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[hands_of_blu]

There's gunfire and explosions galore when the door opens, and squelchy rains of red things flying past. Small wonder that the Medic lets out an expletive of relief when he realizes where he's found himself all of a sudden. "Frau Bar," he says, doing his best to unshoulder his backpack and medigun, "I vonder if I might have some antiseptic und a

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[sliceitwithwind]

Xaldin tosses a slightly glowing green bottle on the Medic's table. "Potion." he says mildly, "Completely safe for humans."

[hands_of_blu]

The bottle gets an extremely thoughtful look. "A bit like ze pill bottles, zen," he murmurs. "I don't suppose you know vot's in it?"

He's always looking to expand his education.

[sliceitwithwind]

There is a moment of thoughtful silence, then Xaldin shrugs, "Potion. Moogles make them, and I try very hard not to annoy Moogles with too many questions. They're too useful."

[hands_of_blu]

"Fair enough," says the Medic, although he does point the medigun's nozzle in his own direction before opening the bottle. If he has some sort of bad reaction he'll be able to lean over and pull the handle before it gets too far.

Needless to say, there is no bad reaction.

[sliceitwithwind]

"Potions, of all strengths, and ethers work on everyone." Xaldin says, in the tone of someone offering a lesson, "Potion, Hi-Potion, Mega-Potion, and Ether, Mega-Ether, and Elixir and Megalixir. Potion and Ether restore a small amount of health or magic, Hi-Potion a larger amount of health. The Megas affect all members of a party within a small area. Elixir restores all function - both health and magic, for one person. Megalixir restores all function to the party.>"

[hands_of_blu]

"... I haf got to get some of zem back to headquarters for analysis."

[sliceitwithwind]

Xaldin silently drops one of each, saving the Megalixir, on the table. They're all fairly obvious - each container gets more elaborate than the next step down.

"As a warning, Atlantean looks like Elixir. Don't drink the Atlantean - I'm not entirely certain that wouldn't kill a human."

[hands_of_blu]

"I'll remember zat," the medic promises. "Vissout anozzer colleague of mine on hand I shouldn't like to take zat chance. Danke, Xaldin. How do you fare ozzervise?"

[sliceitwithwind]

"Two of our colleagues thought Obliterated have, instead, turned up here." Xaldin states.

If he could feel, those words would be filled with deep contentment. Aeleus and Ienzo were very close to Dilan.

As it is, he fakes it fairly well. "Numbers V and VI of Organization XIII."

[hands_of_blu]

"Ah, congratulations," says the Medic with real enthusiasm. It's always good to hear about someone else slapping Death in the face, even when it's something worse than mere death. "I've been restudying ze surgical manuals I acquired in medical school, so you know. Ze philosophical vorks are next on ze list vunce I've finished."

[sliceitwithwind]

Xaldin nods and reaches into his pockets again to pull out an informational packet on Nobodies.

Yes, the pocket appears standard size. The packet is not folded or creased in any way. Nor does it show signs of all the bottles that were layered in on top of it.

You can fit at least half a Xigbar in those pockets. Probably more, if he doesn't fight.

"Selected information about Nobodies. You do understand my hesitation at giving you everything before we know you better, I am certain."

[hands_of_blu]

"Pfft, I'd sink less of you if you didn't," the Medic says with a wave of one hand. "No vun is entirely trustvorthy, even ze people closest to you. Und I've never claimed to be a very nice man. You do ze sensible thing."

[sliceitwithwind]

Xaldin nods, affecting another small smile, "More for us than for you, to be truthful. Somebodies have more sentimentality than Nobodies. We don't even have the capacity for it."

[hands_of_blu]

"I'll admit to having two tiny soft spots in my heart, for little children und my guinea pig Katyusha," says the Medic, "but ze rest is black und scaly all ze vay through, so to speak."

'Know thyself' and all that. You don't get far in life if you're not honest about your own nature.

[sliceitwithwind]

"I know." Xaldin says, dropping the smile, "In my world we'd call you Heartless-bait. They would flock to you." Hint: not a good thing. "Nobodies can tell."

[hands_of_blu]

This statement gets its due consideration. Eventually the Medic says, "Chust out of academic curiosity, vot exactly does zat entail?"