Strange Things, 2005

Lovar, spring, 2005
mini-update Julio allowed his mind to focus on the task at hand. During the first few days, it was hard to come back to work. Knowing that his daughter was down the hall, fighting for her life, while he was helping other sims take care of theirs. He felt so helpless, he wanted to make her suffering end, to cure everything wrong with his tiny baby girl, but he couldn't. He didn't have the skills. Instead he focused on what he could do, help and heal other sims, and stay out of Suzanna's way as she tended to his daughter.

He didn't like the way the first sample looked, so he called Susie back for a follow-up appointment. By the time she returned, her foster mother, Nicole, was also sick with similar symptoms. He made the decision to submit them both to a battery of tests.

What he saw was strange and new. It was a virus, this much he knew, but he had never seen this type of virus before and not with these types of symptoms.

The symptoms were similar to the flu, but they stayed around much longer. Susie had been sick for almost 2 weeks now without any relief.

"Do you know when I'll start to feel better?" She asked from her spot on the exam table.

"Not yet, Susie. Not yet."

Nicole wasn't as optimistic when she entered the exam room. She had seen such symptoms before, in her native land of Sokitumi. Once, when she was a girl, almost a third of the population died thanks to the strange sickness, including her best friend. She remembered the fear on the villagers faces at every sneeze and the isolation of the sick.

"I'm just going to run a few tests on your blood and monitor your vitals at the same time," Julio reassured her.

When he sat down, the exact same image flashed up on the screen. He noted that Nicole had fewer of the virus per mL of blood, but it was the same virus as Susie. By now, he knew the virus's name, but knowing the name only caused his heart to stop. It was the dreaded Plumbob Virus and it always seemed that survival was based on luck as there were no known vaccines.

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Susie was the first rolled for the ROS: Flu while her foster mother, Nicole was the second. There are still 8 more sims to be infected and one to die. At this point, the only sims that are safe are infants and toddlers.