@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]

[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.

[1797]

true, not many things are immune to bombs

but so you think i'm mysterious?

[the fact he says it this way 🙄 ]

[blastedass]

no shit.

hell no! you're perfectly normal!

[see what he did there?]

[1797]

[he does and he's rolling with it.]

thanks for agreeing after all

[blastedass]

[DAMMIT!!]

SHUT UP! That's not a compliment!

[1797]

it's too late
i'm flattered

[blastedass]

[WHAT JUST HAPPENED HERE?!]

THE HELL YOU ARE!!
I'LL KILL YOU!! DIE!!

[1797]

[sorry, bakugo, you've fallen victim to one of his favorite pastimes]

is it so bad to compliment someone every once in a while?

[blastedass]

[what is that, poking the bee hive tendencies?]

if i was going to, i would've!

[except he did.]

[1797]

[yep... bro loves a reaction.]

we can call it a slip of the tongue

[blastedass]

[how about a boom in the face?]

slip and die.