text. un: QUEEN (joint with jade harley)

[popess]

hello everyone it is jade and makoto!!!
jade speaking
when you had the big beach party where we met all the new people makoto and i found the skeleton of a creature!
it was very sad :(
in any case she and i took a tooth from its skeleton
with help from my spacey powers :p

Anyway, we should get to the point of this posting.
I requested Jade’s help to see if the tooth had any sort of applicated effects.
We noticed when mixing it with some painkillers we had on hand that it dramatically increased their potency.
We aren’t licensed chemists, but we figured it might have some effect we could reproduce and use for our cause.
Of course, any good experiment needs subjects.

technically i am a licensed chemist!
but its true that just us two is not enough data hehe

Right. So we’d like to ask for some help.
You can meet us both this afternoon in my office at the Simwe Institute for an interview.
I can see about possible compensation for your participation, but I can’t guarantee it.
We’d also love to hear from anyone with any expertise in chemistry or medicinal science.

[ for anyone interested in threading an appointment or experimental trial, PM Makoto or Jade’s account (witchhooded)! we’ll set up a private log for that at the start of the month.

also you can expect tags from both Makoto and Jade. Jade will reply with her color, but Makoto won't. she only used color text because Jade said it would be eyecatching. whoops ]

Comments

text / un: merlin

[politrick]

[Obviously, Merlin is already here—]

il'l do it

[popess]

Your willingness is appreciated, though a little strange.
What's your availability like?

audio | un: priorly

[priorly]

[Look, this may be relevant to his interests but.]

You found a skeleton and your first thought was to grind a little up and mix it with some tylenol? How does that conversation happen?

[popess]

Well.. it wasn't my first thought. But this is my job. If you're interested in the skeleton itself, I can send you coordinates. I'm no archaeologist, but this is something I'm able to do.

[ mumbling: ] It isn't that weird, is it?

audio / un: link

[courageunforgotten]

[Going voice because he still hasn't gotten this texting thing.]

I'll volunteer.

[witchhooded]

[ Jade matches him, if only because it feels fair. ]

Great! Thank you very much! What is your name? ...Link??

[ For the records, okay. ]

text; un: pholia

[baguablade]

Have you tried the powder with anything other than painkillers?

[witchhooded]

not yet
i am curious to find out if dosage remains the same across different bodies right now personally
this could be a big break for medication!
if you have suggestions or things you would want to try yourself though i am listening

text; un: e

[saucius]

Maybe start with something other than people.

Animals, you know?

[witchhooded]

no!
that would be just awful :(

text (un: aka728)

[hurtled]

[g l a n ces...how are all these people volunteering so readily.

That aside, reading through the lines, something sticks out --]

You tested the effects of the tooth on yourselves?

[witchhooded]

yes
i would not ask people to do something unless i was almost completely sure it was safe
in this case it seems like the tooth grindings raise the potency of certain properties and i would like to see if dosages remain the same across bodies as well as see if there is a pattern across what elements it increases
or decreases if that ever happens
for some reason i have a feeling it will not though :\

video; un: deathweaver

[respired]

A painkiller. I could use it.

[ A pause. ]

I took a tooth, also. If you need more.

[popess]

I'd like to run a few more tests before I release it publicly. I can't tell if it's a stable or sustainable way to make medicine yet.

[ makoto digs around through a desk before pulling something out. it's a tooth. the tooth, obviously. ]

It's an exact match of this one? If you're willing to part with it, I can pay you. I'd really appreciate it.

text | un: mad-dog

[hannya]

useful as that sounds I get the feelin this is your first rodeo

[popess]

You're perceptive. I'm still learning. We all have to start somewhere, right?

text | un: TeaOnRice

[gekkajuu]

I brought one of those teeth to Mr. Evras, too!
If you need more volunteers, I don't mind helping out.

[popess]

Of course, we'd love to have you along.
I'm glad so many people recovered teeth. I suppose it was the easiest thing to take from the fossil.

text | username: kamiki

[polkabrows]

Dis anyone try asking the natives about the creature?
Maybe they know something about its uses, and you can avoid human experimentation altogether.

[witchhooded]

hmm
that would require retrieving the carcass which was underwater and.......
pretty large!
but perhaps it can be arranged
regardless experimentation would be needed anyway
how do you think medication ends up in your medicine cabinet!! hehe

text | username: mantis

[uglybug]

I do not understand what you need from volunteers.
But I am happy to help.

[witchhooded]

oh mantis!!!!
so good to talk to you again :D
actually i think your abilities can be used in a multitude of ways for this
if you want to take the medicine for us that would super helpful but also if you are willing to
i think we can work something out so you can help in a way only you could!

[originallutece]

I'll offer you help, though not as a volunteer. I've some chemical experience. I assume you have data on the tooth's properties?

[witchhooded]

we have some things written down yes!
mainly what we have noticed is that it increases the effects of what it is mixed with
headache medication caused full body numbness for quuuuuuuuuite a while
i would like to tweak it so that we can get something as quick working but not nearly as inconvenient :P

[text] un: apophenia

[paranoidactivity]

{ richard did not read the other responses before asking this question (or, really, the post very carefully, because he's making an Effort to know people), which is probably an indication that he needs more sleep and that he should Learn How This Works (TM). but: ]

Where is your information on the animal trials?
You can't expect us to take a medication without knowing the potential side effects.

[popess]

The medicine we're making is still in beta.
We need volunteers because we don't know the potential side effects.
Where I'm from, trials like this usually occur with animals, but we'd prefer not to do that if we can.

Text | un: mephychan

[meinwaifu]

Well, I can't say I expected to see offers for human experimentation on this little network! ∩(︶▽︶)∩

But I wonder: are you accounting for volunteers who may be a bit less than human? This place is quite the melting pot, after all.

[popess]

I hadn't thought about it, but you raise a good point.
To be honest, I'm still not totally used to the level of nonhuman beings that exist here.
I'm going to have to try to account for that so it doesn't become a confounding variable later on.. and adjust it as a personal bias as well.

We want anything we produce to help as many people as possible, so we're definitely interested in testing how it reacts to different biological makeups.

video | un: null

[cassus]

Interesting.

[ Well this sounds like a disaster in the making. Because when has introducing super-powered pain relievers into society not caused numerous deaths? ]

Did you know that many potent painkillers have been considered the most lethal and addictive drugs in history?

[popess]

We aren't interested in getting into the pharmaceutical industry. We're aware of how corrupt and wrong they handle things. That's the issue of matters like medicine becoming a for profit business. Right now, we're interested in testing the tooth to see how it reacts and effects the potency of any medicine — mass producing it and making it available will come later.

[ there's a click to her voice — she's obviously a little perturbed by this response, to hear that someone would think she'd willingly or ignorantly introduce something harmful into el nysa's burgeoning society. ]

This isn't a joke to us. We're approaching it very carefully.

[text]

[personalwar]

[ It takes a lot to catch 76's attention on the network. Most of what gets posted here is pretty much nonsense, but this announcement definitely grabs him. Learning more about the world they're in, making use of resources to create useful supplies for the future...

Bright young minds like these would have immediately struck him as worth recruitment, back in the day. ]

So you're looking for guinea pigs, is that right? What exactly do you want us to test?

[ Most traditional medication doesn't work on him because of his enhancements, so he's curious to see just how potent this ground-up tooth might be. ]

[popess]

There's a few parameters we're looking at, but for the sake of not conflating the data, we have to be a little vague about it.
I can tell you we're looking at potency and lasting effects of the tooth's makeup as a gradient.
I'm sorry I can't tell you any more. Of course, we'll be as transparent as we can after the experiment has ended.

[ and she does feel bad about that — asking people to take a chance on them. ]

voice;

[ghettobatman]

[Wow, the computerized voice reading this post aloud to him sure was something]

I'm not so sure this is a good idea. How did it even cross your minds to mix it with painkillers?

[time for a complete stranger to Fuss]

voice

[witchhooded]

[ At least Jade's polite enough to match him. Honestly - she assumes most people responding are just Parenting at this point too, so: ]

The idea was a bit of a fluke, I guess! Mostly we thought it might be a good idea to experiment with it. From there we thought that it would be best to try mild painkillers first, but we did observe reactions and did not find anything that pointed to truly adverse reactions. The institute's technology is pretty up to date and state of the art, it is kind of amazing!

text; un: SKULL

[sakabroto]

Yo Makoto. This is the job you were talking about?

Being a guinea pig? That's....kinda shady, isn't it?

[popess]

It's sponsored by the Simwe Institute, so I promise we're nothing like back alley doctors.

[ not like a certain one from back home.. ryuji somehow manages to get to makoto a little and now she's feeling self conscious. ]

It doesn't really come across like that, does it? Like we're trying to manipulate people?