Event: Shadows and Side Effects Part Two

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SHADOWS AND SIDE EFFECTS

No matter what, everyone falls asleep before 5AM on day 38. And, no matter what, everyone is awoken to paralysis swallowing them like a blanket, keeping them from doing more than laying where they are and breathing while the jab of an injection on one of their arms jolts them. It's familiar to many, although some may be experiencing this for the first time. Over the next fifteen minutes, the paralysis fades. For those possessed, during those fifteen minutes they will feel themselves gaining more and more control over themselves. They have been aware of what was happening the entire time--fully aware of what they were doing and saying, but trapped in their bodies and unable to do anything more than watch. Now, however, they're free again. That's when the nausea sets in. And the headaches, the sensitivity to light, the fever, the uncontrollable shivering... They're varied and unpleasant. Not everyone is plagued as badly, however. Severity is as follows: People who have turned on a beacon are immune, suffering no symptoms. People who were possessed are partially resistant, suffering one to four symptoms of low to moderate severity. People who were not possessed and did not turn on their beacon aren't resistant, suffering two to six symptoms of moderate to high severity. People who were not possessed, did not turn on their beacon, and had close contact with someone who was possessed are hit the worst, suffering at least four symptoms of high severity, with no maximum. Symptom options are as follows: nausea, vomiting, fever, headache, body ache, chills, sensitivity of the senses (can be only one sense or a combination), memory loss (short and/or long term), feeling of mild to severe sedation, blurred vision, loss of appetite/thirst, and coma. These symptoms will fade after the day is out--even those who end up comatose will recover on their own. It's strange that some people were protected, however... And perhaps more peculiar is the silence of @ADMIN, as if nothing had gone wrong with the injections at all.

Comments

QUESTIONS

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[heroproceeding]

By close contact, do you mean physically or just being in contact with those possessed?

[snowblindmods]

Close contact refers to close physical proximity, like being in the same building as them or passing by them outside.

[heroproceeding]

Alright, that's what I thought! Thanks for clarifying all the same!

Re: QUESTIONS

[deus_ex_phs]

If characters have medicine in their possession, will taking it be at all effective for dealing with fever/chills/aches/whatever it is the medicine is supposed to be good for?

[snowblindmods]

It would take some of the edge off, but not fix it completely.