video + text; Virus Zombie PSA (backdated to an hour or so after J's post)

[notglitching]

[So remember that cheery blonde asking people to come screw? Guess what! She's back on camera already. Only the call's coming from Rinzler's MID (didn't he kill her that one time?), and J looks to have undergone some fairly rapid... changes.

First? She's a technozombie!

Second? Extra dead.

Her skin is dull and grey, split apart in papery, cracked lines that show the glow of circuitry beneath. Her eyes are flat and hollow, glinting dimly in the light above, as if the switch behind them was burned out. Her head lolls to the side at a twisted, malformed angle, and the slice visible through one collarbone is oddly bloodless. What liquid does ooze out is black.

The camera lingers for a long moment, only the low ticking rumble of Rinzler's noise offscreen to break the silence. Then, several lines of text scroll out below the screen.]

Active virus detected.
Affects users. Infected subjects: hostile, attempting to spread.

[Shepard starts talking before she's on camera, allowing for the image to assist in her addition to Rinzler's information. Her voice is urgent, stern — and a touch strained.]

This is a red alert. Something on board is turning crew into beings called husks. They're the result of organic cells being replaced with psychological and physiological-controlling synthetic material.

[As the camera shifts to her, the source of the strain is clearer — she's attempting to patch up a wound to the gut in a hurry. More discerning types may identify it as a gunshot wound.]

See a friend, but they're looking a little different? Keep your distance, and let us know. It's not a exactly your traditional virus, but any bite or scratch can open up a host site, and turn you, too.


Private to: Nihlus

Location?


[[ooc: Monolith Plot continues! Red is Rinzler; orange Shepard—they'll both be responding to non-privated threads.]]

Comments

video

[ascendit]

Hey, uh - I've got spells that can cure problems kinda like that. ... And help heal that gunshot wound. Do you want me to try it?

text+video;

[notglitching]

[Enjoy the skeptical helmet-tilt. And rumbly noise.]

Clarify extent of repair functions.

[Shepard can decide as she chooses for her own damage, but you do not take risks with viruses. Still, if this user can help...]

[ascendit]

I don't know if it'd work with this, but where it comes from, it cures Zombie, Petrification, poison, lowered physical defences, Berserk, Silence, magical sleep, and temporary blindness.

VOICE

[squadgoals]

I'm fine. [¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Not sure it would work here either, but it doesn't hurt to try. I'll send you our location.

Video

[ascendit]

On my way.

[Is this kid reaching for a sword looking thing as the feed clicks off?]

VOICE

[squadgoals]

We'll gather here, spread out in teams, and see what we can do.

[Was that a sword]

[notglitching]

ID: 'Zombie' applied by observer.

[He doesn't know if it's accurate. But if this user is some sort of antiviral...]

Maintain proximity (combat functions).

[ascendit]

[A confused look.] I don't know what you mean by "combat functions", but I'm trained.

[notglitching]

[Nate parsed the general meaning, which is better than half the callers have managed with Rinzler's texts. He doesn't bother reformatting.]

Good.
Backup: better.

[ascendit]

I'll, uh, find someone?

[notglitching]

[User, if you can do what you're saying, you're literally the single person they can't allow to be harmed. Everyone else might be repaired.

Rinzler doesn't bother spelling it out, though. (Or responding.) Shepard already mentioned teams, and distributing resources before they know who'll make it here is pointless.]