[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

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[daughterofthemark]

oh no

i had a lot of snacks

am i going to die

@Phoenix

[discutio]

That conniving little

[He may or may not have activated speech to text a bit earlier than intended.]

Are you alright? Will you require any help?

[mementomoritz]

not if i fix it, you aren't!
please come here so i can do that

[Medic: the most reassuring possible bedside manner.]

[mementomoritz]

[I mean, it's a valid assessment.]

oh, I'M fine
but i wouldn't mind some extra hands down here
just in case she tries anything

[What? She tried to assassinate them once and the lab is in Invidia. She's a mad scientist, not a stupid scientist.]

[daughterofthemark]

i will be there shortly

[A minute later...]

somewhat less shortly i feel terrible

[And a little while after that...]

has anyone warned lady esme 😨

[discutio]

Seems an unlikely course of action. But I'll be there as soon as I'm able.

@mona

[alcahest]

Are you alright, Medic?
I'll come help. I can at least keep an eye on anyone who's sick...

i - @blauendonau

[seasharp]

...

huh???

[wait WHAT

POISON WHAT]

@viatorem

[schardynfreude]

Yes, let's warn her about her own food that she poisoned. Brilliant.

@beast

[twibeast]

WHAT

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.

[mementomoritz]

poison

[Was that not clear? She feels like she was pretty clear.]

i documented the process if you want to see?
i record ALL my experiments

[mementomoritz]

poison
like the stuff that makes you sick and maybe dead

confirmed symptoms include fever, nausea, and vomiting
potential but unconfirmed symptoms may also feature chills, shaking hands, blurred vision, unconsciousness, paralysis, difficulty breathing, and death

again

...i need a better phrase for that

[seasharp]

um

i passed out for a bit earlier

is that what that was about???

[twibeast]

IM BRINGING REI NOW

[mementomoritz]

oh, if anything actually happens to me you guys will probably have been dead for WEEKS

but thanks! it's very sweet of you to ask <3

[...apparently the library also had episodes of The Office. Who knew.]

even if you're not sick, you're welcome to stop by
i could always use an extra pair of hands [Hopefully she means still attached to the original owner, but the phrasing isn't encouraging.]

[daughterofthemark]

but would she not have poisoned herself as well

gracious what if she believes we poisoned her

@Brainiac

[pride_of_amarcia]

Do you know of anyone who you think was there and isn't accounted for for me to seek out?

[... Wow, Brainiac is suddenly dead serious. Weird.]

[alcahest]

Oh... That's good.

[ IS IT???? ]

I'll come right now.
I don't think I've ever looked after a sick person, though... or been sick? I'm not sure.
What should I do to help?

@mona

[alcahest]

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

[seasharp]

wait, rei's sick?!?!?!

[and like one second later]

wait wait don't answer that just bring her quick!

[mementomoritz]

[The reply text arrives with almost unseemly haste:]

almost certainly come here immediately

[phantasmagorial]

[ So, this is new! Rei has literally zero memory of being sick before in her life (unlife?), so this is an eye-opening if not exactly enjoyable experience. But Beast zoomed her over quickly enough that she's been seen to and plopped into one of the beds and just sort of... accepted her fate to stay here for the foreseeable future.

To her credit, she takes the whole thing rather well – she's not happy about it, but it's certainly less emotionally fraught and complicated than the whole last few weeks have been. Maybe the quiet and the express requirement to Get Some Goddamn Rest is doing her some good.

And get some rest she does – she spends a lot of time sleeping pretty deeply, and when she's awake, she's watching Brutal Instinct with a look of what I can only describe as open disdain. What is this movie. ]

That's definitely ketchup, right? [ In the midst of a particularly gory scene. It's beyond fake looking. ] Or maybe even hot sauce.

[ Once she's feeling a little more up to it, she also takes herself to visit the other patients as well – she's got a guilty sort of smile on her face as she approaches them, though. ]

Hi. How are you feeling so far...?

@blauendonau

[seasharp]

she was trying to poison us

can you really not see that???