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 would depend on how much getting control of us matters to his control of the situation.

[Asch pulls one leg out from under the bed, folding it against his chest and massaging it - it's fallen asleep on him while he was sleeping.]

He controls the revival system - if he wants to clear the place out, he can just kill off everyone that's being a problem, take care of what he needs to, and revive us later.

[notachickenhawk]

I guess. I'm not totally sure why he revives everyone at all. If someone was really being a problem, couldn't he just not revive them?

[bloodyashes]

Ruana probably makes him.

[After all, the one thing they can count on is that Ruana scares Jason.]

Keeps him around to fix her toys.

[notachickenhawk]

Yeah.

[His tone is a little faint, and he shakes his head to try to clear it.]

She kind of reminds me of - of this Sub-Visser I met.

[bloodyashes]

[A confused look at the unfamiliar word. Military or political rank, he's guessing, from the "Sub-" in front of it. That implies that there are also full Vissers.]

I'd hate to think there's another in any world like her, but I'm not all that surprised.

[notachickenhawk]

At least some insanity seems to be required for a Yeerk to get anywhere in the ranks. The lower the number, the higher the rank. The one leading the invasion on Earth is Visser Three.

But her... the Yeerks think we're all Andalites - the species that invented the morphing technology - but only one of us actually is. ... Though my father would have been one, if the Ellimist hadn't messed around with time.

[Don't question it. It's just weird.]

They tried to develop an Anti-Morphing Ray to make us demorph so they could infest us. We had to make them think that it didn't work. Considering I'm the only one of us who has a 'natural' form that isn't infestable...

[He shudders, and lowers his voice a bit.]

She wasn't happy. It took the others some time to find me. She... she used that time to try to get information out of me. She played 'games'.

[He grips the side of the bed, face pale. He's not sure why he's telling anyone this... but it somehow feels good to let it out. To talk about it, since he can't really talk to the others about it.]

She brought up... memories. Good ones, and then bad ones, on top of the pain. It... it got bad enough that I started... to die, I think. Bad enough that I started to... to see my father's memories. Elfangor's. The one who would have been my father.

[He hunches his shoulders, curling into himself a bit.]

... I know that it's a war. That things like that happen. And that we shouldn't have trusted her at all when she showed up again. But there was a chance she was... she had changed... but she didn't. I guess... that one was my fault.

[bloodyashes]

[Asch accepts most of the weirdness with a blank face - after all, if you judged by the behaviour Lorelei has shown towards him and Luke in the Tower, you'd think he had three parents, so weird doesn't mean a damn thing anymore.

It's not until the bit about the memories - someone else's memories - comes up that he looks away.]

There's no point worrying about the mistakes. All you can do is learn from it and keep moving.

[notachickenhawk]

... Yeah. I know. I just wanted to give her a chance...

[He runs his hands through his hair.]

She won't get another one.

[bloodyashes]

That's all you can really do.

[He nods faintly, leaning forward again to prop his arms on the mattress.]

If you don't fail, you don't learn.