02 - Welp (backdated to the 24th)

[agelostdoll]

((ooc: had meant to put this up a few days ago but I had to clean a virus off my PC; sorry about that!))

[Asuka - the eyepatch'd one - comes onto the screen... and looking none too good. Pale, bags under her eye and shivering despite a blanket and a heavy jacket. Yeah. Even her voice is hoarse:]

Anyone wondering about that side effects thing... well, it's pretty fucking confirmed. I'm about three weeks in; haven't touched anybody. Said I would a while ago; experiment.

Fever, headaches, sleep disruption... I think I'm starting to hallucinate. I'm calling it off.

They're not lying about that.

Private text to greenteengenius

you want your scans make it quick

Private text to favored_four_eyes

could use a hand

Comments

Oh right this is Voice.

[self_replication]

When it happens to another, yes.

I gather you are in no possession of powers?

noted duly :|b

[agelostdoll]

No. Come over here to poke me with instruments and I will stab you. [it's important to establish boundaries early on...]

Voice - those keywords made me giggle.

[self_replication]

[Even more so with Vexen.] Consider yourself fortunate, Asuka.

An intriguing idea. I do wonder if that would count as contact for our captors. [Never mind that he wouldn't actually allow himself to be stabbed. Then again, if it was for science - he would.]

I had such fun with them

[agelostdoll]

...

...Don't go 'round telling people they'll feel better by punching people. [HYPOCRITE]

Heee

[self_replication]

It is another way of creating the requisite needed physical contact for our hosts, is it not?

[agelostdoll]

Sure, but it's not exactly going to encourage everyone working together.

[self_replication]

An unfortunate truth. [It's grumbled.] I assume you have remedied the side effects?

[agelostdoll]

[uuuuugh don't remind her-] I have a friend coming 'round.

[self_replication]

Of course.

Might I study your notes on the experiment sometime?

[agelostdoll]

Sure. You'll also want to talk to the green-skinned scientist [whom she refuses to call Brainiac on principle] - he's taken medical readings.

[self_replication]

When would be an ideal time to collect them?

I assume you mean Brainiac.

[agelostdoll]

Something as important as this? I'll release them publicly in a few days.

...And yes.

[self_replication]

Very well.

[... and some awkward social thing because it is appropriate-] I wish you a speedy recovery.

[agelostdoll]

Yeah, me too. [because seriously this kind of sucks]

See you later.