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[Visual/Action] -2nd Shadow- aka: Baby it's really really cold outside...

[Somepony's hailing the scrolls today laying down with a hoof over his eyes...if it wasn't enough that Crmsn looked miserable already, he winces as he lifts the foreleg to look at the scroll.]

I'm not usually one to bother with this kind of thing, but cripes, does anyone know where the pony strength aspirin is? I kind of need one...or two.......or fifty.

[There's a muttered curse about the cold weather.]

Whoever can point me to some, or, even better, just empty a bottle down my throat, wins forever and will be my life long hero.

[Meanwhile, if anyone needs him, he's just going to...stay where he is. Half collapsed outside the door to his room in the commune. It's really hard to walk on four legs when your forelegs are being uncooperative.]

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[Hey, Crmsn, how's karma? Arcee's going to call this karma.]

That's not where sleeping happens.

[Get a flat look in response and a grunt as he tries to push himself up. His legs don't hold up though as he collapses like a young foal.]

No, no it's not. But it's where I am. Hi. Did you come for the show?

No, I came for my room.

[She lives in the commune too, you know.]

So either tell me what's wrong or I'm gonna assume this is a cry for attention and keep walking.

Well, y'see...

[He grunts. Cry for attention, please. He'd be WAY more dramatic if he wanted that.]

Ya ever...lose a limb before? Then have the cold weather hit? Cause that's what's happening. Unfortunately for me, those limbs were wings...and those wings were attached to my shoulder blades, and the upper body uses those. Sure you can do the rest of the math...

Normally a medic would stick my arm back on, so it never stayed lost for very long.

[You're not helping, Arcee.]

You're gonna have to calculate for me. What does that have to do with sleeping in the hallway? Wouldn't you rather be miserable in, I don't know, your own bed?

Yes well....we can't all be so lucky?

[He's sorry, he's cranky and hurts.]

I was trying to see if I could make it into town. There's a doctor right? Or at the very least an apothecary.

[There's one (1) blue mare on this side looking worriedly at you from her hospital bed.]

S-Sir Crmsn, are ya alright?!

Never better m'lady. I just...like laying here on the ground.

[He gives the scroll a flat look then sighs.]

Sorry, sorry...just...an old battle wound tearing up my back because the weather decided it wanted to be cold. I can't wait for Spring to get here.

[More worried.]

Ah can relate. Have ya tried a warm bath? Might help it a bit, helps mine anyhow.

It can sometimes...

[He shakes his head.]

There's scars and aching muscles, then there's "you used to have a limb here remember that?"

[Crmsn scoffs humorlessly.]

Frackin' wings were always more trouble than good, even after they were torn off. Still a pain in my rear. How are you holdin' up by the way? They treating you well at the hospital?

...Ow. That sounds pretty bad, yeah. Most of mine're just ol' battle wounds.

Ah'm doin' alright, Ah guess? Still gettin' used to this medicine they got in me. Ah've never taken medicine like this. [She carefully holds up a forelimb, which has an IV in it.] Heck, we didn't have pills or nothin' back home for pain, so this is all weird. And Ah can't move around much.

I imagine it must be pretty new to you. IV's are never fun.

[He chuckles softly.]

I usually just left healing up to the healers back home, people that could mend bones and scrapes and bruises with a touch of a hand. Bloody useful I have to say.

Gotten smacked, stabbed, and shot with arrows, but somehow this is a new sorta uncomfortable. And yeah, same here, 'cept they used staves. We had a real nice one back in Greil's Mercenaries, Rhys? Sweetest, gentlest guy, but got sick real easy. General Ike's sister Mist was one too. If they couldn't get to ya, we all had healing stuff on hand, but man, that stuff can sting.

Tell me about it. I've been dismembered, slashed, stabbed, smacked, beaten, burned, shot, crushed...you name it. My wife is a healer back home, and my best friends wife too for that matter. Between the two of them we're pretty safe. Always yellin' at us though, for one reason or another. We always managed to get in over our heads, so it's not like it wasn't well deserved.

[He gets a slightly wistful and dreamy look on his face for a moment. Pain slightly forgotten about.]

Actually, my wife is pretty much the reason my back even healed up at all.

[Man, and she thought she'd seen some bad stuff. But the quick look of surprise is replaced with a gentle smile as he talks about his wife. He always talked about her and his family with such love, and she hopes she'll have someone like that one day that would speak of her and their family with so much affection.]

Lady CB sounds like quite the healer if she can do such. And Ah'm sure she worried a lot if y'all were gettin' into trouble so much. [It's said with a chuckle following.]

[He laughs softly in kind.]

Oh I'm sure to get an earful when I get back, but I'll have stories when I do. Some real interestin' ones too from the looks of this place. We were just movin' to our new home, too...when I was takin' I mean.

[He looks up for a moment and shakes his head with a roll of his eyes at some stray mental image, then looks back at her.]

Y'know I bet your families worried about you too. When you get back, d'ya think you'll be tellin' them all about this place?

[So he has no idea who this guy is, but judging by how much in pain he looks, it might be a good idea to see if he's okay.]

Ah, are you alright?

Oh yeah...YEAH. I'm fine. Dandy as an apple pie.

[That would be sarcasm.]

In cripplin' pain but it's a damn beautiful day, and y'know this floor is just really....reeeaaaaaallllly comfortable.

[Gosh Crmsn, would it kill ya to be a little polite?]

Thanks for that, but I guess I could see if there any... "pony aspirin" around there?

[The question mark is because he doesn't have any idea where to get that.]

Sorry sorry. I'm just..

[He sighs.]

Aspirin or painkillers of any sort would be very helpful.

It's alright I guess

Ah, is there any store in town? I might be able to check it out.

I have no clue. I haven't really been here long enough to see.

Yeah, I've only been here since a little before Christmas too.

Do you know of any unicorns where you are? Maybe they can use their magic to make some.

NO-!!

[He jumps up abruptly and immediately regrets it. He slides back to the floor with a groan.

That was ow.]

Ugh...digital gods no...no magic please......sooooo don't want anymore magic. Might even make the wings grow back and that's just painful...

!!!

[Okay, he was not expecting that reaction.]

Ah, sorry? I guess I can look for some myself.

Sorry...I didn't mean to snap like that...Magic and I don't get along very well.

[Lot of bad memories there.]

Er...welcome to Ponyville by the way. It's a weird place but it's nice enough. very bright, I have to admit.

You can say that again. It's like living in a little girl's dream town.

[Get it?????]

Whatever you do, don't come to the hospital.

I...what?

[He stares at the scroll.]

Am I being punked right now? Is this candid camera?

It's not very likely, no. Something's wrong here -- we're being held against our wills.

Being held where against your will?

The hospital, of course!

[Hmm another chance to learn about organics!]

So I take it aspirin is your fuel.

Do what?

[He has to take a minute to figure out what that means but it dawns on him quickly enough.]

Oh! No...no my fuel is pretty much...a vegetarian platter at this point. Aspirin is...it's an anti-inflammatory medication, and can be a salicylate drug, often used as an analgesic to relieve aches and pains, or can be used as an antipyretic to red-

[He stops and sighs slightly.]

Sorry...science lesson over. The down-low is it's not a food, it's a drug, it makes the pain go away for a bit.

Oh please, I think I can understand basic chemicals, I work with them sometimes.

But I get it, it's a chemical additive to modify your organic processes.

[GASP! Someone who speaks science!? He speaks science!]

"Organic"...guessing another bot gone Equestrian, huh? Essentially, yeah. It's mostly meant for minor aches, but I just need something to alleviate all this pain in my back, I'd ask for something stronger but I don't know if it even exists here...

[And he really doesn't want to go near magic...unless it's the last option, then he might.]

So what kind of chemical work do you do?

Yes Cybertonians seem to be prone to this level of cosmic shenanigans.

Weaponry! I made a corrosive quantum acid once that eats metal only when the viewer looks at it!

But I'm an engineer mostly.

Sounds like me and my family.

[There's a chuckle, then silence, and wide eyed starry eye'd staring at the thought of quantum corrosive acids. At least he's forgotten about his back, mostly.]

Duuuuuuude. The best I've ever done is a molecular conversion device that generates matter from energy building objects based on the users whims, but digital gods above and below...

[He has friends that like to make scissors out of nothing...don't ask.]

Quantum induced corrosion is like the cat of all cats!

Energy building based on visualization?! I could only dream of owning something like that!

[No he'd rather ask.]

...you mean those things that Arcee and Prime became?

[He chuckles a little. You're going to make him blush.]

Well...yeah I suppose it is a little impressive.

[Not on the first date.]

Yeah. Like the two of them...oh right! You wouldn't-duh. Sorry, I was making a reference to one of Earths scientists who created a thought experiment involving a cat in a steel box. It's a bit famous back home and a fundamental question in the quantum community.

You'll have to show me how it works when you get the chance.

...a quantum cat experiment?

[Iiiiiiinteresting.]

Definitely, we'll compare notes and discuss theories. Not to brag, but I started my business out based in weapon systems and engineering myself.

A quantum cat thought experiment. I don't think a live test was ever done. Basically it was used to pose the question of when does a quantum system stop existing as a superposition of states and become one or the other? When does that cat start being alive or dead?

Are you? Well adding to that not bragging, but I did help end a four million year war.

Oh so the uncertainty principle.

[That reminds him, hmmmm...]

...you might have just given me an idea.

Nicely done. Props to winning the war.

[He pauses a moment.]

An idea, huh? What kind of an idea?

Hear me out on this: imagine that on the back of every Autocat, a little gun tailored specifically to them. Once fired, the enemy is a double quantum whammy: they cannot tell whether they or the cat is there!

Hmm...so a quantum disruptor built for cats in essence, and it'll alter they're perception of reality, causing it to cease existing...

Yep, that's it! We'll have an edge on another invasion when it happens.

[Because he's sure this shit happens with exceptional regularity.]

Ugh, and here I was hoping for a vacation from invading forces.

[He laughs a little. If he wanted more of this crap he would have preferred fighting Darkloids back home.]

If you need any help designing it, I'd be more than happy to assist.

You start thinking that and then another ridiculous event happens.

Oh really? Good, because with this stature I need all the help I can get.

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[backdating to before Donna took his scroll, because timey wimey]

[temporal anomolies abound 8D]

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