Epidemic Exsilium: Stage Two

[initiates]

With AI's announcement going up on the network, so begins Stage Two of the Epidemic plot.

On Sunday, the first confirmed cases of healthy individuals coming down ill will start arriving at the hospital. This means people in their teens, twenties, and thirties! Rooms which were previously private are now being reorganized to hold two or three patients, usually grouped by time of arrival or severity.

For those already hospitalized, now you have the option of roommates! For those going in to the hospital, you too have the option of roommates, PC or NPC. (PCs are probably much more fun!)

Throughout this week, the numbers of seriously ill will become astronomical. There will be immense strains on supplies and staff healthy enough to try and take care of those who are suffering most significantly

And now...

For the Sleeper Agents!

42 shipments were sent in to Exsilium, and there are at least 37 different names associated with where those shipments went. For all who signed up to track down sleeper agents here, a list of things in common for those sleeper agents:

• They are all mostly men. About 11 of the suspected sleeper agents are women. Of those, two work at the orphanage. Three at the hospital. Several of the men work at the hospital, the majority work elsewhere in all sorts of employment throughout the city. Both above and below the line of respectability.
  
• They are all coughing, but appear to be in fine physical health. Listening to their lungs, if you're so inclined, will prove they're rattle and fluid free.
  
• They all have recent needle marks on their bodies. This is related to a syrum they take as a bolster in their immune system against the virus they're spreading. It's not a cure, by may be explored as one. It prolongs the incubation period of the virus. In essence, using this syrum causes them to stay largely healthy for much longer.
  
• Somewhere on them, or in their lodgings, or at their place of work, there is at least one cache of United Earth drug verstatsi. Discovering this takes more sluething than anything else. All discoveries of verstatsi may be turned over to the Initiative, or kept by the finders.
  
• They all have a case of the virus likewise stored where they live, work, or kept with them. The Initiative is asking for all cases of the virus to be brought to their labs, regardless of being empty or full.
  
• Last but not least, each sleeper agent will have a tattoo about the size of a penny located behind their left ear. This tattoo is of something recognizable to some, but does not at this time seem to indicate anything of greater importance.

Sleeper agents may be convinced to give up their information peaceably, after being beaten, after torture, after seduction, or after being afflicted with magic, drugs, or anything else a Transport has at their disposal to use for extracting information. Each agent will be difficult to crack, but that level of difficulty is up to player choice. Transports will need to apply themselves to the utmost of their abilities to get the information they need!

It is possible for a player to decide that the sleeper agent their character (or a group of characters) has caught up with will kill themselves before giving up information. All such reactions are left up to individual player discretion.

The same for any sleeper agent's name. We leave that to you!

Do we go at these sleeper agents alone?

Players are invited to decide if their characters will pursue an agent on their own, or if they'll team up to work toward the goal of taking these agents down.

Start looking around for groups in the comments here! It's more fun to torture track down together... right?

What can we learn from the sleeper agents?

Once you have decided if your character is going to tackle a sleeper agent alone, or with a group, please comment to the thread below in order to be PM'd a line or four as to what specifically your character or group will find out from their agent. All information is asked to be reported back to the Initiative, but how much any individual or group shares with their fellow Transports is left up to their own judgment.

As a warning, this information is not guaranteed to be correct or terribly important. Keep this in mind!

As of now, anyone who signed up to find a sleeper agent may find any of the information or items listed above in this post. As the sign-ups for the extra bonus information and scenarios have closed, those will no longer be available. They are still able to hunt down sleeper agents. They just don't get bonus info in doing so!

Is it too late to sign up?

No! Not yet. Sign-ups close on Tuesday, June 11th. Sign ups are now closed! By the end of the week, the fruits of everyone's labors will have produced results and started the mission into the past. There will be another post for that!

Will there be a log for any of this?

Yes! You can find the log for both hospital shenanigans and sleeper agent hunts here!

Any further questions?

Please ask in the question thread below!

Comments

Questions

[initiates]

[queenoftherock]

Since Ollie came in pretty much yesterday, is he still affected by the virus?

Re: Questions

[diedahero]

So even though Link is coming in to this later, because of his age and lack of exposure to things in general, will he still be much more susceptible to the worst of the symptoms than adults arriving around the same time?

[deducta]

Joan just came in, but this is essentially right up her alley both medically and investigative(ly)?

Would there be anyone she could get in contact with to help out? She wouldn't be likely to stand by and see things go down like this!

[sacrificar]

Are the sleeper agents themselves able to be captured, brought in, and handed over to the Initiative?

Re: Questions

[unholy_rebirth]

I'm confused - isn't it too late to sign up, since all the spots have been taken?

[highfrequency]

Raiden kind of has a cheat mode in the form of his visor's Augmented Reality scan. It can see through walls and pick up basic vitals of his targets. Would anything unusual show up here?

[immortal_smoke]

I'm assuming the virus infection range is based on physical age? So, if someone is 1000+ years old but still physically 18-20, they're susceptible?

Re: Questions

[commentboxtroll]

Two questions:

1. What are the chances a sleeper agent would be easier to crack if his or her verstatsi is withheld from them for a day or two?

2. Also should we wait for the pm to begin a thread or will those be going out after we should have already found them, etc, etc? or was that already answered and I should lrn2read? :|a

[hbisea]

Will those hunting the sleeper agents have been informed about the tattoo in advance? Basically anyone who is coughing could be an agent from an IC perspective, so I'm wondering if characters would get info on the tattoo.

Re: Questions

[terrot]

is there anything, by chance, a sick precog might be able to see to tip off those looking, or just any kind of general outcome to hint at?

Finalized Teams

[initiates]

Whether you're going it alone or with a team, sign up here to be PM'd the information they'll learn during the process.

[limitstorm]

whoop, riku will be going alone.

[hostage]

You can give Jesse your verstatsi.

You know...

For "science".

[thephix]

Max would actually be likely to bring Jesse the verstatsi (if she gets her hands on some) since he's publicly known to be working on the cure.

So that's a thing!

[commentboxtroll]

Caesar has a handy weapon for searching that sees through walls and such, but he can't go it alone. He's no fighter. Preferably planning on him searching the hospital if he can, but things'll be what they be.

[anklets]

Let's search the hospital together, Caesar.

what better place for her to be, when she begins to feel feverish? ha ha...

[hbisea]

Mera will check out the orphanage, for anyone else going to. No one's allowed to hurt kids. :'|

[breakin_ur_lore]

Thereth will be at the orphanage as well if you'd like to do something? :D Unfortunately, she will be feeling hurty towards the sleeper agent(s).

[lazyinlove]

He's not going to straight up volunteer, but if anyone asks for a hand in the hunting he'll help. (That alliteration was fun, I wish I could say he'd be happy but more like just agreeable.)

[motherofnemesis]

slides in here max will be going after people does anyone want to accidentally wind up with her do a team thing ETC ETC?

[shelkethetransparent]

*Plops shelke down here*

Offering up for a team.

[sword_dancer_e]

This guy! Enno.

His main selling points are;

He's a Knight, which at times can be little more than a thug claiming to be a do-gooder. He'll be great for the services of leg-breaker, door-opener, and putting-blades-into-others-things(This is a very technical job). I really recommend him for anyone that doesn't have muscle in their team, and if you want lulz because this guy does not get technology in any way except it's here, and it exists.

Also if you read the forever long app I weep for you, really You'll know that if you want CR with this guy, this is 'work' so he'll talk more because it's work. It's a great bridge for getting around his habit of dropping contact after a while because you got too close.

[ninjamanager]

Sounds like he'd do well with Charles, here, if you still want a buddy! He's an excellent tactician, hand-to-hand combat and/or sword fighter, and he knows tech really well, so he'd balance out Enno's lack thereof.

He is .... also really good at torturing people for information ... eheh ...

[deductus]

Anyone wants to investigate with Sherlock? He is going after sleeper agents alone, but since he's really new some characters might try and stop him from going at it alone or something?

This is Sherlock Holmes we're talking about so he'll be very good at investigating!

[fortissimos]

OKAY SO Sayaka is going after these guys, alone if she has to but she won't be opposed to teaming up — tbh it would probably be good for her to go along with someone who's investigative skills go beyond 'beat the bad guys up' (they're hurting people, she's justice-crazy: not a good combo).

She's immune to the sickness due to being a lich, so she'll also have enough energy to heal people up if need be.

[bittertears]

so we haven't done much with these two recently.

we should fix that. y/n?

[pixieboots]

Dick is going to shake down some sleeper agents and is 100% open for teamups! He's actually pretty great at conducting clean investigations but his deductive skills are still baby deductive skills so there is that.

also he'll be rougher than he normally would but still no killing just as an FYI
not that he can't team up with people who would ok i love challenging him in this way

[onblackwings]

what is that you said? ok with killing?????

she wouldn't give a shit about this because she only has the sniffles, but she'd be mildly interested if she saw dick getting involved!

[hornedomen]

Team up y / n? Ico can track down and fight if necessary, but he may need help getting the information. He'd prefer to get the information without violence and he will try to hinder attempts to torture the agent.

[acts_of_claudia]

Claudia is getting sick but she could totally help! She's not entirely opposed to torture but everything she has is completely non-lethal. She works more with electricity than anything else.

[highfrequency]

Raiden is going to be hunting for agents and would rather not team up but will if someone insists. He doesn't torture anyone but he'll throw his weight around and try to intimidate. If he thinks someone is simply not going to talk, he may kill them in a heartless manner, so if anyone wants to see a trace of the Dark Passenger Raiden tries very hard to repress, tag along with him. And make sure he doesn't fuck up the mission. He's not very creative with his approach to this sort of thing.

Loki is going to be offering a fake miracle cure that is actually a curse. More on that here.

[fe_male]

loki is an asshole js

[2leftfeet]

Shepard's going to be hunting agents and is typically fairly amenable to working in a small team, so if someone wants to do something I am totally aokay with that. She may end up being a little more heavy handed than is strictly necessary, but I doubt it'll come to killing anyone (....probably....).

[battlesleep]

BD

[nobleminded]

Anyone wanna team up with YElliot? He'll probably try to start the search on his own, but he really does better with assistance no matter what he says XD

[hbisea]

i was wondering if leo would check out the orphanage along with elliot? since mera would go if there was a lead and they could run into each other! would you like an underwater queen elly...