[MINGLE] Color Coordination: The Announcement

[sixthiteration]

WHERE: 6I Inn
WHEN: Morning, 18 April
OPEN TO: ALL - This is a mingle post
NOTES: Details may be found here

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In the often-bustling front room of the inn there sits a large, old-style chalboard on a wooden stand. Chalk is a precious commodity, but limestone can be found easily, and both sides of the board are often covered with notes and notices from villagers.

This morning, the board has been wiped clean and a much different message has appeared on its worn gray surface:

Jude Sullivan and Francis Mulcahy have been exposed to toxic spores and will slowly drown if a counter-agent is not procured.

A yellow lichen is needed. It only grows on a small stand of trees in marshland two days to the southeast. There is no other antidote.

The following people have coordinates for the lichen loaded into their wrist devices. Only they may retrieve it, and only if they work together. If anyone else attempts this, the expedition will fail.

Peggy Carter
Beverly Crusher
Jean-Luc Picard
Owen Prichard
Margaery Tyrell
Mark Watney

Hurry. Soon it will be too late.

Comments

[markwatney]

"I haven't seen anything yet that would do this, but that doesn't mean they're not local," I say. "Cataloguing as much of the new plant life is on my to-do list, but so are a lot of other things." Like finishing yet another census and making sure people like Nerys and Major have what they need to survive here as non-humans.

"I'd offer to start looking, but it sounds like I'm going to be out of town," I add with a faint smirk Oliver's way. "You think you're up to trying to find it?" He looks about ready for anything, but what do I know? "Ravi and Helen, we all used to room together and we've got a lab we share. If you can safely get a sample of the spores to them, they might be able to figure out some kind of stopgap, something to give Jude and Father Mulcahy a little more time while we're off trying to find the cure."

[viridescere]

"I'll do that," Oliver says. It's not his normal kind of mission, no, but it's something he will do to help out the village as best he can. Mark's an all right sort anyway and he knows more about this stuff than Oliver ever will.

"I'll get a sample of it to them for testing and do what I can around here to help out. Hopefully you'll be able to find this lichen and get it back here quickly for them."