Vision Train

[helborn]

... So does anyone know how to deal with radiation? I got a vision, too. Someone using a Geiger counter - that tracks a specific kind of bad stuff that's floating around, for those of you who don't know - in somewhere with metal paneling, with a weird glowing light. There was soot, and someone around the corner...

I didn't get to see who it was, though. But we might want something that can deal with that, just in case.

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[senpaidol]

Thaaat makes me think of Gehenna, the planet we were on for the Space Jaunt. Raidou-san mentioned Questing Country, which is in the same universe or something, and Mr. Delaunay mentioned Diabolin, which are aliens from that part of space, so it all kind of fits together.

Although...Gehenna itself would probably not be livable anymore? But there are other Junkworlds that probably have similar problems with leaky old reactors and such.

[helborn]

... What's a Junkworld? And what should I know about Questing Country, if we're going there?

[senpaidol]

A Junkworld is basically a garbage dump in space. Take an uninhabited planet, drop old spaceships, garbage, whatever on it. The problem is the planet doesn't stay uninhabited as people crash land, or get quietly shipped there for political reasons, or just decide to live there as salvagers. Gehenna was one of those places and it wound up in the path of a space disaster we didn't really understand, so the Jaunt was about salvaging ships and getting people off the planet and out of the way of the Tachyon Storm.

I can't really tell you about Questing Country. I wasn't here for that one, but a lot of people pointed out that Gehenna was in the future of the same universe.

[helborn]

... Huh. Seems kind of rude to the planet, but I guess people are going to dump their stuff somewhere. What's... okay, I think a tachyon is a science thing, but I don't actually know what it is. And definitely not a storm of them.

[senpaidol]

Kanji played the much more technical astrophysics guy on that Jaunt, but what I got out of it was that they're particles we didn't think we were going to survive getting hit with a lot of, hence some really desperate spaceflight.

[helborn]

... Did it at least look cool?

[senpaidol]

Incredibly.

[leftbehindagain]

...They are really blurring the lines with these things. If we need radiation antidotes after Questing Country I'm going to be very surprised.

It's a valid concern for the space side of that particular universe, which is where everyone in Questing Country is when they're awake. I still have some antidotes from last time - not many, but a few - and I can make more if the need arises.

[helborn]

So Questing Country is like... a collective dream?

And I don't know if I'd be any help with that, but... let me know if I can be?

[leftbehindagain]

Essentially, yes.

I appreciate the offer, and thank you for letting us know it might be necessary, but I think I've got it covered.

[helborn]

No problem. I can carry some in my Hammerspace, if you need a backup storage.

[neverfeltthatway]

There are three times I remember offhand we had to deal with radiation. Rise's mentioned Gehenna already. Before that, there was the first walkabout when we returned to Nibiru and found the dead Starmovers - I got pretty sick from coming too close to one of them. And then long before that, there was the Ivory Tower, where most of the world had become contaminated and inhospitable - though I didn't know what radiation was yet, so I didn't really understand the specifics what was going on that time.

[helborn]

... Huh. We should be really careful, then. I don't... really know what you do to combat radiation. I know what it is, but like... that wasn't really something we covered in school.

[neverfeltthatway]

There are ways to treat it after the fact, apparently. I don't really know what to do to reduce the effects in real time, though, aside from just not getting close.

[helborn]

... Probably a smart plan to not touch the glowing green rocks or whatever it is, yeah.

[neverfeltthatway]

Yes, but if you're receiving a warning about it, it's probably not something we can avoid altogether.

Or at least, not something we can avoid while still engaging with the jaunt. [If they just stayed in liminal space, it'd likely be possible, but the last time they did that...]