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consignment2015-02-25 07:30 pm
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DAY 95 | HOUR 62:34
[OOC: backdated to before the Neraki attack on camp because Reasons]
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
Attached file: DERGUN_BODY_NESTER.txt
Hello. I am sorry to distract you all from your team duties, but this is an important public service announcement from Medical. It is really important, so please pay attention to me, okay?
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
On day 92, a recruit sustained a potentially life-threatening injury we believe to be from a parasite called a dergun body nester. Please familiarise yourselves with the attached file for further information. The parasite gestates within a host's chest cavity for a period of 24-48 hours.
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
At the end of this period, they burst out. It's pretty nasty... Also very likely to be fatal — that's why we need recruits to take caution, even if the species is rare! Luckily they can only survive temperatures between 92℉ to 98℉, so that gives us a very easy way to prevent further casualties.
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
As a matter of precaution, I advise recruits whose body temperatures fall between 92℉ and 98℉ take care to lower or raise their temperature beyond those ranges every 12 to 24 hours. This should be as simple as taking a shower that is sufficiently cold or hot, but If you still need advice, come Medical.
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
Also, please attend Medical or contact a member of the Medical Squad immediately if you experience any of the following symptoms: chest pains, unusual shortness of breath, coughing up blood. Even if you have an existing respiratory condition. I'm serious! It's better to be safe than sorry.
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
I think that's everything? OH, also, this isn't Medical related at all, but if you haven't tried the squid yet then I think you should try the squid. It's really, really good!
[If you can still stand to eat after reading about chest-bursting parasites, that is. Not everyone's appetite for seafood is as unshakable as Maya's.]
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
Attached file: DERGUN_BODY_NESTER.txt
Hello. I am sorry to distract you all from your team duties, but this is an important public service announcement from Medical. It is really important, so please pay attention to me, okay?
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
On day 92, a recruit sustained a potentially life-threatening injury we believe to be from a parasite called a dergun body nester. Please familiarise yourselves with the attached file for further information. The parasite gestates within a host's chest cavity for a period of 24-48 hours.
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
At the end of this period, they burst out. It's pretty nasty... Also very likely to be fatal — that's why we need recruits to take caution, even if the species is rare! Luckily they can only survive temperatures between 92℉ to 98℉, so that gives us a very easy way to prevent further casualties.
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
As a matter of precaution, I advise recruits whose body temperatures fall between 92℉ and 98℉ take care to lower or raise their temperature beyond those ranges every 12 to 24 hours. This should be as simple as taking a shower that is sufficiently cold or hot, but If you still need advice, come Medical.
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
Also, please attend Medical or contact a member of the Medical Squad immediately if you experience any of the following symptoms: chest pains, unusual shortness of breath, coughing up blood. Even if you have an existing respiratory condition. I'm serious! It's better to be safe than sorry.
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
I think that's everything? OH, also, this isn't Medical related at all, but if you haven't tried the squid yet then I think you should try the squid. It's really, really good!
[If you can still stand to eat after reading about chest-bursting parasites, that is. Not everyone's appetite for seafood is as unshakable as Maya's.]
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FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org
Maybe going from chest pains to tasty squid wasn't the smoothest conversation transition in history.
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What's the matter with it? I finished with one conversation topic, so I moved onto the next one.
[Looks like an octopus, has the social graces to match...]
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Humans can be simple-minded, single-focused gatherers. They're going to need a larger pause than you provided, I think.
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I don't think I completely understand. What purpose would a larger pause accomplish?
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It gives them time to switch mental gears from their own imminent deaths to lunch.
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But I'm letting them know how to delay their imminent deaths. That's a good thing! Right?
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
Making good lunch choices is also important for people who to want to delay their death by as far as their own genetics and good fortune will let them. A healthy, balanced diet is essential for good health! Raw calamari is low in fat and high in protein.
From: ayling.maya@cdc.org
An ounce of plain squid offers 4.4 grams of protein, 9 percent of the daily value for calcium, 6.1 percent of the daily value for vitamin B12, 2.8 percent of the daily value for zinc, and 2 percent of the daily value for vitamin C. So if you want to delay death, eat the squid!
[Unless you're allergic, in which case sucks to be you.]
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I take it back, Maya. Please continue to be yourself at the humans. If they don't love it they just don't understand.
[ she doesn't even like to eat meat, but she's far too endeared by this lecture than to do anything but pleased for maya's existence. ]
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FROM: ayling.maya@cdc.org
People not understanding me seems to be a recurring problem regardless of species. I don't know why everybody thinks I'm difficult to understand. I thought I was always straight-forward...
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You are. That would be the problem. Humans prefer, on the whole, to be sneaky and generally obtuse.
FROM: kallig.telumi@cdc.org
Uncushioned truths frighten them.
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I don't understand why. It makes everything harder than it has to be, doesn't it? Way, way harder. What do they gain? Besides, hybrids like me are human too and I don't think like that.
FROM: ayling.maya@cdc.org
What species are you if you're not human?
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Didnt think it was possible but you did it.
You made me lose my appetite.
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I did? What did I do to make that happen? I can never lose my appetite when I'm hungry.
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Even after looking at files about chest bursting bug lizards??
Because thats what did it for me.
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No. Should it? Is that a usual thing to happen? Why would that make someone lose their appetite?
FROM: ayling.maya@cdc.org
The squid will be just as tasty and nutritious no matter what you were looking at before eating.
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Because its gross thats why!!
FROM: khezek.jasper@cdc.org
I know it doesnt change the squid but thinking about stomachs exploding and then eating
It just makes me not want to eat all right!1
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Are a lot of people affected in this way? Or is it just you? Can't you just not think about the stomach-bursting stuff while you eat?
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Im pretty sure its normal to think monsters that explode organs are gross.
FROM: khezek.jasper@cdc.org
And now that you put that together with eating I dont want to try the squid
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Aw... Well, that's your loss I guess.
[A loss that she caused, but never mind about that...]
FROM: ayling.maya@cdc.org
There should be some left over for a while? That thing was humongous after all. There's only so much of it anyone camp can manage to eat. I was gonna see if they'd give me more so I could keep it a while, but I remembered I don't have a fridge right now.
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Maybe it wont be so bad dried like jerky. Can you dry it.
But later. After Ive stopped thinking about that awful body nester.
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Yes! You can dry squid. I've never tried dried squid before, though... I doubt it'll be as delicious as fresh squid is, but dried squid is probably better than no squid at all.
FROM: ayling.maya@cdc.org
Did you eat much seafood as a part of your diet back home?
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Good it will keep longer.
FROM: khezek.jasper@cdc.org
No the forest I lived in was not like this one. It was land locked.
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So does that mean seafood is a new experience for you?? You've been missing out! Seafood is the greatest food ever!
[Then again she might be biased, because you know...octopus... If anyone were to be the seafood fanatic here it makes sense that it would be Maya.]
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I traveled from the forest so no its not really new. Ive had Khemarian sea food.
Its very bland. Not my favorite.
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What? Bland? No way! Surely not! Sea food is not bland! If the seafood you've had is bland then clearly is hasn't been cooked right!
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If you say so.
Whatever Im going to go back to not thinking about food for a while now.
[ Which is a new experience in itself. ]
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Well, whenever you're back to thinking about food again, let me know. I'll cook you something when I have the ingredients and a place to actually cook properly.
FROM: ayling.maya@cdc.org
I'll show you just how tasty seafood can be! The home recipes of Ayling's Seafront restaurant are the best!
[100% unbiased opinion]
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You would cook
For me???
[ That catches him by surprise. No one cooks for him, he cooks and provides for others. That's how it's always been, even before he left what little family he had in the forest. ]
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Yes. I would cook for you. It's fun! And I'm always cooking for my friends. Papa taught me a lot of different dishes while I was still at home.
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FROM: khezek.jasper@cdc.org
Oh
Thanks.
Id like to try it.
[ Wait, she just grossed him out a few minutes ago, he's supposed to be mad!! ]
FROM: khezek.jasper@cdc.org
After Im done feeling sick I mean.
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I don't have any seafood or noodles left from the last supply drop anyway. And none of the spices I need. And I don't have a kitchen right now, either!
FROM: ayling.maya@cdc.org
So it will have to wait a while anyway. But we'll definitely do it eventually.