[Open] Oh, Worm?

[codicies]

Who: Everyone who wants to get in on Worm Plot related things
What: There's a bug going around, and it might be a little more literal than you realize!
When: Backdated from the start of April through May
Where: Central City
Notes: Relevant context: April Confluence, May Confluence, and Mechanica's announcement.

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01. Hivemind Shenanigans (CLOSED)

(For any of Dylan's close friends who received a bit of symbiote goop from him get to be part of a little mental groupchat while this plot lasts. Keep in mind:

• Your character can shut the groupchat out at any time.
  
• Your character can choose not to project thoughts.
  
• If you want to have them accidentally project thoughts and emotions, that's cool too.
  
• Even if we didn't thread out your character getting a bit of Dylan Ooze, as long as they're close friends, we can handwave it and let them join the hive.
  
• This isn't permanent! Dylan will be collecting pieces of himself from the others once either the vaccine is developed and/or the worm plot ends. )

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02. Interacting with the Infected

Many citizens of Central City seem... off. Some are exhausted, with fuzzy memories, and powers on the fritz. It seems like they're wasting away.

Then, suddenly... they're back to normal, as if nothing ever changed. Sick? When were they sick?

The symptoms are explained in detail during the April Confluence Post. Do your characters try to help the sick? Make them remember when they were sick?

Or did a firm handshake from the formerly-sick acquaintance leave you with a creepy-crawly feeling you're unsure how to explain?

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03.Vaccine Development (Location: Broadmoor Hospital)

Any science-y types who want to help with Pete Ross' attempt at making a vaccine will be directed to Broadmoor Hospital. Knowing that Dylan is immune to the disease, he'll be closely inspecting samples of Dylan's symbiote matter to isolate the biomarkers that repel the worms.

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04. Wildcard

Is there another way you want to engage with the Worm Plot? Are you stuck in Central City when you just want to get back home to Sunset Falls? Are you loudly complaining about the Society's secrecy regarding the whole matter?

Comments

[nerdylilspidey]

[Spidey was going to say something about this shapeshifting ability of theirs, but he pauses, just for a brief moment, at the mention of another Spider-Man. There's a slight tension in his shoulders now that wasn't there a second ago, which he tries (and fails) to dispel with a laugh.]

Yeah, we could sure use him for this right now. Where's a good scientist when we need one, huh? Heh...

[Then he shakes his head a little, a motion directed more at himself than anywhere else. Stop that.]

Okidokie, since I'm not hearing any objections, let's start with getting samples! Can we just ask some hospital staff for a fantastically boring one, or should someone go rummaging around for it themselves?

[arach_kid]

...I'm just gonna go ahead and use the intercomm to ask for some to be sent up.

[And he does just that, politely requesting a blood sample from a non-meta be sent up.]

We've got a lot more leeway here given what's going on, but even that wouldn't save us from getting literally kicked out if we started rifling through people's drawers.

[definecat]

So what do you need me to do? Beyond just being your friendly neighborhood symbiote? [A beat, then they wink at Spidey] Not trying to steal your thing.

[Sleeper considers some of the information that's already up, absently noting some proteins that seem to merit a closer look.]