[The device flickers on and begins to record from the front right angle where one of her knights have been standing on the field. There are a couple of corpses in the ground, Methuselah and Terran. From beneath the crowd of cross-bearing squad, Lilith steps into view, dressed and bejeweled with an exotic choice of wardrobe. She seems taken out of a Hindu pantheon deity picture. She's escorted by two Methuselahs who are ready to attack their former comrades if they approach them with ill intentions.]

There haven't been enough deaths... [She looks at the fallen with a sad expression, then lifts her head.] Abel?

[With the advantage of fighting his Methuselahs unable to be free to fight under the sun, she has led her Terran allies to push them outside the City ground, into this field. The day has fled into the night, but she still has the advantage of ranks.]

Stop fighting us. It's never too late to make peace and start over. I implore you to consider that. Or... Please, Abel, reconsider your position. We don't have to fight, the world is not your enemy and you don't have to be the enemy of the world.

(ooc; Ignore the wings and the World card symbol of that pic? Action for Abel? -Aion or whoever is around who wants to join either side?- All journal replies will be forward-tagged after midnight!).

Oh my, if we don't have visitors again. I would prepare you something delicious to eat in exchange of your well-behavior inside the Hospital or the Cathedral. I hope you aren't startled by their enthusiasm, Abel. This is one of the most unusual events this place has to offer.

Elissar, are you here? I wanted to tell you: I won our bet.

If you want a tour, I implore you to not bother Aion. He gets in an impossible mood with their harassment. I would volunteer to give you a guided stroll within the three Wings of our home. Thank you.

(ooc; Anything goes, action/comment/etc! WISH her a happy day: All Saints day lulz).

Since the City appears to favor our return to childhood or transformation into toys or animals, we should try to organize a preventive assistance system for those who are affected during these chaotic weekends. Everyone of us could be cursed--ah, and exposed to danger. A place like this could be hazardous for the youth or those who couldn't defend themselves trapped as small creatures or objects.

This is an idea to reduce the accidents.

[Aion]

Abel is here.

[Filtered to Abel Nightroad: UNASF Encryption. Untraceable, Anonymous.]

I am waiting for you at the entrance of the East Wing of the Cathedral.

It seems that once more the tragedies provoked by the curse have been averted by the coming of midnight, leaving both the victims and the affected attackers with the painful memory of the event. The possibility of a complication in this aftermath has been brought up already--ah, I pray to God this is not the case. But we can't never be too sure, if you committed acts of cannibalism, please contact the City General or the private clinics to run the appropriate tests and detect the slightest sign of infection. The faster TSEs are diagnosed, the higher chance to cure them.

There is a good reason why the animal kingdom is almost completely adverse to the practice.

That's why creatures like us are--The Krsniks are... unnatural.

On a brighter note, this... this didn't last as long as the infestations that are so common in December. I'm a little more confident that maybe this year, we will not have zombies during the holiday season.

[Hospital]

This includes us, as staff of the City General, we cannot risk our patients.

[Friends (including Aion)]

I see most of you have gone unaffected. I'm glad for that small mercy.

[Wherever a curious bird or small animal triggered the video to begin recording, it isn't clear. The camera viewpoint is not showing much of Lilith herself, the view of the rosebuds is far clearer from that angle, except for her extended hand- peculiar for her nails are unnaturally long and white- a few severed fingers on it. Her numerous gold and silver bracelets are stained in crimson.

A pool of blood keeps spreading over the green grass, there's something in the blood, the video stasis doesn't make it clear but in a flash, the fallen limbs vanish as if they have been melted in acid. Or devoured by the blood.

Stray blue feathers flutter down and prickle the poodle.]

( OOC note )

My Lord--Would my prayers reach you in this dark time? In view of what is happening and what has happened, I implore all of those who have escaped or resisted the police arrest to don't delay in contacting a doctor or come to the City General. We have to take care of your injuries as soon as possible.

Thank you for your patience.

[Hospital + Clinics]

We should organize an emergency assistance. I have witnessed that many are coming from the depths of the underground, we must position several units there to tend the wounded and prepared to move them into our facilities. I beg you to be contact me and be careful if you wish to have a position in the field, we don't know how would the guards react if we aid the fugitives.

[Friends + Acquaintances]

Please, let me hear a word from you.

(ooc; Pretend this was posted earlier afternoon, pls!)

I'd counted myself fortunate to have escaped curses so far, at least this one isn't cruel and for this I'm very content.

I am grateful I was able to live in this world. Despite of the hard circumstances and the reasons why we--I came to be, I'm really thankful that I was able to live, to cry and to love as much as I do today. I'm grateful to have had a family for a short time, even if our differences had separated us. Sorrow I became too close acquainted, but because I also knew of happiness.

Even if sometimes is a burden to bear, I am in debt with His Holiness for granting me the title of Saint and to my all allies who cannot hear my words of gratitude.

In this City, I'm overjoyed that I was able to see the fruit of my labors, the good and bad consequences of my choices. To be able to... feel regret and relief when it show me what would have been if I had changed my mind in my actions; I thank above all that Abel realized how much love this world has to give him. Nothing else has made me more happy than see him as that. I am extremely glad that I could meet and befriend so many people, like Chrono or Aion or my colleagues from the Hospital. I am so happy I was able to perform as a doctor once more instead of... ah, my other office.

This peace and harmony we keep here is the most welcoming after all that fighting.

Sister Esther. I'm so deeply grateful to you and your friends are able to help Abel in my absence. This is from the bottom of my heart: thank you. He will never admit how much he needed that hand, but I know he does, and I'm happy he had endeared himself onto many lives.

Finally, this will be so silly, but I'm happy that Aion didn't use a permanent marker.

[Hospital Filter]

To all of you, I'm grateful for your everyday service and camaraderie as for the idea to organize an anniversary for this establishment. Ah--It'll certainly lift our spirits higher.

As we are in the same topic, how is all going?

Yesterday was too cruel--we did what we could. Curse days like those always do crowd the City General. It makes me more grateful we do have a Hospital and private clinics to attend when we are in need of treatment. Maybe I'm in a nostalgic mood lately, for two years have passed since my arrival in July, but these facilities are even newer than my presence. The City General opening happened exactly on August 16 of 2007, Miss Yamamura was there with me when it happened, besides of many companions that were fortunate to leave this world. The health care used to be provided in private practicing basis and house calls without establishments to procure this service.

How much has changed in so little. I must admit I'm a little impressed with the changes when I remember those days.

[Chrono & Rosette]

I didn't ask you if your first order was a success, dears. I promised you and your companions a free dinner.

[Aion]

Do you have a moment? It's not about grocery shopping.

“I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams”

Jonas Salk.

I beg you to listen to a American medical researcher and virologist small pearl of wisdom. He made his dream possible when he developed the first safe and effective polio vaccine -- let me say that his optimism is contagious during bleak times. Those nightmares that haunt you could be easily dispelled with your dreams. I could have addressed the most recent loneliness, but that can be forgotten with good company of your loved ones.

In the aftermath of those dark hours, they are the best you could rely on.

[Shader]

Are you still looking for a job, dear?

[Aion]

We have been quiet, haven't we?

Speaking of pleasant company, may I ask yours for today's grocery shopping?

Gabriel has departed the City. A friend's farewell always weights wearily in my soul; another face less to look forward to see each day. Godspeed, dear, I pray that your Father smiles upon you in the road you must walk on from now until you reach that answer that you're looking for. All paths lead to Him, won't you say?

In my care, he has left the key of the modest Chapel, shelter for everyone of faith. I can't keep them to myself, they should belong to someone who would secure masses for every Christian creed and each person who wants a moment to say their pleas to the Almighty. I'm a simple doctor, a faithful one, but not a woman of the cloth. Despite how many titles the Holy See bestowed upon me, I am no angel, saint, holy woman or divine envoy of Heavens. Who would like to keep the key and the Chapel running as Gabriel did? If you are interested and promise to have the House of God open to those who need it, I implore you to contact me.

Thank you.

[Private]

The Methuselah Duchess left too. The one who remains behind claims treason against Seth, too young and naive to know her Empress' plans.

Another resource of information I could have had from the future is gone.

(ooc; Consider this placeholder ish for 4th Wall day tomorrow too /asked mod).

Thank you, Doctor Chase, for your fast response and concern for the public welfare. The City General and the clinics are doing their best to attend to those who have fallen ill. It would seem the source of contagion was efficiently dealt with yesterday and hasn't resurrected after midnight, this will be reduce the hazard of a large outbreak occurring.

Regardless of the good news to celebrate, if you feel sick, call a doctor or have somebody take you to see one immediately. A snow fall as begun and--I'm afraid that is the patterns of last year repeats itself-we'll have a storm tomorrow, making our pedestrian circulation difficult. I beg you to take this in consideration and don't let your health aggravate any further.

[Patients]

Mellony, dear, 2 g daily of streptomycin for fourteen days. While Chrono, doxycycline until your organism heals. Usually would be ten days for a normal human being, but I won't venture a guess about the strain that could affect you.

[Aion]

What are you afraid of? Of me or of her?

I found feathers scattered everywhere on the Cathedral's gardens and the steps the other day-ah --it's not yet season for molting. I pray that Aion hasn't captured a citizen with plumage in one of my shifts.

Attention to All Teams (Blue, Red, Orange, any color of your preference): I assure you there are no "flags" within the installations of the City General. The Hospital is not a battlefield, I would beg you to vacate the vicinity if you try to fight within and implore all who have been injured to inform medics and healers in order to tend your wounds immediately.

Don't let yourself get killed over a game, please. Value your life a little more and see that this world has so much to offer aside of the flags you wish to capture: Family, friends, lover, even pets... Think about it and drop your weapons.

[Aion]

I am relieved you are alive...

Why did you humor my maternal instincts?

Are you cursed?

Has anyone seen my boy? Aion? Silver hair, dark skin, golden eyes and glasses. If he isn't a split image of Abel and myself. He dresses in white. I haven't heard of him and I'm sick in worry.

He wasn't here when I came back from work. Where did he go without telling me? He could have called and relieved my anxiety when he knew I had a late shift and extra hours in the Hospital. The number of victims attacked have been increased. I should I called him, instead, to see if everything was alright. I shouldn't blame him for my mistakes. I pray to God he's only in those bars he frequents, I wouldn't be angry if he were.

At least you talk to me, Chrono, and I know where you are enough to never worry. If only your brother had the common sense to do the same. Maybe it's my fault, I put others above my personal life that I fail as mother. Ah--Aion, I implore you to answer this. Please, I'm sorry I left you for so long. I want to make it better, right now, you need to eat well and I've already made breakfast. Please, I beg you to come back home.

You too should tell me where you are, Seth dear. I can't believe I allow you to stay with your children friends every day.

That poor woman. I hope that others aren't cruel with a mother desperate to have her son back. This pain is so close to mine right now.

[Hospital & Medical team (House, Megumi, etc)]

This is a brief summary provided by people more familiar with this ailing known as Geostigma. This is viral infection although the pus presence is misleading, which means we should probably refrain from prescribing antibiotics.

As the symptoms are already well known among us like the possibility of death this illness carries for the moment, I would like to bring into attention the following:

Transmission: Contact of infected individuals or contaminated substances, generally food or liquids. No known airborne cases. Not known to infect animals.

Can we give credence of this? Are animals' systems unaltered or can they function as rare carriers? Why are animals selectively spared as hosts in this case? Perhaps we can find vital information in how the virus works by seeing the effect or lack thereof in rats or the patient's pets that are in active contact with them. We should ask the patients if they have a cat or dog. I am also interested to know if any of the affected are dead, to test the theory of weak immune system susceptibility as they know or we are facing a new strain that affects those who are, by all means, healthy.

As for the cure, Reno says the following:

There is no known medical cure for Geostigma. Instead, treatment is provided by the infected individual bathing in water treated with pure life energy and magic healing properties. This water can be obtained through communication with the planet via a race of people called the Cetra.

Miss Yamamura dear, I believe you will be the most useful once we are able to decipher this virus in its structure, replication, and pathogenesis.

Current list of cases:

I, II, III, and IV.

If you have information about another person affected, please, I beg you to make it know. We should try to organize ourselves and aid these people.

Added:

I plead you to read this.

Are those actual facts or fiction of a legendary virus?

[/Hospital & Medical team]


As Doctor House and others have already warned, if you present black rashes and presence of black pus, please isolate yourself and contact medical help immediately. Likewise, if you come across a person with these symptoms we advice to not touch them in order to avoid risking contagion, instead we implore you to inform us. Thank you.

May I have a word with those who are ill? Mr. Reeve and Miss Anita? I have a couple of questions that I mean ask. Your dear friend is very worried about your well-being.

In days like this one, I wish we weren't at odds, Seth. Your experience in this area will help us greatly in the analysis of the virus structural components, its genome and subsequent-I miss those days we were a family. Why did I...

"The angel said to the women, "Do not be afraid, for I know that you are looking for Jesus, who was crucified. He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay. Then go quickly and tell his disciples: 'He has risen from the dead and is going ahead of you into Galilee. There you will see him.' Now I have told you."

So the women hurried away from the tomb, afraid yet filled with joy, and ran to tell his disciples. Suddenly Jesus met them. "Greetings," he said. They came to him, clasped his feet and worshiped him. Then Jesus said to them, "Do not be afraid. Go and tell my brothers to go to Galilee; there they will see me."

Matthew 28: 5-10.

A late reflection passage for Easter day, there is a curse or I must say-- ah miracle blessing that has brought people to life again. This spurn of mercy fills me with a warm joy. I implore the City and its deities to keep them alive for more than one mere day. That would be too cruel in giving and taking their hopes away so soon.

Gabriel already announced the mass services at the Chapel, I will see you there. May the Lord bless you.

( [Chrono] )

(ooc; Pretend this was earlier. *sick and napped for hours*).

When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. "Do you understand what I have done for you?" he asked them. "You call me 'Teacher' and 'Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.

John 13. 12-17

Today is Maudy Thursday of the Holy Week, the day the Eucharist was instituted in the Last Supper and that Christians practice in act of remembrance during the Holy Communion of the Mass. This passage and the one with Christ's agony in garden of Gethsemane are the most famed readings during Mass. I would like to rescue one that is less connected to any specific religion, the story where Jesus washed his disciples feet, although he's their Lord and Teacher, he humbles himself as servant. He is teaching them a lesson of humility that every great leader should take at heart. We are no greater than those who work for us. The value of life is equal and the same. If we lead armies or rule nations, we are no better than our soldiers or our subjects. That is what I sincerely believe in and what this religion has taught me.


Nurse Fairchild... I implore to have a word with you. May we talk about your duties in the Hospital?

( [Aion] )

Those photographs were small miracles with pieces of our lives captured from unseen observers. There couldn't be taken from our memories if we appear on them unaware of the scene, this depends the mystery of the reach the City and its deities have in our worlds. Were they there?

A little more than two more weeks until Easter. Dear me, we're almost there. I implore that we will be relived from curses during that weekend.

Ah-- Please tell me, Akiha, how is your talent show project going? Are you all set? I could bake some goods for the audience.

( [Action Post: Cathedral )

(ooc; Japanese class. Brb).

While I am glad to see the atmosphere of merriment among the population after last week curses, I would truly suggest to exercise caution, specially among the youth and the portion of the population who aren't used to beer, about your own limits. Let's not be excessive unless we must, I implore you. If you find someone who has been heavily intoxicated, I beg you to take them into the Hospital.

If you cannot do this, take care those who have fainted on spot. Unconsciousness can occur due to extreme levels of consumption which makes the person vulnerable because this could lead to asphyxiation by vomit. An appropriate first aid response to an unconscious, drunken person is to place them in the recovery position. There are plenty of forms to do this, I will describe just one of them: the mouth must be put downward so that vomit or blood can drain from the patient while the chin is well up to keep the epiglottis opened. Arms and legs should be locked as to stabilize the position of the patient. After they are secured, call for medical assistance.

To bring up another topic-- We are in Lent and observing the feast of a renown Saint, Patrick, a Roman Britain-born Christian missionary who is one of the patron saints of Ireland. This is only about having beer or dressing in green, I am afraid he didn't invent neither. He was known to spread the Gospel in the Irish people, converting "many thousands" and drawing out the "snakes" which is a symbol of the Druid pagan beliefs. Why don't we think for a minute about the man who has this day named after him before drinking that pint of beer? Please. To every responsible adult who is drinking -- Cheers.

( [Private] )

Oh dear, this is very unsettling. I pray that Aion doesn't have trouble about handling my body. It would be the second time I walk into someone else's shoes; this is never an easy experience. If our own lives are difficult and we have grown used to them every day: how can we bear someone else's life?

[Hospital]

This is Doctor Sahl dutifully informing about a change of my appearance due to this curse. I implore you to not be alarmed by a new face behind my desk.

( [Private] )