fourth helix ♥ VIDEO; MIRRORNET

[alcheregis]

[ Haen's smiling with a rather pleased look on the video today, even though the general air isn't something most people are smiling about lately. Which is why... ]

My dears, I just want to give you all a heads up! Although your heads can really be in any position you'd like, so long as you give me a little listen. I can't say I really enjoy these guests of ours, so I've decided to make them feel a bit more unwelcome. Not my usual attitude, I know, but I really think they're just overstepping a bit too much!

So don't be surprised if you see them feeling a just a touch under the weather starting any time now. I'm actually rather proud of the recipe I've put together! A little encephalitis, some single stranded ribonucleic acid, just a pinch of Yersinia pestis!

[ For those of you who are wondering why that sounds familiar: yes, she did just name the bacterial strain responsible for the bubonic plague, among others. ]

It really is a lot like cooking, actually. Too much salt spoils the soup... is it salt, that saying refers to? I mean, really too much of anything would spoil soup. Although I suppose soup might be easier to recover than, say, a cake or something.

Oh! And I also tweaked a bit for their melanocytes, so you'll be easily able to tell who's already infected, and that you should probably avoid them. They're going to have bright orange splotches on their skin, impossible to miss, really. Well, I suppose if you were blind, you might miss them... or colour-blind. Hmm, I didn't think of that. Well, for next time!

Now if you do happen to be an inattentive silly and catch this, I want you to drink lots of milk! It's good for bones, and it'll also work well for the symptoms. Has to do with the amount of thiamine-- oh, you might know that as vitamin B1. Anyway, drink lots of milk, it'll help you feel better. But please don't tell that to our guests, I'd rather them find out only once they've gone back home!

That's really all I wanted to let you all know about, dears.

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((OOC: All the information for this can be found here, including a full list of symptoms and information on opting-in if you'd like your character to be affected! Happy plaguing~))

Comments

[ video ]

[hostage]

Nice.

[He's not being sarcastic. Really, he approves of this.]

Re: [ video ]

[alcheregis]

Why, thank you! Everyone should do what they can, right?

[mightthinkthat]

Appreciated.

[alcheregis]

Elusive praise, from you! Thank you.

video;

[daimeinashi]

Excellent. This will make it much easier to kill them.

Re: video;

[alcheregis]

To--? Oh, I really don't think that'll be necessary, dear. They're going to be good and miserable as it is.

video

[wasnever]

Now that is what I'm talking about.

Like, I didn't understand most of what you said, but it's still my kind of prank.

Re: video

[alcheregis]

So much more than a prank, dear.

[resipiscent]

[Holy shit. He knew Haen worked with DNA, but this is admittedly something he hadn't thought of. It occurs to him even as he's opening the video channel that were she ever to decide she were evil, it'd be really, really hard to stop her.]

I'm not gonna say that's excessive, because it's not. It is pretty rough, though. How'd you decide what to use?

[alcheregis]

Well, it's supposed to be rough! Not much of a deterrent otherwise, right?

These are all pretty common at home, I had their strains memorized.

Video

[dendarii]

... I'm sorry, did you just manufacture and use a bio weapon on the Russians?

[ He seems equal parts awed and dismayed. ]

Re: Video

[alcheregis]

Mhm! My own crafty little mixture.

[ She seems awfully proud to have Frankensteined it together. ]

[video]

[thegriffinofdeath]

You...manufactured a plague.

[Anastasya had thought she'd hit the limits on things in this bizarre time that could weird her out but...there it was.]

Re: [video]

[alcheregis]

That's a good way of phrasing it! Although if you want to be extra extra specific, I was only playing about with pieces of plagues that already existed. But the end result is a brand new Hithiel-special.

[akito]

...Encephalitis, RNA viral strains, and ... Bubonic, septicemic, or pneumonic plague? [ see, he really likes biology. and virology is a very interesting aspect of it (LIKE JUST LOOK AT THE COOL SHIT HAEN JUST DID WITH IT OH MAANNN). though he hasn't had a chance to research it as in-depth as he'd have liked... ]

...Did you tweak it enough that a healthy immune system would be able to fight it off eventually, before it can kill the host?

Also! Is it infectious only to humans, or do I have to keep the animals indoors for a while, miss Haen?

[alcheregis]

Septicemic, mostly! Aren't you just the clever little study bug. Although I did take out a few of the naughtier pieces, like potential for gangrene. Honestly, no one wants to clean that up later.

I did give it a life cycle, yes. But just in case, I'm keeping it a secret!

Your pets will be safe, dear.

[melavasomniar]

[Well. Talyn's not surprised to see that Sera's jumped all over this.]

Who would have expected such deviousness hidden beneath that cheerful exterior.

[alcheregis]

[ Haen laughs at him! ]

Devious? You're a silly cytosine, if this were devious, I wouldn't have told anyone. No, I'm just helping the cause, dear.

video

[quaerit]

[ Jesus Christ, is she actually serious? This is appalling.

Why does no one else think so?! ]

I'm sorry, you're saying that you deliberately released an illness to weaken them, and you can't even guarantee who it harms?

How exactly is this being spread?

Re: video

[alcheregis]

[ Haen's confused why he needs to clarify that. ]

Yes, that's exactly what I said in my message, dear.

Oh, I used a few different methods! [ so proud ] See, I was going to do strictly fluid contamination, but I thought that might not get things done in time, and I didn't want to be accused of holding things up, so there's an airborne element in there now as well. It was actually a bit tricky, because the airborne carrier typically has a longer incubation period, but I managed to work out the bugs with that bit of coding, so they're about even now.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Shit.. Well, that's one way to eliminate an unwanted population. You've targeted just humans, I see, but what are the chances of your bioengineered strand mutating?

[alcheregis]

[ She sounds almost offended! ]

None! I do very clean genework, thank you very much!

video;

[clownshoes]

As long as everyone else is okay, I'd say that's pretty good!

Re: video;

[alcheregis]

If they want to be okay, they just need to avoid those orange splotches! I can only be responsible for people to a certain degree, after all. And I've completely minimized my projective fatalities to a very acceptably small number.

text;

[matadorable]

i cant say i know
what most of that means
i am all for making our
russian guests miserable though
so thank you for your service!

and also for the warning

Re: text;

[alcheregis]

You're very welcome! I'm just glad to be helping out. It's important to me to want to take care of people here.