Stan can help.

He's not all pipe smoking and "Tell me about your mother."

Mary will definitely want to help.

Jaina's got no real training, but she'll want to help.

Not so much a healer, but Nate is definitely ~~going to be an idiot~~ pull off his 'taking away pain' ability where he can.

Liz can help.

Robin will do whatever he can!

If they want the help, Kabuto is a medical ninja with chakra-based healing abilities as well as purely non-magical, ordinary healing knowledge. I doubt he'd be in a position to be all sinister and creepy and would probably be completely willing to help out since this is Bad Stuff.