Agent K | Network 001

[most_feared]

[Public | Audio]

[Agent K has been here for a little bit, and is settling in pretty quickly. Given all the other weird shit he's encountered in his career having to walk around with a foil lined fedora isn't too strange. That said, despite being used to every brand of pink, purple, and blue fuckery he's not too fond of the idea of some of his thoughts just popping into other people's heads.]

[So, today he's going to check in on the current stash of resort workers to see how people are doing so that he can be overly cautious.]

I figure as non-natives we might be a little more susceptible to this bug goin' around, so I was wondering if anyone brought in by the resort woke up with a hell of hangover and no drinking last night to go with it. I put some tylenol up at the front desk in security if anybody I'm workin' with is having any issues.

That is if you're not allergic, anyway.

Comments

[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin opted for a tinfoil skullcap. It isn't stylish, but it works.

Also, thank you for supplying tylenol and not aspirin. Narvin does not want to die a horrible death because he got the wrong flu medication.]

Any word on whether it's restricted to intelligent life? Or do you patrollers get to enjoy listening to the thoughts of giant spiders pondering the tastiness of your dissolved flesh as they attack you.

[what_ho_jeeves]

Bug? You mean the arachnid whatsits that the brochure mentioned?

[most_feared]

Nah, Sport. I mean the flu kind of bug. A virus. A cold. Though those other bugs are plenty bad enough, too.

[most_feared]

I would think intelligent. I mean, you gotta be capable of thinkin', I guess. I don't really wanna mindmeld with a four-eyed cow any time soon.

It might be better than some of the experiences I've had. But I still wouldn't want to place bets.

[timesbureaucrat]

[Brief pause.]

I once had to initiate psychic contact with a Hurgalnook blood slug. It wasn't pleasant.

[what_ho_jeeves]

Ah, I see, under the weather, doing poorly, not so hot, less-than oojah-cum-spiff.

[most_feared]

The hell would you have to do something like that for?

[He asks this, but really Kay doesn't need reasons to do half the stuff that he does.]

[most_feared]

[Bertie, he can only imagine how other people react to you when you talk.] That's the long of it, yeah.

If you've had headaches you don't usually get you might uh... wanna throw on a tinfoil hat or else someone might catch somethin' you're thinkin'.

[Audio]

[tawarwaith]

[Tauriel is glad that it is audio, she doesn't know if she could deal with the muted colors right now.]

I think you speak of me My head hurts though I did not imbibe anything other than water.

[Audio]

[most_feared]

That don't sound too good. You want me to check in and see if anyone can cover for you tonight, or do you figure it'll clear up quick. [He has no idea if it'll affect physiologies differently.]

How bad is it?

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[tawarwaith]

Everything is muted... [she prooobably should not be coming in.] And I feel as if I have drunk too much dorwinion. We do not usually fall ill so easily, I don not know how long it will last.

[Audio]

[most_feared]

Yeah, it sounds like you're gonna need the night off.

I'll drop off a line to the guys upstairs for you, alright? Make sure they pull in someone to cover shift. I'd wager they were ready for this as soon as it started goin' around. You need me to pick somethin' up from the clinic for you?

[No use in being a jerk and cutting her off there when healthy coworkers greatly decrease the risk of you getting your ass shot while on the job.]

[audio]

[andiwillfollow]

What's tylenol?

[If it helps he'll probably need it, because much to his chagrin he's been having a hell of a headache lately.]

[audio]

[most_feared]

It's a brand name for acetaminophen where I'm from. A type of mild analgesic- er, pain-killer thing that won't get you addicted. Pop a couple of pills every five hours or so with some water and you can keep a headache at bay.

[timesbureaucrat]

They were infesting a computing systems access room that I needed to enter in order to [plant a bug] install some upgrades. It was the only way to get past them safely without shooting them up, since one missed shot might have damaged the equipment. [Not to mention would have been noisy.]

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[tawarwaith]

[She really doesn't want to mix taking meds with this right now so she is just staying holed up in her room to make things easier.]

If it gets much worse I'll take something for it. How long is this thing supposed to last.

[She isn't whining... okay maybe a little since she isn't used to being sick.]

[most_feared]

Well, I guess that isn't any more pleasant than having to get hands on with one.

[There's a sort of "that's an understatement" sort of comment to go with that. Nothing like grabbing the mucosae of a horrible gastropod mollusk and getting sticky all over your hands.]

[Audio]

[most_feared]

A few days. [Apologetically.] So I'll let 'em know you'll probably be out for more than just tonight.

I'm real sorry to hear you're under the weather, ma'am.

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[tawarwaith]

[there is a soft groan on her end.] But I don't want to spend days cooped up. [She also was not a fan of wearing tinfoil hats. And she is whining again, which is decidedly unelven.]

I shall do what is required. Thank you.

[what_ho_jeeves]

Tinfoil hat? I'm sure Jeeves wouldn't approve.

I'm sure my touch of throbbing in the head is simply the natural result of getting filled up the back gills the night before and no Jeevesian miracle restorative to offset the effects.

[Audio]

[most_feared]

Yeah, I get that way, too. [He hates having nothing to do.] Maybe there's somethin' productive that can come out of this.

[Apparently Kay is unable to think of the option of "spending time on yourself is good."]

[audio]

[andiwillfollow]

[He almost lost Charon for a second, but the explanation he gives at the end there pretty much explains it.]

Hrm, thank you. [For putting out the tylenol, he means.] Is there a way to fight this bug off that you know of?

[He's been a little too busy working nonstop to pay much attention to any news.]

[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin makes a face.]

I shudder to think.

[Prissy alien is prissy.]

I prefer to stick to circuits and wires. They might electrocute you, but at least your hands stay relatively clean.

[audio]

[most_feared]

Not really to fight it off, but there's ways to keep from spreading it once you got it. Take some foil, make a cap out of it, put it on your head.

Works for a few things back where I'm from, too.

[He's actually really glad he can talk about it. It's novel. While the secrecy is useful and means he doesn't have to deal with that many people, having to constantly guard what he's saying and bullshitting answers is tiring as hell.]

[most_feared]

I've always preferred the field myself. Though I might ask for investigator around here, eventually. I like getting into the meat of non-human cultures. Human ones, too, but eventually those get kinda stale.

[You get bored with your own family, sometimes.]