5th Formulation [Audio//Open Commentlog]
Well, the world is a depressing place lately, isn't it?
[She's way too chipper for that statement: the good doctor is at Sergei's, and there's an empty brandy glass on the table as she debates round two.]
I just keep thinking... there must be something we can do for each other?
Me, anyway. I feel so useless here. You all have these... skills. I don't ( Read more... )
[She's way too chipper for that statement: the good doctor is at Sergei's, and there's an empty brandy glass on the table as she debates round two.]
I just keep thinking... there must be something we can do for each other?
Me, anyway. I feel so useless here. You all have these... skills. I don't ( Read more... )
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Hello, Daxter.
[She's definitely going to have that second drink now.]
Um, thank you. But I don't deal with idleness well.
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Yeahhhh, I hear ya. Home was dangerous but at least there was shit to do.
So what's a "biotechnologist" do, huh?
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Mm. Yes.
Hm? Well, in my case, in vivo genetic engineering using specialized viral vectors, though I still do some biofield-materia junctioning in my spare time. Though there's a wide range of us, with a variety of specialties and projects.
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[She's thinking it over.]
I take viruses, pull them to pieces, splice them back together with new proteins, and inject them into... subjects. That's mainly what I'm working--was working on back home.
Probably the most interesting project I've had.
[Because she's not sure if she's allowed to count Vincent yet...]
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No, no, no! No, I don't make people sick!
Mostly... mostly rodents right now--I mean, I don't make anyone sick... It's not... it's not that kind of virus.
Not like a cold or anything.
It actually... it enhances a subject's ability to connect to the planet--or, it's supposed to. It confers supernatural strength and agility to an individual, not to mention heightened senses and, ah, interesting alterations to the immune system.
It's... it's nothing horrible. I'm not a monster or anything.
[Unless what the caped man from her future said is true. Then... well, she lied.]
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[Ooohhh boy, some nasty juju vibes over here.]
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[She suddenly feels bizarrely guilty about that...]
Not... exclusively? I'd... rather not. I think we could accomplish the same thing with cell cultures at this point? You know?
But... I don't... it's not really my project: I'm a second.
[Plausible deniability? She'll try it?]
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They don't talk or anything, do they?
[Because Dax isn't a rat. He is not. ...but if these rats she experiment on talk then that's just fffff.]
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Talk?
[This would be nervous, slightly relieved laughter: she's not on trial, maybe?]
No, of course they don't talk! There's no such thing as--wait... do rats here talk?
[Oh, she could never experiment on a talking rat! Just a talking human... and a god... and an alien... and maybe...]
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Naw, rats don't talk. But y'know, if they did. I'm just sayin', that would...y'know, that'd suck, if they did.
But they don't.
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Yes. That would... yes, it would be... awkward.
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Yeah, ain't much a market here for the sorta shit you do. Not a lot of...lab-y stuff and all.
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That's why I've been so absorbed in, well, absorbing information. But I need some outlet, so place for all that knowledge to go.
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