Mission Start: Seeds of Hope

[cityship]

"Thank you all for coming. The GIA has been good to us to send a team of delegates. You must be all tired from your trip so please, rest up. Our medical team will provide you all with assistance to treat the plague with your advanced medicine." said the King, bowing to the newcomers.

"For the time being, please wander around the town, but be sure not to stray to the outside. We'll begin medical treatment as soon as possible."

It was an old city, Circle-Xine on the Planet of Koar. Standing there astride an oasis and a desert, it housed a formidable amount of defence, but the same went for the people within who were tough, hardy, but suffering from a special plague. It was a petrification plague, and it was making their people sick, slowly turning the people to stone.

Trans9 had been contacted by the GIA, in order to establish a foothold there, by offering medical supplies, and a team of six had been deployed from the Calnus, and landed outside the city.

It was here Reimi turned to the others. "All right everyone, we'll begin helping the medical relief within two hours. Until then, familiarize yourself with the layout of the town, or rest up. We'll begin after we've settled in."

"Stay in twos as well. I'll be here to coordinate efforts and be bringing the medical supplies from the Calnus."

(ooc: feel free to make your own subthreads and thread amidst yourselves for great CR!)

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Medical Team To the Ward

[cityship]

The medical team is fully equipped. Listen to them.

Re: Medical Team To the Ward

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Might as well get to business here. The quicker they figure out the details of the plague, the quicker they can figure out the medical supplies necessary, and the quicker they can say goodbye to this backwoods planet and get home.

At least it's just a petrification plague, instead of one that makes you cough up chunks of your insides. Howard's feeling ill at ease. Working in medical is one thing, but a combination of plague and insects killed almost a quarter of the kids in Perdido, and he'd much rather be deployed to deal with combat injuries than sickness.

"What are the quarantine measures here?"

Re: Medical Team To the Ward

[cityship]

The head nurse consulted her chart. "As you can see, we're rather firmly in the middle of a technological revolution, but we've been keeping people in isolation. Sterile sheets, boiled water, that sort of thing. Your GIA has been good enough to offer advanced treatments but so far it hasn't been as effective as our Last Elixir."

"But we're running short on that too," added the nurse. "We've got maybe twenty more doses, and treatment takes time. A week tops to see results. The last batch has been weak due to a lack of fresh ingredients."

Re: Medical Team To the Ward

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

"So you know for sure that this thing's viral and contagious instead of coming through the food or some kind of magical spell?" Can never be too sure with all that stupid magic everywhere. "What's the active mechanism behind the Last Elixir?"

Lovely. Short on resources. That's never a problem. Howard chews on the tip of his pen, hearing the plastic make squeaky noises inside his mouth. "Can you give me a writeup on the ingredients for Last Elixir? Maybe we can do some substitutes for the ingredients we're short on and make some makeshift batches."

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"Another world, much like Roak," mused Reimi, looking out over the view of the city. "And this place, it's so much like the city we spent there. Maybe this is one way of saying 'we exist in this world' amidst other things."

She smiled as she began to take notes on the process.

[pure-love-bingo.livejournal.com]

"You've been to a place like this?" Miyako asked, approaching the older woman. It was still surprising - just got out of the pods (again) and she was already on her first mission on some alien world.

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. Although it wasn't for this whole reason, but similar instances cropped up once before on the plant of Roak," said Reimi, turning towards Miyako. "The location isn't exact but the overall layout of the landscape is familiar."

[pure-love-bingo.livejournal.com]

"Wow..." Miyako uttered. There was a few brief silent moments before she spoke once more. "...this is still so surreal. I mean, I've been to other places not really on Earth and yet..."

[justoutrunyou.livejournal.com]

So...she was on a strange planet.

She wasn't too familiar with anyone she had been sent on this mission with.

the status of her abilities as a medic were shaky and practically non-existent.

Yep, Sandy could tell already this was gonna be an awesome Mission.

Gloomy and with her hands shoved in her pockets she started walking in a random direction to do as was suggested and get to know the city. Normally she'd run but the oppressive sense of impending doom over her head was crushing the will to do that out of her.

I'm not a real doctor, I'm not even one of those magic healers. Why did Stacy send me?

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

Reimi was out and about taking stock of the city as well when she noticed Sandy wandering around. Waving at her, she smiled. "Feeling overwhelmed?"

[justoutrunyou.livejournal.com]

Sandy looked up from her inspection of the ground to meet the eyes of this newcomer. She recognized her from the mission meeting and nodded, "Is anyone ever just...whelmed anymore?"

[chosenlightchld.livejournal.com]

Hikari couldn't help but giggle a bit as she looked over at Reimi, Plotmon in her arms. It didn't hurt to make sure she didn't end up anywhere, after all.

Plotmon didn't seem to mind all that much anyway. She was probably still a bit tired out from that time she became Holydramon. Hikari figured that despite now having Ultimate evolution at her disposal (at least once she figured out how she did it, anyway) it probably wasn't going to be something they could use that often. Not if using it made Plotmon this tired.

"Does this place remind you of how things were before the ship?" Hikari asked, moving a bit closer to Reimi to look over at the view. She hadn't really talked to the older woman all that much, so talking about things was probably going to be a good idea. Especially if she was pretty much their leader for this mission.

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"Yes it does," said Reimi. "Before everything happened, I was actually on a planet similar to this. We called it Roak, or the natives did. Even had a petrification plague running amok on the planets surface."

She remembered how hard the others fought for her sake and it made her nostalgic. "I guess this way I can give back to the people now."

[chosenlightchld.livejournal.com]

Hikari blinked. "Oh. I see. That's pretty strange," she said. "I mean, that two different planets would have such a weird disease that was almost the same. Not that it reminds you of where you were before."

[pretty_lethal]

Rachel was kind of wondering why she was there, for her own part-- she was hardly proficient in anything medical-related, she wasn't even affiliated with the department. There were a few people on the team who would be qualified, and that left Rachel with doing nothing. Exploring the town, fetching supplies, distribution, whatever. The only reason she could see herself being that helpful would be if they were expecting a fight, or some trouble, or something.

A part of her hoped there would be.

For the time being, Rachel wandered a little aimlessly, bored, about the town. Maybe she could at least run into someone interesting to talk to, while she waited for whatever work they had to do to begin.

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

Having checked supplies, Reimi was out and about at the local apothecaries for the supplies. Pulling a wagon behind her, she noticed Rachel across the way. Waving at her, she called out to her. "Hey!"

[pretty_lethal]

Rachel stopped when she heard the voice calling out to her, since she was pretty clearly the one being addressed in this situation. She turned on her heel, looking over the other crewmate-- one who was taking charge here, but Rachel didn't really know well.

"Hey," Rachel said, pulling one hand up in a half wave.

[seraphicthunder.livejournal.com]

"Sorry we didn't get to know one another too much, but I'm Reimi obviously." said Reimi. "Are you getting to know the layout of the city?"

[justoutrunyou.livejournal.com]

During a brief period of break Sandy had found something exciting to her, something she had instantly bought a stack of and was now struggling with on her way back to the area where everyone had started. She assumed she could stash her precious booty there while the mission carried on.

On each arm she had bags full of paints, mostly cans of spray paint but more traditional art kits as well.

...and a few bags of what passed for junk food on this planet. Something she could share with Hana when they got home.

Shifting to stone form to deal with the weight she hurried along still struggling to move gracefully with three thick bags on each arm.

[pretty_lethal]

Rachel watched the other crewmate-- they'd met before, but Rachel didn't know her all that well-- struggling with the bags. Evidently someone had been busy shopping-- Rachel would be too if she'd had any interest in the kids of clothes they sold here (she doubted she was going to find anything good at this rate).

"Having trouble?" Rachel asked, once she was closer. Not quite an offer to help, but not really mocking either.

[justoutrunyou.livejournal.com]

Sandy grunted in response and stopped to glance at the tall girl she recognized from the ship. "They didn't have any shopping carts. I'm lucky I found the paint at all. It's written in some other language." She shrugged and started again her long trudge back.

The Sickness/Attack on the Castle

[cityship]

Without warning, there was a loud explosion coming from the castle. Fire crews responded immediately, but in the midst of the scene, a trio of cloaked enemies rushed away across the rooftops, carrying a precious satchel.

"GET THEM!" roared a guard. "They're stealing all the rest of the Last Elixir!"

[psychicbear]

Rachel swore at the sight and the shout, and she immediately took off running in that direction, to get a head start as she started up a morph. She needed speed, but she also needed altitude. Cheetah would make most sense for sheer speed, but if she couldn't get up there...

As she ran, her bones began to hollow out, and her feet to shift. Naturally it'd take the route that would slow her down most-- but the faster she got to eagle form the better.

[cityship]

"We've done it!" cackled the first, leaping across a gap between the buildings. "We've got all the rest of the Last Elixir!"

"And perfect timing too, brother," laughed the second. "Harland?"

"Mmm," replied the third, big and quiet. "Keep eye out."

[pretty_lethal]

As soon as Rachel got into her eagle form enough to take to the sky, she did. Shooting into the air, she scanned the rooftops with the sharpened eyesight until she spotted the guys she'd seen before. Silently, she shot after them, trying to close in on them so she could attack from above.