Jason's hoarde of angry nurses

[bashfulshifter]

Characters: You. Yes, you!
Setting: December 16th through 21st, all the places!
Format: Any!
Summary: Plague doctor panic shenanigans for the Into An Abyss event, day two and onwards until the pesky creatures stop annoying everyone. Or in the case of non-orange-collared people, maiming them.
Warnings: Monsters! Battles! Death! Orange collar badassery! The Tower! Too much to handle!!

[After a day of putting things into the strange portal on floor twenty-three, something finally comes out. Many somethings. And it seems they are not satisfied with only the stray finger to nibble on...]

PLAGUE DOCTOR BEHAVIOR GUIDELINES

- Plague doctors use physical attacks, ripping and tearing their victims to pieces with hands and teeth. They travel very quickly and, when slipping in and out of reality, can seem to teleport from one spot to the next unpredictably.
- Characters whose collars are yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet will be attacked if the plague doctors notice them.
- Characters whose collars are yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet cannot harm the plague doctors. They must hide or run.
- Plague doctors become more powerful the closer to violet the character they are attacking is. A plague doctor attacking a character with a yellow collar will be weaker than the same one attacking a character with an indigo collar.
- Characters whose collars are orange will be completely ignored by the plague doctors unless the character directly attacks one.
- Characters whose collars are orange are capable of injuring and killing plague doctors, provided the means by which they attack are entirely mundane. They cannot receive enchanted items from other characters, for example.
- Plague doctors can only be killed by completely destroying the head. It has to be crushed into pieces.
- Plague doctors will carry any retrieval unit they notice into the rift they came from.

Label the date/time/location in the header, basic mingle stuff. DO NOT forward-date anything to Wednesday the 18th or later until further notice. Edit: Open from the 16th through to the 21st! Go nuts!

Comments

[bloodyashes]

It was cooked before everything went to hell.

[Fonic artes wouldn't be much good for cooking, anyway, unless you wanted charcoal.]

It's pretty much what you'd expect out there. Trying to get past their nest is the worst, but beyond that it's mostly a matter of keeping out of view of the stairs when you're not on them.

[And he's got a violet collar, too, so that's extra stressful.]

[fionnuisce]

So everything's shot to hell, then. Fan-fucking-tastic.

[Not that he'd expected otherwise. Having seen those monsters was quite enough for Waver himself to guess he stood a snowflake's chance in hell of surviving out there.]

Thanks for going through all this nonsense. But I guess someone has to, right?

[bloodyashes]

Depending on how long this lasts, we might yet have to get past them back to the dorms.

[Waver was around during the quarantine, although Asch isn't sure exactly where the man ended up. It probably doesn't matter - it's not like any of them were in their own rooms anyway.]

Or die, I suppose. That's one way back up.

[fionnuisce]

[Deadpan:] That'll be interesting. Die one way or die another, merry fucking early Christmas.

[bloodyashes]

[There's a brief look of confusion that reveals Asch as one of those people who has no idea what Christmas is, but it's not important enough to divert the conversation.]

Don't forget the group of people hell-bent on charging Jason to death before we even get our powers back.

[fionnuisce]

Fucking hell, people are actually stupid enough to do that? Never mind the bullshit about powers, I'll at least take a measure of responsibility for the timing on that.

But what if hell freezes over and we get a holiday miracle where they actually kill him? What do those brainless twits think happens to us then?

[bloodyashes]

The timing can't be helped any more than their idiocy.

[So. Not. Impressed.]

If they do manage to kill him, I can't imagine Ruana will be very happy.

[And that's about all he needs to say, really.]

[fionnuisce]

. . .

[What a pause that is.]

We're all going to fucking die.

[bloodyashes]

And then be brought back in some more painful manner, probably.

[It is Jason that puts them back together.]

[fionnuisce]

If we're brought back at all. Am I the only once concerned for the state of revival or possible lack thereof in a theoretical situation without Jason?

[bloodyashes]

With the way newcomers have slowed to a trickle -

[If there were five this month he'll eat his tabard.]

- I think we're safe in that regard, at least those of us who don't strike Jason directly. Ruana still needs something to play with.

[fionnuisce]

True, but what reason do we have to assume anyone but Jason can operate the machine used to revive us?

[bloodyashes]

[There's a pause while Asch considers that.]

...Ruana has been here longer than any of the others, and she doesn't care about death. Stands to reason that there was some means of revival during her time as a subject.

[fionnuisce]

I'd taken to assuming she was some immortal hellbeast from beyond the stars, but to each their own.

[The absolute deadpan with which Waver said that suggested he was entirely serious about the concept.]

Regardless, I think it optimistic to think anyone safe if that psychopath dies. Ruana doesn't seem the type to assign blame and responsibility accordingly. My own guess: if she's unhappy, no one's going to be bloody happy.

[bloodyashes]

I was only referring to safety in the sense that they'd still be stuck here. She's demonstrated plenty of ways to make her displeasure known without destroying us completely.

[He glances down, takes a bite out of the almost-forgotten meal he's holding, and swallows.]

Better enjoy it while we can.