hippocratical: (doctoring)
Simon Tam ([personal profile] hippocratical) wrote in [community profile] hadriel2016-09-17 11:29 pm

video, backdated to the 15th

[One day in, after conversations with the guard and various others, Simon finally makes his broadcast. The man on screen is well-dressed, despite his collar being unbuttoned and sleeves rolled up to his elbows; his hair is carefully combed back, even if it looks like he did the job with his fingers. He clears his throat, and when he speaks it sounds like he's careful to modulate his voice, that of a doctor giving bad news to a patient. Diagnosis: grim.]

Ah, hello. I'm Dr. Simon Tam, one of the medical professionals at the clinic. In my previous residence, I was a trauma surgeon. I have years of medical training and am here to help in whatever ways I can with the usual injuries one acquires through violence or accident.

As I'm sure you're all aware, Fear--I'm presuming--has brought in a new kind of creature, one that appears to previously have been human. I'm reluctant to use the word 'zombie,' but that will have to do, I suppose. I want you all to know we are working on studying these zombies and trying to find what created them, whether it's a virus or something less mundane. Anyone who has had experience with beings like this in their previous worlds, please reach out to your clinic staff, any information can be helpful.

For those of you who have been wounded by one of these zombies or have had close physical contact, please report to the clinic. We may be able to help you--and if we can't, maybe we can help keep you from hurting anyone else. I'll do my best to make sure it's the former.
sedula: (everything changed when the birds came)

voice.

[personal profile] sedula 2016-09-23 02:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, he's got her there; Sam's knowledge of zombies comes entirely from fiction, watching horror movies with friends through spaces in her fingers. That sort of fear is fun, because it's not real.

Not like here. Not like back on the mountain, either.]


No. I've dealt with wendigos.

[A beat of silence, then she adds:]

They're worse.
sedula: (i won't tell)

voice.

[personal profile] sedula 2016-10-01 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
They used to be people. They, um. Ate other people, and there's some kind of curse, a spirit that possesses them, and that makes them turn into wendigos. They're faster, and stronger, and a lot harder to kill than these zombies. My friends and I - we fought some of them. Right before I woke up here, actually.