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[ersatzeverything]

[Deacon has the wig on today and sunglasses (finally got a pair thanks to the Ingress) and a black suit that was probably once very sharp but after two hundred years and a nuclear apocalypse is very much the worse for wear.]

Hey, science-y people, anyone have experience with laser guns?


[Locked to Medbay Staff]

So, totally hypothetically, if someone wanted to completely change their face, could you do it?

[He should try to hang on to the face he's got for another six months at least, but he wants to know what his options are. And wants to know whether or not he has options.]

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[peridork]

[OK that tidbit is actually kind of distracting. She zeroes right in on it.]

Nuclear holocaust?

But yes: By the time I finish with it, it will be able to do all that and more, I guarantee it.

[ersatzeverything]

Yeah, nuclear holocaust.

A lot of people are having that reaction. I guess everyone's hoping that I'm not from the future in their universe.

Awesome news about the laser pistol. What's the charge?

[He expects to pay for Peridot's services. That's how it works in the wasteland.]

[peridork]

[That's the sound of someone who has had to explain something about his home universe several times too many, if she's not mistaken. Normally she's not too sensitive to that sort of sign, but having dealt with the same herself she decides it's not really relevant to the conversation anyway, and promptly drops it.]

Charge? No one charges for anything on this ship, least of all me. I just do it because it's my job, and because you sorry clods would be completely weaponless otherwise.

[ersatzeverything]

...So...people just do things for each other...for free? Everyone does? Seriously.

[This ship continues to feel completely unreal. He likes it, hell, he loves it, people actually helping each other, even total strangers. But it's bizarre.]

[peridork]

Basically, yes.

Some other crew members have tried to introduce a bartering system of sorts, but personally I don't really bother with it. I'd be bored out of my mind if I didn't have these projects to work on, just keeping the insanity at bay is good enough for me.

[ersatzeverything]

Then I'm glad to help with the insanity warding thing. You can improve my laser gun any time.

[peridork]

…Right.

[The kind of casual nature of that statement doesn’t really click with her properly. Does this guy just expect her to hunt him down to borrow his pistol any time she feels like working on something? Jeez.]

Just bring it by when you have a spare moment. Down the hall past the gardens. The door is marked with a large sign. “Armory”. Your vision spheres would have to be inoperable to miss it.

[ersatzeverything]

[It takes him a moment to understand what she means by "vision spheres" and when it clicks he tries not to laugh. He'll have to borrow that some time.]

Will do. I'll drop by some time in the next hour.