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thepull_mods ([personal profile] thepull_mods) wrote in [community profile] sirenspull_ooc2012-05-11 09:37 pm

Outbreak Plot Information

Basic Plot Summary:

A strange disease outbreak surfaces next week, spreading quickly throughout the city via hand-to-hand contact. The infection rears its head with nastily severe flu-like symptoms, and in some severe cases this can even quickly become fatal. As the city succumbs on a wide-scale to the epidemic, panic ensues and the public grows frantic for a cure. As false cures and wilder claims surface from moneygrubbing drug companies, demand for the cure gets violent, and riots break out. Corporations break out a new round of finger-pointing in pursuit of power, and rumors begin to spread that a Newcomer may have brought the disease to the island, causing a new wave of anti-newcomer hatred.

The Church of Jonova, a cult whose membership has slipped off in the last few months, resurfaces strongly as the city's saving grace- 'miraculous' prayer and confession sessions have temporarily alleviated symptoms for some, and fully healed others! Crowds begin to gather at the cathedral, until investigations reveal that the 'spiritual' sickness originated from within the church itself. A potential conspiracy?

Meanwhile, researchers race to understand how the disease works, to find a medical solution that will save the city.  Unfortunately, one of the long-term effects of the plot will be the development of a marketable drug which can effectively 'cure' human compassion.

Lowdown on the Plague-Nastiness

It is passed via hand-to-hand contact- a single handshake, passing off objects, or any kind of direct touch will spread it from person to person. It is possible to contract and spread the disease without exhibiting any symptoms. Characters with supernatural disease immunity will also be resistant. Curiously, those who are either morally remorseless or those who understand themselves to be innocent and blameless seem to be the least affected, no matter how much contact they have with the sick.

After contact, it takes between 48-72 hours to incubate before symptoms surface. The disease attacks those who hold suppressed feelings of guilt and shame, giving those feelings physical effects. The stronger and longer the intensity of these feelings, the worse symptoms will be. Average over-the-counter cold and flu medicines do little to alleviate these symptoms, but talking out your internal struggles does seem to help greatly. Being forgiven and accepting that forgiveness, or forgiving yourself? Cures you completely.

Those with powers of spiritual purification may also cure the disease through direct contact, though it may be re-contracted until a medical cure is developed.

Symptoms may include: nausea, fatigue, fever, nasal congestion, vomiting, body aches and dizziness. 

Genuinely believing that you are unworthy of living will bring the disease to its fatal stages.
(Feel free to interpret this loosely, if you want to opt out of character death)

An immediate connection between symptoms and their catalyst will not be immediately apparent. 


Timeline

This plot will be developing from Tuesday the 15th, when the first who have contracted the disease will begin to show symptoms, into the beginning of next month (June 4th), when the cure will be made available and widely distributed.

A majority of the city will be infected by the 22nd, unless they have taken special measures to carefully quarantine themselves.

SERO will be leading disease research, so keep in mind that affiliation has its advantages, and that SERO will be calling for disease research participants to be voluntary (and involuntary) guinea pigs.

AGI
affiliates will be encouraged to aim their media propaganda guns at SERO's ineffectiveness, and will eventually be broadcasting from the Church of Jonova, as cult revival reaches its peak fervor.

Newsfeeds will be the primary source for wide-scale effects and plot updates, so keep an eye on them. If you plan for a character's involvement to go beyond catching the disease or tending to the sick, please let us know here so we can include them in investigations or research!

- Kelly-Mod


Questions? Ideas? Plotting Space? Comment here!
beenwaitinglong: (Smokin' angry)

[personal profile] beenwaitinglong 2012-05-12 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
Well, fuck.
ace_of_knaves: Hipster filters. Hipster filters everywhere. (helpless prey to sharper tooth or claw)

[personal profile] ace_of_knaves 2012-05-12 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
GUYBRUSH: Will not get too many symptoms! He hasn't done anything particularly awful that he feels badly about. He could spread it, though.

THE JOKER: Will be putting his escape plans into motion, taking advantage of being one of the healthiest men in Siren's Port. EXPECT HIM TO BE LITERALLY LAUGHING AT ALL OF YOU.

DANTE: Will be getting FUCKED UP. Couldn't save his mother, killed his own twin, had a town burn down because he was in it, had loved ones shredded by creatures looking for him.... Dude has issues. It will reach the fatality point but he'll Trigger his way through it and survive because...this is his first plot here. Hah.
Edited 2012-05-16 00:01 (UTC)
icy_heavens: (Sleepy)

[personal profile] icy_heavens 2012-05-12 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
/is stupidly excited for this

Hitsugaya and Celes are going to be getting it pretty bad. Unohana and Gohan will feel a bit under the weather, but still able to function rather well.
dawnward: (challenge)

all I could think of while reading this

[personal profile] dawnward 2012-05-12 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
dawnward: (danse macabre)

also plotting here

[personal profile] dawnward 2012-05-12 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
Riku is really guilty of EVERYTHING EVER because he's done a lot of shit he's felt bad about. So, he'll be hit pretty hard with this.

Re-l will be only slightly better off because...yeah, canon.

Alice will be let go after this plot because this is an awesome sending-off plot for her, so she'll be getting sick and going absolutely crazy from the sickness and the pain, on top of being alone. So, she'll probably go all out tentacles/Queen of Hearts and bad stuff will happen. I'll work on exactly WHAT later.

ANYONE WANT TO PLOT??
motioned: (can i ignore that sound)

[personal profile] motioned 2012-05-12 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
this plot /rolls all over it

SO YEAH. both of mine (this kid and peeta mellark) are going to get hit fairly hard, although ahiru's sickness in particular will get worse over the course of the event, because she ~*~can't help anyone. she'll still be attempting to make people feel better, though, despite being horribly ill by the end of the plot.

SO WHO WANTS TO PLAN THINGS 8D i'm going to be fully off hiatus by the twentieth, so i'm thinking that's when they'll start showing symptoms.
rewritethesky: (pic#1914945)

[personal profile] rewritethesky 2012-05-12 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
This is a terribly wonderful plot and I am giddy for it.

Sadly, Namine's going to be hit so hard it will be a fatality ;w; Still not getting over her existential issues here. Nope.

I'm up for plotting though ♥
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[personal profile] pullsheavendown 2012-05-12 02:10 am (UTC)(link)
Roxas will get hit pretty hard with this, but not fatally..

Meryl will be more or less fine. Maybe the sniffles.
Edited 2012-05-12 02:12 (UTC)
showbizpanache: (thinking; hmmm)

[personal profile] showbizpanache 2012-05-12 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
YES GOOD.

Definitely open for plotting. :3 Kurt will probably get sick but will want to try and help heal people anyway, so let me know if you want him to try and help yours/accidentally infect them/shenanigans.
magnetic_magpie: Mags in a red sweater (616 Magneto - fallen (2))

Magneto:

[personal profile] magnetic_magpie 2012-05-12 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
Ok so he's still going to be "dead" - though a few will know otherwise. He'll be out with an image inducor TRYING to help. And get sick.

Zach is going to heal him once (probably after Mags nearly dies on his feet because it will reach near fatal stages quickly) but I'm horrid and he'll KEEP getting reinfected every time he is healed.

WHO WANTS A DYING MAGNETO IN THEIR LIVES?
olderthandirt: (Destiny holds his secrets.)

[personal profile] olderthandirt 2012-05-12 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
I would like to plot~
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[personal profile] circumsutus 2012-05-12 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Stein here is going to be pretty much immune to this thing, and very interested in studying the sick.
mirroredmemory: (sad)

[personal profile] mirroredmemory 2012-05-12 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
/crying forever over here don't mind her
deductives: (ow)

[personal profile] deductives 2012-05-12 02:16 am (UTC)(link)
Aaaagh, this is beautiful. Sherlock will be getting pretty sick from this, though not immediately. I think he'll be healthy long enough to get a heavy suspicion of the Church, and then will have John and a few friends investigate on his behalf. IF THIS IS OKAY, MODS.

Smiley, on the other hand, will be avoiding the fuck out of everyone. So I think he's good.
mirroredmemory: (Default)

[personal profile] mirroredmemory 2012-05-12 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Xion: Pretty gosh darn sick because heart collecting and doing of bad things and unconsciously stealing Sora's memories and keeping him comatose and then making BFF fight her until she died... yes guilty feelings there. Lots of them. Sick as a dog and probably getting hospitalised at some point.

Ichigo: God with his mother issues? And various other issues where shit happened because he couldn't get his head out of his ass/was actually a big ol' bucket of rampaging monsterness? Shounen derp in a coma at some point, I think. >3
rewritethesky: (pic#1914902)

[personal profile] rewritethesky 2012-05-12 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
NOOOOOOOOO ;A;

She'll come back

Sorta

One day?




Just... sorta expect her to be dead one morning, Xion 8D; IT'S AN AMAZING WAY TO WAKE UP IN THE MORNING
olderthandirt: (Sometimes you dream)

[personal profile] olderthandirt 2012-05-12 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Destiny won't display any of the symptoms (well, maybe clearing his throat once or twice, but otherwise pretty clean). He feels no true remorse for events that have occurred and so finds himself free of regrets. What has happened was destined to be. It's not his place to contemplate what-ifs.
sharp: (i'll be your sea.)

[personal profile] sharp 2012-05-12 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
Irene is going to be pretty much unaffected, and definitely taking measures to stay that way. (Unless she happens to come into contact with it early on but probably not.) Digging at AGI and SERO for deets, I'm sure.

Amy won't be affected right away, but she'll show symptoms somewhat early on. But not too early since her guilt isn't overwhelming. She's going to be her stubborn self though, soooo.

Super open for plotting though. I'll have to hiatus on the 21st, but I'm open to anything before then! Or backdating. :)
deductives: (all in the detail)

[personal profile] deductives 2012-05-12 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
The latter would be nice! And that date works out, I was going to give him a week or so before he gets sick.
directorestheim: (ℋø℘ℯ✧ I tried so very hard)

[personal profile] directorestheim 2012-05-12 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
DAMMIT AND YOU WERE JUST DEAD TOO.

Actually, Hope's not really going to get hit by this because he's worked his ass off for redemption and actually got it. (Not to mention he continues to work tirelessly anyway to help people at all times.)

I'm not sure how high he'd rate on spiritual purification, but he's the closest in his canon to Holy magic, and one of the Champions of Etro (their Goddess)?
graceful_cutter: (A Shame)

[personal profile] graceful_cutter 2012-05-12 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
AMY - won't be feeling anything.

LEE - might be feeling a smidge sickly, but only because of repressed feelings of shame over how he feels about Snake.

GENESIS - will be hit hard by this. Oh god. Probably close to the point of death because, how the hell do you live with the fact you brought your two closest friends to their death?
themonarch: (Just admiring the shape of your skull!)

[personal profile] themonarch 2012-05-12 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
Monarch and Bigby will be the healthiest muthas in the house.

Sam will be sick as a dog (hurrhurr) and Uryuu will have very slight symptoms.
mirroredmemory: (fall to your knees)

[personal profile] mirroredmemory 2012-05-12 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
THAT IS THE WORST THING FOR YOUR ROOMATE TO WAKE UP TO

IT'S LIKE

HEY NAMINÉ WAKE UP IT'S MORNING GOSH YOU ARE LAZY

OH NO YOU'RE NOT LAZY

YOU'RE JUST DEAD

Gosh. Rude Naminé.
magnetic_magpie: (616 Michael - Oh my head)

[personal profile] magnetic_magpie 2012-05-12 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Unless the image inducor breaks he'll STILL be dead. He's...not planning on tell anyone else other than those who know for a WHILE.

But if Hope wants to be around him at some point and try to heal him he can certainly!

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