10IV start!

[idolpro]

Who: 10IV
Where: The 10IV dorms
When: Day 355, morning

[ You all wake up in bed with your smartphone at your bedside, all of you in your sleepwear, with a message on your phone.

Good morning, newly departed guest stars! You've got new co-stars to meet, a new dorm to explore, and the television in the main room with the "names" of everyone in your unit with flashing empty boxes next to them, waiting for you to each assign yourself a personal color. Or assign them to each other, really, no one's stopping you.

Once you've chosen your color (or, once it's chosen for you), your closets will unlock with 3 sets of hospital uniforms fitted exactly to your size.

Also, the front door is currently locked. It looks like you actually have no choice but to get to know each other for an hour or two before those open up. ]

Comments

[agentgymstudent]

Why is that?

[proceedwithcautus]

Um, specifically, my infection is likely to spread then, and I wouldn't want anyone else to catch it.

[agentgymstudent]

.... [Checks his phone.]

[Considers His Own Death.]

Let me see it. [Holds out his hand, pocketing his phone.]

[proceedwithcautus]

Ah, you should be really careful, though—you're not currently injured at all, are you? You might need to watch your blood originium-crystal density levels—

[agentgymstudent]

I have no crystals as far as I know, but I have reason to believe abnormalities are on hold too.

If not, then testing the unit ability.

[proceedwithcautus]

Er—

[ well, she holds out her hand—there's lines of crystal growth from her wrist. maybe a slight indentation where it seems like she might normally wear a watch or a thick bracelet? ]

...which ability?

[agentgymstudent]

Lab safety.

[Gonna touch a crystal.]

[proceedwithcautus]

[ she's fretting!!!

it's like. literal rocks, though. these are not fleshy bits at all. ]

[agentgymstudent]

[Poke poke poke becore he activates the ability to see if it infects him.]

This is some calsification.

Do you have rocks as like a normal thing in your....species, I guess.

[proceedwithcautus]

Oh. No, this is a disease, specifically, that causes, among other things, growth of crystal lesions on the epidermis, mutations to standard physical features, and internal damage, including to certain centers of the brain.

...I'm not sure why I remember that so keenly, but I do.

[agentgymstudent]

Well, good to know its not just me. Can't remember personal stuff, but can remember a whole lot of other stuff.

The ears part of the disease or is that normal?

[proceedwithcautus]

That's very normal!

[ squints

shouldn't there be more ears on this guy, that seems right ]

You haven't met a cautus before?

[agentgymstudent]

To be determined because I can't remember things, but my kneejerk reactioms are weird.

[proceedwithcautus]

Ah, well, it seems like a lot of people here aren't what I'm familiar with...

[agentgymstudent]

The dragon girl is also pretty unexpected.

[proceedwithcautus]

Mm... I don't know if I've met a vouivre who looked just like her, but I don't think she's that odd-looking?

[agentgymstudent]

So people with animal traits is your normal?

[proceedwithcautus]

...well, I think if I understand your meaning, yes.

[agentgymstudent]

....huh.

How quick is this infection supposed to be?

[proceedwithcautus]

Oh, not quick at all. You'd need bloodstream contact or prolonged environmental exposure.

[agentgymstudent]

Hmmm, so couldn't get infected now, right?

[proceedwithcautus]

Probably not—I'd feel terrible if there was some kind of accident, though, so I thought it best to err on the side of caution.

[agentgymstudent]

Fair, though I'm not too worried about me in particular.

Still, I think we're in a purgatory state. Disease may not be so big a factor.

[proceedwithcautus]

Er—what's a "purgatory," if you don't mind my asking?

[agentgymstudent]

A sort of inbetween life and death or heaven and hell.