5th Partridge [Action/Voice][Let's Give Away Shit]
[The bar door suddenly swings open. As the lightning crashes behind him, illuminating a crisp white outline around his figure, Ian walks silently in, dripping with rain water, a hoodie drawn over his unruly green hair. He glances to the left-to the right-before sitting down with a shadow crossing his features. After a beat, he looks up to the
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Reconstructing severed limbs? Well, if you have medicine like that, you ought to be running clinical trials on its efficacy and then mass-producing it. Such a medicine would be quite an asset.
I would be fascinated to see a trial of this medicine in use. [Though Robert would be... less than enthusiastic about cutting off a limb to test it.]
From where do you source this medicine?
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Life forms that are capable of metacognition. Self-awareness. Communication, sometimes tool-making depending on the particular species.
I would assume you are a sapient being yourself, otherwise it is unlikely we would be communicating right now. [And this person just might be a sapient being that uses sapient beings as medicine - ... yet, zie seemed to be bothered by the prospect.
Huh.]
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[Edged with a hint of fear, of course. People knowing he's a tree-man is starting to slowly not bother him, but people knowing about the contents of the medicine horrifies him beyond belief-mainly because back home, a few years prior, he'd been celled up for it.]
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Perhaps zie'll be more willing to elaborate if Robert goes along with this. Because however horrifying the idea of making medicine from sapients is... well, Robert's curious.]
... It seems like a reasonable explanation as to why people would be suffering from the production of the medicine. [Because Robert wouldn't think of economic reasons to suffer - his world doesn't even know poverty anymore. Thank the social safety net. It comes with its own problems.] If it were to be derived from sapients, that would cause suffering if the sapients were damaged in some way to produce it.
But that does not explain your reaction, if you are willing to make medicine from sapients, yet repulsed by it...
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It's made from just me, actually.
[Please don't be the same sort of person, whoever you are. Trusting people isn't wrong. It isn't. Carolina's wrong. There's no reason to be afraid. You're not them. You're not. . .]
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From yourself?
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[Well.]
That would... certainly explain the short supply then, if it is only you. [It... really does.]
... I would presume you are a non-human sapient then, unless your world's humans are the sort that can source that kind of material from themselves. [And Robert's voice is filled with... tangible wonder. Not a predatory wonder, but the kind of quiet awe he has whenever he gets to speak to a non-human sapient.] ... Not as if that is impossible anymore... So many things here are strange.
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[Excruciating memories, thinking about those six years. Suffering, and then watching Carolina and Rupert get the same treatment.]
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... "Tree-men"? So you are a sort of plant sapient? I have... admittedly seen very few of those. But that is incredibly fascinating.
And that treatment is absolutely appalling. Even if your species is capable of yielding medicines like this, that in no way excuses your treatment by others. Frankly, those imbeciles should be honoured to have your species in their presence at all. [Robert snorts derisively.] It is just as I would have suspected from pre-Terran humans, though... always being abominations of some kind or another.
It seems to me it would be far more wise to cooperate with your species instead of attack them, but when were pre-Terran humans ever wise?
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Oi, I won't have you talking ill of my world's humans as a whole. My parents were very good, wise people, and Henrietta is a compassionate, sweet soul, and all the people in the villages I've helped were always hard-working and kind, my own village included.
I'll look at the person, not the race they're from, for my judgments.
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But the fact you could even be treated that way... [Robert shakes his head and sighs heavily, bringing a hand to rest against his chin.] I just find it sickening that such a thing could even be concieved of.
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Their city was a group of scared people in the middle of a war, led by an awful person. I've long since forgiven. Besides, some of my best friends were the ones trying to use me.
So... I'll just keep making the medicine for the people here, just like I do back home, and hope it helps where it can.
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If you would not object to me seeing a sample of your medicine sometime - assuming it does not injure you or strain you too greatly to do so - then I would be most enthusiastic. I am composing a report on various' worlds manifestations of magic and how that relates to physics... But I am also an astrobiologist, and I greatly appreciate any chance I have to communicate with non-human sapients. It is always a deep honour to see the many spectra of sapience in the multiverse.
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But I don't want everyone to know about this just yet. I'm still trying to rewrite the way I've been working for over a hundred years, so... uh, it's a little weird for me, yanno?
Though, I don't know how much you'd really get to find out with just some blood...
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It... certainly can be strange to be forced into a place so much unlike your home. Paranormal phenomena are entirely nonexistent in my multiverse, so it has been strange adjusting to magic, souls and the like as being actually plausible. Theoretically. ... Though I have seen magic myself now.
In that light, I will keep the information confidential, if you would prefer. It is mostly due to my curiosity, admittedly - and also because I would be interested to meet you. Your species sounds extremely intriguing.
... and, depending on what tools I used to study it, I could potentially discover quite a lot about your species. Genetic analysis and all that... Though Luceti lacks the technology to do such an analysis.
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[WHAT IS GENETIC ANALYSIS, WHAT IS A MULTIVERSE, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT. @_@]
Though I... Thanks for thinking I'm interesting, without... ha, y'know, trying to cut me open, or something...
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I would never stoop to such despicable behaviour on a sapient. Rest assured that your bodily integrity means far more to me than it does to the Malnosso, or any other imbecile whom would willingly inflict such damage upon any person.
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