post one of two on the week, apparently.

[leftbehindagain]

Can someone come disappear a pot of radioactive sunblock for me? I won't be able to ditch it in Liminal for some time yet and I am not keeping it anywhere in this settlement.

[Naoki has rarely been this angry on the network. One of the few other times involved carelessness with radiation, in fact. But he's clearly seething.]

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[thornsofmalkav]

What the fuck?

[leftbehindagain]

Humansona brought it to me. [God that is a ridiculous name, but that's not the point here.] Fortunately, I don't think he actually used any of it. But literally no one here has the means to deal with this safely, and these people have enough problems as it is.

[thornsofmalkav]

Oh my god.

Jesus fuck. How did he get radioactive sunscreen? That hasn't been in my house, has it?

[leftbehindagain]

He said it was like that when he picked it up this morning, so I'm not sure. I'll bring some radiation antidotes by for you both when I get a chance to go pick them up.

[thornsofmalkav]

Please. Oh my god, what the fuck is wrong with this world?

[leftbehindagain]

Other than 'everything'?

[thornsofmalkav]

Definitely everything.

[helborn]

... Yes, but you probably won't like how I do?

[leftbehindagain]

Either take it to Liminal and forget about it, or actually disappear it out here if that's in your skill set, but I don't think that's a very common one. Either will do.

[helborn]

... I could eat it?

[leftbehindagain]

You - no, you cannot eat it!

[helborn]

I'm immune to consumed poisons.

[leftbehindagain]

And your plan for the probably also contaminated clay pot?

[helborn]

... I.

Did not think of that part.

[leftbehindagain]

Whether you're immune to it or not, I'm not leaving any of this to chance. These people don't deserve it.

[And he wouldn't let anyone eat radioactive matter anyway.]

[helborn]

No, they don't.

I don't know if I can get sick that easily anymore, though. So if you do need someone to move it, I can do that.

[leftbehindagain]

I'll definitely keep that in mind. Anyone who does actually handle this is getting an antidote, either way.

[haveabiscuit]

I can Vanish it.

[She only vaguely knows what radioactive means but...]

Why is it even radioactive?

[leftbehindagain]

At a guess, someone who knows what's beyond the protective bubble we have here tampered with it. It's certainly nothing I actually keep around. [Even if Kai had been able to find it, he wouldn't have wanted the weird glowing stuff around.]

It's also a really ineffective way to try to get rid of someone, which I can only assume was the end goal. It'd take weeks at the shortest, and I doubt whoever did this has that long to wait.

[haveabiscuit]

And apparently it was noticeable well before that.

Eliminating it at a distance would be best, I assume?

[leftbehindagain]

That would be ideal, yes.

[haveabiscuit]

I can manage that readily enough with magic.

[itsananimalthing]

I can come by and get rid of it for you. Picked up the ability from Wash to get rid of diapers.

Also, pretty sure I can't die, so the radiation won't hurt me in the process.

[leftbehindagain]

Whether it can hurt you or not won't stop me from being concerned, but thank you.

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[itsananimalthing]

Worry if you want to, not like I can stop you.

I'll be on my way soon's I drop Tara off with somebody else.

[And sure enough, maybe ten minutes later, he follows Naoki's psychic signature, and there he is, actually flying over and dropping to land in front of his house. Or wherever he is.]

[leftbehindagain]

[He's in the healers' base of operations, since that's where he was when Humansona found him and he's taking this problem as few places as possible.]

Ah, hello. It's on the end of the counter.

[itsananimalthing]

[Riddick looks around until he spots the jab set far away from everything else and he wanders on over, folding his wings down so they don't bump anything.]

So what exactly even happened here? Who decided radioactive paste was the thing to do?

[leftbehindagain]

That I don't know. Humansona brought it to me because it had obviously gone bad somehow, but he didn't know how. I'm just glad he noticed before using it.

[itsananimalthing]

You think somebody swapped it out on purpose?

[He circles the jar thoughtfully, then picks it up, and drops it into nothingness, as if it were a portal. Bye bye, radioactive skin salve. He gives his hand a little shake afterwards, as if that might shake off any lingering poisons.]

[leftbehindagain]

[Well, that's the biggest problem down, anyway. He's going to have to get antidotes to people, and that'll require a little finagling, but it's at least doable.]

They would have had to, but I can't think why, or whether they knew exactly what it could do.

[itsananimalthing]

You said the human guy brought it? Ain't he the one who almost drowned last week?

[leftbehindagain]

Almost drowned? I missed that.

[itsananimalthing]

Yeah. I didn't see it, but people like to chat at the guy with the baby.

[Which is hilarious when you know about his pre-Traveling life as a wanted murderer and escaped convict that everyone is at least a little afraid of.]

Makes sense, too, people tryin' to kill that guy. Only human here, weird flashes of memory, wandered in out of the desert suggestin' people can live out there... kind of a threat, right?

[leftbehindagain]

You're not wrong there. This was a stupidly inconvenient way to try to do it, though.

[itsananimalthing]

Maybe whoever's doin' it ain't tryin' too hard. Or else can't get close enough to him to try anythin' worse.

[leftbehindagain]

Maybe. [Or they just don't know what they're doing.]

[itsananimalthing]

[Same difference, really. Riddick doesn't normally assume people are just bad at killing. I mean, he spent most of his life in the army, prison, and then escaping from mercs....]

Well, you should be good, thing's gone now. Anything else you need or want me to do while I'm here?

[leftbehindagain]

No, that was the main concern. Thank you.

[Antidotes will have to wait until he can get to Liminal for a while.]