002 - Audio

[iamtetsuo]

[It's time to play the 'who's awake at 1 AM' game! If you're not, Tetsuo's talking softly enough that it might not wake you. If you want to see or answer this later in the day when normal people are awake, feel free, but please specify.]

Everybody's got powers, right? That's why they want us to stick around...

[You can just hear how much he likes that prospect. He all but spits those last two words out like it's a curse.]

So anyway, I'm curious.

How many of you have 'side effects' from them? Anybody know? I know there's gotta be more than one... but it's not all of you, is it?

I - nnghh. I wanna know why that is... why's it only some people?

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[osreborn]

[ ... Hm.

(Good instincts, really.) ]

Of course that's up to you. You'll just "get used to it" all on your own, no doubt.

private; I have the feeling this isn't over

[iamtetsuo]

You think I'll do whatever you say just because you might figure something out? Like HELL I will! You can tell me what you think it is, and that's all I wanna hear!!

private; 8) it never has to be

[osreborn]

It could anything from a headache to a brain tumor -- or worse. Better answers require better information.

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[iamtetsuo]

It's not a damn brain tumor, alright?!

private;

[osreborn]

Maybe not. But how would you know?

private;

[iamtetsuo]

You think doctors are the only ones who can figure out stuff? I know what it isn't, and it isn't anything wrong with me!

[Yeah, about that...]

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[osreborn]

No, I don't. I'm a chemist, not a doctor.

[ He doesn't believe you for some reason. ]

Pills tend to create more problems than they solve.

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[iamtetsuo]

[it's for the best this conversation is not in person at this point.]

Don't chemists make pills?

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[osreborn]

Someone has to. Labor is labor; only doctors prescribe them, necessarily or not.

But no; I don't make pills.

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[iamtetsuo]

Then what do you know about any of this stuff, huh?

[You just can't win with this one.]

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[osreborn]

Years of experience, mostly.

But you aren't interested, so I won't get into it.