Event: Quarantine

[animusmods]

Characters: any characters trapped in rooms during the event
Setting: dormitory level rooms
Format: any
Summary: An unexpected series of explosions has trapped residents in the dorm rooms with no power and no way to get out. Try to communicate with the outside, deal with being stuck in a small room with other people... Deal with the really strange things that seem to be happening, too.
Warnings: typical Animus horror event warnings

[There are several more explosions, and the sound of things falling and crumbling outside. The dorm rooms themselves don't collapse or cave in, but the furniture and trunks and nightstands may be rattled and knocked about. Eventually, the lights flicker and go out entirely, leaving everyone in the dark. There are small red emergency lights lining the floors, but they don't seem to have come on all the way, and flicker on and off eerily.

After maybe twenty minutes everything falls silent. However, if you try the door, you'll find you can't get out...]

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Day 2

[derping]

((This is just a header! Feel free to make subthreads, longer group threads, ect ect. Since they're all in the same room, threadjacking might happen - just be sure to ask first.))

[regenleif]

Capell had slept rather well considering the circumstances and when the tray arrived he went over, hoping someone had sent food. He frowned, though at least there was water. "What are these?" He picked up the syringe with his name on it, it was the same colour as the collar around his neck, but apart from that, he had no clue.

[melodyoftheabyss]

"I'm not quite sure what they are but, I assume it must have something to do with our collars. Some of it match some of our colors. Perhaps it is because we are stuck? If I am not mistaken, we still have collar checks to go through."

Tear replied holding up a syringe that had a colour similar to her own collar.

"However, this is only an assumption."

[regenleif]

"Collar checks..." He has only had one, and did not like it very much. "So do you think we need to get this into our collars somehow?"

[melodyoftheabyss]

"Yes," Tear replies to him as he said that. She knew that it didn't sound good but it was the truth.

"I believe we do, but I'm not quite sure how we're suppose to do it. I suppose the best way is to inject it into our bloodstreams."

[regenleif]

"Inject it?" He looked at the needle and frowned, "Right..." He tried to act as if he knew what that meant.

[melodyoftheabyss]

"You insert the needle into your veins if I am not mistaken."

She pointed to his arm.

"I am not an authorized doctor, but I have minor knowledge regarding such things."

Tear was fine explaining to people since she was rather used to it.

[terra_nullius]

Having been silent through the discussion - after all, these are people who knew more about the collar fluid than he did - he finally pipes up.

"If it's for the collar, wouldn't it have to go into the neck?"

[regenleif]

He looked at the needle and then his arm, then to Xehanort and back to the needle. "I would guess so, it is closest to the collar after all." He brought it up to his own neck, "So I just press it into my skin?"

[melodyoftheabyss]

"It can be anywhere as long as it gets to the collar. It's closer from the neck yes, but I wouldn't call it a pleasant place to use it."

She replied. Tear was being logical with this and wanted to minimize anyone's pain as much as possible.

[terra_nullius]

"So some places hurt less to use it on?"

It's fascinating, to a degree. He's never seen anything like the needle, though its function seems simple enough.

[regenleif]

Capell blinked not understanding how it would get to the collar from the arm. So he frowned and pressed the needle into the side of his neck. It did hurt, but not like a sword cut would hurt and he pressed the top down.

The dizziness hit him straight away and he fell backwards, collapsing onto the floor, his head pounding and wanting to be sick.

[melodyoftheabyss]

"It depends, I suppose. I am assuming as long as it gets into your system, it will eventually travel to our collars."

Assuming the collars work that way.

Tear watches quietly as the other person inserts the needle into his neck. Tear had hers too and it was about high time she injected herself with it as well. She was waiting on everyone else to see if they were okay first.

"Are you alright?"

She mused after a moment watching Capell's balance fall out on him.

[terra_nullius]

His first collar check had seemed so perfunctory compared to this... watching Capell collapse was rather disturbing. Was there some sort of side effect because it wasn't the proper method? Or was this a ruse? His eyes fixed on Capell, waiting for some sign that he was okay with baited breath.

[regenleif]

"Mmmm" His head hurt too much just talk, and nodding was out of the question, he curled his legs up and took a few deep breath before the worst of it subsided. "I'm okay..." It just... wasn't a pleasant experience.

[melodyoftheabyss]

"Are you alright?"

She turned towards Capell as he seemed to be a bit dazed from whatever he injected, which she assumed was the liquid for their collars. She was watching as well. She didn't really want to do this but she had no other choice but to follow suit if she didn't want to end up worse than that.

Without saying much more, she decided to insert the syringe into her other arm, letting out a flinch and letting the liquid slowly disperse in her arm. The same symptoms repeated itself for her and she had to use the wall to faintly support herself. She might as well get it over with for the time being.

[terra_nullius]

With the other two down, he supposed it was his turn, though with how they were reacting he wasn't entirely certain of the safety of the procedure. However, they seemed to be alive, although uncomfortable... it couldn't be that bad.

Picking up a violet syringe with his name written on it, he turned it around and around, trying to inspect the contents. Outside of the colour it simply seemed like fluid... it probably needed to interact with his innards in order to actually do soemthing. Part of sustaining the illusion. For now, at least, he'd play along.

He sat down slowly, before jamming the syringe in a swift strike into his thigh. It hurt quite sharply, the feel of the fluid cold before being taken into his body. At least when the dizziness hit he wasn't upright, though he did find himself leaning back against the wall with a bit of a gasp as the room began to spin.

[regenleif]

The dizziness was still there but the first shock of it had faded leaving him feeling faint and nauseous, but aware of the others and their reactions as they took the collar fluid.

"Is everyone alright..."

[melodyoftheabyss]

"I am fine."

Tear said after a moment, trying to contain her own dizziness. It didn't show on her face, but her response was obvious enough. The maiden closed her eye briefly before she spoke again, "I do not understand why this happens."

She didn't like this one bit.

[terra_nullius]

"It's different than usual..." Xehanort managed to mutter, feeling the world spinning around him with his eyes closed. "Probably a side effect to not doing it the usual way. Let's not have to do it like this ever again."

Impending Argument Subthread

[keywrite]

[Rep doesn't do much in the way of sleeping--he had foregone sleeping on one of the beds, sitting on the floor and resting against the wall. It was his room, so his trunk was in there and he'd gotten Naminé's charm out of it to play with as a distraction. Until he was again distracted by the arrival of the water...and syringes with a note.

There was one with his name on it, but it was the wrong color. The blue one had his name on it, while the purple one was labeled 'Replica'.]

Well that's stupid. They mixed our colors up.

[keybearer]

[...Oh. Riku winces. After all, he hasn't exactly tried pushing his Replica towards the truth. What's he supposed to say about this? Where does he even start?

All he can do is creep closer and try to keep his cool.]

They could've gotten the labels mixed up. Hard to say, really, but I think it's important that we grab the right color. Who cares about whether it says "Replica" or not?

[keywrite]

Doesn't it make it less annoying.

[It's the principle, Riku. That, plus the photo he got last month...they keep piling up, and it's getting slightly tougher to convince himself that everyone is just screwing around with him.

He holds up the 'Replica' syringe, the one with purple fluid inside, and points it towards Riku.]

What would happen if we stuck ourselves with the wrong one?

[keybearer]

Our heads would probably explode, and we'd die.

[He snickers, waving his hand.]

But seriously, I do think there'd be problems. The last time people got their colors swapped, we had to deal with power fluctuations, dizziness... It wasn't pretty.

[derping]

[Sora was...kind of unsure about this. Really unsure. He had gotten used to collar checks - though recent events had made him, along with a lot of other people, wonder if they were really helping or hurting everyone - but this didn't seem like a good alternative. Not with the way everyone seemed to get sick after injecting themselves with the fluid.

Still, he didn't really have much of a choice. He wasn't a big fan of the idea of passing out if he didn't do it, so...

Well, he could just hope for the best, at least. And that's exactly what he does.

It's not much longer before the headache and dizziness starts to kick in, and he can tell before too long that it's just gonna get worse. Don't mind him spreading out on the nearest bed and claiming it as his own until he feels less awful.]