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Display Name: MECHANIMA
Notes: Mechanima will be watching responses, but will not be responding to every message. He may chime in on occasion. This is meant to be more of a collaboration post for player characters to figure out what they would like to do in order to resolve this! While posted to Ourpowers, links and screenshots to this post will be spread across social media through various sources. It's not often Mechanima makes an announcement these days, especially one like this.

Greetings.

As I'm sure most residents of Central City have realized, we're currently handling an illness that is passing from individual to individual. This isn't something the Society would dip their fingers into during normal circumstances, but we're working under the assumption this may or may not have been unintentionally caused by one of ours.

[ The... parasites, for lack of better word, do not fall under the Society's umbrella. But given that they are certainly not quite human are spreading through the city like wildfire, Mechanima has opted to listen to Dylan Brock's suggestion and is aiming to quell the spread before it gets out of control. No need for this to put them all under an uncomfortable light. ]

We've set up quarantine zones through Central City: Centennial High School's old facility towards the North, an old lair to the West, Broadmoor Hospital to the East, and the second floor of the Society of Villainous Reformation's building for all others. We have our own research teams working to discover a cure, and are asking for assistance from any metahumans capable of discerning biological differences between beings, as well as biologists who can lend a hand. You will be compensated for your assistance.

Do not enter Central City. If you are within Central City, do not fight quarantine efforts. Do not leave the city if you are already within it. We have associates posted at every road, airport, and train station to prevent movement. Teleporters being tracked. We are watching for metahumans with quicktravel abilities.

Consider this a hostile takeover of Central City by yours truly.

Mechanima

Comments

private text; @Sephiroth

[unkindled_madness]

There may be an alternate cause for memory loss in some individuals.

I assume you're able to determine whether someone is infected?

private text; un: st33lchains

[codicies]

I can usually tell, but I have to be there in the room with them. Harder to do on a mass scale.

But someone's working on a vaccine, I'm gonna try to help. Maybe they can find whatever it is about me that turns the worms away and replicate that.

[unkindled_madness]

Understood.

Do you trust the person working on this vaccine?

[codicies]

Not really. But my friends are coming with me in case something goes wrong.

[unkindled_madness]

You feel confident in your exit plan?

[codicies]

I feel confident in my friends.

[unkindled_madness]

Be careful. Make certain someone else knows your location.

[codicies]

I will. My sibling's already making a lot of noise about me doing this at all; If there's any trouble, I'm sure they'll bring the whole place down.

Thank you. I know you don't know me that well, but... it's nice to see you want me to cover my bases.

[unkindled_madness]

Good.

You mentioned before your concerns over setting a precedent with these parasites. Permitting this kind of research concerns me more than taking action to exterminate them.

[codicies]

[ ...okay, that makes a lot more sense coming from someone who isn't yelling at him in his head. Before, Dylan had been focused on being allowed to do what he wants with his own body, especially to keep people safe. But with that perspective, Sleeper's upset makes a little more sense now. ]

I didn't think of that.

I'll... set boundaries. Make it clear what he is and isn't allowed to do.

[unkindled_madness]

If he doesn't follow them, leave.

[codicies]

Anything you recommend? Not knocking me out, for sure. And it ends when I say it ends. Anything else?

[unkindled_madness]

[What would Sephiroth's... boundaries be... He would not have agreed to this at all.]

No change in location. No locked doors or restraints. No additional unexpected personnel. No demonstrations of your powers; the vaccine must work independent of you, so any conscious abilities are irrelevant. Only provide what is strictly necessary.

[codicies]

Thank you.

I wouldn't have even thought of most of that.

[ He has a sneaking suspicion that Sephiroth is speaking from experience, but... Dylan's not sure he wants to pry. ]

[unkindled_madness]

[Good instinct! Sephiroth would just lie.]

Of course.

Keep me apprised of the situation.