What symptoms will they have?: Physical! First she'll lose her voice, then she'll be delirious with fever and unable to communicate at all.
What will their essence rite will be?: Talk to Uhura in a language that isn't Federation Standard/English. Swahili and Vulcan would be the most effective, since Swahili is her native language and Vulcan is one of the alien languages she specializes in (she is a xenolinguist, after all), but anything that ISN'T English will help.
English just makes her worse.
What is the dream hinting (or outright telling) helpers about the essence rite like?: People talking in languages that aren't their own. Since I want to keep Uhura out until the 26th, the dream shouldn't be too clear about what to do or even who to do it to. Uhura might be in the dream; she might not. MAYBE YOU SEE NICHELLE NICHOLS INSTEAD. that would be pretty awesome, no lie
Are you open to anyone performing the essence rite?: Yup!
Illinguist
What will their essence rite will be?: Talk to Uhura in a language that isn't Federation Standard/English. Swahili and Vulcan would be the most effective, since Swahili is her native language and Vulcan is one of the alien languages she specializes in (she is a xenolinguist, after all), but anything that ISN'T English will help.
English just makes her worse.
What is the dream hinting (or outright telling) helpers about the essence rite like?: People talking in languages that aren't their own. Since I want to keep Uhura out until the 26th, the dream shouldn't be too clear about what to do or even who to do it to. Uhura might be in the dream; she might not. MAYBE YOU SEE NICHELLE NICHOLS INSTEAD.
that would be pretty awesome, no lieAre you open to anyone performing the essence rite?: Yup!