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[greennotgold]

TO: CIVILIANS IN N** BLINDZONE
SPE**#AL SECTION C#P-TC#
POSITI*N COMPROMISED
NO FUR*HER COMM*NICAT*ONS **SSIB#E
TI**RAME OF R****E: UN***E#MIN*BLE
IM*E*ATIV*: LOC**E ****##S THR*#HOLD, ##NN*#LE* **T#**T#M
*EA###ART*R* O* #A*#**#****#*R*#KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKTTTT

TO: CIVILIANS IN N** (New? NYC?) BLINDZONE
SPECIAL SECTION CFP-TCI
POSITION COMPROMISED
NO FURTHER COMMUNICATIONS POSSIBLE
TIMEFRAME OF RESCUE: UNDETERMINIBLE
IMPERATIVE: LOCATE ISLANDS THRESHOLD, ##NN*#LE* **T#**T#M
HEADQUARTERS O* #A*#**#****#*R*#KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKTTTT

The Threshold is probably Battery Park or the area around there.

S53229 START CV102TH END SC57 M00249 START CV102TH END W42M18281 START
CV102TH END W42S66663 START CV109ULT END CCL42710 START CV108PIN END
BGL67991 START CV102TH END E96S04591 START CV108PIN END BGS38336 START
CV108PIN END SC57M46710 START CV109ULT END CCS05023 START CV102TH END
WSL20054 START CV109ULT END CHL83011 START CV109ULT END SC57S59952 START
CV109ULT END W42M36743 START CV108PIN END E96 S00045 START CV108PIN END
E96S94122 START CV109ULT END CCM56892 START CV102TH END CCM00467 START
CV108PIN END W42S98123 START CV102TH END GCL77447 START CV102TH END
E96S01010 START CV108PIN END SC57

birdwatching:
swift, starling, sparrow - b-nest
swallow - l-nest

trapping:
swan, shrike - categorize and log

Comments

Story time with Taiga part 3: DC: RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE

[moralitychained.livejournal.com]

Assuming that the Healers are the important part of the plot to find a crab bite solution, this leaves one big question. What's up with Clover? Or most likely, the Clovers? Clover is a big monster that likes to stomp stuff and they KNOW how to stop him anyway. If the parasite crabs are the problem, then what the heck is the deal with Clover?

Well, we all know that the crabs came from Clover as parasites, so perhaps they simply thought that the best way to make sure the city kept being "infected" with crabs as they get eliminated from the killings was by inserting Clovers. However, we all know that one of the three didn't have any crabs. Why insert one that's not "infected"?

Also, a question a lot of people have been asking, myself including is, what do the crabs eat? There's no animals, and they do not seem to eat humans. What if the Clovers are only there as a food source? They are parasites after all, they would feed back on Clover, keeping them alive and capable of reproduction.

So what about the smaller Clover with no crabs? It's very possible that it's too young to be bitten, or it was just inserted and didn't have time to get enough crabs on him.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, as proof that I need my diploma fast before my brain melts of microbiology, I present to you: my most far-fetched idea yet.

What if the infection comes from Clover?

Animal reservoir. Think of it like the West Nile Virus, birds are the primary reservoirs, but we get infected with it via mosquito bite. Basically, what if the crabs aren't the only ones making us sick? What if they are only the vectors, not the reservoirs? Considering they are parasite, and their favorite site is Clover, what if Clover is the actual viral reservoir? This could explain why Clovers are needed inside Manhattan as they cannot directly infect people.

Also, keep in mind that we now have two monsters, one that wasn't swarmed in crabs too. And soon after, the latest batch of kidnappers got bitten and, for some reason, the symptoms came in sooner. Could the newest Clover have a different strain? Has it been made stronger by whoever is holding us captive? Is it a freak mutation?

Or you know, maybe just to dissuade people from trying to take over...

I think I'll stop for now before I go insane from weird theories and get myself rolls of tinfoil.

[pianistofraieln.livejournal.com]

Yes, I agree that the idea of Clovers being disease reservoirs makes a lot of sense. It makes the monsters incidental but the crabs very important. Hmm... How is it that they have control over the crabs, though, I wonder?

[greennotgold]

Pff, deleted comment because it could easily have been that anyone who gets bitten by a CV would be ripped in half...

That's a good question. Maybe they don't, the mods do pick bites by dice roll. Or maybe brain implants?

[pianistofraieln.livejournal.com]

Mostly I'm thinking of the plot where those abducted got thrown into a pit and all were bitten but nothing more than that. Why would the crabs just bite and then leave unless they were being controlled by something?

[greennotgold]

Okay, point. Maybe the ordinary crabs bite randomly, but the ones in that plot had some kind of brain implants or idk. I mean those bites did progress more quickly, so it was probably some kind of experiment to see what would happen.

[pianistofraieln.livejournal.com]

Probably... I get the feeling that they need to have some kind of control over the crabs though, especially if they're using the subway systems as the subway spelunking results seem to imply. That might be as simple as having a repellent signal set up, though.

[moralitychained.livejournal.com]

I need to reread the last kidnapping thread, but a repellent signal is very plausible. An attraction signal too.

It could also work both on Clover and the crabs. Could explain how Clover crashed Zero's party and could also explain how they are directing the Clovers general movements, assuming they are.

Could be ultrasounds... but shouldn't the animal characters hear it?

[pianistofraieln.livejournal.com]

Yeah if it's supersonic or ultrasonic there are definitely characters that would be able to hear it, either way. Hmm.

[greennotgold]

Are there characters who would be able to hear subsonic signals?

[pianistofraieln.livejournal.com]

Probably. I mean we have a hell of a range of characters.

It is a good question, though. What frequencies count as subsonic and what animals hear those frequencies?

[moralitychained.livejournal.com]

Unless we're thinking too hard about it and they just found a frequency only hearable by Clover and co.

Though that would streghten the military/experiment theory to the point where I'm starting to wonder if Clover and the crabs aren't just man-made.

[pianistofraieln.livejournal.com]

hahaha yeah but it's unlikely that it would be completely unheard by anything else in the city.

I don't know if they're man-made...though when it was mentioned that crab bites don't kill you (PROBABLY) + what Harry Saw in the dead monster, my first thought was...maybe the crab bite infection creates new monsters. This is admittedly far-fetched, but hell. This is DAISYCHAIN.

[greennotgold]

Wiki to the rescue:

Ultrasound's minimum barrier is about 20 kHz. Interestingly, "[c]arefully-designed scientific studies have been performed supporting what the authors call the hypersonic effect - that even without consciously hearing it, high-frequency sound can have a measurable effect on the mind."

"It is a fact in psychoacoustics that children can hear some high-pitched sounds that older adults cannot hear, because in humans the upper limit pitch of hearing tends to become lower with age."

"Some animals – such as dogs, cats, dolphins, bats, and mice – have an upper frequency limit that is greater than that of the human ear and thus can hear ultrasound."

As for infrasound: The upper bound seems to be 20 Hz. That means generally, humans can hear anything between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz.

"[A]nimals have been known to perceive the infrasonic waves carried through the earth from such natural disasters and can use these as an early warning. ... It is not known for sure if this is the exact reason, as some have suggested that it was the influence of electromagnetic waves, and not of infrasonic waves, that prompted these animals to flee. Elephants have been known to hear infrasound from two and a half miles away."

"Infrasound has been known to cause feelings of awe or fear in humans. Since it is not consciously perceived, it can make people feel vaguely that supernatural events are taking place."

Unless it's like Taiga says and they found a frequency that only the Clovers and crabs can hear.

[pianistofraieln.livejournal.com]

...oooh. Infrasound would be an interesting explanation for there being no wildlife in Manhattan, actually.

[greennotgold]

You know I didn't even think of that but that's possible! And people are so wary most of the time anyway they wouldn't notice any sudden ill-ease caused by it, or if they did they wouldn't think it was out of place.

[pianistofraieln.livejournal.com]

This is absolutely true! I think we may be on to something!

[coldfront]

Toph is pretty in-tune with vibrations, though, isn't she? She may have picked something up.

[pianistofraieln.livejournal.com]

If it's carried through earth, yeah.

...

what if they are radio signals . . . ? We don't have any PCs who would pick that up and there are plenty of frequencies that normal radios can't pick up as well.

[greennotgold]

Okay idea. I know Mia did some of the graffiti, but not all of it. What if whoever paints the graffiti also paints, like, messages for the crabs to read in some light frequency people and ordinary animals can't see? Wow I'm really stretching right now.

[pianistofraieln.livejournal.com]

lmao XD that is kind of stretching it, because it assumes the crabs are sapient enough to have language capabilities that allow them to read.

...I always wanted to have somebody run around doing fake graffiti 8Da maybe Raiel and Hamel should get up to hijinks sometime.

[greennotgold]

Well, this is Daisychain. They could be.

I've wanted Rolo to run around and do graffiti saying to support Zero 8D Fake graffiti would be ossm.

[coldfront]

http://squishyarms.livejournal.com/2883.html SUGGESTION

[coldfront]

That assumes crabs are cognizant enough to read, unless the messages are just variations of "waka" and "laka". But it's cool, Bunny Fletcher makes everything better.

[inthephonebook.livejournal.com]

It would also explain how Clover hit the Intrepid just as people were exploring it. Also, remember the tunnel in Subway Adventure where the note was found looked recently cleared out, and there were no crabs at all.