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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You
talk kinda' weird.
[WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.
WHAT ARE THESE BIG KID WORDS. D'8]
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Layperson's terms it is then.]
... The medicine you make should be tested and then sold widely. Though I find your claims as to what it does... difficult to believe, if they are true then they are revolutionary.
Terran medicine can reconstruct limbs, yes, but the grafting can be something of a tedious process, to say nothing of the complexity of the cell matrices involved...
I take it you are not a doctor? [Because a doctor should recognize these words.]
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N-no, I'm not really much of a doctor... I just sell the medicine, really.
[How do I explain that being sold widely is difficult? I mean, 'you'd have to squeeze me dry of blood on a regular basis' is a really hideous way to explain it...]
I know it's kinda crazy, but what reason would I have to lie about something I'm giving away for free, in a place where I can't run away or anything?
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... Thought that does give you less of a reason to lie, the claims themselves are quite... incredible. And extraordinary claims demand extraordinary evidence. Hence why I would be fascinated to see this medicine in action.
After all, if such a medicine as this exists, it likely deserves intense study into its properties. You say you are not a doctor, yet you are able to make a medicine that would be considered revolutionary even by my own world's standards - this is something that deserves some exploration.
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Like, familiar as in 'hey tree guy can we cut you apart and see how you work?'.
He swallows nervously. Don't panic, Ian. Just, uh, don't think about that.]
Well, it's not much for exploring; my world doesn't have a whole lot of people for dis-trib-uting, and it's a little tough for people to take it with 'em when they leave Luceti...
Y'know. Since they forget being here.
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... Duly acknowledged. However, it would be something I would be more than willing to undertake the study of myself, simply for the knowledge of it. While I am here I may as well spend the time diversifying my intellectual background... being trained in astrobiology ordinarily does not lend itself to the medical sciences, but Luceti has been something of an incentive to look outside of my field.
I presume that this is your typical occupation, then? [Otherwise Ian wouldn't have mentioned the usual price, Robert supposes.]
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[God, he really should think up follow-ups to things, before he blabbers all over the journal. Ian's Ian, I guess. V_V]
Yeah, it's my usual occupation. Back home there's a really vicious war going on, so I do what I can for whoever falls into my path.
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And ugh, another violence-filled world. Robert is... beginning to start to not find that surprising, now. Instead he just finds it slightly depressing.]
Surely an understanding of the properties of your medicine would be a benefit for both yourself and others who sell it, correct? It might even allow you to increase its potency further, or expand its abilities to cure. I cannot see this as being anything but a benefit to anybody, and such information ought to be available to all.
And... I am sorry to hear that your world is a violent one. Though... that does seem to be the norm, as much as that pains me to say. At the least you are trying to do something constructive instead of barbaric.
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[And your scienciness is only making him more sure of this decision. |D;;]
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It takes him a moment to reply, and when he does his tone is a little colder than it had been.]
I would think more people would benefit from sharing the knowledge than from it being withheld.
But... [He sighs, slightly.] That is your choice, however illogical I think it is. But a world where information is dangerous is a very pitiable one, and one that could probably stand to benefit the most from education.
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[Wait. Wait. Somehow this suddenly seems familiar.]
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There was a possibility.
If the source was organic...]
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Is the medicine sourced from sapients? [Now there is just a tinge of horror in Robert's tone.]
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Sapients?
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