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hmmm dunno
do you still have the drugs

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yes, but this is a new deal now. new terms.

field medic, right? you're familiar with standards for surgery care?

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new terms?
i put them back together again what the fuck else do you want

sorry 2/2 surprise

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yes

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we're not in terrible zombie times anymore, are we? dystopia times get dystopia rules, vice versa.

i am being fair here, believe it or not. i don't care if you want to OD on your own time, but seeing as most of the medical guys who end up here tend to just up and leave, someone has to look out for everyone else.

you up for learning a little more than just field basic?

🤪

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uh no. if you want my help you gotta be desperate, so still my rules.

what's more than basic to you?

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resetting dislocated bones, laparoscopies, biopsies, blood transfusions, stents, so on.

this place likes to throw things into the fire a lot. i'd like for us to be prepared for the next shit show.

you're also not the only one i asked, so you're wrong on that first part.

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i can reset bones and stent fine. the only thing i don't know how to do on that list is a biopsy because i never needed to

aw boo hoo. what's the trade?

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well, i guess you're learning it now.

you're not taking this opportunity to renegotiate? name some other thing you want? come on, man.

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that's the thing about this place, it's got everything i want. and what i can't have, people get all freaked out if i wanna kill them.

got anyone i can kill?

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[ huh. this is interesting. ]

is it a personal need? do you need to kill or your brain explodes otherwise?

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that's a good way to put it

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tell me why, and i'll name someone.

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i like it and it mellows me out.

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then why the drugs? what do you need them for?

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i'm not playing 20 questions with you. i gave you an answer so now you owe me a name.

unless you're not someone who holds up their end of the deal. maybe i should come find you instead :)

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you still haven't figured it out yet?

the name's mine, man.

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what the fuck do you mean the name is yours?

you want me to kill you?

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i'm functionally immortal. trade secret: my body regenerates every time i die.

this body is only three months old. if you had to kill anyone, at least kill someone who won't net a house penalty like the others do.

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huh
ever find out how much your body can take before it dies?

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it's the torture that gets you off? that's what you're telling me?

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dying lost its purpose here. even for you. acting like some martyr because you got a special power.
so yeah i like killing them but i like seeing what else happens too. i don't get to mess around with people who want to die or have powers much.

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[ this could be useful. ]

i don't want to die, for the record. it's pointless here and it's pointless back home, too. but if i have to die — if you're getting something out of it and it keeps you from killing someone else, then that's useful to me.

are you good with filming it?

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it doesn't keep me from anything, you're giving me something to do. it's not a promise kipper.

why do you want to film it?

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you wanna see how far your luck goes in this place, be my guest.

scientific curiosity.