[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

[underpinnings]

"There's always action you can take," he reasserts with a shrug; better that than don't care about people. He'll go for the sake of a cure to an overall threat, and for the sense that he won't have much choice--and he'll do his best to keep everyone alive and accounted for, but there isn't a name among the villagers that would inspire him to worry. Better that way, in a place full of unknown dangers, edicts from invisible hands and eyes. "If nothing else, to distract from the feeling."

From every feeling, really.

Both brows lift briefly, as he parses the question. "No one else getting sick, is what I mean. We have to assume this won't be easy; it might not even really be a cure. Ask the victims where they've been. If they can speak, as what they've seen, and deal with it."

He gives her another look, just a flick of eyes taking stock. "You should worry about yourself, not the people chosen. Watching your own back is the best you can do for anyone."