Multifarious

Myriad Reality

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I want to zoom in on the idea of someone feeling well enough to drive, even if they’re sick, to being unable to move at all. No matter where you start, that’s a steep drop.

@Session

It is. I mean, in the end though, it’s the only explanation I have. No one who’s kept an eye on the outside for extended periods ever reported anything to the effect of chaos or rioting or anything like that.

Myriad Reality

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But driving? It’s like their strength fell off a cliff.

@Session

Getting fatigued usually doesn’t get quite this severe. No one believed it would get so bad that they couldn’t move anymore, that’s hardly normal. Now, a reasonable person would say they shouldn’t have been driving anyway, but no one was there to provide them with the necessities after all of society’s basic functions just totally collapsed.

Myriad Reality

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But quickly enough that that felt fine enough to turn on a stove and then couldn’t muster the energy or will to turn it back on?

@Session

I mean, if you put something in the oven for a few hours while you’re already having to literally drag yourself over to do it, then give it a few hours? Doesn’t seem all that unbelievable to me. It is a rapid descension though, all things considered. Once that symptom sets in.

Myriad Reality

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Acute fatigue? It didn’t increase gradually over several days?

@Session

It increased, alright. I wouldn’t call it gradual though.

Myriad Reality

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*Gazes horizontally across the horizon, taking in all the sights*
Mass panic? For a dying people, they sure had the strength to make a mess of things.

@Session

No, I don’t think that’s what happened. People all over reported severe loss of energy and motivation, to the point that it got worse and worse with no real cap on its severity. It started getting so bad that people who are still alive just eventually stopped moving altogether. If they were driving, they just stopped steering their cars or braking. If they were cooking dinner at home, they left the stove on and sat until their houses burned down around them. They let themselves starve, or dehydrate if they don’t have food or water, and they stop talking to anyone too…
*Walks a few steps away from the railing, making a conscious effort to not look anymore*

Myriad Reality

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Yeah, I could feel this planet dying the second I stepped foot on it.
*When the elevator dings at the top, I step out and walk toward the edges of the roof*

@Session

*Walks out behind you and up to the nearest railing, glancing out over the “city”- the view of what looked like may have been a city from behind the barricade turns out to be much more modest before, as the nearby “skyscrapers” turn out to be at about the same level as we are at ten stories or so. A couple of them have actually collapsed from what looks like fire damage that has long since petered out, and the same fate seems to have befallen a handful of smaller building and houses in the area surrounding the miniature business zone. Cars rest stopped in the street, some of them having collided with each other or into buildings or poles, and all about the streets it can be made out that people are lying motionless all over the place, or slumped against walls or objects near them. A very select few people can be seen dragging themselves around slowly, some on their feet and some crawling*
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*Looks down and away from the view*

Myriad Reality

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If someone else did, would you actually have some way to know about it?

@Session

I talk to the general. He said there’s not a lot of activity elsewhere in the world anymore.

Myriad Reality

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But this isn’t the only hospital that did so?

@Session

No, but I guess we’re the only ones lucky enough to have done it flawlessly I guess.

Myriad Reality

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*Looks up at the ceiling as we ascend*
How long has it been like this now?

@Session

A couple weeks or so. Ever since word got out that it was believed to be a pandemic, we stayed. A lot of doctors went to treat people in a designated quarantine facility nearby, so we wouldn’t mix the sick with anyone here. They didn’t get to come back.

Myriad Reality

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This is a nice place you've got here, Miss Rea.
*Scoots in alongside you*
We don't even have to take the stairs.

@Session

Well, it was. Feels more like a prison now.
*Looks up at the floor indicator, watching it change with every ding of the lift*