Superflu

Howl ST

Beginning the morning of the 17th (Thursday,) Sera will begin to feel the early effects of the virus. She'll be running a slight (100 degree) fever, her body will be achey and she'll have a mild headache. In the evening, she'll get a slow nosebleed that will last for five minutes.

When she sleeps, she'll have nightmares, but she won't remember them in the morning - only that she had a bad night and feels tired and stressed.

On the 18th (today,) her fever will raise to 102, and she'll be experiencing chills and hot flashes. She'll get another nosebleed in the morning. This one will not last as long but it will produce more blood. In the evening, she'll start coughing and after about half an hour she'll begin to cough up a small amount of blood. The coughing will remain mild, but it will periodically contain blood. The nosebleeds and the coughing will be a persistent symptom from this point on, along with the aches and fever.

Saturday night, she'll have nightmares again. Again she won't remember them, but she'll feel tired and anxious in the morning.

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The attempt to read the surface thoughts of the woman in the bar would reveal her to be (seemingly) innocent to whatever plot Eric may have been involved in. She was thinking about her job at an office and whether or not she ought to ask for a raise, apparently oblivious to anything unusual going on around her.

As for the results of the life scan, this is what Sera will find:

She has indeed been infected with a virus. What she can expect from it... she doesn't know. It isn't something she recognizes. But she can feel the virus spreading and replicating in her body, moving through her bloodstream to infect her respiratory system. And the more her immune system attacks it, the more it reproduces.

There's something more, too. As Sera performs her scan, she'll get a flesh of oracular vision - cryptic omens of things yet to come. In her mind's eye, she'll see a virus blossom into a hydra with a hundred heads, each one dripping blood from its eyes and mouth. When one head opens its mouth to snarl, she dives into the throat and the world goes red. And then she is drowning in a lake of blood. And in the sky above there is a shadow some dark phantom looking down. Watching her die, cold and observant.

Serafíne

mnemosyne @ 3:25PM
Time 2. Difficulty 5, -2 for merit. What was Eric doing before he ran into them at the Tap House?
Roll: 2 d10 TN3 (1, 9) ( success x 1 ) VALID

mnemosyne @ 3:26PM
Extending: difficulty +1 for extension, and -1 for specialty focus.
Roll: 2 d10 TN3 (3, 5) ( success x 2 ) VALID

mnemosyne @ 3:26PM
aaand, extending, ditto.
Roll: 2 d10 TN3 (6, 6) ( success x 2 ) VALID

Samael @ 3:27PM
Witnessed

And, here is a roll for healing some of the virus damage. Mind, if while she's doing this she realizes it redoubles the attack she will probably stop for the moment.

mnemosyne @ 3:27PM
Then: Life 2, healing virus damage on herself. Difficulty 5, -1 for taking her time.
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (2, 3) ( success x 1 ) [WP] VALID

mnemosyne @ 3:28PM
Hmm. And extending, I suppose. Spending a quint to keep the difficulty at 4.
Roll: 2 d10 TN4 (6, 9) ( success x 2 ) VALID

Hydra

Sera will have no trouble with the Time effect. She'll see that Eric arrived at the bar about an hour before she and Sid did. He ordered a drink (that same beer he was carrying when they saw him) and took occasional small sips, but didn't seem tremendously interested in drinking it. He spent some time looking around the taphouse, and some time on his smartphone playing angry birds. He also chatted a bit with some of the people around him, acting friendly and sociable without really engaging anyone. A couple of girls tried to get him to join them for drinks but he told them he was waiting for someone.

And that does seem like what he's doing. Waiting. Or maybe keeping a lookout.

When Sid and Sera show up, he spots them almost immediately, his gaze lingering on them as they walk to their table. Then he turns back to his beer and takes a few drinks. He folds over a little, putting his hands in his lap, and takes out a tiny spray bottle. He spritzes his palm once, quickly, then puts the bottle away and waits. That's when he gets up and approaches Sid and Sera.

The rest is as it happened.

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When Sera performs the healing effect on Friday, it will work as expected. Afterwards, she'll feel a great deal better, and her symptoms will be gone.

The next morning (Saturday) the fever will come back, and it will spike very quickly up to 104 - nearly dangerous levels. The aches will come back, the headache, and she'll get another nosebleed.

Around 10 am she'll cough up a fairly alarming amount of blood, and after that the coughing will persist - worse than before. She'll have some trouble with respiration, particularly if she tries to exert herself, and she'll be able to feel fluid in her lungs.

At noon, she'll get a sharp pain in her stomach and vomit up more blood. The stomach pain will remain, and from then on she'll have trouble keeping food down. She'll also be getting dehydrated, so will need to keep her fluid intake up.

Some time around 4pm is when the hallucinations are going to start. She'll see trails of blood dripping down her walls, but a moment later this will disappear. She'll hear whispering voices speaking in an unintelligible language for about five minutes. At one point she'll look down and see what looks like bugs crawling around literally underneath her skin. She'll feel them too, itching and crawling. Again, this lasts for about five minutes.

Sometime around 10pm she's going to experience an intense hallucination - watching her flesh melt off of her skin. It'll seem real when it happens.

Then she's going to pass out.

Sera's housemates would indeed find her gone, and there would be no clear evidence of how she left - if she walked out on her own or was taken. But yes, if they would let others know, go ahead and do that.

As for her divination...

After Eric left the taphouse, he walked around the corner and got out his smartphone, at which point he did something with the phone which could have been any number of mundane or suspicious things. It was right about the time that Sid and Sera got stung by the bugs though. He stayed for a few seconds, watching the screen on his phone and breathing quickly (like he was pretty amped up - excited maybe?) then he put his phone away and jogged toward a parked black audi. Where he went when he drove away, Sera doesn't know. He was heading North, but that doesn't give much clue.