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

[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.

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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?

/2

[replicatastrophe]

I'm currently looking into it, as a matter of fact.

[Wait, what? That sounds strange all right, and for a moment Copy can't help but look dumbfounded. He looked for a room to himself to avoid having to share it, ("That Guy" status be damned) but...but this was "him" he was talking to. "Him" he would have to keep on his toes around at all times.

...But that's what he should be doing anyway, isn't it? He's always X. If anything this could even be an opportunity to learn more about him from the source itself. Ways to properly carry on his legacy, to be the best X possible.]

[replicatastrophe]

No, I wouldn't mind at all.

[lumineinfinitus]

Thank you.

[If X noticed the moment of hesitation, he doesn't say it, instead giving Copy a genuine smile of gratitude.]

I'll help you gather information about that, if you need me to. Even if it's a bit redundant, I'd like to take that back as well.

[replicatastrophe]

[He smiles as well, though it doesn't carry quite the same warmth X's does.]

I would appreciate the help. Two of us can cover more ground, after all.

[lumineinfinitus]

That's true enough.

[...That smiles seems almost... odd. And that is enough to remind X of something he'd wanted to ask.]

Why are your eyes red?

[replicatastrophe]

[And that smile is gone.]

...It happened during the Elf Wars. I'm not sure why, but it never hindered my vision or seemed to be an indicator of any other ill effects. I've paid it no mind for some time now.

[lumineinfinitus]

Strange...

[But not impossible, he supposes. The rest of him changed fairly drastically from what he's looking at, so a simple eye color change isn't too far fetched.

...there's still something about them that unnerves him, though...]