15strangers week 5 monday

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CW: Discussion of Disease, Fortuna Spoilers

[It had been getting worse, though had become especially noticeable at the trial. But even now, after....

Hermes was a robot, apparently, or some sort of android--or perhaps simply pure code, granted this physical form for whatever reason by Zero, given that he was from a video game. She would not have assumed that he would be capable of contracting anything but a computer virus. But maybe that was what it was. Maybe the rules were different. Maybe the disease he had told her about....

Hermes had been behaving erratically, but even in his occasional violent outbursts she wasn't afraid of him, really. It was Hermes, after all. But... maybe he needed help. Maybe he'd rather not discuss it openly.

Akane didn't know what else to do.

So she had found him, and brought him to Kaito's room, where she had been mostly staying, where he had done his best to comfort her on the evening of his death, and then bit her lip.

She had to say it, if she was going to find out.]

Hermes....

You told me about a disease called Clockwork before, right? When I told you about Radical-6?

Sorry, that was... a hard night, for me. I should have asked you more about it.

What does it do?

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[somuchshipping]

[The meeting was over and Hermes remembered to put the jukebox back where it belonged, alongside the stuff he used to barricade the door to the rec room. He was about to go on his merry way doing whatever a shipping-inclined beep boop is wont to do only to be stopped and lead somewhere by Akane. He dutifully obeyed and followed her to Kaito's former room.

And that's when the question was asked. Once again, his instincts of giving out tutorials kicks in and he speaks without thinking.]

It usually turns people or mechanical being into a combination of flesh and metal. Most NPCs are weary of them because sometimes, they lose their minds and become incredibly feral. Buuuuuut other time, they manage to keep their minds and can get classified as citizens, such as the Zuid'Tians or Plumari. There's also many, many strains in between. Clockworks can be extremely varied!

Also sometimes, it can be very infectious, other times, not infectious at all. It all depends on the strain the infected has, but the heavy majority of the time, it's very infectious!