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EVENT: HOSPITAL EXPEDITION

Who: Anyone!
What: Hospital Expedition Time!
When: Day 70
Where: The hospital and surrounding grounds.
Rating: PG-13 for potential scariness

Warning: This log includes reference to and optional effects of psychotropic medication. Those intensely bothered by such things should be cautious or steer clear.

After The Doctors found the hospital, an expedition was organized. Those who signed up in that post or who just want to tag along will be heading out on the morning of Day 70 (April 20, ICly). After a 3mi/5km or so walk, they'll find themselves at what looks like a mostly modern hospital and outbuildings, surrounded as a compound by a tall wire fence. The fence is now full of holes, and it's obvious that the buildings haven't been used in decades. There is very little graffiti or other human-caused damage to the place, but weather, animals, and neglect leave it pretty worn down anyway.

Inside, the buildings are mostly empty of medicines and things. There's some broken-down equipment and a few bits of both modern and herbalist medication here and there but not much. The records room however is pretty much intact, besides the wear on paper from sitting in a non-climate-controlled room for 30 years. The records date from the native's reckoning time of 376-385, and are mostly not very informative, but reading through a bunch will reveal how the greyness progressed as a "disease".

Emotion left first, so through 376 and 377 the records state that people just seem to be mysteriously losing all personality and are somewhat lethargic, just going through the motions for no apparent reason. By 378 people are losing colour, and the hospital turns from a specialty hospital to a quarantine zone. People are brought there the moment they're diagnosed, and while it seems the conditions at the hospital were humane, it was crowded and generally not a happy place.

By 383 the staff have been replaced multiple times as they too get sick, and the conditions at the compound were degenerating by sheer number of patients vs number of healthy staff. It got dirty and the food rations were a bit tight, but it wasn't any sort of horrible place where people died. It was just overcrowded and understaffed, for the most part. There's notes about how any animals or even inanimate objects that come into contact with the sick also lose expression and colour.

The last of the records will be notice that there's no more room in the hospital and no successful treatment or cure, so everyone is going back to the city and shutting it down, by order of the gods. Essentially, the entire city is doomed to go grey, so they'll turn the city walls into the quarantine zone to try to protect the rest of the world.

The one other interesting thing in the records might be that in all of the individual patient records, one file (that seems like it was very thick) is missing. There's also mention in the general notes of "the Queen" being sick -- one of the earlier patients, even. Most record of her has been blacked out, however.

Aside from records, there's only one other interesting to be found during the day. A large room in the old laboratory building seems strangely personal inside, having couches, tables, and stacks of basic board games lying around. If the door to this room is closed, it will automatically lock, and within a few minutes anyone inside will start feeling... funny. Perhaps as an attempted treatment for the emotionless lethargy of the disease, the room is equipped to be air tight, and a dosage of an odourless, colourless, mood-improving gas released. The effect should be no more than a case of the giggles and a sharpening of the characters' sense of colour. The room will unlock after ten minutes or so of the gas being in effect, and the symptoms should wear off in an hour or two.

Beyond that, there isn't much to find besides a general spooky feeling. The attic storage floor of the hospital may contain bats, and there's signs of other animals nesting (rabbits, etc). The creepy atmosphere should make for interesting exploration though -- especially at night. Anyone inside after darkness falls should stay there. There my be the sounds of nearby wolves outside, but running into any is entirely optional and won't happen inside the buildings.

Each Doctor will be leading his own team, so if your characters will strictly be sticking to their team, make sure you note that in your starter or wait for your chosen Doctor to set things up for his team. You're also welcome to have your characters explore free-form with their friends or with strangers, so don't worry too much about structure! Have fun and go wild!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[Satella followed as they spoke, letting him search ahead so she could keep watch.]

Pardon me for being a bit wary, but a world where supposed gods exist and supernatural events occur has me believing that nothing is ordinary here. So I assumed that the outside would be just as odd. Possibly dangerous, but you might be right. If you feel confident as to stay longer till we can find concrete things without the need to return home for now, I shall stay. However, rest will be needed later, can't have you exhausting yourself.

[Specially not after what she knew about him.]

[She was still worried over him, wasn't she? Even after he'd asked her...

...eh. He found it hard to be mad at this point. He knew she was right and as much as he hated to be babied and felt the need to shoot back some sort of cutting retort, it wasn't worth it. It would spoil their time together and really, she was more in the right than he was.]

I brought my medication along just in case, so, I'll be fine. I'm more worried about having light to look at things if it gets too dark. Can't find much if it's pitch black and something tells me that this place hasn't had working electricity or anything like it in a long, long time.

[He paused.]

...I also brought some snacks and water. If you get hungry or thirsty, let me know. It's not exactly seven hamburgers but should be able to take the edge off if you get the munchies.

[OK. So. He couldn't resist saying THAT much.]

We could build a fire. It shouldn't be hard considering all the old wood and useless paper strewn about. Making a safe area for it should be cake too...

[Satella moved over and started gathering some since it seemed like he'd be up to looking longer.]

I can last for a while without. But once we settle I will probably have some if you don't mind. I appreciate your offer.

Really? We could do something like that? What if the whole place catches fire? Wouldn't that be a little risky?

[She sounded like she knew what she was doing but he was worrywart and couldn't help being concerned.]

And you're welcome. Like I said, it isn't much being I didn't anticipate sharing, but there should be enough for the two of us to have at least SOMETHING in our stomachs.

[He pushed through to the next room. Bingo.]

Metal file cabinets.... Let's hope they aren't locked.

We'd have to make a firesafe area, but that's not hard.

[At the discovery of the file cabinets, Satella nodded.]

If they are, I could break them open if all else fails.

I'll take your word for it. I have three bottles of water so if it gets out of control, hopefully that will be enough.

[He tried one of the cabinets, frowning as the rusted drawer squeaked and moaned a little, but didn't come open.]

....maybe you could try?

[Soilers: It's not locked. Just stuck. And Hisao is a weakling.]

[Satellizer nodded and moved over to the drawer. It took but a forced pull from the girl to send the drawer back, opened and tossing all the papers on the floor from the force of the pull. She blinked a few times and her face turned rather red, rather quickly.]

I... I t-thought it was l-locked... S-sorry...

....wow. So. You definitely have the Strength thing going on for you, huh?

[He looked down and then got on his knees to pick the papers up, doing his best to keep them as close to in order as possible.]

This is what we were looking for - I'd bet you anything. Let's open the blinds over there and let a little more light in and then we can start sorting through these.

[Satellizer nodded quickly and made her way towards the blinds with haste. It'd give her time to get over her embarrassment. Once she opened the blinds, she remained close to them and looked at him over the side.]

D-did you find anything?

These are records. Some patient records.

[He was starting to lay them out on a desk, sorting through them as quickly as he could, going by name.]

....lots of pretty mundane things in this one. Sore throat.... dry cough...

[He set those aside.]

....this sounds like measels. Spots with irritation and a little swelling. Maybe chicken pox. Hope fully they caught it young. Apparently it gets worse the older you are.

[He moved a small stack of folders toward the other side of the desk.]

Here, see if you can spot anything?

[Satella moved over to inspect her stack. She read over them with patience but it didn't seem like she was finding anything of interest judging from her expression.]

I wish there were some details about when this all started... Maybe an epidemic of some sort? Something triggered by something.

I'm not sure but I'm not seeing much here. There's a date in the native calendar for each of them though, and despite them getting a little mixed up just now, I seem to be moving forward. Would make sense that they're stored by date, right? Maybe this stuff is from BEFORE anything started.

[He did his best to re-assemble everything.]

We should put these back and check over the other side there. Probably that's stuff from later dates.

[She nodded.]

Right. There has to be something depicting such a big event as this... Anything at all, even ramblings from the first people who began to notice.

Let's see if you can open some of those cabinets over there. I'm sure they're just as tricky to open as the first one but if you're gentle, we should be alright.

[She nodded, moving over to said cabinets and this time gauged her own strength to make sure she didn't cause another paper storm. Once the cabinets where coaxed open, she moved aside to let Hisao have a look. After all, she was more of a fighter.]

[Hisao pulled out two stacks of papers and set them down on the table - one for him and one for her.]

Hmm... more routine stuff here. Eye infection. Broken nose. This person sounds like maybe they're depressed or something. Loss of enthusiasm, lack of appetitte...

[He kept reading, going to the next record.]

Loss of enthusiasm for this one too. And a slowly growing apathy and lack of expression...

[He set that one aside, being it was more detailed.]

See what yours are. It sounds like we've hit paydirt, right?

[Satellizer frowned, seemingly getting a bit more frustrated with her stack until he started talking about his finds. She let out a sigh and put a good deal of them aside.]

Nothing on my end yet, but yes I do think that might be related to the conditions right now all things considered.

All I got was a few common diseases, some viral infections, a few stress related accounts... Only one depression and lack of enthusiasm one, but it seems like it was dismissed.

Yeah those seem to be fairly harmless at first, but finding a few of them like this...

[He went through, finding a slightly thicker one.]

Here we go. Starts out with the same symptoms... lack of energy, general apathy, loss of expression...

[He kept reading.]

...eventually culminating on a total loss of emotion. Personality and definining characteristics dissapear but daily tasks and routines aren't interrupted. Sound like anyone you know?

[Satella frowned and walked over to look look at the document her expression not changing much.]

What's the date on the document? Maybe we could find others on the same time frame.

Let me see... the years are different here, but I think... Yeah, here we go. Three hundred and seventy seven. That's the year. This patient's name was Agmund. He was brought in by his Wife...

[Hisao's tone dropped. Wow. That was sad. He felt bad for Agmund, of course. But his Wife who was slowly watching her Husband dissapear right before her eyes...? How heartbreaking would that be?]

Three hundred and seventy seven... [Satella repeated as she moved over all the other files. She took a moment to sift through them before placing the ones that matched the year in front of Hisao.]

These are all i could see from our piles. Hopefully they'll shed more light into the subject.

[Satella didn't seem fazed by the development or the patient. Pandora had seen plenty of horrors already, something as such would have been classified as a 'normal' occurrance.]

Let me see...

[Hisao set his initial record down outside of the piles, wanting to hold onto it in case he needed to reference back. He started reading through the other records at speed, figuring out the layout fairly quickly and deciding where he needed to look to find the most pertinent information.

He was quiet for maybe ten minutes as he shuffled papers, his expression intense.]

....damn.

[Damn? Damn? That was it? That was worse than saying a lot more Hisao! Satella thought to herself as she got closer, a much more intense look on her features.]

Well? What is it?

Well, in the later half of three seventy seven... there's just a lot more cases of the same thing. You can see the name of the person who brought the patient in for admission. It seems like this sickness or malady or whatever you want to call it was breaking up families all over the place. Mothers taken from kids, kids brought in by parents.... just... damn. I don't know.

[He just found it upsetting. He had feelings, even if he wasn't about to speak to how strong those were in front of the pretty girl he didn't know so well.]

But one thing is for sure - by this time, it wasn't one or two cases. I have at least thirteen here from that year. There might be more. There probably are more.

[Truthfully, Satella had expected worse from his reaction. But considering they were from vastly different situations, she could see how this would have been very grave to him. Nonetheless it still posed a threat and how it began to spread rapidly.]

It doesn't seem to have a particular target judging from your findings...An all around epidemic maybe? But then how did the environment start to change then?

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