@Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight --- [text]

[blastedass]

[He normally doesn't bother with network posts. But this was a fairly long time in coming.]

Who here knows about painkillers, anesthetics, or other analgesic drugs?

Most of us have gone through surgery to get additional implants or modifications, or know someone who has, and every fucking time it's the same damn story: "This won't be done with any anesthetics as it's an elective procedure and LILITH is saving anesthetic drugs for life-saving medical procedures."

That's bullshit.

If they're cutting into us to do surgery, it's a damn life-saving medical procedure because we're the ones saving their fucking lives! The least they can do is knock our asses out or numb it before digging in and shoving more crap into our bodies! It's odd as hell a place with this much technological advancements doesn't have a way to create or access a steady supply of painkillers, so it's probably just not on their priority list.

I'm not a botanist or a chemist, but I know medical pain relievers started with plants before it became chemicals derived from them. Coca, thyme, clove, poppies, and curare are some of the original bases. I'm leaving the city next week to try to locate some of these in the wild and bring them back for cultivation. If you want to come with me, meet me in front of the base at dawn next Tuesday.

In the meantime, if anyone has knowledge about this, share it. Just cause they won't help in this doesn't mean we can't.


[ooc: for the record, i'm no botanist, chemist, or medical practitioner myself, but i'm happy to do some research if we wanna go down some kind of rabbit hole with this. feel free to mingle and interact further to share information or ideas if you like. hypothetically, if this succeeds, it would make future reward surgeries less burdensome on the outsiders... unless LILITH's just doing the pain on purpose.]

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[heir_conditioned]

I know that aloe vera plants works on burns, I can identify those, but I'm not sure about pain relief methods for things like surgery recovery. I can offer knowledge on the use of hot and cold to lessen lesser pain from swelling in reference to it maybe.

What brought this on, Bakugo?

[An injustice, yes, obviously, but something had it on the man's mind.]

[blastedass]

If you find aloe, grab it. But they aren't going to let you into the damn operating room to ice over shit.

They don't even let people with the healing implant in there until it's done.

[As for the last part-]

Fucking sick of it. That's all.

@duke, text

[frostfist]

You really did it.

[ not that he thought Bakugo wouldn't, but that sure was speedy ]

[blastedass]

You think I'm a damn liar?

[He said he would.]

text; @Goldilocks

[likemybooks]

We use magic to numb severe pain where I'm from, but I know there are some gases that if you breath them in, you loose a lot of your sensation to touch.

[blastedass]

Yeah, anesthesia in vapor form is one of those where I'm from. But we'd need to find a way to make it here.

Like that damn half-n-half bastard up there, they're not gonna let you into the surgery room to use your magic.

@pochita

[nutkick]

are you okay?

[ he didn't read that long wall of text. does he need to do something or you're just smart-talking with other people, kacchan? ]

[blastedass]

[pain bad. medicine good. people don't give medicine. fuck them.]

i'm fine. just pissed.

@hearse

[wheft]

I'd be surprised if you could even find plants like those just blooming on the wayside. The world is wrecked enough as it is and there is a paper shortage, after all.

[blastedass]

Most of this shit is digital in the first place.

[Except those damn immigration forms!]

They had fucking monster plants growing in the sewers in January! You think a poppy on the side of the abandoned road is weird?

un: fallen_angel

[peripheries]

You mean it isn't supposed to hurt?

[blastedass]

Huh?

[What the fuck?]

Of course it's not!

@bot

[enkefailin]

Just 'cause something isn't a pain reliever doesn't mean it won't help out, either. Figure you might be able to get your hands on stuff that'll at least get you a little more out of your mind for it... I bet you it'd expand your options 'til you figure something out.

Can't help with the rest, though. We used to manufacture something that'd be useful for this back home, but there's no way to make it here.

[blastedass]

You mean drugs?

[Not medical drugs, but the "drug" drugs, he's assuming.]

Because you don't have to technology or the ingredients?

@greatvalue

[newphew]

Pain is just part of the process.You get used to it after a while.

bUt I'll see what I can find out about those plants.,.

[blastedass]

[No shit, but that's not the fucking point.]

You don't have to use it if you're getting your damn head cut open.

There're pictures online.

@sanda

[thundercrashes]

You actually got one of the implants here?

[And yet you gave us shit for getting the style chip recently...]

Which one?

[blastedass]

[You're gonna hear this one, man.]

HELL NO!! ARE YOU MAD?!

I HAVEN'T GOTTEN A SINGLE FUCKING THING FROM THEM SINCE DAY ONE!!

@ambrosia

[picky]

I'm a mage. In my world, I spent a lot of time researching the major causes of illnesses and injury and worked to develop treatments.
But that was mostly using magic. I can't say if this place carries the same remedies or herbs that we had at home either, but I can come with you and see if I can identify anything.
There is a way to use magic to block off people's sense of pain. I knew someone at home who did this whenever she would heal someone.
But I can't really condone that... It's too risky to mess with pain receptors. Plus, I'm not sure if LILITH would let Outsiders into the operating room.
I'm not sure if this helps, but I figured I should mention it.

[blastedass]

[No, this is helpful.]

Good. It's better if you know what you're fucking looking for.
Make a list of whatever remedies or herbs you remember from back home. We can at least compare potential matches on the way.

No, they don't let Outsiders into the operating rooms. We've got a shit ton of people with healing implants already. They only come in after the procedure's done and the patient's released.

@rubber ducky

[curingidiocy]

[ What? LILITH wasn't using anesthetics?? He hadn't realized because the initial implant surgery had been done before he even woke in this world.

He's aware of the supply shortage the world is facing, so this is where his knowledge comes in. He'll have to figure out something somehow. But working with herbs and plants... it's rather primitive, but perhaps that's the only option they have. ]

It would not be difficult for me to compound analgesics, provided we have the proper components to do so, but it will be important to examine the herbs you bring back for any mutations that may change or lessen the efficacy of their effects.

I have not been able to locate studies on the effect kaijus have had on the planet's environment, so it would be wise to tread carefully. Pharmaceuticals are not something one muddles in lightly.

[blastedass]

[Surprise. As far as he knows, the initial surgeries, for the ocular implant and arm implant, are done while the Outsiders are still "under" - whether that's due to medicine or inter-dimensional whatever the fuck. But all else? Nope!]

The components are the fucking problem.
Yeah, no shit. We already had to deal with mutated plant monsters in the sewer in January.

But if you can make them if we have the ingredients, I'll leave it to you. Unless you feel like training others.

Uh-huh. They already use kaiju meat in the cafeteria. [Enjoy that piece of knowledge. Though that was back in February. Still, if you did it once-!] Most of those studies are kept in the labs with LILITH.

text; un: joker

[1797]

any ideas on where you'll start looking?

[blastedass]

on the same highway we followed to get to disney.

text; @CURSE

[gimu]

i will go. i have an old encyclopedia of local flora and fauna loaded for this very purpose.

[blastedass]

where'd you find that? send it over.

text @rabbit

[seaurchin]

I'll come with you. The Divine Dog can help us with tracking if we can find a scent for him to use.

[blastedass]

He can learn scents on command?

[The idea of sending 1000+ rabbits out into the fields to search is there, but... rabbits. What, come back a day later and see if any of them are lying around doped up like little furry druggies?]