Camp Fortitude

A few years ago when I was back home and things had gotten especially crazy, my friend had brought all of us together and we set off paper lanterns to honor those who we had recently lost. I know it might sound a little cheesy, but it was nice and it felt like a good way to pay our respects.

So I made two this morning and I'm going to be down at the lake just after sunset if anyone wanted to join in.

Um
This isn't my thing, I don't really do
Alright, listen up. There's obviously tension going on and something has to be done, but before we do that let me start off by saying this.

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(( posted shortly after the add on to Caroline's post below ))

Until this clears up I'm asking for no one to leave Camp, if it's thick out there too you might not find your way back. I'm also asking for people to stick in pairs and make sure you let people know where you're going.

I need a few volunteers to help some members of defense run a rope from the housing complex to the medical bay. We'll put some lights along it. This way if someone needs to get there they'll have a guide.

Everything in the greenhouse has been covered and as far as I know there's nothing that needs to be done today so it might be a good day to just stay inside.

I know a lot of you are freaking out, but we will get through this - we just need to stay calm and keep everyone aware of what is going on. If you see anything, or need help, just let someone know.

DEFENSE (INCL RESERVES) + TECH
Any chance we can cobble together some thermal monitors? Might give us a better chance at seeing what, if anything, is out there?

I need one team to set up the rope - I'm hoping between what's in the ammunition bunkers and the greenhouse we'll have enough to get a line going.

Tony, Rogue, Sam - do you think any of you could get high enough to get above this and see how widespread this is?

As far as everything else - well, we've got some decisions to make right now:

Stark wanted to switch over our power supply today. The system would be a hell of lot more stable, but the downside is we'd be without anything for 30 seconds. Which doesn't seem like a long time but if we can't see more than ten feet in front of us that's a long time. I'm personally inclined to the good of it outweighing the bad, especially if this fog is bringing in something worse than just reduced visibility. Last thing we need is to have no power on top of that. We either do this in the next hour or we don't do it at all, unless the fog stops coming in the way it is right now.

I'd like to reduce our patrol area, bring it in closer to the locations where people will be. I'm thinking a wide circle around the housing and medical, and then the greenhouse to make sure if something gets into Camp it doesn't destroy our food. If the fog itself is bringing things in then watching our fence might be a waste of time and resources. Thoughts?

Uh, hi everyone. Thanks for getting me away from--whatever the Hell those things are outside. I don't think I am ever getting that taste out smell off.

Anyway, name's Bo. I'm kinda used to crap like this happening, although usually someone I know is behind it. If my dad's here- Be real nice if my genius ex girl friend was here to dumb all that science down a bit so I might understand how this is actually not more Fae shit.

Kenzi if you're-

I guess I'm going to be on your--militia or army or whatever. And...I'm a succubus.

If you're from a place where you've got stories about things like that, you know that means I need a pretty specific supplement to my diet that I can only get from other living things, preferably in a real intimate way. But I really don't like sneaking into people's houses and having my way with the womenfolk, so if there's a few good men or women or whatever who'd like to volunteer, hit me up. The sooner the better, those things out there really don't give a growing girl what she needs.

The supply run was pretty successful, we've got the basic necessities but I managed to grab some stuff that people wanted, I tried to remember as much as I could.

Joey, I was able to grab some medical books for you. I hope they're alright.

For those of you who were looking for other types of literature, I grabbed a lot of fiction, some non fiction (mostly historical), comics that didn't have any familiar names, mythological books, psychology, fantasy, crafting, language, and a whole bunch of basic school text books. They look like they mostly range from the 100 to the 200 levels. I managed to grab some movies, too, and CD's.

Rogue. I found socks.

[TEAM FLASH.]

I found a comic book about myself. And a couple of others about other people here. I didn't bring them back.

This is why I was so thankful to get out of grade school early
Not enough alcohol to deal with teenagers and these type of comm
God I hated high sch

Making dinner tonight, and all I could think of is 'I really miss my spice rack.'

Followed by how pathetic that is. Then maybe how it's not so pathetic when the little things you didn't appreciate before are gone.

Followed by realizing that having this debate with myself was, in fact, sad.

Sunday night thoughts.

[Sunday morning]

Do you know what's awesome?

Sex. Sex is awesome.

I feel amazing.

[Isaac]

That was awesome. I'm so glad we did that.

If you want to do it again, just message me or something, okay? Because I totally want to do it again.

[Derek]

Are you going to help me be human then?

I've heard whispers of poker games and I would be insulted that I haven't been personally invited, but I know it's because you all know that I would beat you. It's fine. I completely understand.

You know, guys, if you have a flat tire on one of the vehicles I can't fix it unless you tell me. ...I mean, I can, I did, but, still... tell me. Also, completely unrelated, who here knows the answer to this riddle?

How much does it hurt when a jack breaks halfway through you lowering a truck back to the ground and it hits your shoulder?

Give up?

Answer: A lot.

Still unrelated, we need a new jack.

ROOMMATES.
Whoever thought that it was funny to draw on my face last night when I passed out on the couch, fight me.

Alright kids, lets try this one again. Don't break anything while I'm gone.

[ CISCO & BARRY ]

Which one of you two would be better at fixing up vehicles and getting them going again?

This might seem like an odd question, but do you have any devices or similar that can be used for metallurgical analysis? Specifically, analysing the composition of alloys?

Alright so there's been a lot of new people again in the past bit and it looks like it might not be letting up any time soon so I thought I'd go over a few things here. I'm Steve for anyone I haven't talked to yet, and I was one of the first people to arrive here. We've been operational since May of last year and though we don't know why, our numbers have all but doubled in the past two months. That's a lot of new people in a short amount of time and I know a lot of us are coming from some very different worlds and lives from each other. If anyone has any questions, concerns, or suggestions about anything, bring it up. I know it sounds cheesy, but we're all in this together.

Dr. Snow mentioned it, but it bears repeating, if you missed out on her initial round of testing - or have even changed your mind since then - be sure to talk to her. A cure or vaccine might be too late for the original inhabitants of this world but could keep us and anyone else coming through safe.

If you're interested in learning some foundations of defense skills Derek runs a class every other day at the Community Center - make sure to talk to him if you want to join. If anyone is interested in learning some more advanced techniques comment here and we can get you set up.

We will be doing a supply run soon so if there is anything anyone needs, please let me know. As always I'll take the wishlist but make no guarantees.

NATASHA.

Hey, can I ask you something?

KATE.

Is there a specific day you needed to go out of Camp, or is it flexible? Ideally I'd like to make sure it didn't line up with days some of us are already out on supply runs - which I'm trying to get going toward the end of the week here.

TOSH.

Let me know what's needed to make the CCTV a reality, I'll find as much of it as we can when we're out.

DEFENSE.

We need to stock up. Badly. If the growth keeps up at this rate we're going to burn through resources. If you haven't talked to Cisco about getting a suit, do it. Unless Dr. Snow has cleared you as immune no one goes on a run without adequate protection. I'd like to head out toward the end of the week. We've got myself, Sara, Natasha, Barry, and Rogue with suits, did I miss anyone? I'd like to go out with enough that we could split up and cover more ground once we hit the cities, if we could do three and three that would be ideal.

Who: Jessica Jones and OPEN
What: Drinking
Where: Front steps of her townhouse
When: Afternoon
Warnings: Jessica swears a lot and may reference PTSD in her narrative
Status: Open/Ongoing

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Not happening - not happening - not happening - OMG THIS IS SERIOUSLY NOT HAPPENING RIGHT NOW -
Has anyone seen a ring around? Silver, with a blue stone? It's the only way I pass for human - a family heirloom and I really can't lose it.

CAPTAIN JOLINE

Freaking out, so freaking out. I never even take it off but I woke up without it this morning. Can you guys check out the Camp?

Like Barry said, I'm going to be working on creating a vaccination for the virus. As we just began to study the virus today, I can't say for sure how long this will take, but it will be one of my top priorities, next to the overall health of the camp residents.

That being said, one of the best chances I have to actually create a vaccination would be to find someone who is immune. So if you are willing to provide a blood sample, please let me know and I'd like to get a sample from you as soon as possible. Given that some people are much more than human in here, it's possible the key to a vaccination could be with one of you. Or maybe even someone without abilities. This isn't mandatory, of course. Volunteers only.

This is a public announcement for everybody who resides in the camp, please read this carefully and check in so I know that you're aware of what's going on.

I've run a blood test of the unfriendlies, the same type that got into the camp during the brownout. They are infected. The infection is contagious. I want to make a few points clear before we all panic.

- There were no pathogens found, which means that this infection isn't airborne. Which is great news.

- After doing some more tests, I've figured out that, although the virus exists in the bloodstream, it doesn't have the capability of surviving once it leaves the body. As soon as it hits oxygen it dies, which means that getting the blood of these things on you, although gross, isn't dangerous. You can't catch the virus like that.

- The virus can be transferred through saliva. More specifically, if the saliva of these things is injected or applied to an open wound immediately. The virus dies immediately in a saliva sample once it hits the air. However, a direct bite would be enough for the infection to survive and be transferred if skin is broken.

So if you haven't been bitten by these things, you're safe. If you have you need to reach out to Medical immediately, but I don't think that's the case because it seems to be a very fast moving virus. After infection it looks like it'll turn the person within 24 hours, if that.

Doctor Caitlin Snow is going to be working on a vaccine just in case someone gets bit, but now that we know what's going on we're obviously going to have to take extreme caution. Defense or anyone who's going out there is going to need to make sure all exposed limbs are covered in a thick material to avoid penetration in case a bite takes place. If anyone has any questions I'll try to answer them to my fullest capability, but I'm just a forensic scientist. Dr. Snow is going to be making an update soon about the vaccine and what she'll use, all serious medical questions and concerns should most likely go to her.

LATER EDIT; FILTER TO DEFENSE AND TECH.

The suits for Sara and Natasha are ready. For everyone in defense, whether you have a suit or not, you need to meet up with a guy named Cisco Ramon in tech. He knows how to make specialized suits and he knows how to make them work with your abilities, which is why I don't set myself on fire every time I break out into a run.

He can't make you anything if he doesn't have your measurements and now that we know this is going on, all of us are going to need protection. You can drop a comment here under this filter for him so he can see it, either a time that you can meet up with him or your measurements. We all need to make sure we're protected against this, try to make it a priority.

First, I want to thank you for the welcome, Pepper. I'm sure this place is a lot less...well, horrifying when you have some idea what's going on.

Not that I don't think it's a load of klunk, but it's hardly anyone's fault.

Let me know how I can help. I'm doing farming but if I can do anything else to help make this buggering place any better, just say the word.

I believe I read that there were people here from other planets.

Are you human?

[Tech/Defense]

I know that we are very low on supplies, but I was thinking that if it would be possible to recover some on the next supply run, I might be able to build a drone that could watch the perimeter and give defense a little assistance.

Who: Barry Allen and Cisco Ramon
What: Truth time.
When: Night, after Barry's patrol
Where: Their townhouse.
Rating/Warnings: Probably internal angst on Barry's part because he wouldn't be Barry without it? Also Flash 2x14 spoilers.
Status: Closed/Incomplete

At some point, we all have to come clean.( Read more... )

After that helpful welcome, thank you again, Ms. Potts, I suppose I should introduce myself. My name's Rogue and I'd be a liar if I said I wasn't used to this sort of thing. I've also been assigned to the delta defense team.

I really don't want to do this over the net but

For the sake of transparency, I should tell y'all that I'm a mutant. One of my powers involves touch and I can't turn it off. When I make skin to skin contact with people I absorb their life energy, their memories, and temporarily their powers if they got any. It's why I wear gloves at all times and would appreciate some distance for all our sakes.