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Posted on: 2015-03-31 22:22:00 UTC
I was not expecting to provoke this much discussion!
Here's the article on Hinamizawa Syndrome from the When They Cry wiki. Read only if you don't care about spoilers.
http://whentheycry.wikia.com/wiki/Hinamizawa_Syndrome
If all else fails, you could send in a purely synthetic agent, right? I'm not really familiar with this continuum, but as far as I know, diseases don't generally infect other species, and an agent with a completely different biochemistry would be nearly impossible to infect with a virus from earth. Though it sounds supernatural, this is just my two-cents on the matter. Again, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, as I said I only have a passing familiarity with Higurashi.
If that was the case, then War Of The Worlds ends really badly for humanity and the quarians are just staying in their hazard suits because they like the aesthetic oh God I'm an idiot send in the quarians.
Then the suits may not matter.
What is the disease's transmission vector? Is it airborne? Waterborne? Transmitted via contact with contaminated body fluids? Or is it completely supernatural (people just suddenly become infected)?
In any case, a regular NBC suit and a full decontamination process when re-entering HQ is in order. The real question is: "is there actually any badfic in that particular continuum"? If not, then we stay the heck away from that scary disease.
The fact that it's purely geographical, and keeping visits super-short can avoid contamination, I'm guessing that it's either air- or waterborne.
Also... there is Higurashi fanfic. This means that, somewhat inevitably, there will be badfic. I'm just not brave enough to hunt it down, When They Cry is scary enough as it is.
And I haven't even seen the show; I've just played the first visual novel. How something can be so terrifying without visual details, I have no idea. The sounds might have had something to do with it.
Seems to indicate that it is actually parasitic in nature. The lore also includes a prophylactic vaccine C-120. This, from what I read, seems to be able to prevent it from taking route. Though that would conflict with the Parasite. In other words I am not certain. But acquiring C-120 would probably be the best bet, short of the Hard Suits I mentioned in my other post.
The Ethereal caste does these mock honour-duel things with big stabby knives (occasionally on sticks) so fast they break the sound barrier. And they still have rubbish WS. Oh, 40K. Never change.
Breaking the sound barrier? In Warhammer terms, that's practically swinging a wooden club at a tank. Well, no, that's not fair. Swinging a claymore at a tank. That's better.
You know, tomorrow, I think I'm going to try something. I think I'll call it, "better know a continuum." I'll introduce a fandom, give the basic lore, and try to answer as many questions as I can. 40K being the first one. I would do it today, but, you know. Cegorach's Day and all.
And disguises aren't an option here, since they change the whole body and it's biology, not just the appearance. Though I guess they could be used to disguise agents into something that canonically resists the disease.
That might work. Disguise the Krogan, keeping the Krogan, well Krogan.
They render disguises pointless. As long as you have a strong enough SEP field, you could drag Cthulhu into the middle of the Imperial City and people would not even notice him. Why worry about how the agents are going to stay hidden from Sues and canons, or how they can adapt biologically, if they can just send mass broadcasts of don't look at me, don't look at me, don't look at me... to everybody in a 100-yard radius!
But, SEP fields are already an accepted part of Agent equipment. So, don't mind me. I'll just sit here in the corner and grumble.
Trying to come up with a way to have a Krogan and still get the benefits in this context of being a Krogan.
By all means, an SEP field is a perfectly viable method of achieving that goal. I just think it's cheating, that's all. By all means, ignore me. The fields have been around before I joined, and will continue to be a thing long after I stop posting.
The SEP field only works if you don't draw attention to yourself. If someone dropped Cthulhu in the middle of a city, people would definitely notice. If a Krogan kept its head down and didn't go making a scene, I doubt anyone would care.
Though that would be kind of funny. A Krogan randomly appearing in a sleepy village, that could definitely be entertaining.
*Googles*
Oh, huh, so that's what they are.
...Huh. Learn something new every day!
But with certain style agents, it may well be required.
Best thing I can think of is something like an Alliance Hard Suit from Mass Effect or something else capable of withstanding a vacuum. That should minimize the risk.
Alternatively one might need to use something like Time Lord Agents, where worst case scenario it should only trigger a regeneration.
A parasite is not a disease per-se, just because a species is immune to disease does not necessarily mean they are immune to parasites.
That's a hallucination. The reason victims claw their throats out is because of a tactile hallucination that there are insects crawling underneath their skin.
What I was reading on the Wiki seemed to indicate that the exact cause was unknown, but that parasite was the leading guess.
It does say manifestation of Demon Spirit, which means it would be supernatural in nature, which means it could be spread. But I cannot tell the transmission vector at all though.
If we don't know how it's transmitted, there's no safe way to go about When They Cry missions.
There is both a supernatural element and a scientific element to everything in When They Cry. There's no telling which causes Hinamizawa Syndrome, as it seems to have both a scientific basis and a supernatural one. If it's scientific, anybody with a track record of shrugging off diseases should be fine. If it's supernatural, then the safest thing to do would be to quarantine the continuum, even if technically it isn't one.
We've had enough of those, haven't we?
Unless it was an AU, because Hinamizawa Syndrome would spread like wildfire. It'd be really bad once it got to the DMS; that's where we keep the psychos. The disease getting into HQ would probably be the end of the Protectors of the Plot Continuum.
... can someone get Huinesoron to write this?
That could potentially be doable, though the fact that it's AU (or, presumably, a dead-end timeline) might take out the fun urgency for some people.
Actually, this might be fun. Anyone?
But I would kind of want to have permission first. I want to be able to fully participate.
Like Krogans. Granted they would have to be in a perpetual state of Blood Rage. Which would be unhealthy, they might still survive. And artificial life forms. Though they might get killed and eaten by the Blood Raging Krogans.
Even if they did get to the formication stage (that's the scientific name for clawing out your throat, by the way), it wouldn't really hurt them much.
Hell, at least one agent would be immune because she doesn't have a physical body: Gloom/Doom. She's a ghost, so there's nothing corporeal to hurt.
A PPC with Insane Krogan, Zombies, a Ghost, and other Undead. You know that might actually play out as entertaining for a while.
That is not necessarily true. If it is natural/biologic then it would be hard to transfer to non-humans, though not impossible. Disease crosses species all the time. If it is Supernatural, then there is no telling if it would be limited to humans or not. And I would err on the side of it could affect non-humans.
Seems like nothing can hurt them except another vamp, shirtless guys werewolves, or fire. They're immune to everything else.
Like Alucard from Hellsing. Basically an Eldritch Abomination in humanoid form. He can even spawn a massive undead army from all the souls he consumed over the centuries. He is so overpowered that he basically is erased from existence, then only takes 30 years to get back.
LilacLielac and Riese took out a replacement of him. The agents involved were Tanya Carter (I think that's her last name) and Mike de Bergerac (who got me intrigued and interested in Fate/Stay Night).
I will have to read that to see just how Agents take down Alucard.
Caleb Cooper, Twilight-verse vampire. And no, he never can quite live it down. The purple eyes from drinking Sue blood was a nice touch, but I don't know if that was PitViper's idea or someone else's.
*Twitch, twitch*
In all seriousness though, you need to come up with something like that if the disease is supernatural in origin.
That's the only PPC writer I know of that has a diamond golem agent: Caleb.
The fact that their other agent is ALSO undead is quite helpful. Jack the Left 4 Dead Hunter, for those not in the know.