God Gracious, that was wild. I am in due to apologize to those I offended with my dogmatic thinking. Even if it was a curse and those beliefs were popular, ah--I am Christian and in league with the Vatican, but I'm not an ordinated Sister or push my faith like I did. What I like of this City is the wide acceptance and co-existence between varied beliefs and different... people. I don't think many appreciate that quality in this place. It's easier to see the flaws.

I am pleased to know the violence was kept low this time. The City General wouldn't be too crowded in the aftermath.

[Aion]

I know you didn't mean

Please, my Lord, I implore you to have mercy of these libertine children in the City of Lights. These poor little, lost sheep would find the way back to the herd with Your guidance. Grant them salvation for their sinful souls I beg you!

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.

[Making the sign of the cross, the kneeling young Sister rises and retreats from the City Notre Dame Cathedral to do nursery rounds in the closer public hospital of Paris. She walks on the streets while the sun is setting, rushing to reach before the night falls. The monochrome of her black habit and white veil and coif contrasting with her visible natural re hair. The only ornament she carries is a rosary, not made of wood, but an intricate relic with an unusual Gothic design that will make her pious image slightly drop.]

(ooc; Assume this was before sunset! This is Sister Lilith, secret medic-missionary foreign nun who has arrived to Paris after visiting London for Enlightenment of the Western culture).

Although I'd praise there's a degree of positive thinking if people utter redeeming qualities to our fellow citizens, because it closes a distance that we're not usually willing to compromise. It's still a misfortune to see this be another curse. There is of course, the fine line between a truthful compliment and the deceitful flattery. As Socrates once said:

“Flattery is like friendship in show, but not in fruit”

[Abel + Aion]

Please don't wait for me tonight, I have an appointment with my co-workers at the Blue Light. If you are hungry, there are leftovers for dinner in the fridge.

[Hospital]

Good evening. Doctor Chase's celebration made me curious about the topic of holidays. All of us come from different times and places, it'll be nice to keep a calendar for our personal special events this year, in order to share the experience and inform the other members of the staff if they are interested.

For those who have been forced to stay over two years, we have become used to a theme that links December to zombies in a way or another. In the Hospital, there is even a special wing in the last floor to suppress the outbreak. Unfortunately, this year has repeated itself in a less expected way by forcing us dig out our tombs. I hope that would be the last we see of the unsettling event.

[Hospital]

Is everybody all right after that experience? Nobody has..., ah--I pray the Lord this isn't the case.

[Abel]

I was thinking that you are the only priest in this city, would you start the Church services for Christmas and Advent observation, Abel?

Excuse me, but what is the situation with mending as the deities requested? Do we have more information? Has someone managed to escape? Thank you.

I implore to those who find themselves in a familiar landscape to remain there, don't try to escape by destroying the door. You will continue trapped, however the accommodations will be traded by something far more uncomfortable. Don't forget this warning, please.

[Hospital]

Unfortunately, I am unable to attend my shifts. I was caught up in this. I beg you all to report me how is everyone faring inside the installations.

( [Closed Action: Abel Nightroad and Aion] )

[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.