Event: Automata; Part Two

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AUTOMATA

By the time night falls, things get worse. Those suffering only from radiation sickness now have moderate to severe symptoms--no one will die from them alone, but it's extremely unpleasant, to say the least. Those who are suffering from the hallucinations and lack of emotions will find their radiation sickness symptoms go away entirely. Of course, as they now completely lack feeling, they probably don't really care about that. They now mutely wander whatever locations they can access, be that a single building or anything connected to the maintenance tunnels, knowing no exhaustion. Maybe you'll pass them and they won't do anything. Maybe you'll pass them and they'll attack you like a wild beast, only repelled by being completely restrained, knocked unconscious, or killed. Or maybe they'll kill you. -- Characters with radiation poisoning symptoms only will have those grow worse. These will not kill them by themselves, though there is the very real concern that if they continue for too long they will. Characters with the additional symptoms will end up wandering around whatever buildings they can access at night. They can't go outside, but they can go through the tunnels. They do not speak at all. You may choose to have your character either only wander and not attack anyone or attack people. They don't have to attack everyone, of course--they can wander past twenty people and attack the twenty-first if you'd like. Characters do not have enhanced strength, but pain and injury will not bother them, so they can keep going in their attack beyond what someone who cared more about that sot of thing would. If their leg is broken, for example, they won't be able to walk on it or anything, but they'd have no issue with carrying on dragging it around.

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QUESTIONS

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[equal_shots]

I have a question! Just for clarity's sake, lockdown still happened and people can't get outside to travel/wander, correct?

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Correct!

[zunesareawesome]

Are the automatons/wanderers compelled to attack other automatons/wanderers?

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No.

[deus_ex_phs]

How long will this part last? Just the night? Or do effects continue into day 274?

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Just the night!

[rubikscomplex]

So, FOR SCIENCE, House is going to be taking about a half a pint of Wilson's blood and injecting it into himself to see what happens. Wilson is currently in automaton state. House is not. Wilson has O- blood and House is AB+, so they're compatible.

Will anything happen?

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House will experience a mild loss of emotion and robotic behavior. It won't be as bad as the people who were directly suffering from these issues, and he'll still be in control of himself. It will wear off after one to two hours.

[rubikscomplex]

Because we're having great ideas still, once House is back to normal, he's going to clean his needles and inject his own blood into Wilson. This time a pint of it. They do not have compatible blood-types going this direction.

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Wilson suffers from the following symptoms: chills, fever, and jaundice. There is no other reaction, and these symptoms will go away when the event ends.

[rubikscomplex]

Sorry, Wilson...