A couple of days ago in a rather rambly OOC post (oops) I brought forward a potential plot idea. Well, I'm going to go ahead and go forward with it! It is something you will need to opt in for, but I hope it allows enough flexibility for you to do your own thing and go where you want to go with it.
Here's how it's going to run.
On March 7th Nageki, along with Sakuya and Kazuaki, will awaken from their comas, thus ending their canon update period. Some sort of post will be made that day signalling their return (not certain on the details of that yet, but we'll have it sorted out by then). What Nageki will not realize is that he brought back with him a rather annoying strain of the chicken pox!
In the March 7th post Nageki will already be sick and showing the preliminary symptoms (a fever that'll start out as mild, plus a headache and tiredness), but he won't think anything of it and in fact will try to hide it. He'll just resume daily life, yadda yadda yadda, all that exciting stuff.
He'll be stubbornly out and about on March 8th, his symptoms more pronounced, and then by March 9th the actual telltale signs of chicken pox will appear. From there he'll be conveniently confined and totally out for a week because I have midterms on the 14th and 15th and will slowatus/hiatus that Monday through Thursday of his weakened immune system he is also bringing back with him! Yay. He will recover by March 15th or 16th, and by the 18th (or whatever date, I just rather it not be too late in the month) everyone will be back to perfect heatlh.
The virus can start spreading as early as March 7th, which means your characters can start showing the symptoms by the 8th. Of course, the timing and duration of your character's chicken pox is up to you! If you think they are perfectly healthy and would shake something like that off quickly, then feel free to make it just last a few days. It normally lasts up to a week, though, so keep that in mind when planning. It may be a new strain, but that doesn't mean that it has the capability to knock a normal person out for a month!
You can refer to here for information on the symptoms and typical progression of chicken pox. This will not have any capability to kill someone, so don't worry about that.
You'll notice that technically the turnaround time from infection to showing the symptoms is much larger than a day, but for the sake of time and convenience I am going to handwave that and say that because Nageki's chicken pox was originally a deadlier virus back home (not revealing the details because Hatoful Boyfriend spoilers), it works much quicker than the norm. Also, if your character has been vaccinated in the past or you can easily say that they have due to the technology of their world, they still can get infected if you want them to.
They do not have to be in contact with Nageki specifically in order to get infected. Due to the fact that it is highly contagious, as long as you can think of a reason for your character to be near another infected character, then that's good enough for me.
That's about it! If you have any questions or suggestions, you can drop me a comment here.
CHICKEN POX PLOT
Here's how it's going to run.
On March 7th Nageki, along with Sakuya and Kazuaki, will awaken from their comas, thus ending their canon update period. Some sort of post will be made that day signalling their return (not certain on the details of that yet, but we'll have it sorted out by then). What Nageki will not realize is that he brought back with him a rather annoying strain of the chicken pox!
In the March 7th post Nageki will already be sick and showing the preliminary symptoms (a fever that'll start out as mild, plus a headache and tiredness), but he won't think anything of it and in fact will try to hide it. He'll just resume daily life, yadda yadda yadda, all that exciting stuff.
He'll be stubbornly out and about on March 8th, his symptoms more pronounced, and then by March 9th the actual telltale signs of chicken pox will appear. From there he'll be conveniently confined and totally out for a week because
I have midterms on the 14th and 15th and will slowatus/hiatus that Monday through Thursdayof his weakened immune system he is also bringing back with him! Yay. He will recover by March 15th or 16th, and by the 18th (or whatever date, I just rather it not be too late in the month) everyone will be back to perfect heatlh.The virus can start spreading as early as March 7th, which means your characters can start showing the symptoms by the 8th. Of course, the timing and duration of your character's chicken pox is up to you! If you think they are perfectly healthy and would shake something like that off quickly, then feel free to make it just last a few days. It normally lasts up to a week, though, so keep that in mind when planning. It may be a new strain, but that doesn't mean that it has the capability to knock a normal person out for a month!
You can refer to here for information on the symptoms and typical progression of chicken pox. This will not have any capability to kill someone, so don't worry about that.
You'll notice that technically the turnaround time from infection to showing the symptoms is much larger than a day, but for the sake of time and convenience I am going to handwave that and say that because Nageki's chicken pox was originally a deadlier virus back home (not revealing the details because Hatoful Boyfriend spoilers), it works much quicker than the norm. Also, if your character has been vaccinated in the past or you can easily say that they have due to the technology of their world, they still can get infected if you want them to.
They do not have to be in contact with Nageki specifically in order to get infected. Due to the fact that it is highly contagious, as long as you can think of a reason for your character to be near another infected character, then that's good enough for me.
That's about it! If you have any questions or suggestions, you can drop me a comment here.