(NPC Post, CW for unsettling description) EMERGENCY BROADCAST - Video

[stodgebot]

This is T-O-D, Deputy of Ingress Contingency Coordination. We are entering a level two state contamination across all known regions--I told them we needed to regulate travel, but nooo.... and THIS. Is Ema.

[The camera turns from the round robotic speaker toward a tendril-faced being who looks slightly ill. Or just embarrassed. Those who have traveled with the Savrii's diplomatic groups might recognize the individual at hand as a mid-clearance representative. They might even understand the shy wave of her tentacles, before a high, sarcastic voice cuts off the gesture.]

Ema went out with that fiasco on the asteroid. Ema decided to cut loose. Relax! Why not? It's not like the assessors trusted with the fate of the multiverse thought it was dangerous!

...but. Ema keeps a sensible security system installed around her room. And that's how we were able to discover this.

[The TAB feed switches to a dimmer video with a timestamp in the lower left corner. Almost exactly three days ago-- the night of the celebration on Asteroid 276. It shows Ema stumbling outside of her quarters and vomiting into the hallways of Region Four. The tentacled woman stumbles away in distress, leaving behind a messy coating of red-grey...

...which quivers. Shudders. And crawls offscreen, a rolling, seething mess of flesh--]

Consuming untested phenomenon. Smuggling of a potential biohazard. And this from a planet vetted as safe? I understand many of you biologicals keep parasites of your own, but this is an obvious breach of interuniversal quarantine procedures, and requires immediate assessment and response.

[TOD vibrates in the air, high voice reaching a crescendo of frenzied importance.]

Testing stations are being set up in Burg One of Chioni and all populated regions of Kauto. All inhabitants of Thisavrou who have engaged in Ingress travel over the last two cycles are required to report to mandatory decontamination and debriefing. That's two hundred days for the calculation-challenged idiots out there! If you know of anyone experiencing similar symptoms, provide their names, along with anything they've touched, to the nearest Contingency Coordinator or intermediary. Especially if they haven't reported in!

I hope the urgency of the situation has been fully impressed on you. If, however, you have further questions, you may submit them for review.

[[ooc: More info on the decontamination will be posted in the monthly log. For OOC questions, head this way!]]

Comments

[witchweird]

Does that mean travel anywhere at all requires decontamination? Not just to the asteroid? What will happen to the asteroid?

Will the Ingress remain open for trips to other destinations? For trade? Are there any plans to change the safety classifications or procedures for rating a destination as safe?

And if this is a result of consuming food or drink tainted with this parasite, is anything being done about food stores to assure that they are safe? Is cooking sufficient?

[stodgebot]

[That's a lot of questions for someone who was supposed to have the urgency clearly and totally impressed on them! TOD responds by aggressively zooming toward the camera.]

Did you not hear level two contamination? Really, I don't know why I bother...!

Unless you know which grimy little flesh heap tracked this in, then of course a full assessment is required. You could have tracked this across half the multiverse! Or be housing it in your backyard. The point! Is that safety is paramount, and you can bet your squashy breath-sacs procedures will be changing soon.

[The rant pauses, eye-lights flickering with an irritated whine.]

State your clearance for appropriate information dispensation.

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[inconsequence]

[Ha ha! Boy! Good thing no one close to them engaged in genetic modifications on the Asteroid or anything!]

What of those who received genetic alterations on Asteroid 276? Are they at an increased risk?

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[stodgebot]

[WELL OBVIOUSLY no one was that stupid right?]

Almost certainly!

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[gainedlove]

[That was real. It wasn't a dream, that was real. Something like that came out of them, could still be in them.]

[Could be inside Asriel.]

what will you do to people that got sick

[brokencode]

I would like to second this question.

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[stodgebot]

Assess them! Debrief them! Weren't you listening?

[Frisk is, probably fortunately, spared all the offscreen muttering about their presumed attention span.]

This is an invasive biohazard, presumed hostile. With the destructive capability it's demonstrated already, any confirmed exposures need to be carefully watched. In case!

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[pleasereset]

[Haha... oh god. Oh god.

Is that what's inside him? He didn't think he threw anything up that night, didn't see anything come out but...

Oh god.

He feels sick.]

What's going to happen the people that have those things inside them?

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[stodgebot]

Well, I suppose that depends on any number of factors. We could be looking at flesh-eating parasites, or brain spores. Or perhaps it's expelling the host's organs one at a time? And granting them mobility, of course... I'm not a doctor, so it's just a theory, but

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[stodgebot]

[WAIT WHAT GO BACK]

"people"

Do you know of an additional case?

[brokencode]

You aren't going to punish Ema, are you? Or... hurt her in any way? There was no way of knowing, and this was meant to be a peace-mission, wasn't it? Who would risk compromising the mission like that with something this egregious?

[stodgebot]

[Can a robot tsk? Apparently not quite, but the angry metronome noises give off a little of the same impression.]

Egregious is an understatement for this multitude of unfolding mistakes! Really, I would have thought your kind would at least monitor what you cram in those face-valves!

But of course not, no. Hurt hasn't been a validated method of behavior correction in... well, longer than I know about.

...why? Do you think it would work?

[mttbrandlegs]

Please forgive me a few questions.

This parasite does not pose lethal threat, does it?

And surely, despite your ever-so-slightly officious tone, there is no intent to punish anyone who has been affected, correct?

[Mettaton presents himself flatly enough, but that doesn't stop the endless mental stream of cursing that he doesn't articulate.]

[stodgebot]

[Ever-so-slightly is definitely not officious enough. TOD offers a high, sharp hum, and promptly ups the ante.]

Please provide your clearance level for appropriate information dispension.

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[beautifulspaceraptor]

[ Well. Always fun to see all of his bad hunches proving themselves right. Goddess, one biologically contaminated prison stationed and drugged up timelsip party was bad enough. ]

I did sneak some scans and samples of the food and drink while I was there. Should I submit them to the testing stations or somewhere more specific?

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[stodgebot]

The substance Ema consumed? By all means, head to your nearest testing station! How recently did you acquire these?

[lavelly]

[ffffuuuuucccckkkk]

If it's already left the body then what's the problem?

[Science.]

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[stodgebot]

What's the problem? WHAT'S THE PROBLEM?

[redshitlord]

Wh... that's not. For everybody, is it?

I'm not even organic!

[stodgebot]

Then you definitely shouldn't have organic parasites infesting your subsystems! And if you do, don't you want to know about it?

Decontamination is mandatory for all parties who have travelled. Safety must be our paramount concern!

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[shiro2hero]

What symptoms, exactly?

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[stodgebot]

Oh, uncontrolled vomiting, a feeling of depression... expulsion of bodily fluids that GET UP AND AMBULATE WITHOUT YOU.

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[mylawn]

You need it captured/contained?

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[stodgebot]

[HELLO WHAT DID YOU SAY]

You've seen the biohazard!?

[warandpeace]

[Parasite and Quarantine are words he does not like at all. Nope.]

I'll be at one as soon as I can.

[He thinks about telling them what might still be in his eyes- after all, even if they were cleared up, they're still the same eyes. But that might not make his life any easier.]

What does decontamination entail?

[stodgebot]

Well, I'm glad someone listens.

It's nothing too arduous! Some paperwork. ID verification. There will probably be a line. Then you step inside and they get you all cleaned up!

[otiosity]

Hmm.

I don't know, I think I would remember eating a massive blob of squishy flesh and then vomiting it up everywhere. It's a bit extraordinary. And disgusting.

[stodgebot]

Isn't it?! Really, I know you biologicals like to stuff all kinds of things into your valves, but this is absolutely atrocious.

[frankensteinian]

[Uh huh.]

So one ...creature [for lack of a better word] goes somewhere and gets infected with something, and no one notices, and everyone who went anywhere within the last two hundred days has to get tested?

[stodgebot]

Ema's a Thrandrillian. Not a creature. I know all the flesh sacs can be difficult to tell apart, but you don't want to re-do sensitivity training, trust me. (Not that I mind seminars, but after the fourth or fifth time, there are really more interesting ones to go to.)

But otherwise that sounds about right!

[el_paso]

Some of us just got here. Are you telling me we have to go through... [ he makes a face ] ..."decontamination" as well?

[ Because sure, he'll just submit himself and his kid voluntarily to a lab- ahaha no, he won't. ]

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[greyate]

It sounds like they're expecting all of us to go through it.

[ She doesn't like it, either. Like at all. ]

[prorenataa]

[ Well, wasn't that delightful news to wake up too.

After scrubbing his hand over his face a few times, Adrien opened up a channel to T.O.D. ]

This is Dr. Adrien Arbuckal reporting in. [ Yes, when in situations like these he defaults to military speak. ]

I have not been off planet, as it happens, but I have some questions about bio-hazard protocols, the inter-universal quarantine procedures and the decontamination processes.

[ He'd run through a checklist of questions, covering standard bio-hazard practices and what could be expected of the decontamination process; just in case he got any questions.

He would have specific questions about the inter-universal quarantine procedure. [ooc: As I am not a doctor, can we squint our eyes and pretend Adrien asked all sorts of painfully detailed medical type questions that basically ended up sounding like he was speaking another language? ]

Finally, at the end of all that jargon, he paused and then inquired. ]

Were any notes, regarding this situation, recovered?

[stodgebot]

Why, absolutely, Doctor! Please proceed.

[TOD, as it happens, appreciates the formal address. TOD also appreciates having a chance to babble on about regulations and procedures. Adrien's questions are answered with only occasional divergence to half-correct rants about organic life or curious inquiries on Adrien's own experiences-- though for anything too technical, TOD will refer him to the doctors at the nearest testing center. [ooc: See also hell to the yes. :|b]

Jargon trading done with...]

Notes? Notes from where? Do you have notes?

[coercive]

What is decontamination?

[She wants to know what exactly it involves so she can determine just how apprehensive of all this she should be.]

[stodgebot]

Decontamination is the removal of unsafe substances! Like flesh goo that isn't yours.

Do you have any?

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[worn_wings]

Seems like folks goin' to that one place are the problem.

[ two hundred days, are you kidding. Space whales are not worth this kind of suffering. ]

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[stodgebot]

It's entirely possible! Probable, even!

But since it's also possible it's been hiding in your flesh sacs for cycles, well. Testing is paramount! Also, safety.

[yablueit]

Wait, any travel? I thought just that asteroid was messed up! Why does everybody need decontaminating?

[stodgebot]

Well, we don't know that, do we? You could have spread this plague across half the multiverse by now!

It's very important to be sure where it came from. And to make certain it doesn't spread!