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The Wonderful World of Plaaaaague
Hello, again! This is what we hope will be a comprehensive info post on the care and feeding of the plague.
Let's Get Sick
By now, everyone who volunteered to get sick should have received an email, giving you a day for your character to fall sick. If you didn't volunteer, it doesn't matter, you can still have your character get sick on any day. The initial assignment was simply so we could have the spread get progressively worse.
How It Will Work
Obviously, there are going to be far too many sick people to fit in the clinic. Beginning from mid-morning Tuesday, the Town Hall will become a makeshift hospital. A post will go up every morning and every evening, to cover off day and night in the hospital.
When your character gets sick, send them there. If your character is sick, there will be a thread you can ping them into - a cotside thread, if you will - to be looked at by doctors/healers, attended to by volunteers, suffer nasty symptoms, receive visitors and be total cranky pants.
This does not mean the Town Hall post is the only place you can post your sick character. While the sick won't be permitted to leave the hospital, you are more than welcome to post your sick character in a private post in your own journal, just don't forget that they're actually in the Town Hall hospital!
If you want them to be looked at by doctors, tended by volunteers etc, you need to ping them into the cotside thread in the main post, to save the doctors/volunteers having to go looking for your posts. You can, of course, have both.
Visitors to the hospital will be required to wear a face mask (but people will look the other way if they take it off) and will have to disinfect by scrubbing hands/face/exposed skin before leaving the hospital.
Volunteerism is Good for the Plague!
Those of you who have volunteered have a pretty simple job: help out. This will mean looking after people when they come in sick, getting them settled in a cot, checking on the sick people who are already there, keeping them company, caring for them, getting them food etc. There's not going to be a roster or anything, just ping in when you're availability - RL and FH obligations (classes, etc) - allows. If you have any questions about the volunteering, please ask here. Dr Troy and the other medical staff will be in charge of the hospital, but feel free to grab one of the admins/mods as well if you need a question answered in a hurry. And remember, the rules still apply - don't do something to another person's character without either giving them a chance to avoid it, or their permission to do so.
Healers and the Plaaaague
If your character can heal the sick, whether by magic or technology or some other means, they are more than welcome at the Town Hall hospital. While they can't cure the illness, they can help relieve the symptoms. Even if you didn't sign up, feel free to send them down to offer their help to the sick. As was said previously, it is up to both characters how long it lasts, how effective it is, and how severe the rebound of the symptoms will be, if there is any.
You and Your Plague
So you've brought the plague home! And it's just sooo cute, you want to keep it. Now what?
It's entirely up to you when in the day we've given your character they catch it, and how you get them to the clinic. The symptoms have been set out, and you can go to town with them:
-high fever
-telltale lacy rash
-fever dreams
-terrible cough
-severe, blinding headaches
Plus the normal attendant problems with severe illness, especially after you've had it for a couple of days: dehydration, debilitating weakness, exhaustion etc.
Self healers, it's up to you what you do! Remove the symptoms, destroy the illness only to catch the next mutation coming through, become re-infected, however you want to handle it. Infected self-healers still do need to come to the clinic/hospital though if they're not as bad off as the others they'll be welcome to help care for the worse off.
The Outside World.
Is pretty much gone. One of the effects of the illness, once it's infected a few people, is it severs contact out with the outside world. No going across the causeway, no teleporting, no taking a boat out into the sea (well, you can, but it will just go around and around until you get bored and bring it back), no phone, no email, no IM, no internets. Nada. Zip. Anyone trying to phone into Fandom will just get silence.
This is because the sickness was designed to wipe only a specific group of people out . Those who unleashed it didn't want anyone else to suffer. So Altra can't Jump, Cable can't bodyslide, and the Halliwells can't orb. This is one of the ways they ensured the complete destruction of all the magic users and those who tolerate them. All methods of transport will still work *on* the island. E.g. teleporting within the bounds of the island is totally okay.
All contact with the outside world will cut off mid-Tuesday morning.
With no way of getting to the outside world, it's up to the people on the island to work together to save themselves. Luckily, that's what they do.
The Fandom World
Things will continue as normally as possible, given what's happening. Classes will continue to be held, though they might not be held by the usual teachers, or even by a teacher at all. (Teachers? Don't forget to let us know if you or your TA won't be holding classes - we'll find someone to take them.)
Shops will open as the health of their owners/workers permit. NPC businesses will remain open.
Students with pets - if you've got no one to look after them, they can be handwavily sent to the stables, and they'll be cared for.
When Does It Go Away?
By Friday night, everyone will be cured. There will be lingering weakness, depending on the character: some may languish, some may bounce back in a few hours-- again, it's all up to you.
There will be an event on Saturday which all on the island can attend, but more details of that will follow to avoid spoiling.
Remember, it's never to late to catch the plague! You can get sick right up until Friday morning with no need to let us know. Just get yourself to the hospital. Anyone who decides they want to volunteer for the clinic or research once everything kicks off, just let us know and we'll fit you in somewhere.
Any questions - ask 'em, and we'll do our best to answer! If you don't want to ask them here, feel free to ping any of us on IM and pick our brains, or email us at the administration address and we'll get back to you ASAP.
Let's Get Sick
By now, everyone who volunteered to get sick should have received an email, giving you a day for your character to fall sick. If you didn't volunteer, it doesn't matter, you can still have your character get sick on any day. The initial assignment was simply so we could have the spread get progressively worse.
How It Will Work
Obviously, there are going to be far too many sick people to fit in the clinic. Beginning from mid-morning Tuesday, the Town Hall will become a makeshift hospital. A post will go up every morning and every evening, to cover off day and night in the hospital.
When your character gets sick, send them there. If your character is sick, there will be a thread you can ping them into - a cotside thread, if you will - to be looked at by doctors/healers, attended to by volunteers, suffer nasty symptoms, receive visitors and be total cranky pants.
This does not mean the Town Hall post is the only place you can post your sick character. While the sick won't be permitted to leave the hospital, you are more than welcome to post your sick character in a private post in your own journal, just don't forget that they're actually in the Town Hall hospital!
If you want them to be looked at by doctors, tended by volunteers etc, you need to ping them into the cotside thread in the main post, to save the doctors/volunteers having to go looking for your posts. You can, of course, have both.
Visitors to the hospital will be required to wear a face mask (but people will look the other way if they take it off) and will have to disinfect by scrubbing hands/face/exposed skin before leaving the hospital.
Volunteerism is Good for the Plague!
Those of you who have volunteered have a pretty simple job: help out. This will mean looking after people when they come in sick, getting them settled in a cot, checking on the sick people who are already there, keeping them company, caring for them, getting them food etc. There's not going to be a roster or anything, just ping in when you're availability - RL and FH obligations (classes, etc) - allows. If you have any questions about the volunteering, please ask here. Dr Troy and the other medical staff will be in charge of the hospital, but feel free to grab one of the admins/mods as well if you need a question answered in a hurry. And remember, the rules still apply - don't do something to another person's character without either giving them a chance to avoid it, or their permission to do so.
Healers and the Plaaaague
If your character can heal the sick, whether by magic or technology or some other means, they are more than welcome at the Town Hall hospital. While they can't cure the illness, they can help relieve the symptoms. Even if you didn't sign up, feel free to send them down to offer their help to the sick. As was said previously, it is up to both characters how long it lasts, how effective it is, and how severe the rebound of the symptoms will be, if there is any.
You and Your Plague
So you've brought the plague home! And it's just sooo cute, you want to keep it. Now what?
It's entirely up to you when in the day we've given your character they catch it, and how you get them to the clinic. The symptoms have been set out, and you can go to town with them:
-high fever
-telltale lacy rash
-fever dreams
-terrible cough
-severe, blinding headaches
Plus the normal attendant problems with severe illness, especially after you've had it for a couple of days: dehydration, debilitating weakness, exhaustion etc.
Self healers, it's up to you what you do! Remove the symptoms, destroy the illness only to catch the next mutation coming through, become re-infected, however you want to handle it. Infected self-healers still do need to come to the clinic/hospital though if they're not as bad off as the others they'll be welcome to help care for the worse off.
The Outside World.
Is pretty much gone. One of the effects of the illness, once it's infected a few people, is it severs contact out with the outside world. No going across the causeway, no teleporting, no taking a boat out into the sea (well, you can, but it will just go around and around until you get bored and bring it back), no phone, no email, no IM, no internets. Nada. Zip. Anyone trying to phone into Fandom will just get silence.
This is because the sickness was designed to wipe only a specific group of people out . Those who unleashed it didn't want anyone else to suffer. So Altra can't Jump, Cable can't bodyslide, and the Halliwells can't orb. This is one of the ways they ensured the complete destruction of all the magic users and those who tolerate them. All methods of transport will still work *on* the island. E.g. teleporting within the bounds of the island is totally okay.
All contact with the outside world will cut off mid-Tuesday morning.
With no way of getting to the outside world, it's up to the people on the island to work together to save themselves. Luckily, that's what they do.
The Fandom World
Things will continue as normally as possible, given what's happening. Classes will continue to be held, though they might not be held by the usual teachers, or even by a teacher at all. (Teachers? Don't forget to let us know if you or your TA won't be holding classes - we'll find someone to take them.)
Shops will open as the health of their owners/workers permit. NPC businesses will remain open.
Students with pets - if you've got no one to look after them, they can be handwavily sent to the stables, and they'll be cared for.
When Does It Go Away?
By Friday night, everyone will be cured. There will be lingering weakness, depending on the character: some may languish, some may bounce back in a few hours-- again, it's all up to you.
There will be an event on Saturday which all on the island can attend, but more details of that will follow to avoid spoiling.
Remember, it's never to late to catch the plague! You can get sick right up until Friday morning with no need to let us know. Just get yourself to the hospital. Anyone who decides they want to volunteer for the clinic or research once everything kicks off, just let us know and we'll fit you in somewhere.
Any questions - ask 'em, and we'll do our best to answer! If you don't want to ask them here, feel free to ping any of us on IM and pick our brains, or email us at the administration address and we'll get back to you ASAP.