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[enustari]

[The woman onscreen does not look at all well. There's a sickly, jaundiced cast to her skin, which is covered in a fine sheen of sweat, and her eyes are yellowed and bloodshot with deep, dark circles underneath. She also seems to be holding the communicator at arms length. She squints at it a moment, image shaking in time with her hand, then puts it down on a nearby surface so the view changes abruptly to a static shot of the ceiling.]

-Fucking shit, this screen gives me a headache. [Her voice is low and gravelly, like she's been smoking 2 packs a day since age 12.] Let's make this quick. I puked up what might have been a vital fucking organ in the car on the way over here. I need a drink and I need it yesterday. If you can do something about that, send me a message on this thing.

I'll engage with the rest of this shitshow later.

[...]

Verbal responses only. [You can still respond via text, of course, but it'll be several hours at least before Elsa will reply. Reading is hard right now, okay.]

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[hostage]

Uh... You need a healer or something?

[Why is he even asking? Of course she needs a healer.]

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[enustari]

[A harsh laugh.] Healing won't touch this.

[At least, she thinks it won't. It wouldn't in her world.]

What I need is something 70 proof or higher.

[hostage]

Yeah... I hear that a lot, but I don't think most people ever met a healer like me. So what's wrong with you?

[Aside from alcoholism.]

voice.

[glowsferatu]

I've tended bar before, so it's with no small sense of expertise that I can say you look exactly like the sort of customer who's had enough already.

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[enustari]

Cute.

And you'd be wrong, because I haven't had a drink in two days.

permavoice!

[glowsferatu]

Well, if not immediately, then as an all-time accumulation. You look like you should stop by a hospital before the local pub.

Frankly, I could believe the bit about the vital organ isn't even facetious.

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[unhidden]

Drink like... water?

( Ahhhhh? Tara looks concerned, partly because she is used to people looking that terrible nosediving into, well. Being dead. And then being dead and hungry. )

Where are you?

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[enustari]

Hard pass.

[A pause as she considers- she wasn't paying the most attention on the way in, to her location or the government spiel or any of it.]

Some bullshit assigned housing.

INDEED

[unhidden]

Oh, yeah. I'm familiar with that. Yours got shitty water pressure, too?

( Suddenly she's got standards after years of surviving the apocalypse. This place must be spoiling her. )

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[brushoff]

[ oh my god she's a trainwreck. oh my god this is wonderful ]

Of course, the main question is, what kind of drink do you need?

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[enustari]

I don't give a fuck. Shit, I'd drink schnapps at this point. [Let's be real, she would probably drink mouthwash if the alcohol content was high enough.]

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[brushoff]

Nobody should be forced to drink schnapps. Give me you're address and I'll bring over some whiskey.

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[ferrisbuellean]

You need a drink after throwing up your organs?

[The worlds briefest pause for consideration.]

Well, I can't fault that logic.

and the video of the ceiling continues

[enustari]

It'll settle my stomach. Hair of the dog, or whatever.

such beauty

[ferrisbuellean]

Genius. [Not even sarcastic.]

What set you off anyway? The journey here?

voice;

[whathawksdo]

[ Yikes. ]

Only the chances of you surviving to said drink sound incredibly slim.

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[enustari]

Christ, you're cynical. I'm pretty sure I can find liquor sometime in the next year or two. It can't be that hard. [Which is, based on prior experience, her rough estimate of how much juice this body has left in it.]

[action]

[girlwithout]

[Rikki happens to see the video on the way home and recognizes that specific background, so when she lets herself into the house, she approaches carefully.]

Hey. I'm Rikki, I'm one of your housemates.

[enustari]

I have housemates?

[Someone did not investigate past the living room at all. And the way she's slurring indicates she may have found a solution to her sobriety problem.]

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[selfpraise]

Wouldn't it have been smarter to get a drink before you reached this point?

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[enustari]

Does it seem like I had a choice?

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[corviform]

Are you sure you shouldn't see a doctor instead?

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[enustari]

Waste of time.

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[hubris]

Poison to kill the the poison?

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[enustari]

Something like that. [Plus she has no desire to experience this insane situation she's been dropped into with a sober mind.]