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[pain_train]

Who: Wrath (and maybe you?)
Broadcast: Entire fleet
Action: Windrose medlab, she ain't goin anywhere
When: June 11 (four days after this mess)

[Text]

extra large protein lovers pizza
++ spicy soypperoni
+ red chilies
++ mazer beer ipa or equivalent 1 6pack

5 strippers
pref male
++ purple body glitter
++ portable sound system
+ boa constrictor

deliver to: lt wrath, windrose



[Audio]

[She doesn’t quite know how bad she looks, but she knows how bad she feels. There is no way the people in the fleet need to see this. So it’s audio only. Wrath’s words slur faintly, like someone who is profoundly tired rather than drunk. Chems do that to her.]

Hey everyone. Um. I had an accident and I’m gonna be… down for a little while. I know I wanted to do a coffee thing for all my brother soldiers but… that’s gonna have to wait. Til I’m on my feet again. Really sorry, guys. But it’ll happen. Just a little later.

Anyway like last time I was in traction I just ordered pizza and strippers, but I tried to do that here and it doesn’t work? And there’s no pudding or nurses. So I’m kind of super bored since I can’t move around right now. So anyone want to like… watch vids or play games or something? I could maybe figure out how to do chess on the network. Or ask someone for help. Or tell stories. Or like. Visitors would be nice? Yeah.

Officer Snuggles says hi, everyone. [The fox yips.] And. Um. Bye~


[Action]

[Wrath, almost completely immobilized in traction to keep her spine from crumbling completely, occupies the Windrose’s medlab for the timebeing, Officer Snuggles normally curled up on the corner of the bed when he’s not out patrolling. Wrath herself looks like hell, nasty bruises and stitched up head and facial lacerations, her left eye’s sclera still crimson. But she’s doing her best to maintain a positive attitude. There’s not really anything else for her to do.

Visitors are what she really, really wants. Being stuck in bed and unable to move around and really touch anything is starting to eat at her badly. It’s a vague sort of unease, blurred out by the drugs, but it’s definitely not doing her anxiety levels any good. Before the ports are removed, nothing feels right anyway, which is another sort of alarming. She's got the painting frame for entertainment beyond staring at the ceiling, but her fine motor control is terrifyingly lacking, and she doesn't think she can blame it all on the drugs.

And Winter… she’s not thinking about what actually happened if she can help it. That wasn’t Winter. He wasn’t at home when that all went down. It was a fight, she survived, everything is okay now. She’s tough as hell. She’s not going to think about how it feels like falling. She’s not going to think about how last time, Compliance showed up and tried to take her right out of her hospital bed. She’s not going to drive herself crazy with worry about how Winter is doing and if everyone is treating him okay and if everyone gets it wasn’t his fault. And she’s sure as hell not going to think about how next time, it might be her turn.]

Comments

Nevahr!

[spontaneouscombustion]

Let's see... I think there's about fifty back home we can eat!

[pain_train]

Wow, how can there be that many berries in the whole world? We only have like... five? Maybe?

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Gasp!]

That's horrible! You should have more berries! Which kinds do you have?!

[pain_train]

We have... strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries and... um. [Hm.] Lingonberries? I think? Maybe that last one isn't a berry and I'm remembering wrong.

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Okay, that's horrible. Too few berries.]

Yup, those are berries! You have cherries, though, right?! Technically those come from trees but they're still berry-ish! What about mullberries and boysenberries?! Gooseberries? Cloudberries?! Currants?

[pain_train]

Oh! We have cherries. Like two kinds. The red ones and the ones that are kind of. Um... yellow-ish? But... I don't know about any of those other ones. Wow, Cloudberries sound really neat.

[spontaneouscombustion]

[They are, look them up they are real and cool.]

Mmmm yeees both colors are tasty~ Oh, wait, do you guys have tomatoes? Those are more savory, and they're big and they get sold as veggies, but those are berries too!

[pain_train]

Tomatoes are berries? Wow, I never knew. Yeah, we have those. Because I know you use them to make pizza, so we must have them...

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Somewhere, a pesto pizza is crying.]

Yup, totally berries! You can REALLY tell with the super teeny cherry tomatoes!

(I'm so sorry, I lost this tag.)

[pain_train]

I thought cherry tomatoes were like... hybrids between cherries and tomatoes. But that makes more sense, because they don't taste like cherries...

IT'S OKAY, it's been a pretty busy month on my end. (Pats)

[spontaneouscombustion]

Noperoonie! They get the name because of the size!

[pain_train]

Oh, i guess that makes sense. So wait, can you like call anything that size a cherry whatever?

[spontaneouscombustion]

You know what, they totally should!

[PINKIE, NO.]

[pain_train]

So we could have... um... cherry rocks? And cherry bullets?

[spontaneouscombustion]

Ooh, OOH! I wonder if chimmy cherry chongas can be cherry-sized too!

[Yay, new baking projects!]

[pain_train]

...what's a chimichonga?

[spontaneouscombustion]

[GASP!]

You've NEVER had chimichanga?! Oh my gosh, they're DELICIOUS! It's a burrito with rice and beans and cheese and then it's deep fried and then it's served with salsa and guacamole and sour cream and chips!

[Girl loves her spicy food too.]

Chimmy cherry chongas are a LOT sweeter, though! They have cherry pie filling and orange zest and cream cheese and the tortilla has cinnamon sugar sprinkled on it! And I should know; I invented them~!

[pain_train]

Oh, that sounds super good! I love spicy stuff.

And that second one sounds even better! I want to try both. You're super smart if you can invent stuff like that.

[spontaneouscombustion]

Awwww thank you~! I'll DEFINITELY have to make some for you when we meet up! My name's Pinkie Pie, by the way, what's yours?

[pain_train]

Oh, thank you! That's super exciting.

My name's Wrath! It's really nice to talk to you.

[spontaneouscombustion]

[Wrath? She doesn't sound angry at all, though. Must have one heck of a temper, then. (Yay, coming from a world with very literal naming conventions.)]

It was great talking to you too, and I'll try to gather up as many chimmy cherry chonga ingredients as I can!

[pain_train]

[Just ask Hank, Pinkie. He's one of the few people in the fleet who has seen her angry.]

Oh wow, thank you! I can't wait. And I'll help once I'm out of bed, I promise...

[spontaneouscombustion]

Oooh that'd be great, thanks a lot!

[She and Pinkie are actually going to be a pizza party once Winn comes back from hiatus. Chongas would actually be a pretty nice dessert, if she wants to help out with that. ;)]

wrap?

[pain_train]

[perfect~] Hopefully it'll be soon.

Wrap. (Shakes hands) Excellent thread as always. ;)

[spontaneouscombustion]

Me too!