ROLE - DOCTOR

[maladied]

Hello Doctor.

Can I call you "doctor"? Well, regardless of your feelings on the matter or whether you have the qualifications of being a doctor, this will now be your role. Your task will be simple - figure out who has been infected and help them. A bit daunting of a task, I know, however it will come with an upside!

You will be completely immune from the infected and will be given an item that will let you know how recently that person has been infected. If they have been infected in the first place. This item will take shape of whatever you wish it to be but will have a single (1) use - unfortunately.

Oh, and before you leave, there's a book titled "Doctors for Dummies" that you may find to be very interesting. It might help you out - help all of us out.

NOTES:
- The book will be updated every Monday at 9 AM of the new week.
- This is NOT a secret role, however it would be beneficial if you did not make your role public.
- You may request help from one (1) other player and one (1) NPC of your choice. You cannot change your choice.
- Pick one (1) person to save on Thursday, even if you are chosen to die that week.

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DOCTORS FOR DUMMIES

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WK 0 - PAGE 01 -

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PATIENT # 64072

STATUS: UNKNOWN

NAME: J█▓░░ M░░█▓IS

AGE: 15

HEIGHT: 163cm

WEIGHT: 56kg

DOB: UNKNOWN

ID: 11010911

Unlike previous and all other patients, J█▓░░ M░░█▓is, seemed to be immune to the infection no matter how many times he was exposed to it. He was willing to work with the others who were actively researching a cure. Unfortunately, J█▓░░ has gone missing. There have not been any reports or signs of him for days now; we have updated his status to unknown. ...and hope to find him.

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PATIENT # 7736f

STATUS: DECEASED

NAME: N█▓O░S D. W░░█▓WO█▓D

AGE: UNKNOWN

HEIGHT: 182cm

WEIGHT: 81kg

DOB: UNKNOWN

ID: 76617368

Reportedly came from a desert planet that lacked any natural resources such as water or plant like. During his transformation, he claimed to have not suspected anything due to his history of allegedly being experimented on as a child. Patient took his own life before he fully transformed and injured any other patients. Before his death, he behaved as a brother-like-figure for the younger patients.

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YOUR CHOICE

[maladied]

[ as the ooc note states, cantarella is allowed to decide on and pick which of the puppets that she would like to work alongside with for this task. she's also able to pick another character (player) of their choosing as additional help.

please respond with which puppet cantarella would like to work with, and which other character they'd like to work with. the two of them do not need to be decided at the same time, and can be done whenever makes most logical sense. ]

i am following my heart.........!!

[physalia]

Cantarella will choose Foxglove as her NPC coworker for all the reasons listed on my manic Charlie Day-style pro-con board and more. Please don't lead me astray, heart.

I'll be back with a PC pick later, but this will probably take more time to fully cook!! I wouldn't be surprised if she doesn't ask for help from another player character until after the first trial because of the way she is, but I will not cuck someone else from being able to participate for too long hehe.

hey where's my little guy (w0 wednesday?)

[physalia]

[Since Cantarella has been back out in the central field on Wednesday afternoon cataloging the plants, perhaps she'll be able to run into her arborially inclined friend? It's all coming together and so neatly flowing...satisfying.]

I suppose some of these will help a bit, should anyone else come down with a cough.

[maladied]

[ she'll be able to find foxglove in the central field on wednesday doing a bit of the same as before, but with more focus on the soil than the foliage than the first time she ran into it.

...or at least, it was until it hears her speak and it'll look up from what it was doing and take a peak. ]

You're looking to create some herbal medicines already?

[physalia]

Rosemary warned against falling ill, and given the throat tickles I heard out on the street when we arrived here, I thought it best to take up the responsibility now.

[Though playing the porch-to-porch games in costume had seemed to do more than any medicine clearing those sniffles up for anyone who seemed to suffer from them...she hasn't ruled out physical or psychosomatic effects, especially given everything else she's seen.]

How many people have gotten sick so far? [She's clocked Foxglove as rather evasive and is buckled in to deal with that, charming and direct for now.]

SAVING / PROTECTION

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[ Please comment below with the character you are saving this week. ]

WEEK 0

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WEEK 1

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WEEK 2

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WEEK 3

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WEEK 4

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[physalia]

OKAY AS OF WEEK 0 we are mostly worried about the small but alarming list of people who are maintaining hunger so we'll start experimenting around helping those.

(rolls a d4)

Hyunjung.

[maladied]

Rosemary did?

[ there's a long sigh that escapes the puppet as it seems to be lamenting something. clearly a puppet likes to run its mouth and there's no helping it, that said, of course, is where it stands at a crossroads.

...if she as kind as it thinks she is— ]

Do you mean how many people are sick "here" or elsewhere?

[physalia]

[At their response, Cantarella thinks she must have been onto something about the puppets (or the people behind them). Foxglove seems the most preoccupied with keeping hidden information safely contained.]

What an interesting distinction, yet I doubt you'd be asking if they weren't interconnected. [She brings her hand to her chin.] But if people have already fallen ill here, now, when we barely even know where we are...I'd like to get that out of the way first.

[maladied]

[ are we so sure that they're as interconnected as we think they are? rather, that our lovely puppet here has any idea? because foxglove's voice will start to sound a bit panicked and place one of its hands against the side of its head. ]

Have they? No one here should be sick.

[ mumbling to itself: ]

However if that ends up being the case....

[physalia]

[If anything, the intensity of their response is more suspicious!

It also...seems incongruous from what Rosemary said and some of the other things that she's picked up.] Am I to believe any precautions are just paranoia, then?

[Come on. She would prefer they didn't mince around this; it is a little bit of an insult to both her intelligence and her background.]

What's the nature of an illness that inspires so many precautions?

[maladied]

[ it knows that dancing around the topic won't help and that the longer it says nothing then the more complicated things will be. so, after some fidgeting and rubbing the side of its head, it'll respond.

the puppet's demeanor changing to be more formal—confident. ]

I'd say that it's less about paranoia, and more that I hoped it wouldn't have spread here.

[ it pauses and sounds both confused and saddened. ]

It's an illness that has the ability to strip away the identity of whatever it infects. [ ... ] I refer to it as an illness because I don't know any other better way to describe it.

[physalia]

[none of those words are in the bible, but they are especially not in the Bible of Cantarella, who does pause at both the change in his tone and the description of the illness as something less physiological. She'd wondered as much, when the sniffles were held at bay by strange and incongruous behaviors.

She'll meet Foxglove at their level--sort of--bending down to place her hands on her knees.]

When you say it "strips away identity," what does that entail? The removal of memories, personalities--forcing a person to think, act, or believe a certain way? And when you refer to it spreading here--where did it originate?

[Something about it is just so hideously ugly and familiar to her.]

[maladied]

[ thank you for sort of getting on its level. foxglove will appreciate it even if it doesn't mention anything especially since it has to find the answer. ]

In my experiences... [ it hangs its head slightly. the way it treats the upcoming words is nothing short of clinical. ] It's been all of that. Not all of them shared the same symptoms or deteriorated at the same rate, but in the end, they wouldn't be what they were.

[ foxglove shakes its head. ]

I don't know; I don't fully know where here is. But if it has spread here then I need to work faster.

[physalia]

[The video from earlier comes to mind; if they're connected,this isn't purely a sickness of the mind or body.

Cantarella knows too well what happens when someone deteriorates completely beyond being themselves. At that point, there is frequently only one gentle mercy left available. May it not come to that here.]

A wide array of symptoms, stemming from the same infection... Just how long have you been observing this illness, Foxglove?

[maladied]

[ it'll cross its arms and tilt its head to one side thoughtfully. ]

Maybe about a month, personally, however, the other puppets have their own experiences with this same infection.

At least, that's what we've come to the conclusion of after discussing and comparing our experiences.

[physalia]

Hence, your joint cooperation.

[If their research is focused on another subject, there's a host of other problems that will entail. She does hope it's that simple, even if the simplest answer will be troubling in its own right.

Also, it's rather quaint to see Foxglove calling its colleagues puppets outright.]

...Plants such as foxglove are my favorites, really. Cultivated properly, they might yield the deadliest poison or sweeten into a potent cure. [Though still cautious, Foxglove has been forthcoming, so she'll begin to peel the veil as well.] What are we to do if this disease has spread here? Can it be treated?

[maladied]

[ foxglove will nod its head and while it feels flattered by her compliment of sorts... an effort to get on its good graces even more than she already has? either way, the answer she's looking for is one that is regrettable. ]

Nothing that I've looked into or have tried as worked.

[ by far the least enjoyable thing that it has said over these few days: ]

As far as my experience goes, this illness has a hundred percent fatality rate. Once someone has been infected then it's a matter of how quickly they deteriorate.