Audience - Wiš'adel

[holyspirits]

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[holyspirits]

You have computers, right?

[ they have to ask. in this place. ]

[sarkazm]

Sure we do. Not really my thing, but we have 'em.

[holyspirits]

Okay. Do you have the cloud?

[sarkazm]

...if it has something to do with computers, nnnno?

[not that she knows of, anyway. what are they talking about. catastrophes? those are weather.]

[holyspirits]

Okay, I can't really explain it without that. But let's just go with it's got to do with computers.

[sarkazm]

Fine by me. If it's gonna take explaining more than one thing, I'm out!

[holyspirits]

You shouldn't brag about that.

[sarkazm]

Why not? It'll keep people from trying to talk my ear off.

[holyspirits]

By saying you can't understand more than two things being explained at once?

[sarkazm]

Who says I can't? I've got better shit to do than listen to people like that hag who have to go on and on about how something works instead of just giving you a straight answer!

It's just a waste of time to keep blabbering about your theories on interactions of compounds or whatever instead of spitting it out and saying "hey, this is probably gonna explode".

[holyspirits]

[ there is a pause ]

That seems like a really specific example?

[sarkazm]

An example of the kind of bullshit I prefer to skip. If you want an example of the way she always is, it's more like "ooh, we're in some universe or whatever, I'm not going to give you any useful information, I'm just going to talk forever about hypotheses and theories and then get annoyed you tried to do something instead!"

[holyspirits]

I can't tell if you're talking about a friend or a mortal enemy, considering one of these examples included you potentially blowing up.

[sarkazm]

Enemy, but it's not like blowing up is that big a deal. Been there.

[holyspirits]

You're dead right now, so that doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.

[sarkazm]

And it took a lot of bad luck, plus an insane explosion that wasn't actually my fault!

[huffs.]

I'll take it over the alternative, anyway.

[holyspirits]

Are explosions that common where you're from?

[ but needling aside; ]

What's the alternative?

[sarkazm]

Oripathy. [a dismissive lil handwave.] It's what'll kill most of us, if we live long enough, but I'm not thrilled with the idea of going out on anything but my own terms.

[holyspirits]

Oripathy?

[ what that ]

[sarkazm]

Terminal disease back home. Plenty of people have it, we're just likelier to get it than most. Lucky us!

[pulling her right jacket sleeve up, briefly, to show them a few lines of black crystal growing on her arm.]

Anyone who's got this? They're definitely Infected.

[holyspirits]

[ they peer at it but don't touch it, because that would be weird ]

Oh. And no one has found a cure for it yet? [ well. obviously if it's terminal, but: ] Are they even looking?

[sarkazm]

Of course they're looking. As far as I know, they've got nothing, but Originium is some seriously weird shit.

[holyspirits]

Sometimes people don't look for cures if the disease works in their favor. [ they were just being paranoid. ] Is Originium what causes it?

[sarkazm]

I guess it works in their favor sometimes... but it's too widespread for them to be confident they'll never get it either.

[in part because-]

Originium causes it-- and also fuels most of our tech, so good luck getting rid of it! They can't put that one back. Can't undo figuring out that it powers and amps up Arts either.

[holyspirits]

[ asbestos ass fuel ]

If they know what causes it, isolating the fuel in a way that makes it safe shouldn't be so hard. We had plenty of materials like that back home. [ they shake their head ] Once a technology starts, it doesn't get shelved unless something better comes along. No matter the cost.