@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]

[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.

[1797]

[what doesn't kill him only makes him stronger. maybe.]

it's good to know you care

[this is his compliment.]

[blastedass]

[what's that old saying? you'd be surprised what you can live through.]

don't see shit that isn't there.

[1797]

that's not what this post is saying

[blastedass]

[ urk ]

shut up. i'm just tired of seeing people stagger around after a fucking implant!

[1797]

[smh, just take the compliment, buddy]

alright, then let's blame it on your heroic streak

[blastedass]

[welcome to cr the hard way.]

fine.

if we get more outsiders, more implants, it'll just mean more surgeries.

[1797]

you don't have to justify it to me
people shouldn't have to endure that kind of pain if it isn't necessary

[blastedass]

no shit.
i don't buy their excuse anyways.

[1797]

it'd make less sense to lie about it, wouldn't it?

[blastedass]

they're not lying!
they're being assholes!

[1797]

i'm not trying to defend them, but thinking practically about it
there isn't much they'd gain out of it if they just want to be assholes

[he's a lil more sympathetic about this if only because he ended up as part of a shady clinical trial for a disgraced doctor once.]

[blastedass]

they want to save it for life-saving procedures, but powering outsiders up is saving lives. that's a shit lot to gain.

[yes, it is practical thinking to save the drugs for treating someone who got an arm bitten off rather than implanting a chip in an outsiders head.

but if said chip makes it so you have 50% less arms bitten off, HELP THE OUTSIDER!]

[1797]

but it can't all be about kaiju or our involvement, right?
if there's a shortage, it must be affecting everyone, including people with diseases or who are injured in some other way

i can understand they'd want to be as stingy as possible, in that case

[blastedass]

if there's a shortage, and they're too scared to go out and forage, then why the hell not let some of us go out?

we've cleaned up the bay, found all those escaped hybrids, cleared disney debris. it's not like we haven't picked up after them.

[1797]

have they said anything about not allowing it?
because while i'm not complaining, it does feel like we have an awful lot of free time when there aren't any kaiju

[alright, mr "i have four part-time jobs, school, and a double life" phantom thief.]

[blastedass]

they want us to stay in the city most of the time so we're on call when needed.

[not a hard-stated rule, more inferred, but bakugo doesn't even know any outsider that's gone out of the city beyond a few guys going for motorcycle practice around the perimeter. no one just takes off and leaves into the overgrown, kaiju-threatened world beyond by themselves.]

that's why i want to gather a group and go.

[1797]

well, the worst thing that could probably happen is they put us under house arrest for a while

[this would be such a wry statement in person.]

worth it, imo
and it's their bad if they don't stop us after you planned it all out right in front of them

[blastedass]

i know someone who can get you out of that if it happens.

[since bakugo has been under "house arrest" -- or more room arrest -- once before. thanks for the escape, fushiguro.]

uh-huh. i'll let them know we're going; i'm not asking permission if we can.

[1797]

really? noted
that would be hilarious, actually

[ofc ren would think an escape like that would be 1) cool and 2) very funny. excellent reason to feel smug.]

i like it
oh, and i'll see if i can find any useful maps

[might as well see if his job as a cartographer comes in clutch.]

[blastedass]

next time i'm gonna blow down the fucking door even if i have to take the wall with it!

[though he HAD blasted both door and window for some time and nothing happened, so that was... disconcerting.]

maps? if you do, scan them or download them and we'll pass them out before we head out.

[that's very helpful, ren.]