I didn't think the problem with the Alteration Society uniforms could get worse, or more horrifically gruesome. But there are apparently always more grotesque and unimaginable twists that nautre has up its sleeves. Though if the root of this "nature" is more alien or supernatural, or if it prefers sleeveless tops, we may never be meant to know.
Dogwood dormitory is empty. Well, it's full of husks--brown and dry and shredded, crusty and full of wholes like wasp nests. In the later stages, students consumed by the Alteration Society bioforms adhered themselves to the walls of the dorm and encased themselves in cocoons, made from a pale yellow fluid they released through their mouths.
Once their gestation was complete, their new, unspeakable forms were released. Ravenous, they consumed the RAs keeping watch. What happened next was caught on grainy surveillance footage, but I recommend that no one watch the tapes if they value their sanity.
After finishing their grisly meal as newborns of a monstrous race, they spread their new gray leathery wings, still dripping with both the amniotic fluid of their cocoons and the blood of their victims, and flew straight up into the sky, moving so fast that escaping earth's gravity was their obvious goal.
Remnants of their encasements are now all over campus, it seems the call to to go through this metamorphosis was irresistible for many. Even a large number of the students in the stasis chambers went through the change. For them, however, the risk of releasing them was too great, and they had to be incinerated.
Thankfully, there were survivors not so deeply transformed who may yet recover. The nurse practitioner is working with @
xiirth and @
Miranda Ashdove to develop a vaccine based on their baking.
If you still have an Alteration Society uniform that is unattached, please bring it immediately to Caduceus Clinic for disposal.
Caduceus Clinic is full of Alteration Society victims. The nurse practitioner is still advising against surgery to remove the bioforms, but the stasis chambers are already doubled up and they're having trouble rounding up any more.
Luckily, a number of students who got the altered uniforms didn't wear them enough to become attached. But still more did. Almost the entire population of Dogwood hung socks in their windows, and now the whole dorm is like a zoo gone wild - blind bicycle riding suits, hypnotic emotion-refracting glamour gowns, giraffe neck uniforms, sound and light absorbing blazers. The RAs have it in lockdown.
If someone you know is still wearing their Alteration Society uniform, it's important to make them feel at ease. Don't let them know you're concerned. But do please report to the clinic and give us their names.
I'm staying by @
veruschka's side at Caduceus Clinic. The nurse put her into a stasis chamber because she was afraid to attempt psychic surgery at this point but wanted to stop the uniform from growing into her any more. I'm not supposed to use wi-fi in this room with all the equipment but whateves.
You can see it inside her. The tendrils have grown right up near the surface of her skin, so her neck and face are all ribbed and veined. You can see her through the little frosty window on the top of her stasis casket. I want to say she looks peaceful, but it barely even looks like her anymore.
I know it sounds scary, but if you're wearing your Alteration Society uniform and it won't come off, you should come to Caduceus Clinic right away. Being put into stasis doesn't hurt, and it could be the only chance you have.
And if you're not wearing your uniform--DON'T PUT IT ON!
@
veruschka's tags have burrowed into her skin. She was having trouble taking off her uniform so she had me look and the tags (one on the neck and two in the back) have buried themselves into her flesh. I tried tugging on them but they're really stubborn and I didn't want to risk pulling too hard and having it break off inside her. So we're at the infirmary and the nurse is looking at it. I'm in the waiting room. And I'm NOT wearing my new uniform, and I'd advise everybody else with Alteration Society uniforms to stop wearing theirs immediately!
The tags in my new uniform are digging in to me too. They're rubbing me raw, and broke the skin in two places on my back and neck. I put bandaids on them but the tags cut through that too.
Did you cut the tags off of yours, @
Ninny Hendrix? And it's just a superstition that MIBs come for you, @
Beck.
I was visited by the Alteration Society last night. Now, I'm not complaining, but didn't anybody else find their measurements kind of invasive? There was a lot of probing I wasn't expecting. 42 pages of multiple choice questions, the test with the helmet and the flashing lights, swallowing that long wire.
But I did get my new uniform already, and it's really something. Now I can fit in anywhere. Which is exactly what I needed because normally I don't fit in anywhere. So, now, on the inside I'll still be not fitting in, but at least on the outside I finally will be. Interested to see what kind of dramatic tension that will create!
So, new uniform = full satisfaction as advertised. But I found the process of taking all my measurements a little rough. So, 3.5 stars overall
I am new here but already can't stand my uniform. I read that if you put your sock in your window overnight then the Alteration Society will come and fix things for you. So that is what I am doing tonight.