Outbreak

[cityship]

It was night on the ship - or at least as close to night as the ship ever got.

But while most of the crew slept, something had been released from within the ship. Something invisible, something undetectable, and something very, very dangerous.

If you passed through parts of the City, you might start to feel a little sick...

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Crew Quarters

[in_venting]

Sherry had come home from playing, and looked like death warmed over. Her cheeks were red with fever and even though Stacy was rather warm, she shivered, wrapping her blanket around her. Still, for all this, she absolutely went about her business as usual, starting up her reader and picking out a book.

[redfield]

About fifteen minutes later the door to the room opened and in came Claire, Boon on her heels. She opened her mouth to complain about the dog and his lack of leash, but the second she set her sights on Sherry she knew something was wrong. Immediately momface was on and she was moving to sit down next to Sherry, one hand reaching out to touch the little girl's face.

"Are you alright, sweetie? You look pretty flushed." And felt pretty flushed.

[in_venting]

Sherry frowned and twisted her head away from Claire's hand. "Stop it, I'm fine." She shook her head, realizing how rude and unlike her that sounded. Well, how unlike her it sounded when she was with Claire, anyway. "Sorry, mom. I just feel annoyed I gu--"

Her apology was cut off when the little girl scrambled to the side of the bed, and vomited on Claire's shoes. Hope you didn't like those, Claire.

[redfield]

When Claire realized what Sherry was doing she tried to get her feet out of the way, but still, barfed on shoes were barfed on.

"Oh, yeah. You're totally fine." Claire grimaced, standing up and grabbing a nearby trashbin and setting it in Sherry's lap, before kicking off her ruined shoes and tiptoeing around the sick to get something to clean it up with. She got rid of it quickly, dumping her shoes into another bin, and grabbed her other pair of sneakers out from under her bed.

"Okay, c'mon. We're going down to medical to see what's going on." Because it seemed kind of unusual that a flu virus would just spring up out of nowhere. Claire wasn't a scientist by any means, but she was kind of an expert on how viruses happened.

[dis_courageous]

Komali was, as usual, in the city. His mother was always busy, always working, but ever since Samus had become the chief of security, she'd been even more tied down.

And that meant he'd been more alone.

For some reason, today the world seemed brighter- a little dizzier, somehow, like lights flickering. It was always warm on board, but today the weather was even hotter- he felt like he could do anything!

So, naturally, he took off running, and after a brief start, managed to get to the air, careening wildly as his balance took the main burden from his fever. He wasn't going to crash- he wasn't afraid!

....but that's not what it looks like from the ground.

Hope I'm not intruding, I can delete if I am ^_^;

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut was wandering about in an unusually good mood. Training with the Overlord was taking her mind off the things that usually annoyed her.

Let's see how fast we can ruin her good mood shall we?

A sudden shadow on the ground awakened the Dragon hunter training and she scanned the skies automatically for a death threat from above. Then she spotted the strange winged creature that didn't resemble any dragon and was forced to remember the only two dragons on board were Kang and Toothless.

As far as she knew anyway.

Wait, was that thing a kid?

Wait was it coming in for a crash landing?

Another instinct kicked in and before Ruffnut could stop herself she was scrambling to catch the thing, whatever it was.

Not at all~

[dis_courageous]

Komali was doing fine! Great, in fact! His wings had never felt lighter, his control steadier, his- whoops, hahaha! He giggles helplessly as he narrowly missed a building and recovered. Oooh, he was so sly, so cool, did you see that recovery? Did you see it?

Seems like someone saw it, anyways. The way Ruffnut scrambled below him like an anxious hen, trying to....to catch him?

He didn't need catching!

He was fine!

He was fine, dammit! Why didn't anyone ever believe him?!

Komali decided that if the girl wanted to catch him, he's let, her, as heavily and painfully as possible. That would show her.

Yay!

[ruffntumblenut]

What in the name of all that was in the skies and stars was this thing she was under anyway? It looked like a giant bird of sorts but it had hair! Birds weren't hairy that'd just be...

...oh crap it's falling! Ruffnut tripped and stumbled herself as she tried to position herself to catch it safely.

Crew Quarters

[just_like_nii]

Fletcher couldn't make heads or tails of how he was feeling. He was hot and cold all at once, burning up but at the same time shivering from a chill. He'd woken up early to get a head start on his work, but he felt too bad to even go anywhere.

"Nanashi...?"

Re: Crew Quarters

[sanguineroyal]

Nanashi was wide awake, and had been for some time, feeling much the same, but she couldn't understand how that could be. However, with the look on Fletcher's face, she knew she wasn't alone, and that meant that her own feeling was unimportant.

She swept over to him, touching his cheek and then his forehead and frowned, "oh, you're burning up little one, what's bothering you?"

[just_like_nii]

He curled up in a little ball, drawing the blankets tighter around himself. "I don't know... I feel really cold, and... and like I want to throw up."

His mind raced as he tried to figure out what it could be. Had he picked up something in Hydroponics, or some slow-acting virus on Zokez II? Had someone podpopped with the flu and it was just now making the rounds?

[sanguineroyal]

Nanashi pulled the sheets off of her bed and covered Fletcher with them. Of course over the years some of her human children got sick, and she knew the standard practices. Use cold water on a cloth to keep the fever down, and usually a few drops of her blood would quickly kick the sickness out of their system, however, she was not feeling right herself. She was not about to risk having her blood get him sick with something else. Something that could stand up to Vampire blood

The Factory

[demon_alessa]

This wouldn't do, not at all.

She'd come back from her stint with Evangeline to rest a little, and found that her body seemed to be delaying in its usual reaction: it was as if there was some block on her disallowing the usual functioning of activities for her. The last conclusion she was going to go for, of course, was being sick: whoever HEARD of such a thing, a demon getting sick?

Nonetheless, she was beginning to feel steadily worse, and the idea of staying in the city seemed like less of an option to her. She felt a shortness of breath and a rising heat infecting her body. Ignoring it wasn't making it go away either.

With a frustrated sigh, she roused herself, then turned to the back of her, hearing the questioning squabbles of her creatures.

I'll be back. Protect this place. I have to find out what oddity is causing this. Do not venture out.

She staggered out of the factory, unwillingly leaving her Silent Hill. There had to be an answer for this.

[psi_flames]

Jono didn't sleep a lot. He didn't really need to, what with the way his body worked. So he spent the time walking wherever his feet took him when he wasn't working.

Today, he ended up in Hydroponics. He sat down by one of the trees, head back and looking up. He hardly noticed the sweat on his face, unusual because he didn't generally sweat much. There's bloody well gotta be a cool spot or two on this damn ship...