[Have a concerned-looking teenager wearing bright red. If you don't recognize him, it's safe to assume he's one of the many new people who just arrived last week. He's been understandably distracted til now.]

Hey. I just got here a couple days ago, so don't really know a lot about this world yet. What kind of stuff do you have around here for colds? Like if somebody is sick with one and needs to get better?

[And just then a lower, stuffed up voice off-screen can be heard saying:] I told you I am not [sneeze] sick.

[He glares in the direction of the voice.] You've been coughing and sneezing since I first started talking to you today!

[The other party was probably about to reply, but he gets a bit too busy with a coughing fit.]

See?! [With that, he turns back to his tablet.] Oh right, can somebody let me know what stuff there is and where I can get it?

[With that the feed cuts off...

...only to turn on again roughly 15 seconds later.]

Uhh, I'm Lloyd, by the way. [He glares in the direction of the still unseen other person.] There, I did it! Are you happy?!

[And now the feed ends.]


[ooc: Just a head's up, Kratos is sick so Lloyd doesn't run out during the zombie-fest and inevitably get turned into one since that doesn't really suit me after less than a week here. So if your character is becoming one, offering to come over and help may not be the best idea.]

Video:

[When the screen flickers on the sight of a red-headed girl with equally striking red eyes will be seen on the screen. She seems dumbfounded by the tablet before her as she stares at it with something akin to curiosity. When she realizes what shes supposed to do she snaps her attention back to the camera.] Oh..

Hello..? Uhm..I just arrived to this place a day ago..It's..[She struggles to come up with a word, face scrunched up in what looks like annoyance.] It's a little bothersome.

Is anyone having problems getting used to this environment?

Text:

I was wondering..If anyone is able to recognize these three names;
Aladdin
Alibaba
Hakuryuu
They are very important friends to me and I just want to know if they are okay. Thank you.

Squalling children and grunting savages--this place is overrun with children and savages. Is this how this Initiative plans to fight a Time War?

[But... wait. Isn't that the Doctor? It certainly looks like him...sort of. Yet his eyes are literally glowing with a crackling, blue-white light and his voice sounds... staticky. And the expression on his face is very unlike the Doctor--cruel and twisted. Behind him is a random street, various people standing about and gawking.]

Well, not to worry. [His voice takes on a mocking tone.] I, Zagreus, will set this place right. No children, no savages, no would-be-gods, no high-and-mighty pacifists are needed, now. This place, this... Exsilium will be whittled down, bit by bit, until only those worthy of a Time War remain. Observe!

[With that, he grabs a random witness, a teenaged boy. His eyes flare, blindingly bright. The boy manages a yelp before vanishing completely. The crowd panic, fleeing.]

[Somewhere during the stampede the light in the Doctor's eyes gutters and flickers out and he moans, dropping to his knees. The netbook clatters to the ground next to him but still shows him at the right side of the screen, groaning and clutching his head. When he speaks, his voice is normal again.]

No, no no no no no no... not now, not here.... [His gaze flickers to the netbook and he scrabbles for it.] Help me, someone, please... It's trying to break free.... Zagreus is... I can't contain it much longer.... Help me....

(( OOC info lives here. ))

[Sonic is grinning like a loon, and covered in critters. A sparrow is resting on his top spike, a kitten on his nonexistent shoulder, and squirrel at the crook of his arm. The stone courtyard is behind him, dingy snow gathered in corners. Sonic and his companions stand out in technicolor by comparison.]

Hey guys! Heheh... check this out! We've got some new friends! Isn't this cool? Kinda reminds me of home! Heh, hey, that tickles!

[He shifts and scratches at a spike where the sparrow had been trying to preen him. Instead of flying it only bounces with the motion with a confused chirp.]

Who woul'da thought this place so bleak would have these little guys hiding in it?

[EDIT: Video, later]



Guys? What... what's going on here?

[There's something strange and awful in Sonic's expression now. He clasps a bite-mark on his arm, and looks behind him at the tiny bodies littering the stone pavement, pale and lifeless. The same that were once using him as a perch and companion not a day ago.]

I don't get it! They're so sick all of a sudden! They're just wasting away. N-no matter what I do, they won't move to eat or anything. It's... almost like they WANT to die...

[It's Emma, looking Emma-y--so, put together and faintly bored. For those who would recognize it, she's in the Initiative library.]

It seems I'm what passes for the executor of Charles Xavier's estate. If one isn't fascinated by cardigans, the thing that's primarily of interest is his research. He'd been compiling a genetic and pharmacological profile of United Earth, which is a promising line of research...but not one I'm qualified to pursue.

[She is a businesswoman-schoolteacher-reformed-supervillain, not a scientist.]

If there are any life scientists or chemists who'd like to pick up the work, I'll talk to the Initiative [said with roughly the amount of enthusiasm with which people greet dental appointments] and see about getting you some lab space.

[Oh, right, there are new people arriving all the time, and she's not world famous here. Hmph.]

...My name is Emma Frost. Delighted to make your acquaintance.

[No, she's not.]