voice, @Doc Knock

[paintjobs]

A quick question — does anyone among us have any background in synthesizing? I know the finer points of the science are probably a little beyond your evolutionary pay grade, and I’d usually know better than to run this by a bunch of humans and humans lookalikes, but, well… desperate times, as they say.

I’ve heard from the Qorral Mayor that their species hasn’t had much success with synthesizing argecite, but synthetic materials just so happens to be one of my specialties.

[ And sure, he’s had disastrous results before, but they were still results! He probably won’t accidentally make any vampire zombies here, it’s fine. ]

If any of you think you’d be of any use to efforts to engineer an artificial compound to replace argecite — synth-ar, you could say — feel free to speak up. The only hitch being that this backwater planet doesn’t have much in the way of laboratory equipment. The local blacksmith has been told to expect us stopping by with equipment requests, but I have to wonder if even that is enough. This is a ground-up operation if I’ve ever seen one.

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[fateality]

'Course you wouldn't. [doc pls]

Haven't figured that out yet. First I gotta grab one. Alive. Then I guess we'll see. I'm not expecting hell of a lot, personally.

[paintjobs]

Wasn't there something decided about how once one of them takes a host, they can't be saved? [ or did he just hear what he wanted to hear ] Sounds like an awful lot of effort for not much payoff.

[fateality]

Somethin' like the odds were slim due to damages. In any case, folks feel awful strongly about them and their enslavement.

Trust me, I'm not a real big fan of it, but it's a little hard to tell certain folks no.

[paintjobs]

Mm. Well. Careful you don't catch one in the... whatever port it is they use to get in.

[fateality]

[He chuckles.] I'll certainly keep it in mind.

But I reckon I won't have much trouble. I got a pretty good sense about where people are and what they're doing, given enough time.