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

[notsogrimreaper]

T-Twice? But who else nominated me?

[He knew as soon as Diarmuid said it that he was responsible for one of them, but who else really thought Ryoji was a hero?]

I'm not even close to the heroes that should be in that book! I-I'm not even sure what to think... I guess I should just be thankful, though, shouldn't I? I'll look for this Zett around.

[He still looks very flustered, though.]

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid shrugs, amusement twinkling in his eyes.]

I am afraid I don't know who else nominated you, though I am sure you can guess where one of them came from. Just like you can guess that I am about to scold you for saying that you don't belong in there when you most certainly do.

Zett isn't too hard to miss. He has bright green hair and red eyes. Oh...

[Suddenly, he laughs softly.]

Zett has a kind of monstrous fly form too. Don't be too shocked if you happen to notice a fly following you at some point. I don't know how often he uses the form, but he does use it sometimes.

[notsogrimreaper]

Well… I can at least thank you for nominating me. And for thinking I belong in there…. I wanted to be able to say that I could follow in your footsteps one day and I guess maybe that happened. I’m… glad you’re proud of me.

[The heartwarming moment gets a slight damper put on him when Ryoji’s imagination kicks in. Monstrous fly form? Sounds like something out of a nightmare… not that Ryoji doesn’t have a form like that himself. He laughs a little.]

I’ll try not to be, though I haven’t ever run into a giant fly before. Hopefully it isn’t too surprising.

[oathshackledbird]

It's...different.

[Diarmuid thinks back to the first time he saw Zett like that and shakes his head.]

Yes, I think I am just going to stick with saying it's different. I can't really think of another way to describe it. Don't worry, though. I am pretty sure he probably won't be using that form much. He won't be able to get much work done if people are attacking him thinking he's a monster...

[notsogrimreaper]

That makes sense. I wouldn’t attack him either way though… I at least try to make sure the monster’s going to attack me before I assume it’s an enemy.

[oathshackledbird]

A wise course of action. There have been quite a few odd...people who have been brought here. Not all are always as humanoid in form as you and I are. It would be terrible to attack and hurt them on accident.

[notsogrimreaper]

I understand. I could have been brought back from the Seal in an entirely different form as well. I’m very lucky I was able to regain a human appearance. I wouldn’t want anyone to attack me if I took on Thanatos’ form, so I won’t attack anyone either.

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid nods and then gestures toward the infirmary.]

It seems like a lot of people are gathering in the Infirmary. Would you like to come there with me? We might run into Zett on the way and I am hoping that is where Waver is, but I need to find him and make sure.

[notsogrimreaper]

Oh, sure! I’d like that. Just don’t leave me behind if Waver-san is there.

[He chuckles softly. Of course, Diarmuid would never do that, but Ryoji can’t help but tease him just a little bit.]

[oathshackledbird]

[Diarmuid smiles at Ryoji and then pushes him in the direction of the infirmary...maybe or maybe not fast enough so that the boy misses the strain in his eyes.]

When we find him, Waver might be grumpy enough that it will be you abandoning me...

[It's a joke, but a weak on considering Waver would have felt him die through their bond. Grumpy might be putting his mood lightly...]

[notsogrimreaper]

I can deal with it if Waver-san is upset...

[He tries to push back against his father's guidance, looking up at him worriedly.]

But will you be able to?

[oathshackledbird]

It will work out. Don't worry.

[Diarmuid smiles a little more easily this time.]

Lets go find Mr. Grumpy. We can worry about everything else later.

[After all, he doesn't mind if Waver is mad at him as long as he is safe.]

[notsogrimreaper]

O-Okay. I’ll trust you.

[Ryoji will just keep an eye on Diarmuid and Waver and try to intervene if it looks like they’re about to argue. For now, he’ll finally yield and follow Diarmuid’s lead to the infirmary.]