The mighty 4!
My honourable friends,
our fourth prompt post!
That's right, number FOUR.
Like the nucleobases, the fundamental forces of physics and the horsemen of the apocalypse.
Like the number of seasons, the number of letters in most swear words and the number of boxes each tetris shape is made of.
In this spirit, here are four things to keep in mind:
1) The ( Read more... )
our fourth prompt post!
That's right, number FOUR.
Like the nucleobases, the fundamental forces of physics and the horsemen of the apocalypse.
Like the number of seasons, the number of letters in most swear words and the number of boxes each tetris shape is made of.
In this spirit, here are four things to keep in mind:
1) The ( Read more... )
Fact: the malaria vaccine is pills, there's different kinds based on how long you're staying in a risky zone, but you need to take them quite early before you leave and you have to keep taking them for quite a bit after you're back, and they're seriously nasty stuff (some people compare them to chemotherapy, adverse reactions can be that bad), so much so that people who need to spend very long periods in risk areas sometimes prefer to take their chances with the malaria.
So: on a diplomatic trip Nick gets bitten by a mosquito. Maybe he's allergic to the pills and can't take them, maybe he stops taking them too soon, maybe he was only passing through and didn't bother at all, but once he's been back a couple of weeks he gets hit with a full-on fever attack, complete with spiking alarming temperatures, bone-rattling chills and delirium. Bonus if at first they think it's some type of terrorist poisoning attack and everyone freaks out.
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Poor Nick!
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