WEEK 2.

[trustfellows]

WEEK 2 Two people are dead. Jean Kirstein and Caren have both died due to a tragic accident. Of course, you're not entirely innocent, are you? You voted, you played into this game the Coordinators are running. But you know the stakes now. You know what failure to complete Rule Seven really means. No more excuses from here on out. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; come Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock and there are no dead bodies to be found, so it can be assumed that all of you are safe for the time being. That said, you'll be feeling a little groggy when you wake up; it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost... Of course, exploring the building from here on will reveal something new: namely, a stairwell in the northeastern corner, leading upwards toward a new floor entirely. Another sign of how things are going to progress around here, maybe; chances are you'll enjoy what you've been given, but was it worth the lives of two people to obtain? PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 33 PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 32

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[OOC: Welcome to week two of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Coordinators, you can do so through private meetings with Alena!]

Comments

[notaccurate]

[A quick google search tells me that viruses were first discovered in 1892, so!]

If someone didn't want to catch a disease, then they should not be in an infirmary I think.

[Look, that's just how things are in his time. If you don't want to get sick, stay away from the sick.]

[greenmamabear]

...I mean, I never finished pre-med, but I'm pretty sure if you're already in the infirmary, you don't wanna catch other people's stuff.

[notaccurate]

...

Just how much has medicine changed between my time and yours?

[WELL. IT'S NOT LIKE ANYONE WANTS TO GET SICK? But that's one of the risks with going to a hospital, that you might get sicker than you were before. It's better to do home visits, in his opinion.]

[greenmamabear]

[Oh this is one of those time travel things isn't it.]

Uh, depends. What year are you again?

[notaccurate]

The 1870s.

[The decade alone should be enough right?]

[greenmamabear]

.......Ah!

[Yeah that'll do it.]

Well. Uh. We got rid of smallpox?

[notaccurate]

[What]

How did you manage to get rid of a disease like that?

[greenmamabear]

Lots of vaccines? Washing hands, that's a big one. Those are, uh, the ones things I can think of.

[notaccurate]

...what is a vaccine?

[They existed in his time, but weren't widely known about yet.]

[greenmamabear]

[Oh. God.]

....Alright, I'm gonna have to get deep into medical advancements and discoveries in the last hundred years or so. Like, blood cells and immune systems and bacteria stuff. You up for this?

[notaccurate]

I suppose we should sit down for this, at least. And maybe get some water.

[greenmamabear]

[Smash cut to: kitchen. Drinks and food. A notebook with Fern preparing corollary images.]

Alright, so, bacteria and viruses. You got that down? [Its a very cute doodle of a germ in the notebook.]

[notaccurate]

[He isn't literally taking notes, but it is pretty clear that he is following along with everything Fern is saying.]

I think so, yes. Though I did not expect either of them to look so comical.

[greenmamabear]

[She grins and gives him a little push.]

This is high art, I'll have you know.

[notaccurate]

Mmm, yes, I am sure those grammar school scholars appreciate your masterpieces.

[He's saying it teasingly, he's trying to joke around a bit rather than being mean.]

[greenmamabear]

I was a teacher's darling.

So, in our body, we have this systems of immune... stuff that fight viruses when they get in our body. Sort of like troops fighting another army.

[notaccurate]

That makes sense, knowing now that there are these 'bacterias' and 'viruses' trying to kill us.

[greenmamabear]

Exactly. So like, when they're against weaker viruses, its sort of like training the troops.

[notaccurate]

A sound tactic. Or at least my non-military-mind thinks so.

[greenmamabear]

Thaaaaaat's about as far as my military metaphors go too.

But there was this doctor who was like "well, what if we inject a really weak virus right into the immune guys and see if its good training.

[notaccurate]

That sounds like a good way to risk catching the disease itself.

[greenmamabear]

Yeah, that's pretty much what.... probably... most people thought. Its kind of wacky, yeah.

But somehow it worked and now the immune system is, uh... super prepared for certain diseases.

[notaccurate]

Which is why smallpox is no longer a problem.

[And a lot of diseases, apparently.]

God, how many people could we have saved if we had thought of this sooner?