W1 PLAYER CYOA: Claude, Mizu, Richie, Taair

[holyspirits]

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[gutterbound]

[you guys are so ambitious i'll tag you later it is now later]

Eddie found a mara-struck soldier out in the ruins today. Early onset — way too early. I don't know if that's going to be a one off but since it can be triggered by stress, we ought to keep an eye out for other cases.

[historicals]

Early onset...

[ hmmrmrm....worrying.... ] I'm glad you two were able to get to him. Let us hope you're right - that it is an abnormality. Did you get the name of the soldier...?

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[I think flurry is asleep? I was given no name so flurry can come destroy me later and retcon this but for now, since Richie would ask:]

Sylvain. Never met him before.

[historicals]

[ SHAKES and adds to this headcanon we're creating while we're unsupervised ]

Oh.... yes, I... imagine there's a reason for that, he tends to prefer the company of women... I've spoken with him quite a few times now. [ this is a bit distracted as he considers the tragedy of our sweet sylvain, and taair frowns to himself. ] How awful.

[gutterbound]

I see.

[okay]

Yeah. I reminded him it's not an immediate death sentence and coaxed him back to camp, we're seeing about treatment now. It's just a worrying sign.

[historicals]

What...? I did promise to chronicle everyone's stories, here - and if pretending that I was a woman was the only way to get him to talk to me, it worked.

[ he was out here lying

anyway ]

... Good, I'm glad. I... with what the others say, it seems that this being a one off feels... unlikely. It's another in our list of strange goings-on...

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[Sisi did you insert your barely disguised kink into our chaste cyoa]

Just talking?

[Intriguing information! You go get em Taair.]

There's a lot that feels downright fishy, for certain, it's just hard to say how any of it might tie together. If it does at all.

...Speaking of which, we've yet to uh. Find some kindred souls.

[His phrasing is perhaps more apt than he realizes but there is a sort of unspoken understanding here. Our plumbobs??]

[historicals]

[ I SAID I WAS PUTTING HIM IN PANTS AND YOU ALL SAID NO ]

What else would there be...

[ taair is frowning in a way that suggests perhaps he doesn't understand what richie is getting at but that it's probably inappropriate and he is being teased

ANYWAY!!!! YEAH OUR PLUMBOBS. his gaze flicks upwards, thankfully, picking up what is being put down with relative efficiency. ]

...That is... true... [ odd. he looks a little more thoughtful with that. ] I tried to figure out what sort of spell it was, but I can't even touch it, let alone get a good sense for what it is... It may be some sort of target, but I don't know the origin. If that's the case, that's...probably a good thing, that it's just the four of us.

[midway]

[ ...

Wondering if Richie actually just killed Sylvain so he could be the only white slut in town. ]

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[survival of the biggest dickest]

[purities]

[... well, shit.]

A bad sign. [not good. not good at all.] How long has it been since the symptoms made themselves known?

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Hours at best. Poor guy said he was walking past what he thought was his childhood home. In ruins, no doubt.

[purities]

[ah.]

... That'll do it. [bad.] These are dark times. It's best to not let any of it get to us.

[gutterbound]

Well we'll be fine. I'm worried about the scores of Xianzhou soldiers we've got on deck catching a worse strain of an already incurable, violent disease.

[purities]

And we'll deal with it if that happens. This is what we trained for, isn't it?

[gutterbound]

For a mass mental illness and bloodbath in our own troops? Sure, that was on page six of the manual.

[He sighs, carding a hand through his hair.]

Of course, maybe it is just a special case. I just got a funny feeling, is all...

[purities]

Hm... [frowns.] If we're lucky, it's a random, isolated case. But if not...