Mushi Infestations R Us

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Who: Ginko, Tanyuu, and YOU
What: MUSHI SHENANIGANS
Where: All around the carnival
When: Through the end of January
Warnings: mild boddy horror for infection threads

Catch-all log for the mushi infection plot, please comment in the sections below and check out the OOC post for more info!

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Un Colonies

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Most noticeable by the dampened or entirely absent sound in the area, Un colonies will make their homes anywhere that would have frequent noise in the area. Sections of the Big Top, around the Gamer's Circle, even in personal trailers. The lack of sound may some in slowly, or silence could fall all at once.

Anyone capable of seeing mushi will be able to find small, glowing green snail shells that will disappear into a vanishing mist when provoked to move--or perhaps uncurl into a slug-like creature, on rare occasion. They do not attack, but it may be hard to convince them to move in the first place...

Un Infections

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It comes on rather suddenly. One moment, you're perfectly fine and hearing normally, and the next you feel a tickle in one ear and have suddenly gone deaf on that side. Or perhaps you are incredibly unlucky and have gotten a double infection--just try not to shout anyone else's ears out trying to ask for help, will you?

Ah Infections

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Much like the Un infections, Ah invade the body with little warning. Four small, fleshy horns grow from the forehead, and through these new protrusions an overwhelming wealth of noise can be heard--far too many to process at all. It's loud, headache-inducing, and altogether entirely unpleasant. Going to the other side of the hearing spectrum is just an effective a deafening mechanism as complete silence is, and perhaps a cure for this cacophony should be sought out?

Ah Infections

[thevictoriandetective]

Sherlock was woken up from a sound sleep by an incredibly annoying series of sounds. Being underwater of course lent itself to a bunch of weird noises, but this was different.

It was like...waves, chewing, swimming, bubbles, schools of fish swimming, some massive animal singing a haunting song, pots and pans, scraping, shuttling, scurrying, eating, gnawing--

"GAHHHH!"

Sherlock floated up, holding his head. So much noise, he couldn't think--what was going on!?

His fingers brushed against what felt like some hard protrusions on his forehead. What--oh come on, he had enough weird things to happen to him to last a lifetime and--

--he swam over to the nearest mirror. Every swish of his tail was enormously loud. He winced as he saw his reflection.

Horns!?

Honestly would this never end? Where did they come from? Was it because of the mermaid thing? But that didn't make any sense, they would have appeared with the original changes. He rubbed the one of them and the noise of even just that blared in his ear like there was a construction zone setting up in his eardrum.

Sherlock grimaced and pressed his hands against his head, the noise of the ocean was throbbing in his skull.

"Make it stop!"

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[destiny_key]

It started off rather slow, actually. Gradually, throughout the day, it seemed like everything got louder and louder to Sora, like a loudness that permeated his skull and made it ring. It made his head hurt, made him dizzy, which in turn just made him feel ill.

In the end, Sora had to call off work early to go lay down, because the sensation of all this noise was just too much, and he longed for the relative quiet of his trailer to maybe make it go away.

He mercifully managed to doze off for a few hours, but when he awoke, it was worse. His head felt like it was going to burst, and putting his hands over his ears did next to nothing. Even worse, he seemed to have gotten a new transformation while he was asleep; four horns sticking out of his forehead. But they seemed... odd. Not like other transformations he'd seen.

Maybe he should go see Zecora.

[waitingforplayer2]

This sucked.

Chiaki had loved turning into a mer at first. Even though it was harder to get around, there was something relaxing about the open ocean. And something elegant about her new form.

A day ago, she'd started hearing a buzzing in the water, but she'd just figured that everybody had heard it. In the middle of the night, she woke up to an absolute cacophony in her ears that made it impossible to go back to sleep. Every toss and turn of fellow carnival workers sleeping two or five trailers over, every piece of sand scraping against the bottom of the trailer, she heard it all. It was mind-numbing.

After just a few hours of not being able to stand it, with dawn breaking, she couldn't stand it anymore. So just before an hour that was reasonable, she swam to Tanyuu's and Ginko's trailer and knocked lightly on the trailer door with one fin. It was still loud enough to send echoes through her head.

[toogoodtoopure]

[It's not really uncommon for either of them to be far apart from each other, and it's the same now when he feels her shift nearby. Yuugi wakes, rubbing his eyes with one hand and rolling over, blinking when he spies her awake. For a moment he doesn't say anything, but eventually he reaches to gently tap her, murmuring.]

Chiaki-san...?

[waitingforplayer2]

[ She winces and instinctively covers her ears with her hands, her cloak-like fins brushing him as they folded over too. ]

Shhh...

[ Even that little sound from him and from her are as loud as a train in her ears. ]

[toogoodtoopure]

[Oh. His brows furrow in concern as he moves himself a bit closer, or at least as much as the water will let him without floating away. Yuugi flicks his manta tail behind him, unsure of what to do before he reaches out, placing a hand on her shoulder and then curling closer, lowering his voice.]

Are you okay?

[waitingforplayer2]

[ She winces again and presses her fingers over her ears even tighter. ]

Everything's too loud. [ She barely says it, practically mouths it. Good thing his hearing is pretty good. ]

It hurts...