slightlyoffchilt: (Pristine.)
Dr. Frederick Chilton ([personal profile] slightlyoffchilt) wrote in [community profile] maskormenace2015-06-02 05:11 pm

4. (LUCID DREAMING) (VIDEO)

[Chilton wears an unusually grim expression, when he tunes into the Network. He closes his office door behind him, which angled the communicator down to his door-closing hand -- one of his fingers sports a particularly ancient looking ring. There's a sharp glint in that glimpse, before the camera angle soon directs back to the doctor's face.]

Desirable difficulty. Are you familiar with the concept? [Rhetorical, of course.] The theory that the presence of an inconvenience or obstacle, and the act of overcoming that roadblock, will better synthesize cerebral information. The concept could be expanded upon how the brain identifies and encodes patterns, themes, what have you, in the midst of a crisis.

[Chilton flips the communicator camera back around to showcase his environment. The bright ceiling luminescence and mint green hallways of Heropa Downtown Hospital provide a sterilized, if normalized, depiction of a stereotypical medical center.

It's the collapsed, unconscious doctors with their noose-like stethoscopes and limp, unmoving patients lining the walls, floor, the rooms that juxtapose something unsettling.
]

Would you consider this difficulty desirable?

[This is all in reference to the Pestilence of the Horseman Plot. If you need an excuse for a point of infection, you can consider this to be it!]
angelfire: (Fallen angel)

Voice;

[personal profile] angelfire 2015-06-03 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Just pretend he's not the first person to reply to this because suspicious with a capital s. Not that he isn't suspicious anyway.. ]

How terrible. What do you suppose happened to them?
Edited 2015-06-03 00:47 (UTC)
angelfire: (Give me strength)

[personal profile] angelfire 2015-06-03 12:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ He does so want to see how the doctor perceives his own sickness. He must see through it by now, and if he does, will he admit to it? Here? In front of these frightened and paranoid people? ]

And what is that?
sassguard: (fuck ooooofffFF)

voice;

[personal profile] sassguard 2015-06-03 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ By this point, it's not the first time Shepard's seen a limp, collapsed form. He hasn't succumbed to whatever malaise has taken the dreamers, and his voice is sharp and on edge when he responds. ]

I don't see anything desirable about it.

What the hell is going on?
abduxel: (and what matters ain't who's baddest)

Voice

[personal profile] abduxel 2015-06-03 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
What did you do? Was there a game of last doctor standing?
abduxel: (but I know just what you runnin' from)

[personal profile] abduxel 2015-06-03 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
Bravo. A win well-earned.
sassguard: (i'm not saying it was aliens but)

voice;

[personal profile] sassguard 2015-06-03 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
That's an understatement. [ Beat. ] But yeah, I've seen it happen to a couple of people already. Comes on fast, too.

Are you the only person still conscious there? Are there any other imPorts?
Edited 2015-06-03 01:09 (UTC)
inmyothertights: (Billy - smokey the superhero)

[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-06-03 01:14 am (UTC)(link)
Oh my god.
sassguard: (time will come when we'll look back)

voice;

[personal profile] sassguard 2015-06-03 01:16 am (UTC)(link)
Right. I haven't heard from the force yet, but I'm sure they're still figuring out how to deal with it. Getting out of there would be a good idea, if what started it is still around.

Did you notice anything unusual before people started getting knocked out? Could be imPort powers behind this.

[ Just because it usually is. ]
angelfire: (Give me strength)

[personal profile] angelfire 2015-06-03 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
Oh I shouldn't say so. Forces warring outside your control, beyond your perception. Earthquakes and hurricanes are often the battles waged between Heaven and Hell, after all; you merely perceive them to be natural disasters because it suits your need for scientific order; for tangible explanation.

[ Lucifer isn't careful enough, but then he hardly cares. That glimpse of ring--he hopes the Winchesters are watching. And engaging with Chilton like this is always worth putting on his dancing shoes. ]

You're detached from it. You see what you see because you have a perspective on it, but there's more at play here than can be dreamt of in your philosophy.
abduxel: (no I can't slow down - I can't hold back)

[personal profile] abduxel 2015-06-03 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
What's the big deal?
inmyothertights: (Billy - arguing)

[personal profile] inmyothertights 2015-06-03 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
What happened?
abduxel: (and what matters ain't who's baddest)

[personal profile] abduxel 2015-06-03 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
What if it's you, next? Better stay somewhere safe. Actually, I'm feeling a little sleepy myself.
redplainsrider: (And you're an asshole)

Video

[personal profile] redplainsrider 2015-06-03 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
[She gets over the initial dread before coming on to reply, looking as calm and unaffected as possible. She asks, to the point:]

Another plague?

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