137th. st.
Okay, creepy Hellsing people. Here's your report. Left open because... well, everyone deserves to know? Oh, and also, I suck at privatizing.
Scientific Name: Unknown (newly discovered species, what do you want from me. Though I'm growing rather fond of pseudo yersinia pestis. I dunno, I got straight C's in Spanish.)
Common Name: I'm calling it the pseudo-Black Plague, personally. You can call it whatever the hell you want.
Natural Habitat: Unknown. As these things aren't organic, says my hypothesis, it's kind of a non applicable field.
Natural Diet: well, this is either a parasite or a virus, so... you.
Natural Predators: Parasite/virus, so it's biggest worry is not being capable enough to fully utilize its host, not something eating it.
Estimated Intelligence: N/A, as it's a parasite/virus.
Further Observation By Proctor: By my observation? It's just the normal Plague. I mean... really, really normal... as normal as the Black Plague gets, anyway. But it doesn't act like Black Plague, which is weird. The plague, when it hit rats, would eventually kill them. This doesn't, it stays in the rat's system. And it only seems to spread by biting, which is weird shit. Black Plague should spread through almost any contact, and eventually kill the rat. This shit stays with the rat, making the rat kind of it's carrier until it gets to a human vector. The rats would crawl up to me when I was messing with them and try to touch and bite me... they'd do the same to Corny, my cat, too. And before you say anything, I'm fucking immune, okay?
But scientifically speaking, it's completely normal Black Plague. It looks exactly the same. Now, it isn't hard to get your hands on some plague strains, I have some from the last Black Plague curse's test results. But whatever the hell they did to it, I can't tell, except that is isn't normal.
There're three explanations for this:
-This is a completely new strain of the Black Plague that the world has never seen before. (unlikely, because then it'd have to evolve naturally, and there's no precedent for that, not even in any other world. It doesn't make evolutionary sense for it not to kill rats... I mean, maybe, depending on the world, I could see it, but it'd have to be one helluva world. Also, I'd be able to tell some sort of genetic difference. Which I can't. Of course.)
-Some type of nanotechnology or somesuch that would make it otherwise impossible for me to detect is changing or aiding the Plague's ends. (Possible? I don't know, I'm using technology from 09, here, you tell me.)
-...Magic. (Scientist. I have no idea, okay?)
Notes:
-Could be related to Toxoplasma for its habit of making rats do, stupid, stupid things.
-Or lancet flukes?
-Seems to like Cornelius better than me.
-Zero to none learning curve, even after the rats have been harmed after touching me, or seen other rats harmed after touching me.
-Attracted to any moving living thing near it, that the rats can sense.
-Doesn't kill rodent host.
-Otherwise identical to Yersinia pestis in every way, shape and form.
[ooc Approved by Nic-mun. MY SCIENCE IS SOMETIMES WRONG; DON'T BLAME CAL IF IT IS. Just send me an ooc note and will fixxu ♥]
Scientific Name: Unknown (newly discovered species, what do you want from me. Though I'm growing rather fond of pseudo yersinia pestis. I dunno, I got straight C's in Spanish.)
Common Name: I'm calling it the pseudo-Black Plague, personally. You can call it whatever the hell you want.
Natural Habitat: Unknown. As these things aren't organic, says my hypothesis, it's kind of a non applicable field.
Natural Diet: well, this is either a parasite or a virus, so... you.
Natural Predators: Parasite/virus, so it's biggest worry is not being capable enough to fully utilize its host, not something eating it.
Estimated Intelligence: N/A, as it's a parasite/virus.
Further Observation By Proctor: By my observation? It's just the normal Plague. I mean... really, really normal... as normal as the Black Plague gets, anyway. But it doesn't act like Black Plague, which is weird. The plague, when it hit rats, would eventually kill them. This doesn't, it stays in the rat's system. And it only seems to spread by biting, which is weird shit. Black Plague should spread through almost any contact, and eventually kill the rat. This shit stays with the rat, making the rat kind of it's carrier until it gets to a human vector. The rats would crawl up to me when I was messing with them and try to touch and bite me... they'd do the same to Corny, my cat, too. And before you say anything, I'm fucking immune, okay?
But scientifically speaking, it's completely normal Black Plague. It looks exactly the same. Now, it isn't hard to get your hands on some plague strains, I have some from the last Black Plague curse's test results. But whatever the hell they did to it, I can't tell, except that is isn't normal.
There're three explanations for this:
-This is a completely new strain of the Black Plague that the world has never seen before. (unlikely, because then it'd have to evolve naturally, and there's no precedent for that, not even in any other world. It doesn't make evolutionary sense for it not to kill rats... I mean, maybe, depending on the world, I could see it, but it'd have to be one helluva world. Also, I'd be able to tell some sort of genetic difference. Which I can't. Of course.)
-Some type of nanotechnology or somesuch that would make it otherwise impossible for me to detect is changing or aiding the Plague's ends. (Possible? I don't know, I'm using technology from 09, here, you tell me.)
-...Magic. (Scientist. I have no idea, okay?)
Notes:
-Could be related to Toxoplasma for its habit of making rats do, stupid, stupid things.
-Or lancet flukes?
-Seems to like Cornelius better than me.
-Zero to none learning curve, even after the rats have been harmed after touching me, or seen other rats harmed after touching me.
-Attracted to any moving living thing near it, that the rats can sense.
-Doesn't kill rodent host.
-Otherwise identical to Yersinia pestis in every way, shape and form.
[ooc Approved by Nic-mun. MY SCIENCE IS SOMETIMES WRONG; DON'T BLAME CAL IF IT IS. Just send me an ooc note and will fixxu ♥]