Welp

[thornsofmalkav]

Okay, uh, I'm sorry it took me this many hours to remember to warn people about this stuff, but to my credit I was pretty distracted.

Anyway. So. We're in the late 1980s as far as things go by date, which means there's one thing everyone has to be pretty vigilant about and that's sex and drug safety. Because while I know this isn't my world, what I don't know is whether or not is if there's the same nasty disease going around that there was in my world's 1980s and I figure everyone should, like, follow some basic safety rules about that stuff. Just in case, but also because they're also good ideas anyway.

First, always, always, always wear a condom when you have sex with someone from this era. Even if you're on chemical birth control or your partner says they are. Even if you're both the same sex. Actually, especially if you're both male.

And second, if any of you are going to do drugs, for fuck's sake, always use a clean and sterilized needle and don't share them.

Please, just listen to me about this stuff. Hopefully, I'm just being paranoid, but I really don't want people to bring a nasty and ultimately fatal STD back to liminal.

Comments

[overlevende]

And don't say 'well I'm not human, I'm safe', it doesn't work like that. There are illnesses out there that can get about everyone, even if you can't get sick normally. And some of them are really nasty.

In general, if you need to ingest any kind of bodily fluids of another person, no matter what species you are, try to go for someone who is the least likely to have an illness relating to the exchange of bodily fluids, like people who have a lot of sex, or people who engage in activities that are at a high risk of the exchange of bodily fluids like drug usage.

[awitchdidit]

I'm going to stop complaining quite so much about being stuck on an island during this time period. Thank you for the warning, even if both of those are somewhat outside my planned activities.

[sees_red]

What do people usually get up to on a Jaunt?

[theflyingone]

Tell me of your time's safe practices. Why do they require needles to have drugs? What is a condom? I am sure it will come up—in conversation I mean, in conversation.

[ He walked right into that one, didn't he. ]

I do not like the idea of lying with Infiltrators, for many complicated reasons. But I still need to know these things to blend in with a crowd of excitable people at a festival.

[naturaltwohands]

Thank you for such warnings. I believe I will abstain from both. [He hates drugs, and he doesn't want to sleep with anyone.]

It may serve to add an explanation of how buses work. They are... confusing. Their map confounded me for quite some time.

[neverfeltthatway]

...Are sexual diseases very common? [Because guess who's never even heard of them before.] What happens if you catch it?