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R43 - Y'all hating's useless

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[The feed opens on a simple poster with the hand-blocked words WE NEED HELP IN THE KITCHEN.]

Testing out a new option to save time. Specifically right now we need a warden supe for lunch shift, until Ben comes home. If you're not used to working on a line or feeding a lot of people, we won't drop you into combat with no training. Marsh and I will help you out.

Oh. Not related to the kitchen-- I smelled a still running last month. Whoever it is, I want to pick your brain about fermentation.

[Filtered to Iris]
Iris. You got some time this afternoon to talk weasel shit and entropy? I'm willing to barter for your know-how. [He lifts a bottle of oil into the feed; last christmas, he gave her a massage, because sometimes it seems like she metabolizes stress the same way Arthas eats death. And the feeding's been good on that score lately.]

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Nah. Fungus, technically, but not very complicated ones. They eat sugar and excrete alcohol.

Probably not going to be real filling, but it's ... something. In case of emergencies.

And that's why you make mead out of honey.

[Arthas sounds like he's figured out a major secret of the universe.]

Yup. [Serious nod.]

So-- you have to kill things to get any juice out of them, right? Can it be poisoning?

I have plague magic that I usually use for that.

Or, I had. But I've never tried to kill with usual poisons.

We oughta try it. I have an idea about the beer. ...you ever do a drink called an impulse bomb in any of the ports?

Edited 2014-11-29 10:04 (UTC)

Is it a shot of spirit in a glass of beer?

That's the one.

What about a shot of pure ethanol in a container of living yeast? It'd get you fucked up and lots of little things would die at your hand.

Worth a try. How many yeast creatures are in a handful?

Not actually sure, when they're alive and breeding... upper millions?

[A guess. It's a few factors of ten off, but he's got to do some research yet.]

Huh.

Worth a try. Do you need to special request that from him or do you have everything we'd need?

We've got what we need. I'm not an expert, but I'm tapping people who know how to brew.

Tapping.

[Arthas' mouth crooks into a one-sided smile.]

...wasn't going for the pun, but I'll take it. [Faint smirk back, single-shouldered shrug.]

If it doesn't work, or isn't enough to make a difference, what is our next step?

There's a lot of less glamourous life forms you haven't tried killing yet. We got a lot to try. And maybe we get a breeding colony of something going in the interim, something vertebrate or at least complex enough you get something.

Maybe I should make it a goal to kill all forms of life.

Exactly. How will you know if you like it if you don't try?

[And other reasons Riddick is his euphemistic significant other, not his warden.]

[And other reasons significant others are better than wardens.]

Well, I'm all for it. Should I come down when your shift is over?

Yeah. I won't have any beer ready yet, but we can give yogurt a shot while we're waiting.

What does yogurt do? Don't tell me that's alive.

[but it's made of milk which comes out of a cow!

but so do calves?

????]

Some of it has live bacteria in it. Some cheese, too. Sometimes it's processed so the bacteria was killed. I'll bring the probiotic stuff.

[It is at this point he accepts that alive yogurt has gone over his head (it is probably a space thing) and that he should stop trying and eat it.]

Alright. I'll be there.

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