EVENT PLOT | HOSPITAL / CLINIC MINGLE

[the_good_doctor]

Who: Healers, Volunteers, Friends, Concerned Parties, Glee Club and People Being Sick.
What: Biological Warfare Event!
When: Day 147 - 149
Where: The Hospital in Sigyn | Yakuzen Clinic in Heimdall.
Rating: Please warn in individual threads using the subject line! Death / Character Suffering a possibility so please be ready before jumping in.

[General mingle log for the Biological Warfare Plot! Read the ooc planning post for more detailed information, but as a quick guideline:

Day 147 (afternoon/evening): Wave 1 Patients start to develop symptoms - persistent coughing, nausea, dizziness, fever, blister-like burn marks.

Day 148 (morning): Wave 1 Patients worsen, coughing up blood, slipping in and out of consciousness. Hospital staff overwhelmed, Wave 2 Patients start developing symptoms and NPC panic starts.

Day 148 (afternoon/evening): First Wave 1 deaths occur, but Wave 1 patients who survive find their symptoms abating. Work on a immunization starts. Wave 2 Patient's condition worsens. Once developed the immunization is distributed throughout the city.

Day 149: Fully recovered Wave 1 patients join Hospital volunteers in caring for patients, but as the immunization takes effect, symptoms abate and recovery starts.]

Comments

[the_good_doctor]

"Mm." Watson's been flat out examining new patients and returning to old ones as their symptoms worsen. He's been taking samples along the way, and as Sam enters the room, is transferring the last of them to a specially designed carrying case.

"Whatever this is, it's no mere virus."

[samantha_grey]

Samantha nodded. "That much seems obvious. This thing's moving fast, and there's a whole heap of a lot of people here that are already sick," she grunted. "I don't know that the hospital can really take that many more if this gets a whole lot bigger."

She pinched the bridge of her nose, shaking her head. "Have we tried any of the local herbs, the ones that are supposed to have unique properties? I know everything I've heard has been tried is only treating symptoms, not the disease."

[the_good_doctor]

"As far as I know you're right," Watson said, hefting his carrying case of samples. "But we're working in isolation over here. It's time we got these samples to the hospital laboratory."

He nodded towards the door. "Come with me. A walk and some fresh air will do you good, and we can ask about the local herbs at the hospital."

[samantha_grey]

"Good call," she said, grabbing whatever she needed to carry with her and joining him. She looked non the worse for wear, but it was very hard to tell with her. The potion had a way of making everything 'look' ok, even when it really wasn't.

"Do you want me to help out in the next day or so over at the hospital or the clinic more? I'm sure if it's as bad as I'm starting to think everywhere's going to need help," she considered.

[the_good_doctor]

"We have very few people in the city with your level of knowledge of plants and potions," Watson said as he started to head out the door. Although the staff had been warned of his intentions, he opted for the back door -- no need to alarm their patients.

"Much as I would like your help here at the clinic, I suspect that your knowledge may be better put to work in the better equipped laboratories of the hospital. We'll find out when we arrive."

[samantha_grey]

"Yeah, I had a feeling you might say that," she admitted. "Much as I dislike Euri, I can put that aside if it's this serious, and Draco's tolerable if he hasn't headed out for the shopping trips. Either way, you're right. We've only got a few alchemists runing around here."

She grunted as she stepped out into the street. She wanted to avoid causing too much of a commotion. Hopefully there weren't mobs.

[the_good_doctor]

"Miss Taverna is known to me, but Draco -- you're not talking about Mr Malfoy? It has been some time since we spoke. I had no idea that his talents ran in your line."

Watson's pace is brisk, but he is confident in the fact that in his customary suit, he does not look much like the sterotypical ideal of a doctor.

[samantha_grey]

"He surprised me too," she admitted. "Showed up on my radar when the two of them were selling their sleeping draughts the other day, so apparently he's actually pretty damned good at this. There might be a few more, but for the moment they're the two I know."

She kept pace with him, and for all intents and purposes she looked even less like a doctor or research assistant. In truth, it was debatable whether or not she even owned formal clothes. She seemed to perpetually prefer denim and t-shirts or similar casual garb, at least now that she wasn't at the clinic. At best, she could manage slacks and a blouse. It definitely kept the image that they weren't here for medical business up.

[the_good_doctor]

"If you do not object, perhaps we could have a -- symposium? Or maybe even simply a dinner. Get all remaining medics together and see what we have by way of knowledge and experience." It was hard, in the midst of so much fear and chaos, to imagine a time when this would be possible, but the belief that this would pass, that normality was achievable, was necessary to keep their own spirits high.

[samantha_grey]

"I'm on board," she said, nodding to that. "Like I said, I think she's a bitch, but I'll work with her. This isn't a normal time, and there's no reason we shouldn't work together on this."

And then, she thought of something. There was a frown and she considered. "Oh, you mean after we figure this situation out, don't you? Yeah... I can be civil to her. It probably wouldn't hurt to have something like that. There's probably a few topics to talk about anyway."

[the_good_doctor]

Watson had picked up on the dislike, but he had no idea it extended so far. He raised an eyebrow at Samantha's vehemence. "Indeed. I already have a few suggestions about establishing a line of communication between our clinic and the hospital ... It would not be a bad idea to extend it further to shops such as yours."

[samantha_grey]

It had gotten worse recently, very recently. In fact, the difference in her tone towards Euri was markedly worse than the mild annoyance she had displayed when she had been at the clinic more regularly. She caught the raised eyebrow and shrugged. "She needs to learn to know when to keep her big yapper shut about who should and should not be working with potions, in my humble opinion," she muttered as an explanation.

"I think you'd be right, though. This isn't the last time something like this could happen. During the heat of fighting, even if I end up on the front lines, we need lines of communication, and not just between the powered healers. They're going to be hard pressed as is. I'm... working on potions like the one I took. Wolfnettle's got some properties that could boost stamina, but it's got a nasty kick when it wears off. I'm not sure I like the idea of just giving it to whoever. Someone foolish could seriously hurt themselves over-extending. I think we've both met some would-be martyrs who don't know when to stop already."

[the_good_doctor]

"Indeed. I was thinking of teaching another first-aid class, perhaps sounding out interested parties for a field medical team -- but that is a long way from our current predicament."

So that was what she'd taken? Watson nodded. He was already determined to keep as close a watch for signs of imminent martyrdom in Samantha. "You raise a good point, Miss Grey. Asgard certainly seems to have more than it's fair share of stubborn people."

[samantha_grey]

"I might just come to that class. I've got training, but not that much formal," she said, scratching at the back of her head. "I think we need to be careful not to over-rely on the people with healing powers. That stubbornness can be a problem on a lot of levels."

He was right to look at her like that right then. She wasn't likely to go too far this time. However, she was also the sort to not realize she'd gone too far before it was too late.

[the_good_doctor]

"I've said that from the start. Already, you can see the toll this is taking on our healers."

The brisk pace that Watson has set means that they're making good progress through Asgard, turning into Sigyn district now. The city has a different feel already. The normally busy streets are noticably barer, people darting suspicious, worried or hostile glances at those they pass. News of the illness has spread but to the native population without the benefit of the bracelets, the word that is being spread is neither the full story, nor a balanced account of what is happening.

[samantha_grey]

Samantha didn't pay too much direct attention to any of the more furtive or hostile glances. They weren't directed at the travelers specifically so much as at the world at large. It was understandable, and it was also something she couldn't fix. Worrying about it wouldn't help in the slightest, and pretending that everything was normal helped keep people from noticing her.

"On everyone, really," she muttered. "A straight up fight would have been better. I think folks could handle that more easily."

[the_good_doctor]

"Indeed. I know I'd take a good honest fight over an illness any day."

Watson falls silent, pace picking up as he knows they're nearing the Sigyn hospital. His habitual limp is more apparent but does not seem to slow him down.

[samantha_grey]

Samantha nodded, keeping pace with him. She had a wary look to her as they neared the hospital, but kept her peace. For now, the problems that would come to the area from the nervous and fidgety would remain relatively calm, though that would change soon enough.