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[purrtagonist]

Soooo how's everyone feeling?

[THIS MESSAGE HAS A PURPOSE HE SWEARS]

Serious question, by the way. I talked to Astoria as soon as we got back, and she was pretty worried about the way I. . . felt to her?

[GOD PUTTING IT THAT WAY SOUND WEIRD]

She said that I brought something back with me from Struxta. Something dark, evil, heavy. . . wrong? I don't know about you guys but absolutely none of that is confidence inspiring. Wonder why.

[AHA]

She also told me that the wilting plants around the temple aren't normal. "Everything here seems to be just here. Present, alive, blooming," is what she said, word for word. She's never seen anything here die before.

[. . .]

I don't really know what she's talking about, especially because I feel just fine. I don't think she does yet either, though I imagine she's going to investigate. Just be careful, all right? And if you notice anything off about yourself, let me or someone else know.






Because if we all came back possessed by space demons or infected by robot tuberculosis I'm gonna be pretty pissed.

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[parttimes]

How would we even catch robot tuberculosis, we're not robots.

I mean, most of us aren't robots.

Some of us definitely are.

[purrtagonist]

I'm surprised you're questioning the more probable of the two options I gave.

[flyingsolos]

Pretty sure it's not space demons.

But you really don't feel off at all?

[purrtagonist]

Could be space demons.

[yOU DON'T KNOW]

But yeah, I feel fine. Have you noticed anything?

[seaclipsed]

Oh
I thought I was just getting a cold

[ she's completely ignoring space demons and robot tuberculosis because like

yeah ]

[purrtagonist]

[listen]

[but anyway, this response actually. . . gives him pause. . .]

A cold?

[cakebuffet]

I feel fine, too...? I did notice the plants, though, and they have me worried.

I think if we were possessed by space demons, though, we would know.

[purrtagonist]

Yeah I thought space demons were pretty improbable, too.

[why did you bring it up, Akira]

I was just covering my bases.

[ryuji]

Cool so like should we be working on getting some holy water to ward your ass off?

[purrtagonist]

Best friends stick by each other even through demon possession, Ryuji.

[oculusriffs]

roberculosis

[he's fine, in other words. thanks for asking!]

[purrtagonist]

[FUCK]







Glad to see you're doing well, Dave.

[teratias]

...You know the risk of contamination is something she should plan for in bringing us from world to world.

But we also ought to keep an eye on everyone's health, in case something stupid happens.

[purrtagonist]

It's a learning curve.

[for Astoria, and for all of them]

But yeah, I agree. And not just health; ANYTHING that might seem out of the ordinary. Like the dying plants.

[southernphoenix]

To never seeing anything die is also strange.

However. Hypothetically. How do you feel about quarantine?

[If Astoria has singled Akira out for "dark, evil, heavy, wrong" maybe it's time to think about it? Possession can also be contagious.]

[purrtagonist]

[internal shriek]

She didn't say I was contagious, so it's probably unnecessary.

[aka he is adamantly against quarantine, so long as him being out and about isn't. . . dangerous to others]

[cuedoves]

"robot tuberculosis?"

[ zuko focusing on the important parts!! ]

[purrtagonist]

Or roberculosis, as Dave put it.

[bleps]

[uuummmmm this sounds ominous what the heck]

"Dark, evil, heavy, and wrong". I hope she was a little more specific than that.

[That's far too vague and almost... metaphorical for his analytical mind. Terribly lacking in helpful information.]

[purrtagonist]

I hate to report that she wasn't, but it might be that she just can't get a more specific reading than that.

[trust him, Akira hates that she was so vague about it, too]

[smallprince]

So far I'm only a bit exhausted from the journey but otherwise I feel fine.

[The news that they had got infected with some strange space sickness felt a bit unreal at first and it took Tyrion a while to fully understand the meaning of the words he had just read.
It was somehow wrong in his understanding that they had got infected with something since he had assumed that Astoria would protect them. He didn't want to image what could happen when you got infected with a sickness from a different world.]

Do you think that it is lethal or that it is more like a flu?

[He didn't have a lot of medical knowledge, mostly the basic knowledge people who are sometimes sick have.]

[purrtagonist]

I don't know.

[it's hard for Akira to say when he isn't even 100% sure it's a sickness at all. at least, not yet]

Maybe Astoria will be able to tell us more about. . . whatever it is, with time.

[reeliable]

All of that is sort of concerning, yeah.

I feel alright, probably just not healthy from not eating as much as I should have while we were in Struxta, some real food will fix that.

Wow though, robot tuberculosis? I'll vote it's space demons, all this wild traveling might actually be doing something too.

[purrtagonist]

It was kind of hard to eat healthy in Struxta.

[stupid gray goop]

I wasn't keeping a vote until now. That's one for space demons. Maybe the popular vote will sway the outcome.

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[spaceforged]

I thought she'd been talking about...what happened to me. Not about something like that.

I feel fine but if nothing is supposed to die here and we have something we brought back with us...

We need to find out more. She suggest any means to track this down?

[purrtagonist]

[--!]

She said something about you, too?

[so it isn't just him. . .?]

And no, she didn't make any suggestions on how to track it down.

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[punshots]

ohhhh man that sounds like some pretty heavy duty stuff
now that you mention it, i have been feeling kind of off
like...a brain cloud.

[ whatever the hell that is ]

some people have healing powers though, right? maybe they can fix up the flowers!

[purrtagonist]

Brain cloud. . .

[it's vague, but Akira is pretty sure he knows what Prompto means]

You'd have to ask the people with healing powers. All I can do is accidentally fall through walls.

[he's unhelpful]

[sendinthecavalry]

So what I'm hearing is that you're ground zero for some awful space-plague and we should be quarentining you and burning everything?

[It's a joke, he swears...

maybe...]

[purrtagonist]

[MAYBE. . . . . .]

Fight me.

[Akira's important thoughts on quarantine]

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[efface]

[ WELL THIS IS. NOT GREAT. riza is going to read over the message a time or two before she responds, putting pieces together. ]

Do you feel alright?

[purrtagonist]

Yeah. I feel just fine. That's the weird part.

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[valuedstrength]

Are you telling me this woman sent us off somewhere without warning and didn't think that maybe she should give us something to fight against whatever might infect us there?

[purrtagonist]

[. . . . . . Astoria. . . you make being a stan very difficult]

Yyyyyyes?

[paladorable]

[ Oh. Um. He's sort of been mulling over this message for a bit, wondering why something about it keeps itching at the back of his brain. Then he remembers all the data from the library that he helped Connor go over, and--- ]

Now that I think about it, wasn't it a plague that wiped out the organic life on that star?

[purrtagonist]

[by now, several people have brought up the plague, and Akira's feeling. . . uh. kind of antsy about it. for understandable reasons]

Yeah. It was.

When we didn't get sick while exploring the tunnels, I assumed it was long gone.

[tranquilforest]

I really wish now that I'd taken better notes.

[purrtagonist]

We all do. But there isn't much we can do about that now.