[0] WEEKS WITHOUT MURDER

[maladied]

BONJOUR.

Another morning greets you in [ setting ], and it greets you loudly. A commotion erupts somewhere ahead: voices raised, someone screaming, another shouting for help. If you're unlucky enough to be passing near the infirmary, you have a front-row seat to the chaos.

Fran and Y'shtola are flung from the infirmary like ragdolls, hitting the ground in a tangle of limbs and dust. Something inside is on a rampage— something feral, unbound, and unwilling to be tamed.

The speakers crackle to life, Lobelia's voice far too cheerful for the circumstances.

❝ Bonjour, mes amis. If you happen to be wandering near the infirmary this fine morning, do take care... there appears to be a rather spirited beast expressing its displeasure. Fran and Y'shtola have already demonstrated the consequences of getting too close... quite spectacularly, I might add.

So, unless you wish to go flying before breakfast, I suggest maintaining a respectful distance. C'est simple.

Thank you for your attention, and do enjoy the rest of your morning... preferably from afar. ❞

OOC NOTE: A temporary barrier formed around the battlefield during the fight. Only characters already inside the epicenter were able to participate. Anyone who attempts to cross the boundary will be met with a sharp electric shock and forcibly bounced back several feet.

Comments

[sideline]

[ fran will be full of minor scraps and will have nasty bruising (to come) but thanks to anaxa and the healing lantern he'll be fine sooner vs later. ]

Looks like my infirmary is the last place anyone should be on a Thursday.

[atouts]

[ Childermass has been standing over there watching all this like [man standing emoji], and he's had enough of it. He'll finally move, slowly making his way over to Fran with his crutches.

Quietly, ]

Are you well enough to go elsewhere? We should talk.

[sideline]

[ FOR THE SAKE OF THINGS...this WILL BE BEFORE siffrin has their melt break and fights thancred. ]

I am. What do you want to talk about?

[atouts]

You remember what we gave you at the lab? I would like to hear your thoughts on it, at the lab.

[ Fran, they need to fuckin' go before the fight breaks out and distracts them. ]

[sideline]

[ HELP... ]

Sure, we can do that.

[ he'll have some hesitations given everything but at the same time—there are things that he is good at and things that his is bad at. ]

Hopefully the others will have things under control.

[ they will not but. you know. you can only help so much. ]

[atouts]

[ They sure won't. No one else better die? Please? Come on?

Childermass will nod and turn to start towards the alchemy lab. He's definitely slow enough to bruised and battered Fran to keep up with because he is literally on crutches going through mud from this week's rain. It's great. ]

Have you had time to come to any conclusions about the syringes? My own thought is they are meant for blood samples, but I am no doctor.

[sideline]

[ the two of them are just going to be limping away, it's fine. totally fine... ]

I did, and I don't disagree that they couldn't be used to draw blood to for samples, but if they came from the "wish giver" then that wouldn't make sense for her to give us something that we could already do.

[ you know. the way that fran has been running around and gathering blood samples from nearly everyone along with the others. ]

But, I was thinking, if she gave you this as a gift—perhaps it's more to be used as a way to administer the cure once it's been created. [ he has a think considering their circumstances— ] Maybe the equipment we use is just as important as the cure itself.

[atouts]

But we already have syringes here, just as you said. The same could be applied to administering the cure.

[ So which is it? Drawing or administering? ]

Though if it is for administering, then we are still without a cure, or a way to find the second carrier other than Magi. We need to find them before we run out of time and people.

[sideline]

I trust that we have the necessary means to find who the other carrier that she was referring to.

[ ... ]

I'm more interested about how it could be possible to get a sample from the Magi. Of the number of things that I've experimented with... I'm curious what I could find using sometimes taken from her.

[atouts]

Then how...?

[ Childermass would like to know? Sir? But the other issue is an even trickier problem. ]

Perhaps that is something that can be sent from the other side? I believe they are inside of her already, just not. [ Just not what? He doesn't like to think about this much. ] Fully consumed yet.

[sideline]

The "how" has been a question that I've been trying to find an answer to for weeks and I haven't gotten any closer to, however with the way that we've been made aware that the others are located "nearby"—maybe.

[ how can they get their dead friends to help is a good question. ]

If there were some way to break into the "museum".

[ as something that was floated a number of times and attempts were also likely done multiple times. ]

[atouts]

Unless we find a way in, we may need to rely on those on the other side...

Have you tested anything sent back through? Could we send testing supplies to them?

[hymned]

... There's a distinct possibility. She says that everything provided here is something that was wished for, or is important for the sake of finding the cure.

To that end: it might be a good idea to stop recklessly destroying parts of it before we know what it's all meant for.

[sideline]

[ WHY IS HE SAYING THIS TO FRAN!!! IT WAS ONLY ONE TIME. so what if you (redacted). it's fine!!! it doesn't make you a criminal!!! ]

It would explain why some thing are restored when they are.

[hymned]

[ yeah but the [redacted] was pretty [redacted]! that said he honestly kind of was just putting it out there and letting it carry to the crowd. also i have such a combination of rolls right now naru, crymeow. ]

Guess that's one thing we can be grateful for everyone's wish for a cure for.

[shortsuits]

All things considered, it could’ve turned out worse for us.

[how badly would have it have gone if Kaios hadn’t been taken by the hands, he wonders.]

[sideline]

[ THREE PEOPLE DIED WAZY!!!! HORRIBLY!!!!!!! ]

Things could have been a lot better too.

[shortsuits]

[yes and more than three people could’ve died!!! they’re not winning but they’re not losing worse somehow…?]

I don’t disagree. But it makes me wonder why the wish giver decided to intervene this time instead of leaving him to his own devices.

[sideline]

[ withers into a husk where i stand ]

I couldn't begin to think why. It doesn't sound like her actions could be answered using our logic.