@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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[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.

[picky]

[ There's a little sting of indignation when she gets ordered to do something. She scrunches her nose. This person also curses a lot.

She'll drop it for now. ]

Right. I'll copy down what I know and take it with us.
Did you get one of those surgeries?

[blastedass]

[No apologies for either of those. But he appreciates the help.]

I'll see if the others will do the same.

Hell no! I don't want those bastards sticking even more shit in me.

[picky]

Right? That's what I think too!
We've already gone through so many changes. Even if the abilities we get are helpful in the end, it can't be worth what it takes to get them.
There's also way too much risk involved. How can we trust that LILITH is only doing the procedure by itself? What if they're augmenting other things too?

[blastedass]

I don't want something in my body someone else could be controlling.

[Already they can monitor their thoughts and drag them out if wanted, to say nothing of being able to transport them to their rooms at any time if they don't comply with... whatever the fuck's going on.

He agrees with the comment about potentially augmenting other things without their knowing. They already put in the ocular and wrist implant without consent.]

No one I know has tried to remove the tech. It'd probably be a stupid choice right now.

[picky]

I haven't either, but I think so too. The oculars connect with our thoughts somehow, and not by any magic. Extracting it without knowing much about it is too dangerous.

Plus, if their machines were easy to remove, LILITH might have safeguards against that sort of thing.
Maybe it shocks you? Puts you to sleep?
I don't know. It doesn't seem like they're worried about it.

[blastedass]

They've only used that for bullshit so far, but them having that ability in the first place is fucked up. I doubt our thoughts and conversations go unrecorded either.

Who knows. But losing access to contacts, funds, and everything else this world needs the implants for is a good deterrent. You couldn't even get into your damn room if your removed it.

[Of course they wouldn't be worried with those kinds of barricades.]

[picky]

[ Anxiety builds in Marcille's chest, winding it tight like a spring. She bites the end of her thumbnail in thought, staring at a corner of the floor. ]

You're right about all of that, definitely.
But living still isn't impossible, right? I mean, you could have someone else pay for those things for you using their own kryptos.
Maybe that would be worth it for some real privacy.

[blastedass]

[Bakugo doesn't like the reliance they're more or less forced to have on the implants they never asked for, but reality's a bitch, unless you want to do surgery on yourself and then try to live off the proverbial grid...]

If you want to rely on someone else for your entire time here, go for it; I don't care.

They'll keep track of you some other way.

[Why knows. They might even grab the impudent Outsider off the street and redo the surgery. Bakugo rather doubts that, but the option's not impossible.]

[picky]

Hey... I'm just throwing ideas around
I never said I would do it!

[blastedass]

And I'm saying it's not a good idea!

[picky]

[ This person... ]

You don't have to be so aggressive about it, you know

[blastedass]

I'm not aggressive!

[picky]

[ lol. lmao. ]

Maybe blunt is a better word...

[blastedass]

[No he really believes that.]

Nothing's wrong with being blunt! It saves time.