001 ☪ open } { it's robot flu season

[hackedhistory]

Who: Zari Tomaz + YOU
Where: The dorms.
When: Over the sickness event.
Rating PG
What: Zari's caught the robot flu and she dislikes it strongly.

[Starters in comments.]

Comments

[hackedhistory]

[Classy. Very classy.]

Great. I was hoping if we had someone who could talk to plants or something. Maybe we could figure out what was wrong with them.

[purrtagonist]

[he rubs at his nose, sniffling a little as he does so]

Preeeetty sure it's the same thing that's making us sick, based on what Astoria said earlier.

[hackedhistory]

That's not really making me feel better, considering the plants are dead.

[And she doesn't want to follow them with all that death, deathiness and deathlike symptoms.]

[purrtagonist]

I know, right?

[MOOD, ZARI]

But I like to think we're a lot sturdier than bushes and trees are.

[hackedhistory]

Sure. Humans can probably last longer. If we run out of plants to scrub the air, then we may wind up suffocating, but at least we're not hacking and coughing to death from the robot death flu.

[She's just gonna ... smother you with that there sarcasm.]

[purrtagonist]

[THANKS ZARI]

[he appreciates it]

At least suffocating to death gives us more time to live. Right?

[hackedhistory]

[She gives a small shrug because he does have a point there. But at the same time ... ]

I think I'd rather have the flu kill me.

[purrtagonist]

[a beat]

[and he hums in agreement]

Yeah. It's probably less painful.

[hackedhistory]

Hopefully it won't come to either of those.

[One hand comes up to rub the back of her neck, and then she sneezes herself.]

Sooner rather than later.

[purrtagonist]

[she gets a sympathetic look for her sneeze]

Maybe some soup will make you feel better. . .?

[hackedhistory]

[She's reluctant to answer at first, before she glances up and nods.]

Soup sounds pretty good, actually.

[purrtagonist]

Soup isn't my namesake recipe, but I think I can make a pretty mean miso.

[a pretty overly salty miso, which is saying something]

[hackedhistory]

Is miso halal?

[There's a beat.]

Does it have pork in it?

[purrtagonist]

Hal-- [oh good, she clarifies, because he wouldn't have known how to answer that otherwise]

Nope. No pork. Just mis, dashi, wakame and sometimes tofu.

[hackedhistory]

... I don't know what any of those are but as long as they're not pork, we should be good.

[She knows she can't keep super halal in a place like this, but she can at least avoid pork.]

[purrtagonist]

[THUMBS UP]

We're definitely good.

[hackedhistory]

Awesome. Let's do this.

[And off they go to have some salty, salty soup. /scene?]