[Open] Dr. Medic's Sleepaway Funtimes Camp

[mementomoritz]

I. So girl keep telling me [network post]

[About three hours after the whole post-Esmeeting kerfuffle, every phone included in the Executor group chat suddenly blares loudly with an incoming post that appears to have every possible alert and priority notice the person writing it could find attached to it.]

ANYONE WHO ATE ANYTHING AT ESME'S HOUSE REPORT TO MEDIC IMMEDIATELY YOU ARE POISONED


[Well, you can't accuse her of burying the lede.]

i'm in my lab in invidia [The exact address and coordinates of the lab are attached along with the message, including a helpful photo of a scribbled map just in case anyone is really bad with directions.] if you ate ANY of the food esme served or if you're feeling sick, come here so i can treat you
if you find someone unconscious or unable to move on their own, BRING THEM HERE
if you don't have anyone around and think you need help getting here, reply to this message immediately

i threw up, so i tested some of the leftovers i took home
and that food is very, very poisoned
(also, if you brought leftovers home, don't eat them)


II. pick me up whenever i'm feeling down [in-person log]

[True to her word, Medic is ready and waiting in her lab the second anyone arrives.]

[The living room of the apartment she commandeered has been turned into a makeshift hospital. She's dragged cushions and mattresses in, laying them out on the floor and covering them with clean sheets and blankets to make sickbeds. Next to every bed is a glass of water and a bowl for, uh. Any stomach issues you might have to deal with.]

[Anyone healthy who walks in the door will be cheerfully pressganged into nursing duty.]

[The beds are set up facing the living room's lone TV, but well... this is Invidia. Guess who's probably on every channel.]

[You might have better luck with putting on a movie, but no one actually saw this coming, which means your available selection consists exclusively of stuff Medic brought with her from the Limbo library when she came down to Invidia. By which we mean exactly one film.]

[Whether having to see Esme's face is better or worse than watching Brutal Instinct again is a choice you're going to have to make amongst yourselves.]

Comments

Re: @viatorem

[daughterofthemark]

why would she poison her own food

[schardynfreude]

I realize you were not blessed with an overabundance of sense at birth much less death but surely you can see 'she hates us' and 'some of our faction were poisoned' and come to a conclusion that is not off the mark.

[daughterofthemark]

but would she not have poisoned herself as well

gracious what if she believes we poisoned her

@mona

[alcahest]

Veil...
She was trying to kill us. I'm sorry.

[daughterofthemark]

dame mona even you think so

[That holds a bit more weight.]

[alcahest]

Yes.

[ this message is taking even longer than Mona usually does to type, but eventually: ]

I still can't hate her. But she doesn't want us to reach the Cogs.
What we do will erase her.
She wants to stop us.

[daughterofthemark]

but would she not also be poisoning herself

[CLINGING TO THIS]

[alcahest]

She would only have to poison the food she meant for us.

I'm coming to get you, okay? I'll take you to Medic.
Where are you?

[ she doesn't want it to be any of the others. she doesn't want them to say anything to Veil that will only hurt more. ]

[daughterofthemark]

i am seated just outside the mall

i meant to visit dame medic but i had to rest

[alcahest]

It's alright. I'll help you.
I'm going to run, so I'll be there soon. Just stay where you are and rest.
😊

[mementomoritz]

thank you, mona
the door's unlocked so just bring her in right away, please

[schardynfreude]

I'm genuinely curious now as to what you think happened and why.

[daughterofthemark]

[royal_veil is typing...]





[royal_veil is typing...]





[Still no actual response.]

@blauendonau

[seasharp]

she was trying to poison us

can you really not see that???

Re: @blauendonau

[daughterofthemark]

we cannot simply assume that when she may be a victim as well

[seasharp]

she's not a victim! she's the bad guy here!

[daughterofthemark]

why must there be a bad guy

[seasharp]

ask your new best friend.

[mementomoritz]

given the progression of symptoms, she would almost certainly be feeling the effects by now if she were also dosed

and i feel like if you can't get good medical attention despite RULING A WHOLE CITY then you are a really bad ruler and need to invest way more in public healthcare

so either way she's probably fine! :)

[Listen, man, she just heals shit. Don't ask her to figure out why anyone does anything.]

[daughterofthemark]

i see

thank you dame medic

[emberserker]

Not to mention that she was on the opposite side of the table. Surely her own food was clean; it would have been easy.

I'll end her.

[mementomoritz]

she WAS very insistent that no one sit on the same couch as her....

[Lesson learned, never respect personal space ever again.]

[emberserker]

And she was very thorough, making it slow-acting and tasteless. I don't suppose she's done this before.

[daughterofthemark]

[There's a pause.]

i see