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Longden Memorial is where this roleplay will take center stage. An experimental hospital built to revolutionize the standards of living in the U.S there were plans to add them to the corporate planned cities in the future. Yet the outbreak of the synthetic plague known, and misnomered as Japanese Flu has put those plans to a stop. It is a relatively large facility, and self contained, but Boston was the perfect place to try out this first prototype. It has several residential facilities, a greenhouse, a chapel, and several other facilities not typically seen in typical hospitals of this world. 1) If you are playing as the sick or the elderly then play the role. An 80 year old grandmother is probably not going to bash someones brain in over a can of beans, but do expect there to be internal fighting. 2) The sick patients will be in need of medicine so as time goes on the situation will determine those supplies. The condition you choose to have will effect whether or not you make it to the end, but do not worry just enjoy the roleplay. 3) The military units are not there to lord over the people, but merely to keep them safe. You do not know why you are at the hospital, but you have one directive to keep order, and prevent the panicking masses from getting in by any means necessary. 4) The staff are to be held to the highest moral standards, but as the crisis goes on morale, and supplies will wear down. You will have to make the tough choices whether to continue treatments in hope of supplies or humanely euthanizing cases you consider lost causes. The military will make forays for supplies, but initially supply drops, and shipments will be stable. 5) Power is essential as the maintenance of equipment is important. This will determine the difference between life, and death for many people. 6) Water, and food will be plentiful enough at first, but eventually will be rationed, and the groups will make tough decision on who gets what. 7) Hygiene is important not just for your character, but for the hospital as it keeps the health of everyone there up. Mental health is a major factor as most if not all players will have family on the outside. As the situation outside becomes clear many will wonder where there family is, but as the news from the outside becomes ever grim this will take a toll. Suicide, grief, and other problems are to be expected. 8 ) The hospital is relatively large enough to explore so as to not go stir crazy, but parts of it may be shut down, and abandoned as power supplies go down. My goal for this roleplay is to explore the struggle between four groups within a quarantined hospital in a collapsing Boston. The growing conflict between the quarantined individuals, issues over supplies, and the troubles people will face will be the center of the roleplay. This is not an action based roleplay, but instead focuses on drama, religion, psychology, and other internal issues for the people involved. 1) The Patients: The Patients are those who are in Longden Memorial by the time of the imposed quarantine. The types of patients varies from those who were in for surgeries, to those who need to be hospitalized because they are receiving treatments that could prolong their lives. To those who are within a few years or a year of their death, and are under pain management by the hospital. Then you have people with regular chronic conditions which are being treated through techniques not available in regular medical offices. 2) The Elderly: Longden Memorial is the first of its kind to have a retirement ward within its grounds. Longden himself occupies the top floor of the ward in a privately operated, and secured penthouse. There is a branch of staff which deal exclusively with the elderly residents, but they aren't completely segregated from the other wards. After all the cafeteria, and common grounds bring people of all backgrounds together. Something rather rare in an intensely classist part of Boston. 3) The Staff: The Staff at Longden are picked by an intensive screening process which ensure they will commit to the best of those under their care. They could have taken positions in other places, but something drew them here. One of the benefits of working here is the apartment ward which allows the staff to live here when they need to. The day the hospital was being quarantined was supposed to be family day, but it looks like that is going to be canceled. 4) Military Platoon: A platoon from the 26th Infantry Division (Massachusetts National Guard) has been sent to quarantine, and guard the hospital for no clear reason. Those playing in this role will be responsible for keeping the hospital secure, orderly, and free of the panicking masses trying to break in either to receive medical help from the synthetic plague or rescue family members. Looters, and other groups may try, and raid it for supplies as order breaks down. 1) This should be obvious, but please do not godmod. 2) If you have an issue with another poster either take it to tg or just let your steam out in the IC. I do not want several pages worth of fighting because of two or more posters. 3) I expect at minimum a decent paragraph when in the IC. 4) Every group has its limits after all a terminal cancer patient is not going to be to interested in the stresses of the military. Yet they will with the staff since they are only alive because of them. An elderly resident is also not going to be able to truly fight with a soldier over the distribution of food physically. 5) Please obey the Co-ops. 6) No trolling, flaming, flame baiting, and the usual nonsense. I get that people aren't perfect, but try, and keep it in the OOC to a minimum. 7) This roleplay takes place a few years back, but technology is radically different from our own. So if you have a question please ask, and lore goes with this as well. 8 ) Only two characters allowed per poster since this is in a quarantined hospital complex. This is so the value of the life of other characters is stressed. This also places heightened importance on the effects of murders, and suicides which are bound to occur. |
Year 5 of the Global Pandemic, Month 5 of Americas epidemic, October 7th, 2012, "Beginning of Infection in the New England Region" "Hello, My name is Doctor Ashton from the CDC I am making a recording for posterity in case we fail in dealing with the current epidemic. I am currently stationed at Fort Devens in Massachusetts which is being turned into a quarantine camp for the most severe cases of what is mistakenly called Japanese Flu. This is no flu instead it is something new, and almost unearthly in how it operates. I have no comparable origins to trace it back to, and it seems as if something divine just dropped it from the sky. Perhaps the people who say this is God's punishment for our sins are right? Yet who really knows to be honest. What we do know is that it could possibly lead to the extinction of the human race. It starts out a sniffle then you feel some drainage, sneezing, and coughing. Like any simple sinus infection or cold, but then it starts to change. It starts to seem like a flu, and you go to your doctor, and get a prescription starting to infect others along the way unknowingly. The disease spreads by air, water, surfaces, touch, and food. Not bites as some hysterical descriptions in the media before the blackout say. Soon the infected feel sore in their through, and limbs while they start to experience a fever that gets progressively worse, and worse. By the time they start bleeding of their nose or even worse out of their eyes, and ears only then do most rush to the hospital. Of course by that phase it seems to be too little too late. Soon two things will begin to happen to the infected, and it determines the end result. The first being their fever becomes incredibly worse, and they begin to experience hallucinations of loved ones, friends, and others they know. These hallucinations either comfort them, or blame them for causing their death. Near the end the hallucinations begin to ask that the patient accept their death, and join them so they can be at peace. Every case of infection that goes that way experiences the same visions, and the conversations are vivid in detail. Near the end they all die the same way the infection begins to cause their organs to fail yet it seems to us like an incredibly peaceful death. As of today 40% of all infections end up in death of the infected. The second option which seems to total 50% of the infected is that they undergo a comatose phase, and begin transforming internally. The infected host wakes up as a "turned" as people have taken to calling them. The host personality is no longer there instead driven by something else toward an unknown purpose. We have theorized it could be a hivemind given how they cooperate. The turned seem to have high cognition, thinking skills, abilities to use tools, and some sort of proto language. Amidst all the sounds they make a language is being born, and contrary to reports given earlier the turned do not eat human flesh unless absolutely necessary. They seem to know how to search for food, and are aware of the weather patterns. The turned are easy to spot due to their pale ash like skin tone, but on the inside their organs have blackened not like that of necrosis, but something else thus they also produce a black substance in their saliva. As for the bites on people they aren't meant to infect, but almost like what we consider branding to cattle. We seem to be nothing, but future hosts for them or again in extreme cases food. The turned display some personality traits from their old selves, and often carry around trinkets or visit places they once knew in their old life. For all intents, and purposes the turned are alive, and organized by a hierarchy. Not some undead horde as speculated by the masses in the early days. As such they can be killed if caught in the right situation since their bodies aren't invulnerable. Yet this doesn't apply to the older turned as they seem to be more adept at avoiding danger, and even planting traps according to some of the soldiers. This plague is nothing like we have ever seen before as it burns through roadside stops, and attractions in days while towns can often last up to two or more weeks. Cities at minimum fall in about a month or more if the right conditions are met. There are many questions as to how the plague even arrived in the U.S. Futile exercises as people should know someone didn't screen hard enough on people leaving Arnette, Washington. Back in 2007 the Republic of Japan experienced an outbreak after an attack on a laboratory in Okinawa, and it spread quickly despite our best efforts. Soon U.S military forces left, and imposed a brutal, but ultimately failed quarantine in which the plague spread to mainland Asia. The U.S called back as many of its citizens all over of the world to come back, and began to activate the quarantine walls. Soon after all international flights were stopped, and the borders closed. We were safe while the world choked until 2012 when the first case appeared in the corporate planned city of Arnette, Washington an island off the coast built entirely from their massive wealth. It was supposed to be the city of the future built as a model to solve all of our problems with having shut ourselves off from the world. Yet patient zero was all it took for that dream to turn into a nightmare. A bus driver by the name of Peter Holmes was exposed to it by someone unknown, and it spread through the city, and completely decimated it in 40 days. The U.S used one of its most precious weapons the Orbital Defense System to sterilize the area, and prevent future infections. The island sank according to eyewitnesses, but the plague didn't go down with it. It spread along the pacific northwest, and the great plains reaching its grasp into the Midwest, and now it is here. The people here in New England don't really know what is about to happen, but a line in the sand is being drawn here by a desperate military. If our projections are right it will be in Boston before long, and things will only get worse. Doctor Ashton, Signing out. The choices you make over the roleplay will not only lead to a darker or lighter ending for the hospital, but will effect the fate of Boston as well. The amount of people who survive also effect the endings in ways I will not specify yet for understandable reasons. For every peerson who commits suicide, every person who dies of their disease, and every person who is murdered all effect the ending. There will be serious ethical implications for the choices you decide such as deciding whether it is for the greater good to euthanize the most dire cases or let survivors outside go starving. The actions of this roleplay, and others in this act will ultimately determine the fate of the entire city. The U.S military is desperate in trying to keep the Northeast from experiencing what the rest of the U.S above the quarantine wall is reeling from. The darker the outcome the darker the fate of the city will ultimately be. The darkest outcome being the city is firebombed to spare whatever is left of Massachusetts. The lightest ending of course being that the plague is either pushed back or that something of life goes on in the city. Rest assured nothing will ever be the same though. This hospital focuses on experimental treatment for diseases which still plague modern society. Designed by the mysterious billionaire tech giant Longden who reportedly lives in a penthouse at the top of the apartments not much is known about them. This hospital features state of the art facilities, and designed with chic from the 1950s, and 1960s. A trend common in much of the U.S, and the world until communications were lost that is. There are several buildings in a self enclosed space all connected by advanced skyways. One building houses the cafeteria, another the apartments while one houses the elderly retirement home. One building is entirely devoted to extreme cases such as those that are terminal, with chronic disease or other conditions deemed worthy. Another building is dedicated to recovering patients, the lobotomy victims ward, and the ICU. The experimental ward testing nanites on those who volunteer with all kinds of conditions is the main focus of the hospital. Yet those with mental illness are housed in the psychiatric ward refurbished from an old mental hospital. |
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