[There's a few moments of silence before Al speaks, slowly and with a shaky tone.]

I really hope this is on... Uhm... If anyone can hear me, this is Alphonse Elric. There's something wrong with me but I don't know how it happened... I don't think that I can hear or see. It's like it's the opposite of when I was in the armor... I was petting my cat and I could feel her purring but I couldn't hear her. The power still has to be on because some of the mechanical things in the house are still working but everything's all dark...

I'm sitting outside my house in Sector 4... If... If someone could come and just... let me know everyone hasn't just disappeared [insert shaky laugh here], I'd really really appreciate it. Thanks.

[And... he's just going to sit there and wait.]

[Shopping~ Shopping~ Shopping~

Orihime is in complete control of her faculties today and, therefore, is happily taking off for the clothing store to meet with Midori and help her build an adorable new winter wardrobe. She's feeling much better after all the scary stories, and the dinner with Rayflo, and some snuggling with Edward; she even went forth on a goodwill mission to help poor Alphonse this morning and she may have only just met him but he has already gotten to second base with her.

And when she returns home to make some whimsical hot cocoa in the spirit of the season, she'll get an unexpected knock on her door...]



((ooc: Feel free to run into Orihime out and about if you want! Midori may or may not be coming back with her, in which case she and Ushiro can thread together too if you guys want. ♥ ))

[His restraint is offffff, so instead of eating in the kitchen, Kaworu's off to explore the other food options in the prison. He's gotten so used to walking with that weight dragging against one leg that he appears to have a limp at first, but gradually he regains his balance and begins to walk a little more normally. As for his black eye, it looks slightly healed - his eye is open now, and rather than turning purple or yellow as a human bruise would whilst healing, the black portion has simply shrunk down a little.

Eventually, he stops at the ramen shop and orders a bowl for himself, sitting near the door and awaiting his food. He's heard some nonsense over the network, a lot of angry voices, but this morning he's been too distracted with his exploring to pay the close attention he did while restrained. Thus, he has no idea how lucky he is when his ramen comes and he takes a big bite, then pulls a face:]

This is terrible. It doesn't taste like anything at all.

[Just as he said he would, Wolfram has been at the library since early in the morning.

The whole time he has been sitting down, flipping several books impatiently. Honestly? Wolfram has been asking himself 'why am I even here?' considering he's the one that got offended first and then was abandoned for absolutely no discernible reason. Tch, Axel should be the one waiting for him, not vice versa.

Yet, the blonde may be frowning and fumbling, but the fact that he is here, willing to find a way to stop the uneasiness between them, is enough proof of how much he cares about his friendship with the fire wielding nobody.

It doesn't matter whether he will try to either get an apology or apologize himself, given how it's likely he won't be able to achieve either; ever since he woke up, he has been completely unable to speak. This only serves as fuel to his already growing bad mood, given how his vocal impairment is likely to complicate everything. Thanks a lot, Acumen. Damn you and your useless, flawed security system that always gets breached.

Anyway, with a notebook and pen in hand he waits, unsure of what to expect.]

[Someone is lost in the butterfly pavillion. Someone is lost because he can't see. Someone's not happy. He clicks on the video and...scowls, faintly.]

...This is going to get really old, really fast. Hey, I know there are ma--[--wait no let's not say that where people can hear] people with supernatural abilities, can any of you please let something harmless go off? I need to check something.

Nunnally, you're not... [Pause.] --sick, too, are you?

I can still meet you at the kiosk, if you're alright.

[Either there was no sound or Duo had lost his ability to speak. Considering the situation, the latter was the most likely of the two. He flailed at the video a bit, looking very distressed. For a talker, losing speech was probably the worst thing ever.]

[...well. Not being able to see makes both reading and knitting hard. There's nothing she can really occupy herself with in her room anymore, then. It's about time she stopped hiding in there anyway. It takes a while, but Xion eventually feels her way into the living room and settles herself on the couch with Mars. Pettinz do not require seeing. Hopefully she'll see....

...

...hopefully she'll meet Axel soon. She hasn't heard a peep from him since yesterday, and he's not in his room.]

[There's a loud clattering noise, a sharp crackle fogging the airwaves like the fuzzy sound of a television. It recedes slowly, though movement (a soft rustling) is heard.]

Ah-- [A soft, feminine exhale, laced with a small measure of discomfort. More movement is noted before a gasp of alarm, mixed with distress, fills the air.]

Busa-kun....?

[The voice, probably familiar to most who have lived in the dome for some time, is questioning. There's no response in return, save for a quiet intake of breath as though cutting off all sound to better hear.]

Oh no, no. [Frustration, only belied by clear notes of concern. Her voice rises higher, a pleading note attempting to coax the target recipient.] Please come back! Busa-kun! [Small taps are heard, the clear sounds of someone feeling along the ground; a porch or deck from the sound of it.]

Where did you go?

[OOC: If there you will have seen Yuuki tumble to the ground after tripping over her bunny that bolted in the doorway. Blind vampire without her sense of smell can't find her cute little orange, vampire!bunny. First person to action obviously is able to help her and retrieve the bunny if they like (or...just make things worse so that the next person who comes along can help if they decide to leave her searching.) More than one person can join for action-- just tag together for consistency with how time flows. ♥ tags might be a little slow to start.

EDIT: Zero will find and bring back the bunny ultimately.]

[ Ashton was sitting at the ramen stand, staring at the plate before him. On it sat a kebob with thick cuts of, beautiful, rare beef, with one large chunk bitten right of one of the pieces... but the entire dish was otherwise untouched, and was starting to get cold.

Acumen said there would be some side effects today, but... this was too much.

He let out a plaintive whine, chewing off another piece. Despite how it wouldn't satisfy his hunger to the fullest, he still had to eat... ]

((ooc: Only closed to action~ Anyone who happens to have a reason to call Ashton can do it here. ♥

ETA: can't get steak there. I wasn't paying attention. OTL ))

[open/morning]

[ Zelman heartily approves of the chaos today despite not being able to taste Coke-Cola. It isn't quite fear and panic, but it was enough to put in him good spirits. Which is why he's now lounging around in the park,  drinking from a blood bag with a curly straw. He's in a uncharacteristically good mood, so feel free to gleefully mock his choice in straws. Or if you can't see it, just mock him. 8| ]

[closed/early afternoon]

[ hangs up on Saki, but makes up for this by actually making an effort by getting up and walking out of his room to wherever Saki is. ]

[No sensory loss for the Chevalier today, but he is noticing that many things are going wrong, and he's worried; worried for Yuuri and Wolfram and everyone else of course, but also for Zelda, who he hasn't heard from since... that night.]

[He figures he's most likely to find people in the park, and so he's chosen that for his patrol, looking for anyone who might need assistance -- with a special eye out for familiar faces.]

[Slowly Revive's eyes open to focus on the hospital ceiling. Well... they had been caught obviously, not that he had expected otherwise. At the very least, they weren't in prison of some sort.]

[He can tell his Quantum Brainwaves are missing, but having missed the morning announcement for obvious reasons, he writes it up to what they had just attempted to do, at least for the moment. He's still rather exhausted and not seeing anyone else for the moment, he closes his eyes to rest again]

[ooc: first thread is for Hiling. DF members, feel free to come and bother them for causing trouble]

[After two days huddled up in an abandoned house in the outer fringes of the dome, Saya can't go much longer without food. Though fearing to run into anyone she knows, Saya finally has to take the chance, and so sneaks into the convenience store to load up just after Acumen's announcement.]

[She's also more than a bit shaky from not getting her treatments, and so her flight back to her hideout isn't nearly as smooth. One missed curb and she's sent sprawling, her bags of supplies spilling over the pavement.] Ack!

[Several of the hospital rooms were now occupied by some very tired people. One of them was Tieria. Basically out cold, he lay utterly still in the bed the bots had left him in. The situation was eerily familiar to those who had seen the effects of the sleeping epidemic and how he had been affected then.]

{OOC: Okay, so this is for anyone who wants to come looking for Tieria. You can bump into each and whatnot. Most likely, he won't wake up... unless it's like really really late in the evening... like probably past midnight. For those who were here and remember, this'll work similar to the post Ribbons had up after his first collapse from using QBWs in where people can chat and spy and hover and worry and argue and whatever else all in one spot to prevent comm spam. ^_^;}