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[hostage]

[No video. Getting to be a habit with him these days, but really... who wants to see him looking like he does right now? Thank him later. If he sounded bad before, he sounds much worse now. The way someone would sound when they've spent a week vomiting. That's why he keeps the message relatively short and sweet.]

I tested the, um... the verstatsi. The U.E.'s drug.

In case the obvious needed stating: don't try it.

Full report coming once I can get my ass outta bed, but I can tell you it's about half-opiate, half-synthetic. The comedown's a total bitch and I ain't just talking like regular use. I mean like one shot and you're gonna need another fix in a few hours unless you like spending the next few days worshiping the porcelain god. Seriously, I'm a professional and this stuff... is bad. I don't think we got a lotta samples around here but take my word for it and don't mess around with it. I done H. This is worse than H. Way worse.

So that's your little P.S.A. and don't roll your eyes 'cause this ain't some D.A.R.E. bullshit, yo. I'm serious.

Comments

anon text (not that the sender isn't obvious);

[5055034455]

Just because they pay you to be an idiot doesn't mean you get to call yourself a professional.

[hostage]

Same goes for you

voice;

[noble_nate]

[Nathaniel might just be feeling slightly guilty after hearing this.]

Are you all right? There's no lasting damage, is there?

[hostage]

None of my organs failed... uh, yet.

anonymous / text

[gevurah]

[ Not going to even ask right now why he was testing it on himself because that sounds like a death wish and Kate's concerned about these drugs. ]

How long before you can make the full report? [ She wants specifics on this, after all. ]

[hostage]

Few days maybe I'm working on it

[whatsupcroc]

... Jesse, you did what?

[hostage]

Don't worry about it.

[voice]

[highfrequency]

The U.E.'s drug?

[hostage]

The one they give their people. To control 'em.

[solitaire]

Mon dieu, homme... there's gotta be a better method than that.

[hostage]

Not on the schedule we're working with.

voice

[kneecaptain]

Hallucinations? Or is it just a sedative?

[hostage]

Not exactly hallucinations - not like you get with shrooms or acid, at least. I was guessing with my dose, so maybe I overdid it, but there was a while I got confused about where and when I was at. But it's more like when you're half-asleep, that kinda thing. And that was my first hit, so probably the next one would be toned down. Mostly it was your standard nod, just a more intense full-body euphoria and lasted longer than I'm used to.

[breakin_ur_lore]

[Wow you said a bunch of stuff this poor innocent baby does not understand, but he is getting the vibe that it is bad.]

Are you going to be alright? Why does the U.E. have a drug? And why did you test it?

[hostage]

I'll be fine. I been through this before.

They got a drug to keep their people happy and peaceful-like, easy to control. But when those people come here to get away from the U.E., they get sick without the drug. So I tested it so I could figure out how it works, what kinda sick they're feeling, and maybe work on a cure.

voice;

[minded]

What's H?

[hostage]

Heroin.

voice;

[alphonse]

You should listen to what the others are saying about seeing a doctor. Even if you don't think you need it, learning all they can about how to treat the early stages of the drug could be really useful in helping them save someone else.

[hostage]

There been a lotta Exiles already who came in like this. I ain't gonna teach doctors anything new and they sure as shit haven't figured out a treatment.

text;

[concealingeyes]

They make people take that? I guess if it's that bad coming off it, people would just keep taking it...

[hostage]

Exactly

voice

[fintastic]

You mean you actually took some to find out what would happen?

[ Master of the obvious. Still... ]

[hostage]

Yeah.

voice

[sceyence]

. . .

[Wow. So many things wrong here. Let's do this by the numbers.]

Guessing there aren't any treatments yet?

[hostage]

Working on it.

video;

[ofgoldenfoil]

[ Aurican doesn't understand half the things this man is saying, but he can give a guess. ]

So it's not safe for dragons either?

[hostage]

Don't know a whole lot about dragons. Probably ain't smart to try it, anyway.

ACTION

[wilder]

[Well he hasn't had to do too many house calls since getting the job at the clinic, but after receiving this call, it left him with little choice - even if dealing with drug withdrawal wasn't exactly his forte]

[So not too longer after that call was placed, Zelos will arrive at Jesse's room and knock on the door. He'll give Jesse some courtesy time to answer, though if he takes too long he is willing to break the door open]

[hostage]

[Scratchy but loud enough to be heard:]

It's open, yo.

[Fuck getting up to answer doors. He scarcely has the strength to get to the bathroom on his own - although he's independent enough now that Saul doesn't have to babysit twenty-four hours a day. Still, Jesse's in bed and the bedroom door's wide open, apartment door unlocked, like he expected people to either check on him or come in to cart off his dead body.

Luckily he's alive... if pallid and sweaty and sunken-eyed and shaking.]

voice

[payback]

So did the order to do that come down from brass or did you volunteer?

[hostage]

Oh my god, seriously?

[He hadn't even considered it might be taken that way.]

I did it to myself.

what if i was late

[ex_bandai157]

Where did your samples come from?

you're fired!!!

[hostage]

A Transport.

Jeez ignore the network for a few days and he misses so much

[inthejunk]

A professional what?

[hostage]

Chemist.