filtered to Helena and Minako, after Matthew's infodump

[leftbehindagain]

Ladies, what would you say to a little science? All three of us are coming at it from somewhat different backgrounds, but if we put our heads together I bet we could still get somewhere useful with it.

I'd been considering testing the food anyway - mainly to shut Jules-san up, though that aspect's a moot point now. Matthew-san suggested testing it anyway, to try to figure out how lingering the effects are likely to be. And he has instructions for a test for that plague that we should probably take a crack at re-making.

At the very least, testing the food would need three sets of anything we decided to test, and it'll be less suspicious if three separate people do the shopping.

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[seestheworld]

That's a good plan.

[Especially now that she's working at a Darksider cafe, one with a very generous outlook on free food for their employees. She's a bit worried about that now, honestly.]

I can handle things on the Darksider front, unless one of you wants it.

[leftbehindagain]

That'd be fine. I hadn't thought about it any further than 'three of everything.'

Coffee or tea would be a good thing to get, since they have a Duskling variety at the cafe.

[seestheworld]

That shouldn't be a problem. I might see about picking up some of the candy, too - Maria's been eating those.

[leftbehindagain]

So I've heard. [Not that it's really a surprise.]

Given that Duskling stuff tends to steer clear of refined sugar, it might be harder to find good equivalents across the board for those, but it's worth seeing what we can find out either way.

[seestheworld]

Makes me wonder just how the sugar is refined.

[leftbehindagain]

I'd imagine they take the opportunity to add their supplements to it while they're refining it.

[seestheworld]

Probably, yeah.

[leftbehindagain]

If we can figure some of this out soon, it'll be something worth taking to the city council meeting that's apparently coming up.

[seestheworld]

I'm going to be really surprised if they don't know about this already.

[leftbehindagain]

Oh, me too. But that doesn't mean we can't ask why they haven't tested to see if the quarantine's still necessary.

[seestheworld]

And it's arguably better to ask something like that in public, where it's harder to cover up.

[leftbehindagain]

Exactly.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if they want to keep the facade going as long as they possibly can and make it someone else's problem. But doing that might only make the eventual collapse of this system worse.

[seestheworld]

Given the general mood at the Ideograph, I'm not sure how much longer they could sustain it even without us. Granted, a lot of the people there are all talk, but with the number of Infiltrators that keep popping up there...

[leftbehindagain]

No kidding. Even without this, sooner or later someone would take Thorne-san seriously about something, and once one domino falls, the others wouldn't be far behind.

[seestheworld]

Riddick seems pretty riled up, too.

[leftbehindagain]

I don't think I've run into him so far. About anything in particular?

[seestheworld]

I haven't been able to pick that up yet. But his whole demeanor suggests something's off.

[leftbehindagain]

Wouldn't be the first time. He was neck-deep in stuff in Bando, too.

If we can find out, it'll probably help, in general if not with the food problem. If not, I'm sure someone else will be working on it.

[seestheworld]

He was?

[leftbehindagain]

He seemed to be one of a very small handful of people who cared about trying diplomacy before stabbing everyone.

[seestheworld]

...Wow.

[leftbehindagain]

Well, the place was crawling with ninja.

Not to mention Tower was there.

[seestheworld]

And Tower always bodes well.

[leftbehindagain]

Tower probably enjoyed the body count, even if no one else did.

[seestheworld]

...Probably.