CAMPUS WIDE EVENT: SPRING FEVER

[intercom_voice]

[Today, the lovely denizens of the Campus will wake up to a beautiful spring morning. Birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, and pollen is in there. But this isn't just any pollen, the kind that afflicts the allergy prone to months of watery eyes and sneezing, oh no, this pollen is far more potent.

This morning, you will wake up with exactly one menial illness. It won't kill you, it won't even really hurt you, but it will be a constant annoyance to you for the next week. Sicknesses range from sneezes and rashes to spontaneous floral growth out of the forehead region. Really, anything goes.]

((ooc: okay, so, feel free to give your characters whatever silly or petty illness you want! This event ends on the 25th. Our cooperative event has been postponed due to a lack of feedback/interest--since it's an event that requires at least a small group of people to be active in.))

Comments

[lumineinfinitus]

[...Was it something he said? X frowns a little, but nods, following behind him without saying anything else.

As it turns out, Lisa is able to help... a little. It's not much, being a human nurse and all, but it's enough that X is able to gain some measure of control of his own body back, running all the scans and diagnostics he can.]

Well... at least it's a small respite.

[lumineinfinitus]

[Hint? Hmm...]

Я думаю, что это России?

[It's his best guess, anyway. His translator is so uncooperative he can't even tell what language setting it's on, but it sounds like the rough language he remembers.]

[replicatastrophe]

[Copy feels somewhat after the visit as well, like a fuzziness he hadn't even noticed being there was cleared up. No more strange, out of place impulses...at least, as far as he could tell.]

I suppose it's better than nothing, for now.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Ro...rossii? Ah! Russia-?

[His confusion clears a little at that. It's similar enough to one of the ways of saying it in Japanese that he gets it pretty fast.]

I'll be right back.

[And with a russian-japanese dictionary to hand!]

[lumineinfinitus]

It might give our systems enough time to actually find out what's infecting us. At least it doesn't... seem threatening, for now.

[He really hopes it stays that way.]

[lumineinfinitus]

[Oh, good! That should help. X makes sure to talk slowly, so that Ryou can look up the words.]

Can you understand me now?

[fluffydeathdealer]

Yeah, I think this'll work. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[He's the one being the most inconvenienced, though he doesn't seem to think so...]

Is it a malfunction? ...or is there a way to fix your language setting at all?

[replicatastrophe]

["Speak for yourself" he almost adds, considering those impulses caused him to raise his buster earlier. (Stupid, stupid...)]

A good point. In any case, with both of us in our right minds we should be much more productive for the time being.

[lumineinfinitus]

Hopefully.

[Might as well get started on the important part, then.]

I saw the board on my way out, but is there anything else you've found out about this place?

[lumineinfinitus]

I think you're the one being more inconvenienced than me, even though it's my translator that's not working right.

[He laughs a little in a friendly way, smiling again.]

No, a malfunction would come up as a warning. This is... a virus, I think, which is strange. I'm built against those.

But if I had to get infected with one, something that's only annoying verses something that's dangerous is what I would prefer, so I can't complain that much.

[fluffydeathdealer]

A virus, huh... I guess you don't have any sort of malware scanner, if you're designed to not be able to get them at all.

But this place doesn't seem to be limited by normal limits, so it's not all that surprising for you to get infected by one here.

[He starts, realizing his rudeness.]

Ah, sorry! I'm Ryou Bakura. It's nice to meet you.

[replicatastrophe]

The Voice the board mentioned is the closest guess towards who's responsible for bringing us here. Evidently she also warps reality in smaller ways, to "test us", mostly by altering the environment in some fashion.

...Come to think of it, this may be one of those instances. [He certainly doesn't remember interfacing with any shady systems that might've given him a virus recently.]

[lumineinfinitus]

Altering the environment... to what degree?

[He'd like to be prepared, if necessary.]

That seems likely. I was suffering like this from the moment I arrived, after all.

[lumineinfinitus]

I have plenty of scanners and backups, but they don't seem to be working. It's as if it doesn't exist, though it clearly does.

[He has no fucking clue, man. Though that name...]

Japanese, right? I'm X. It's nice to meet you.

[fluffydeathdealer]

Un! I'm from Japan.

[Though his surname isn't.]

If it's inflicted by this place, it might disappear on its' own before too long has gone by.

[replicatastrophe]

The people I spoke with cited the entire building vanishing, the layout changing at random, and the tropical environment turning into a tundra.

[lumineinfinitus]

[...Well. Then...]

That...

[He has no idea. The building going away or the tropical environment changing isn't inherently that strange, but considering it all looks completely normal it quickly becomes so.

And how would you even manage that with the layout without huge moving parts this clearly doesn't have?]

What is this place?

[lumineinfinitus]

Your surname sounds different, though... I can't quite place it.

[Curiosity shines through his voice. Even if it doesn't matter, he does want to know.

...wait, what?]

"Disappear on its own"?

[fluffydeathdealer]

Uhm. It's pretty hard to trace it back... But I think it's Egyptian in origin. I guess I'm a bit of a mixed breed.

[It's a really rare surname. He smiles a little at the confusion.]

Inflictions here come and go. It'll probably die on its' own.

[replicatastrophe]

From what little I've seen of it? A madhouse.

...A vaguely hospitable madhouse. The whiteboard mentioned housing, and I've been told there's a virtually limitless supply of food and energy present.

[lumineinfinitus]

Limitless?

[THAT gets his attention. Energy and food? So no one, Reploid or human, would have to go without...

He almost can't imagine it.]

What kind of "housing"? If this is a school, I'm imagining it's probably dorms.

[lumineinfinitus]

Egyptian... that does sound kind of --

[Krrsttt, whoops. The language swaps again, but at least this time Ryou won't need the book; it's Japanese.]

-- like it's from there. From what I remember, anyway.

[replicatastrophe]

Limitless.

[That's the selling point for him. Hell, he was on the prowl for some sort of generator to look into this "limitless energy" when the virus struck him.]

That's right. Though the rooms do seem to be limited; I only found one that wasn't already taken.

[fluffydeathdealer]

-! Ah... Quite the fortuitous change, it seems.

[lumineinfinitus]

I wonder if we can find out something about that...

[Hm. Mostly taken... that's not comforting. That means there's probably a lot of people here, if this building is as big he thinks it is.

...though he can't help but laugh.]

I'm not sure why this is the thing that feels strange to say... but would you mind if we shared it?