@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.]

Comments

[blastedass]

do you have to know what you're tracking first, like a dog with the scent?

[1797]

it'll work as long as i have a basic understanding of a topic

[so like, time to crack open a botany text.]

and it has to be in my line of sight, so it's a no-go if it's on the other side of a wall
but i'd immediately be able to tell if there's something useful in an open field or the like

[blastedass]

someone gave me scans of an encyclopedia about flora and fauna.
can you use that as "basic understanding" for the plants?

yeah, yeah, no x-ray vision.

[1797]

a letdown, right?

that should work, though it might take me some time to get through it all if it's a dense read

[blastedass]

you're not a fucking swiss army knife.

it's not. look up the plants online if you want more information.

[He'll send over the same attachment Choso gave him:

@ Great Explosion Murder God Dynamight has attached a file: Dusty Encyclopedia.pdf

"Upon opening said encyclopedia, one may discover that it was, indeed, found, and that Choso’s method of “scanning” thus far has been to take photos of each page, with cameos made by his thumbs and fingers in the corners, trying not to obscure all the precious words."]

[1797]

you could say "wild card" suits me better
but that was the original plan

[but choso omg. ren stares a lil at the fingers at the edge of the pages before he tabs back out.]

this is a good start, in any case
i'll see if i can dig up something dedicated to medicinal plants

[blastedass]

got a thing for card suites, huh.

[joker. the jack of all trades. the wild card. the irony bakugo still doesn't know ren's a thief. he has some suspicions though.]

aa. i'm doing my own research.
i'm not leading a bunch of outsiders out there with no fucking clue what to look for.

[1797]

[plantquest 2278 would be so much easier for ren if they had to steal them, tbh.]

you might've come up with your hero name, but a friend of mine came up with joker
i figured i might as well embrace it

how many of us are tagging along so far?

[blastedass]

[they're stealing the plants from nature. that make it better for your, ren?]

why'd he call you that? you're not a comedian.

ten to twelve.

[1797]

[swear it's because his ability auto-highlights stuff related to being a thief. LMFAO.]

ouch, so you don't think i'm funny?

that's a pretty good size for a group

[blastedass]

[an ability that like would come in handy so many times. quirk: highlight.]

not yet.

[he won't say it, but he thinks joker's pretty cool.]

che. we'll leave at dawn and get back before nightfall.

[1797]

[third eye carrying every time he hits what looks like a dead end.]

tough crowd

sounds good
and if i find anything that might be particularly useful, i'll pass it along

[blastedass]

[the "what looks like" is the suspicious part... is it ever a dead end?]

or you suck.

[at humor. then again, bakugo's a grouch so it's more the tough crowd.]

good. if we're successful, we should try to replicate it, either by growing or artificially reproducing it.

[1797]

how will i ever recover from such a ruthless burn?

[maybe he could stop messing around.]

i don't know how finicky any of these plants are yet, but i worked for a florist back home
maybe that knowledge will come in handy

[blastedass]

drown.

[honestly nothing's going on right not to prevent the messing around. bakugo's apparently in a casual enough mood.]

a lot of them are hardy. two are the basis for cocaine and opioids. did that florist grow anything unique?

[1797]

the whales already tried that

not really, unless you mean color
it was more about that and the size of blooms more than anything else
but if they're hardy plants, that should make it a lot easier

[aka hopefully no one will accidentally kill anything...]

[blastedass]

some of them are. i listed a few in that initial message.
start there if you're going to research them.

[that's where he started.

two people already mentioned they had some horticultural experience.]

[1797]

i'm doing a quick search for those now

[there's a brief gap between messages.]

it looks like most of them are tropical? or wouldn't grow without help

[blastedass]

that's what i thought. but the road to disney was fucking muggy. and the water caused those plants in the sewer to mutate.

we've only been here through winter and now spring.

[who knows whether their summers contribute to tropical or not.]

[1797]

sometimes it feels a little ridiculous we can have a conversation like this that includes disney

good point, though
hopefully we won't have to deal with any jumbo venus flytraps

[blastedass]

you could say that about anyone talking about their world to someone else.

plants burn a lot easier than a fucking killer whale. i'll take the plants.

[1797]

sometimes i feel it thinking about my own

maybe they'll mutate so they're fireproof

[why is he jinxing them like this]

[blastedass]

maybe you're just really fucking weird.

[nar har har. but really, ren makes a good point. bakugo's seen some fucked-up quirks in his life.]

they're fucking dead already! they can't mutate now!

[if they run into fireproof plant kaiju, ren's going to get a very angry fist through his door.]

[1797]

i'm perfectly normal, i'll have you know

[SURE HE IS... anyway, i hope this happens down the line now]

and it's always possible there'll be more in the future

[blastedass]

uh-huh. bet you have no idea who that mysterious joker guy is.

[calling him out on that right away. (we shall see.) but it would be fun!]

i'll blow them to pieces regardless.