Text/Action // 04 I've Got the Remedy

[scientize]

[The following text has been sent out to absolutely everyone the morning of July twenty-fifth:]

ATTENTION RESIDENTS OF ALIUNDE.The city's medical staff will now be administering an antidote to the poison that has spread throughout the city. Please proceed calmly to the hospital if you have come into any contact with the frogs or someone who has

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[nervetonotkill]

So, why should we trust you?
For all we know, it could be something to make things even worse.

[Maybe he likes being difficult. Maybe you don't need the word 'maybe' there. How could it be even worse? That's a good question!]

[scientize]

[Which is precisely the point she makes.]

Don't be stupid. How could anything I have to give you possibly be worse than the effects brought on by the poison?

[nervetonotkill]

It's called being stubborn. Do you really want my to answer that? ...So, what's the poison or whatever that brought all these effects to us?

[scientize]

[Stupid, stubborn, it's all irritating to deal with in the end.]

If you want a thorough, detailed lecture on what we've discovered, I'm afraid it will have to wait until everyone has been treated. I don't have time to waste.

But the short version is that the frogs secrete a type of hallucinogenic venom through their gums, which obviously enters the bloodstream via bite. I've dealt with similar reactions from plants, but never anything like this with a living creature. Especially not with the variety of different effects we are seeing.

[nervetonotkill]

What if I just want to know what's in the

Right. Well, consider this your lucky day - I'm not up to scew my life a bit more just because of some fucking thing from stupid alien frogs. Hell I'd probably make the whole thing even worse...

So, are you busy right now or is the place quiet?

[scientize]

It's never quiet or free, but come on down anyway.

1/2 - also I forgot titles, but these were text, obviously o/

[nervetonotkill]

Well, as long as it's not rush hour...

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[nervetonotkill]

[So, Ed is more often than often annoyed at the location of his apartment. He's still living in that free apartment right next to the damn hospital, yup, and for some reason it tends to annoy the hell out of him. Annoyed by the littlest things? What else is new?

Today is different! Hell, if he had to go through the whole fucking city just to get to the hospital with these effects from the venom, he'd... Probably go insane? Would never get there? Need someone to beat him up and drag him there with force? Something like that. Instead of walking through the whole city, all he needs to do is get out from his apartment (B / 2nd, first floor, brilliant for things like this) and walk to the building right behind it. That's... Not so bad.

What is bad or far worse than just bad bad, is that everyone who happens to be out at the same time with him look like his mother by now. You'd think seeing your mother is nice, right? Errr, well it's far from nice when she's been dead for quite long, he tried to bring her back with his brother and failed

[scientize]

[Luckily for the young alchemist, the hospital waiting room isn't nearly as packed as it had been during the rest of the morning. Most of the hospital staff are taking a quick coffee break before the next wave of patients arrives, so currently only Naomi and a few of her younger-looking, wide-eyed trainees still in their residency are drifting about.

Considering they only spoke over text and the fact she has seen probably a quarter of the city's population walk through those electric doors in the last few days, it shouldn't be too big of a surprise for Naomi to not know who she is approaching. The pretty doctor just gives Ed a quick look up and down before speaking. Her tone is firm, but professional.]

Here for the cure? [Because of the great magnitude of patients that have been thrust upon them to handle, the hospital isn't doing things quite according to protocol today. There is just too much to be done and not enough workers to do it.]

[nestingdevil]

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She's one of ours, Alchemist. You can trust her.

[scientize]

Your confidence in me is appreciated, Greed.

[nestingdevil]

You can be thrown a bone once in a while, Doc.

[scientize]

Not often enough.

Still stable after your little encounter?

[nestingdevil]

Stable enough.

And I've given you plenty. What else could you possibly want?

[scientize]

Just making sure that you don't need a little injection yourself. Not that your body seems to need much of anything really. I'm looking forward to getting some alone time with you after this whole situation blows over.

[nestingdevil]

[It takes a moment for a reply to come her way, but when it does:]

Oh? A date, then?