[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

[morelikeisabeast]

[Isabel just kind of looked at her for a moment, before turning back to the movie, where the hero was currently saying some very inaccurate things about evolutionary theory and what kind of instincts they instill in you. She was fine with not talking about it for now. Fighting revenants was one thing but just busting into someone's home and beating them up was another entirely.]

...Alright.

[phantasmagorial]

[ That's a familiar sort of reaction. It's the same kind as Rei's been having ever since they came back from Esme's house, the cramming-your-feelings-somewhere-you-don't-have-to-think-about-them reaction. She looks around quickly, just to make sure that none of the others are looking like they're about to come over and scoots over to Isabel, dropping her voice just a bit. ]

... do... do you think we should?

[morelikeisabeast]

I dunno! Shouldn’t the grownups be the ones deciding things like that?

[When in doubt, deflect the question onto someone else. She was also talking quietly, though. Even if she wasn’t QUITE sure who they were worried would overhear them.]

[phantasmagorial]

[ That just makes Rei furrow her brow a bit and tilt her head. ]

I... don't think so? I mean– they don't really know a whole lot more about this than we do, so why would they?

[ Area Executor Has Never Had Adult Supervision Before In Her Life ]

[morelikeisabeast]

Well cuz' they're grownups. It's their job to know what's going on!

[Oh to be twelve and sure that someone was actually in charge.]

[phantasmagorial]

Huh.

[ That's news to her, but Isabel says it so confidently that Rei can't really argue with it. ]

Even so, don't you think they'd want to hear what you think about all this?

[morelikeisabeast]

I...

[Want to go in there and punch Esme until quarters come out because this isn't FAIR she never got a chance at a LIFE and now she doesn't get a chance at a proper afterlife EITHER because Esme is ruing EVERYTHING by being GREEDY and stopping everything from working so she can PRETEND she's IMPORTANT while everyone else just sit around and does NOTHING.]

...don't really know what I think about it.

[phantasmagorial]

... I guess it is kind of a lot to take in.

[ Rei sighs and rests her chin in her hands, looking decidedly glum. ]

I knew she didn't like us, but I never thought she'd go this far.

Justifying other threads that have already started

[morelikeisabeast]

Well, she did. So now we gotta do SOMETHING about her, and I'm not super excited about trying to talk to her again.

[She looked annoyed, but thoughtful.]

I heard there was a broadcasting station on the edge of town that no one goes to anymore. Esme is a media star, do you think there might be something we can learn about her over there?

[phantasmagorial]

[ Rei nods. ]

It's worth a try, at least. And even if we did try talking to her again, I really don't think we'd get anything out of her.

[ Not after the way she stonewalled everyone, at least. ]