{ Player Event } What's true of all the evils in the world is true of the plague as well

[quizpersona]

Who: You. (Open to all)
Where: All over Aldrip.
What: This is the log for what we’ve been affectionately dubbing The Organ Player Plot. Various places around Aldrip are facing dangerous supernatural occurrences. It’s a scavenger hunt in some way.
Warnings: MANY SNAKES, Body Horror, Organ Trafficking, Horror Themes, Violence, and we will be updating this as we go along.



A waking scream in the darkness is the first unheard omen.

Snakes, hundreds if not thousands, slither forth from the depths of Lorentia Cave and swiftly invade Aldrip. They are the heralds of the terrible things to come, and there are no corners safe from their encroachment. The serpents come in all shape and sizes, venomous or not, and are quick to become agitated if approached. Their readiness to strike and unwillingness to back off once provoked indicates the lack of survival instinct to flee. They are on the search for what's missing, and they will put up a fight.

An invisible haze sets upon the city , filled with anguish and fury, afflicting residents as it washes through the air and buildings. Children, the elderly, and the sickly are the first to complain of ailment. Within the next few days, patients begin to flood the doors of any hospital or clinic with more serious conditions-- fevers burning from them inside out and excruciating phantom pains that make them writhe in bed.

The longer what's stolen is not returned, the worse things get. Who knows how many bodies will pile high from these plagues if nothing gets done...





ooc//
[ Dara is currently locked behind a barrier in Lorentia Cave to stave off the further spread of deadly miasma. Please retrieve a protection talisman from Seimei and retrieve what she’s lost (and hopefully return it…) !

How This Works–
To begin the search for the supernatural sources a participant can select a number that corresponds to one of the squares on the map (seen below). To go on a route head on down to the numbered top levels in the comments and reply to it. This is your character kicking off their investigation. Some routes will lead to nowhere, some to something, and others to ;)? You’ll find out.

During exploration you will receive responses from either quizpersona or cursegod. This is not an interaction with that particular character unless indicated otherwise.

This event will handwave wrap up by the 20th if no conclusion is reached before then because Dara needs her poor organs back. ]

The Map


Happy Belated Easter lol

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[quizpersona]

[ They don't have to go very far in that search. As if to invite them further towards the center of the room the static humming begins to morph further in order to adopt more of that gently but steady beat. The nearer they draw to that first common room the more they may realize it resembles something recognizable.

Should either of them concentrate enough there are a great many things they can discover. The first is that whatever it was making it hard to hear each other wanes the further they venture into that specific room. The second is the eerie way their own heartbeats begin to stutter and align with the one echoing off these four walls. Lastly, that it's hard to determine where exactly the heartbeat originates from—but ultimately it’s coming from below their feet somewhere. ]

[heir_conditioned]

Shoto remembers that one time that they were supposed to just sweep an area and not shove their face into something crazy. And yet he should've known that he and Izuku would've found something much more than that with both their knacks for getting in trouble. The resonating sound hits his ears and he frowns as he begins to realize it isn't just his own guess at what the sound is that's thudding waves through the very air around them.

The flutter in his chest isn't unnoticed, either, and his hand settles there very clearly uncertain of what's going on. He's not clear which it is, the sound resonating into his chest, or his chest resonating into the sound. His hand, again, grabs onto Midoriya's wrist and he pulls gently. He's unwilling to stop, but also, he pats his chest in time with the beating of that sound, trying to gesture that it's the same as his own. When he's done it, he points at Midoriya with a questioning look on his face.

They have no choice but to go on, of course, someone could be in trouble with how the people ran out of here. With how his heart is reacting. If he knew why that beating was happening and why the reverberations were under their feet, he might be able to just freeze the house section by section but without knowing who is there... He may hurt someone instead. Use of sound is a quirk in his world and even if it may not be someone from his world, he doesn't want to find out about them at the funeral he caused.

[heroondecku]

[This is not a fun sensation. Izuku's not even sure how his hearing is being affected anymore, if every sound is muffled but the beat or if the beat is just that loud or both or neither. He can't tell if he wishes Jirou or Shouji were here or if he's glad they're very very far away.

He's still going to continue checking the room, because he can't back out of an investigation just because something suspicious is freaking him out. It's not like they have backup they can report to, or teammates better suited to the situation who can tag in, or...anything other than themselves and their Quirks. Even if realizing his own heartbeat is syncing up with the rhythm is kind of terrifying. As is having Todoroki grab him and indicate that it's happening to him too.

The other boy gets a silent nod in reply, and will be able to see that that hero persona is starting to crack a bit. Izuku doesn't even bother trying to talk this time -- he does not trust sound at all right now -- instead going straight to his tablet.

we need to check if there's a lower floor]

[heir_conditioned]

Shoto's hand stays tight on Izuku's wrist a moment before he realizes that Izuku is trying to figure out how they can communicate without voices. The tablet is a good way to go and he leans in to see what gets typed, at that point long having let go to let him type of course. "I see..." He says, only realizing after that no one can hear it other than-- well not even himself. So he nods his head, why bother getting out more than one when he can pluck and type below it.

I agree, but neither of our quirks are suited here. I can't use ice until I know that no one else is around or I risk killing them if they're frozen for too long.

What he's more concerned with are the edges that begin to fray here regarding Izuku. If it continues, he will stop him well before they go anywhere.

[heroondecku]

[He's not getting any worse at the moment, at least. Not getting much better, either, but being handed an opening to strategize and assess without having to think about the distressing pulse rising up around them is something he's not going to pass up. It's a practical distraction, and something to keep him from getting lost in his own head.

It's true that they can't exactly preemptively freeze every surface in the building -- even if they did know someone was in here, they'd need to have a much better idea of where they might be. And most of the Quirks bound up in One For All are defensive or supportive, so unless they have a very good reason to start busting up parts of the structure it's only good for Danger Sense, which isn't exactly helpful without any harmful intent to trip it.

And yet.

Then we continue recon until we have more information. If our Quirks can't help us, then we'll have to do things the hard way until we find something they can apply to.

And if they don't find anything like that, they keep doing things the hard way until the problem is solved, even if that means having to find someone else better suited to the situation. Izuku can't let them resort to that until he's absolutely sure they can't handle this themselves, though.

So. Take a deep breath, straighten up, square his shoulders. Reassemble his hero persona as best he can, because if he keeps wearing confidence then maybe he'll start feeling it again. Don't think about what they're experiencing, don't think about the fact that it could be more of this world's awful mind-screwing nonsense. They've got this. He's fine.]

[heir_conditioned]

Shoto, though noticing his friend's hesitation is trying to think of how his quirk would help, and he's not sure it would unless they were tracking vibration for some reason. Something else he wants to develop. But not something he's willing to bother with unless they need in this moment. Their hand to hand and combat training will help them against most things, right? ...Right?

Shoto nods his head, enough so that it's impossible not to know that he's agreeing. But. He also has something else to do. Seeing Izuku have to steel himself, makes Shoto worry. Not for himself, but if he lost Izuku to not dealing with something... So, he sets his hand on Izuku's back, the other one typing on Izuku's tablet so he can hold it and Shoto can type.

I am here.

Is what he types, patting him and doing as their teacher had lead with example of: Smiling a soft smile with another nod of his head. No matter what it is, they'll be able to face it.

tfw you've read Poe but your character hasn't

[heroondecku]

[Those three words hit Izuku harder than he ever would've expected. It's been so long since he's heard them, and yet they're ingrained in his being so deeply that he hears All Might's voice clear as a bell in his mind as he reads them. He doesn't know if that was his friend's intent in using that specific phrase, but he knows it's not something Todoroki would just type without thinking, that he picked those words because they mean something to Izuku. It eases his anxiety a little, but more importantly it puts the tiniest smile on his face, just briefly.

Right. He's not alone, and his partner isn't a stranger. This is his friend, who he trusts and respects, who he knows and who knows him. He doesn't have to face this by himself.

He takes the other boy's forearm in one hand, positioning his grip so Todoroki can grip his own in return. This should let them at least indicate they've noticed something by squeezing the other's arm. Then he leads them very slowly, trying to pay attention to how the sound changes based on their proximity to that room (without thinking about whatever might be causing it or any other effect on his hearing, hopefully). Step one, figure out if there's a basement or lower floor for it to be coming from.]

😉

[quizpersona]

[ Matters of the Heart are complicated. As Izuku and Shoto take their time to do a diligent survey of the area the low, dull, scratchy beating in their hearts begins to hurt. Gently at first it begins to build over time... Eventually it'll hurt in the way betrayal hollows out the chest. It hurts in the way anxiety gnaws away at one's core. It agonizes in the way that loss chews away a piece of you that's unlikely to return.

Who is to know for sure who these emotions belong to? So hard to tell when everyone present is feeling them.

The slow march across the floorboards is a smart strategy. Indeed, as they progress closer towards the southern wall the beating gets clearer. It's a tripping hazard over here with the uneven floorboards. There is also a door that looks like it leads to stairs going down on the northern wall.

Where will they look? ]

[heroondecku]

[Moving slow started as a strategy, but for Izuku at least it gradually becomes an inevitability. He's got a frankly terrifying level of pain tolerance, but only physically; he has always felt strongly, empathized openly. He can't tell if he's being forced to feel this hurt now, or if something is dragging old pain up out of him to feel again all at once, but either way it's not helping the lingering fear that something is messing with his head. Which just adds even more emotion to the pile.

Eventually he brings them to a stop, partway between the odd floorboards and that door. Tears are already flowing down his cheeks, and it makes typing his next message harder, but it also makes the message feel even more important.

can you check the door?

He's sorry, Todoroki. He needs a moment. Maybe a lot of them.]

[heir_conditioned]

Shoto isn't sure about what Izuku is going through, but it seems like maybe it's a lot for him. So he nods his head after reading the message, patting his shoulder. A quick wipe of those tears away and Todoroki puts his hand up in a 'stay here'. The hero ices his forearm over in case he comes into contact with something too toothy for his flesh.

Pausing at the door for only a moment he steels himself and opens it to check the room, looking at the unblocked portion first.