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[hexcope]

[If anyone hasn’t seen Jayce within the past few months, he looks quite a bit different. His hair is longer, he has a beard, and doesn’t seem quite as full of energy as he might have in the past. He’s also not dressing as uptight as he used to— a lack of vest and tie, exchanged for just a simple button up shirt. The background is once again S.T.A.R. labs, although he’s not trying to hide it this time.]

Hey, Etrayans. For those new to this whole thing, welcome. I’m Jayce Talis. For those who came from Pollux, also welcome. I can say with full confidence Aurora’s better at this than Castor is.

[Aurora probably won’t appreciate that comment, but whatever. He stands by it. But that aside…]

I’m putting out a call for fellow scientists to come together and work collaboratively on research involving what we know about Etraya, and more importantly, what we don’t know. This could also include strategizing developments to improve our lives here, and solving problems with our understanding in our respective fields. 


Something that we have here that we lack in our own worlds is the variety of perspectives. In my world, some of our greatest achievements are beyond what’s possible in other worlds, but we don’t have plastics or microwaves. Think of this as an opportunity for all of us to better ourselves, in this… transient existence we’re all stuck in.

Meetings would be here, in S.T.A.R. labs, every Thursday morning. No requirements if you want to participate other than an open mind, and a good attitude. No shooting down suggestions without hearing things out, and if you happen to have some sort of grudge against any of the participants here, you leave it at the door when you come in, or you’re not coming in.

[OOC: Feel free to threadjack around if you'd like!]

Comments

[badlydisarmed]

What I'm picturing is someone crushed your leg with a gigantic mallet, then someone with a very vague idea of how bones should be aligned set it, wrong, without even thinking about all these bone fragments around.

[ He points at the x-ray. ]

The bone started healing, but it was either set wrong or it moved halfway through. I can't believe you're making me round up magic healers.

[ On the bright side, he could fix it with surgery. On the not so bright side, optimistically speaking, it'd take two months to heal on its own and this place never lets them have that much time uninterrupted. ]

Do you often feel stabbing pain for no apparent reason?

[hexcope]

How are you so good at this...?

[All astounding accurate assessments. He won't bother to correct Robert that the one who crushed his leg with a gigantic mallet was himself and gravity as his cohort.]

Yeah, I do. But most of the time I don't feel any pain there.

[That would be the nerve damage.]

[badlydisarmed]

That'd be nerve damage. You can't see it here, we'd need a different kind of imaging— but I think it'd be a waste of time until you decide what you want to do.

[ He points at the break. ]

You can see it was blunt force based on the type of break, and all these little light points around it are bone fragments. You're lucky it didn't get infected, you could've easily lost the leg.

cw: GROSS

[hexcope]

... It... did get infected.

[He grimaces while admitting that, the memory of pulling off pieces of his own flesh, of multicolored pus leaking stickily out the wound whenever he tried to clean it.]

Lune's magic took care of the normal infection, but the magic one was harder to deal with.

[badlydisarmed]

What were you even doing? You're so obviously an indoor person.

[ It's a dumb question, odds are Jayce was saving the world or a friend or a mangy puppy, or maybe all three. ]

... you think Aurora has a list of healers and doctors? I'm asking her.

[hexcope]

I was hallucinating and dying, Robert. What's the point in the list if you're going to handle it?

[With the brace put back on, he holds out his hand.]

I want that manual. Please.

[badlydisarmed]

That wasn't the question.

[ But yes, he's getting him the manual. Or rather, a helper bot it, they seem weirdly fond of Robert and very eager to help him, so Jayce gets his manual immediately. ]

Not that it matters. Anyway, yeah we can handle the poisoning with a machine, but that won't get you back full use of your leg.

[hexcope]

[He takes the manual, rolling it up and tucking it into his back pocket.]

Okay, so what will? Surgery, and you put all the pieces back into place?

[That'll fix things in like, what, a week?]

[badlydisarmed]

Without magic you'd be looking at being off your leg for at least eight weeks, full recovery would take maybe half a year. We don't have that kind of time.

[ And that's a very optimistic estimate. ]

There might be someone out there with a magic wand who can hocus pocus the leg into setting right and the nerve damage into self-repairing. It'd be stupid not to at least ask around.

[hexcope]

Eight weeks?

[Yeah, that's actually impossible. Not even just because of the missions, but because he would not be able to stay still that long. Robert seems to have figured as much.]

I get your point now. Aside from Lune, there was Shadowheart. Those are the only ones I know of.

[badlydisarmed]

Shadowheart fixed me when I was shot.

[ Had he mentioned this at all? Probably not. Robert's life is a mystery. ]

If she's gone then asking around might be worth it. [ He's so cranky about it, he hates having to organize things. ] ... I wonder if I kept any potion-making skills from the fairyland. Or if I can buy it somehow, that'd be useful.