2 [Voice]

[theorizes]

I feel as if I'm the only one in this city that isn't sick. I chalk this up to my copious hand-washing and genetically engineered immune system.

[Sheldon sounds pretty okay, all things considered. He doesn't really do guilt. Or anything except basic incredulity. So he's chilling like a villain in his new Sector Two apartment.]

I've been working on calculating the spread of the illness from Ground Zero. Anyone who wishes to contribute can text me whatever they discover. Don't come see me in person. I am not going to run out of hand sanitizer because people want to be friendly. Or sociable.

I don't want your cooties.

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[magnetic_magpie]

[He's sick - again - but not to the point of crawling across the floor. So he'll answerwith where he was the day before.]

[x,y] -> [x,y] Yellow busline. Sector five.

[theorizes]

Thank you.

[hisoldgirl]

I'm perfectly healthy, actually. Though I'm not sure what cooties are.

What information have you gathered so far? We should compare notes.

[theorizes]

[ -- lol, comparing notes with the TARDIS. Sheldon sounds faintly pleased, but he manages to keep with his strictly business approach.]

It seems to have started in Sector Four, at a wedding. Patient Zero was an attending member. It's exploded from there, spreading at a rapid rate. Use of the mass transit system probably helped, because no one's learned how to wash their hands since the Cro Magnum era, apparently.

I wouldn't mind sharing notes so long as you promise you aren't sick.

[He doesn't want to die. 8(]

voice;

[ninthserenade]

Circle-circle-dot-dot, you just got the cootie shot~

_{[A sneeze, and Demyx laughs a bit.]}

I don't think dudes can give other dudes cooties.

voice;

[theorizes]

Don't be ridiculous.

People of homosexual persuasion are just as touchy-feely as people of heterosexual persuasion.

voice;

[askedtobe]

You're not the only one. [ uh huh big surprise Peter. ]

voice;

[theorizes]

[What in the fuck is his life where he can actually say -- ]

You aren't sick, Peter?

[text]

[paterelohim]

what do you mean by contributions, do you want super interesting "this is how i caught it" stories or what

[text]

[theorizes]

I want to know where you were when you contracted the illness and how quickly it spread throughout your body. Also how many individuals you've come into contact with since contracting the illness.

voice;

[gabriel_gray]

Gonna add to the chorus of not sick. And if you want a prize, work out what the people who aren't have in common, I'm pretty sure SERO will make you their poster child.

voice;

[theorizes]

I've been trying, but there's literally nothing in common. Species, age -- the only thing I've been able to notice is that the so-called immortal people, the ones who aren't normally sick, seem to be the most ill of them all.

Perhaps it's targeted towards those with supernatural abilities, but that makes no sense when you and Peter and everyone else is fine.

Voice

[emperor_cowboy]

Cooties? Did ya just say... cooties?

[He's going to wait for this fellow to reply...]

Voice

[theorizes]

It was a joke.

Cooties aren't real.

[voice]

[learnyourplace]

I am also not sick, though I only arrived in this place eight days ago and have had little contact with the populace.

[voice]

[theorizes]

Finally, someone of some remote intelligence to know to stay away from people.

Do you live by yourself? If not, are any of your roommates ill?

[Video]

[treehopping]

Cooties? I'm not sick either.

[Video]

[theorizes]

[Sheldon doesn't really like video, but he's too busy to really notice his NV switching over. His living room is neat and orderly and has a massive white board in it, covered in different colored equations and numbers and charts. Sheldon himself is sitting in a chair, with three notebooks spread in front of him, scribbling something down. You can't quite see his face, but you can see most of him. The NV is lying at a weird angle.]

Is anyone else you know sick?

written text.

[brushy]

. . . Cooties?
Is that what it's called?

text.

[theorizes]

[ ... well, that's different.]

No. The word 'cooties' is a label for a disease that doesn't actually exist. I was trying to be funny.

[Video]

[thelittlestbub]

[Hi Sheldon. Remember that skepticism about this being Jubilee? She's in her X-Man uniform with the yellow coat. She just got done playing in the Danger Room - a place you will never see, so there :P]

I've got a mild cold, but nothing that can't be explained by the weather change. I think a couple others in the house have it, but nothing major.

[Video]

[theorizes]

[Sheldon doesn't really like video, but he's too busy to really notice his NV switching over. His living room is neat and orderly and has a massive white board in it, covered in different colored equations and numbers and charts. Sheldon himself is sitting in a chair, with three notebooks spread in front of him, scribbling something down. You can't quite see his face, but you can see most of him. The NV is lying at a weird angle.

As PR is super lazy with tagging and copy-pastas descriptions because fuck da police.]

No one is grievously ill?

Video

[the_dead_pool2]

I don't do sick. I usually just stay on the awesome side of things.

Video

[theorizes]

[Sheldon is getting up from his desk to move to a white board, which is covered with equations, tracking patterns, and a host of things that make very little sense to anyone that isn't Sheldon. He hasn't noticed his NV has switched to video, nor does he particularly care at this juncture. He's busy. He's working.]

Fascinating. I don't really care.

[Voice]

[scienceshow]

Rather presumptuous of you to assume you are the only individual that has not contracted this illness.

[Voice]

[theorizes]

I said I feel as if I am the only one in the city that isn't sick, not that I am. To say that I am without definite proof would be stupid and as I'm not stupid -- well, you can make the conclusion on your own.

What about your housemates, are they free of disease?

[Video]

[the_final_word]

[The voice that replies speaks with a crisp French accent. Of course, if Sheldon bothers to look at the his NV, that's not the most distinctive feature about the woman replying to him. For one, her skin is purple. For another, her turquoise hair seems to be moving around as if it's got a life of its own.]

I have been outside but I am not ill. Perhaps I am simply immune.

[Video]

[theorizes]

[Sheldon is not, in fact, paying attention to his NV. At least not yet.]

Have you been in direct contact with anyone?

voice.

[directorestheim]

I'm of the opinion that immune systems are a superfluous factor with this disease.

There are too many people on the island who normally can not contract diseases suddenly falling ill.

[...He doesn't sound sick.]

voice.

[theorizes]

I was being funny.

[Jeez guys can't you see Sheldon has the best sense of humor ever.]

I take it you aren't sick.

[Voice]

[bestseller]

Also adding to the list of not sick. [At least, not yet. He feels fine. Really. No coughing yet, but the headaches he's blaming on his newly formed ability.]

If you could get any information on what started this, I'd like to know too.

[Voice]

[theorizes]

It seems to have started in sector four -- as to what started it, I haven't been told yet. I'm still sifting through massive amounts of information collected. Once I do figure it out, I'll make an announcement.

[mostbeautiful]

Even germs find you insufferable. This does not surprise me.

[Dorian also looks like death warmed over.]

[theorizes]

[Sheldon actually takes the time to toss his NV a withering look.]

I would rather be unsociable than diseased, thank you.