[video; action]

[shifting]

[shaky video at first. Sam's voice seems in the background for a moment, but it's quickly choked off with dry-heaving. The video tilts down sharply from a plaid-covered chest to bare feet, and soon after a pile of clothes. A dog lies down on them a moment later, curled up and whining softly.

The feed runs out.]



((open to anyone who wants to drop in - Sam finally caught the oubreak))

Comments

voice;

[awakenings]

[Oh, Sam...]

You too, huh?

[video forever]

[shifting]

[it's hard to see from the camera angle, but he's wearing a collar - it lets him project thought as speech, in a tinny, robotic voice.]

It came out of nowhere.

[voice forever] 1/2

[awakenings]

You can say that again.

nope, lied 2/3

[awakenings]

[....................Wait.]

[awakenings]

How did you...?

[Since when did he get a talking collar?]

[voice]

[ergomaniac]

Sam, is that you?

[voice]

[shifting]

[...the most pitiful puppy eyes, you can have them.

yes ;3;]

[voice]

[ergomaniac]

...Right. Is there anything I can do for you?

[doctor_mccoy]

Well, there's a new literal twist on the saying 'sick as a dog.'

[shifting]

[a huff of a woof.

Very funny, McCoy.]

permavid.

[symmachy]

[almost to herself]

So this is the flu.

[oh right]

That's a nice trick.

permavid.

[shifting]

It doesn't feel like a regular flu.

[symmachy]

What's different about it?

[video]

[laurice]

Whoa, whoa, people turn into animals now too?! This is getting even worse!

[Larry...no. No, they don't. Now chill out, and shut up.]

[video]

[shifting]

[and a robotic voice from a special collar:]

Larry, I've always been able to do this.

[video]

[laurice]

Wait, w-whoa, seriously?! And you tal -

[Pay closer attention, Larry.]

Oh. It's the collar.

[ reaction ] 1/2

[guerrilla_morph]

[ WAIT WHAT. ]

[inthejunk]

A dog?

[This is new and weird. Yosuke whistles, quietly but probably not quietly enough. That's how you get the attention of a dog, isn't it?]

[shifting]

[Sam cocks an ear at the whistle. Just one.]

A shapeshifter, but close.

video/private/unhackable;

[thefourteenth]

[Gaze upon Edriss, who is perfectly healthy. And highly interested. And surrounded by tissue boxes, despite her own obvious health.]

Does being a dog help the sickness?

video/private/unhackable;

[shifting]

With this one, for some reason.

[thelightbringer]

[He has no idea what to say at first. He's been doling out quips to everyone else, but remarkably, Lucifer doesn't like to kick his friends a dog when it's down.]

Do your thoughts change when you're an animal?

[shifting]

Yeah. It's... more instinct. Things get simpler.

video.

[brushy]

[ ammy begins to whine in return, with concern-- oh, if only she could be in many, many places at once to help all these sickly beings. being an animal, sam would understand what she has to say, when her ears fold back, and she touches her nose against the screen with gentleness. ]

Does it hurt to speak?

video.

[shifting]

[a wolf. A wolf thinking in his head? Or - ? He wants to be frightened, or angry - wolves always bring that out in him - but something about Ammy is so soothing that he can't manage it. Instead he's only... curious.]

No, it's not that. ...Who are you?