Hey, Animus-

I know I haven't been the most rapid of taggers in the first place, but I am quickly approaching the end of my semester and desperately need to buckle down, study, and polish up my final projects. Tags are likely to be slower (or potentially non-existent) up through this Thursday at the shortest, and through next Tuesday at the latest.

I'll try to backtag everyone as soon as exams are over- in the meantime, it can be assumed that A'kin is wandering around, chatting at people, and spamming the heck out of his Temperature Control power so that he doesn't spend the entire month repeatedly freezing to death. (Enjoy your relatively warm nights, fellow 3-18 residents!)

Colds aren't uncommon, especially not in this kind of weather! It might not be surprising, then, when starting on December 9, a few residents of the Tower develop a bit of a cold. And the Tower is a pretty closed-off place, so it's probably not surprising that the cold will spread fairly rapidly. Unfortunately, this isn't an ordinary cold...

For two weeks a disease will spread among the residents of the Tower. This isn't a standard disease, though; getting a cold is the only physical evidence you're even sick. Most of the symptoms are mental--warping what you see, what you hear, changing how you perceive the world, maybe even what you think of it. Maybe you'll get the exact same symptoms as the person who passed it on to you, or maybe you'll get completely unique ones. Of course, it's nearly impossible to tell who gave it to you--while the cold will soon fade, the disease remains active and contagious for the full two weeks.

In fact, you as a player might not even know who gave it to your character. Sign ups will run until 12:01AM EST December 9, and all sign ups will be screened. This means only the moderators will know who's signed up. You may only sign up one of your characters. Of course, there's nothing stopping you from telling others who you signed up, but it might be more fun to leave people guessing.

On the 9th, a few characters will be selected at random to have the disease from the beginning. We will reply to their sign up with their initial symptom--the cold mentioned. Then, as they interact with others, they will pass the disease along until it's spread throughout the Tower. Please make sure you will be able to be active if you want to have a chance to be one of the initial victims; we do want the disease to spread, after all! Characters who are inorganic or otherwise do not catch diseases will still be able to catch this one. They will also still exhibit the head cold symptoms that marks initial infection.

After initial infection, of course, more symptoms will reveal themselves: moderators will reply to your screened sign up whenever your character's symptoms change. These symptoms will be psychological in nature, rather than physical: they may hallucinate, hear things, become more paranoid, etc.

If you wish to sign up, please respond to this thread. If you have questions you can reply to this thread, and we will try to unscreen and answer your questions as quickly as possible.

ETA: To clarify, anyone who wants to catch the disease should sign up, no matter if they want to be an initial carrier or not.

The following characters have been removed for not meeting activity requirements and may be applied for:
[OU] Cross Biancia crownangelmetatron
[OU] Dante hunterdevil
[OU] Etna beauty_queen
[OU] Laharl love_hurts
[OU] Kageyama Reiji magnificentsoccer
[OU] Link (Twilight Princess) cant_be_tamed
[OU] Kanon loveforthemachine
[OU] Nanoha Takamachi lyricalmagical
[OU] Sertoria Cani immortalia
[OU] Tatsuya Suou vvvroom
[OU] Kyousuke Kamijou verismo
[OU] Elian Zigmarl absolute_perception
[AU1] Sou "Kit" Kigetsuki sou_kigetsuki
[OU] Kazuya Minegishi daemonium
[OU] Asuna Yuuki berserkhealer
[OU] Willard H. Wright buttsinattheend

The following characters have taken a second chance and must provide double activity next AC:
[OU] Taiki notagiraffe
[OU] Count Bleck bleh_heh_heh_bleck
[OU] Sona Buvelle silentsymphony
[AU1] Kirika Yuumura carrythesin
[AU1] Nepeta Leijon argoncharybdis
[OU] Eridan Ampora wweh
[OU] Saku Gyousou eyeslikeblood
[OU] Kyuubey vertrag

The following characters were on hiatus for this AC:
[AU1] Hei fusedstars
[AU1] Yusuke Urameshi fingerbangingood
[OU] Puru Two donttouchthequbeley
[OU] Tippi pointerpixl
[AU1] Link ocariness
[AU1] Minato Arisato fractus_animus
[OU] Legion dialectics
[OU] John Egbert heirterosexual
[OU] France amant
[AU2] France champagnedelis
[OU] Elena provenworth
[OU] Yu Narukami pitiedthefool
[OU] Koromaru determinedhowl
[OU] Gaara of the Desert fifth_kazekage
[OU] Duzell sanguine_corruptio_lamia
[OU] The Signless iron_infidel
[OU] Rider (Alexander the Great) macedonian
[OU] Veigar isthatashortjoke
[OU] Xue'Kol snowyvalemaiden