[a group chat]

[columbidaring]

Who: Everyone
Where: Online
When: Late morning 65

[ Everyone gets a whole bunch of phone notifications. ]

E: @here all right
E: @here
E: now that I have your attention
E: A lot of people seem to be suffering from a condition that i do NOT have the medical credentials to identify or name
E: Symptoms include:
E: Colour loss, which is to say complete desaturation, starting at 'pale' and proceeding to 'black and white movie'
E: memory loss of events that happened during our time here
E: we don't currently know causes or cures so just, be careful I guess?
E: If you think you might have it, look in a mirror
E: if you are afraid of mirrors take a selfie and look at it
E: if you're greyscale please ping me or something I want to make a list of everyone affected

E: okay that's all

Comments

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

Citation needed.

[criminaljustice]

Boss: hark! a monochromian has spoken!

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

CEO: Fuck off. Someone has to call you out on your lack of proper documentation.

[criminaljustice]

Boss: that was E you responded to, ftr
Boss: and I only ever said "current theory" not "established fact"

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

CEO: You done nitpicking.
CEO: Because I still actually want a citation.
CEO: How the fuck did you come to this conclusion?

[criminaljustice]

Boss: I have a bit more of a theoretical theory than this one...
Boss: but mostly, it was the idea that the guys running this show are more interested in seeing us against each other than not
Boss: and one way to encourage that would be to go after the people who do tend to associate with other units
Boss: bonus points if it's someone avoiding their units because of conflict within said unit
Boss: case in point with Maki and A, at least
Boss: that's why I kept saying you guys were kind of the odd-men out
Boss: so the only thing I can think of is FiN triggered whatever started this
Boss: and it spread via association with you
Boss: so catalyst + Patients Zero
Boss: but I can't figure out what you guys did to trigger things
Boss: so it goes back to "what's the criteria for catching it?"

[criminaljustice]

Boss: either way, safest bet would be units to stick to together for now
Boss: to avoid non-affected units from being hit with it

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

That only catches Maki and A.
It doesn't explain B and Hurricane.
And if it was an ally on every team, why weren't others infected?

[criminaljustice]

Boss: Hiryuu just commented that she was impersonating/pretending to be an alcheME
Boss: bets the others are because of similar reasons?
Boss: it fits with the concept of "unit cohesion/solidarity" and breaking aesthetic

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

[Shit. Hiryuu is affected, too?]

Great.
Are we going to be fucking reduced to a list of do not do x or y...
Or the boogeyman makes you a part of the audience?

[criminaljustice]

Boss: they always had the power to do that is the thing

[columbidaring]

E: don't sass me you have half the city working for you

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

CEO: Of course I'm going to fucking sass you. Just because I'm a born again amnesiac doesn't mean I don't know who I am. The sass will die with me on my fucking death bed.

[columbidaring]

E: go put on your best lab coat, get Angel a matching one, and have her be your lab assistant as you all do a really intense involved experiment
E: thats my best play right now
E: short of 'half the units volunteer to be career villains and start chasing the rest of us with axes'

[bluescreenwhitedragon]

CEO: If that was all it took, why were B and Hurricane affected?
CEO: Aren't they the fucking 1% with the number of Lives and Counter-Lives they do?

[columbidaring]

E: B has lots of off-team uniforms
E: I think Hurricane spends a lot of time with his Avante friend