closed | holiday company

[elevelvetor]

WHO: Elda & her dates (Mariko Kawaguchi and Albert Wesker)
WHERE: Some lovely little restaurants in Tisse, and maybe other places later on; I'm not in charge of your threads here
WHEN: Evening time; Tuesday, December 5th for Mariko, and Thursday, December 7th for Wesker
WHAT: Blind dates! Despite Elizabeth setting this all up, she's actually nowhere to be found.
WARNINGS: None, probably

[ top levels will have the dates! have fun c: ]

Comments

[manufactured]

I've never seen anything quite like that - a few strange transformations that I can't explain, granted, but nothing that seems as commonplace as what Silver is describing.

[matchbreaker]

[ Oh right, the ... Excella... thing. ]

Mmm. The whole thing is so strange, but then the world must be based around all that, so...

[manufactured]

[...YOU KNOW, THAT ACTUALLY WAS NOT HIS FIRST THOUGHT THERE, AND THAT IS EITHER MUCH BETTER OR MUCH WORSE DEPENDING ON HOW YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THINGS.]

It sounds like a natural thing, at least, as opposed to anything humans are inducing. Which is a fascinating thing to think about, in its own way.

[matchbreaker]

[ NOD... ]

... Mmm.

I think I ought to sit down with him and just learn more about them.

[manufactured]

I think it would be worthwhile, yes.

[...]

Not just from an objective standpoint, necessarily; he seems to enjoy talking about them.

[matchbreaker]

That's what I'm thinking...

[ She shakes her head, sighing. You know, this - ]

... So Albert, have you been working on anything interesting lately?

[manufactured]

[Mm.]

My interest has been with vaccines lately.

[And that's kind of TAKE A WILD GUESS AS TO WHY but hey, at least he's being productive with it.]

It's proving to be more worthwhile than I'd initially thought; I'm pleased with current progress, at any rate.

[matchbreaker]

Oh, what are you making progress on?

[ She does have some medical background, even if she ... like only has a mostly complete nursing degree and experience as a phlebotomist. She won't keep up with the technicals, but she does seem genuinely interested. ]

[manufactured]

[And explain he shall! I mean, this is very "look at all this quality RP right here" but holy shit please don't make me have to figure out a way to explain this because I know my limits; the important part is the focus on antibody recognition and stimulation - like, if this works it's going to go great, if it doesn't jesus christ, but then that's why we have people who work in pharmaceuticals to begin with, to hopefully avoid the sheer amount of "jesus christ" that would result in all the playing God with people's immune systems that he's doing here.]

It's largely still in development; I haven't moved to testing yet. But it seems promising.

[matchbreaker]

[ the sad thing is here that Elda like trusts Wesker way more implicitly than she should, so she's nodding along with wide eyes as she follows it. Huh, that... that could be a major breakthrough, potentially? It's working a little different than most, if she's following right. ]

Oh of course, of course. That sort of testing would be risky to do too soon. [ Mmm ] Are you planning on targeting vaccination for anyone particular virus, or just testing for general stimulation right now?

[manufactured]

The latter, for the time being.

[Seriously, this is either going to work out reasonably well or it's going to be a trainwreck, but you know what, sure.]

It's something I've been working with for some time now; if it works out, then it does. If not... Well, I find it worth the attempt.

[matchbreaker]

Oh no, of course. When it comes to medical science, it's worth trying. After all, the potential benefits of something like that could be groundbreaking even if it's a minor success.

[ She ... okay she's going to pour back in a little wine, the water is working to stabilize her. ]

I sometimes think about going back and finishing out the degree. Or take some classes or sit in on more lectures or seminars. Maybe even going for med school proper, but ... the time never felt right and it's not like I need to, and the more this city goes crazy the less proper the timing feels.

[manufactured]

...I'd argue that the city going crazy is a solid reason to try it; we could use more professionals in the field when everything is less than stable, and I know we've lost at least one doctor recently from the network.

[He tries really hard to not think about the people that used to be connected but aren't anymore, and it's rare for him to bring it up; it's not as close to him as it was to Elda, given Toushiro, but at the same time... Nngh.]

[matchbreaker]

... No, that's a fair point. I'm twenty years out of date and I'll I've really done in the interim is draw blood.

[ She nods. Actually, getting some more medical expertise... God, ]

Which one? I know Dr. Sutcliffe is still poking around... so... ah, that other man?

[manufactured]

Lucian Trevelyan. He was one of those that I was with back in August; we'd kept in touch beyond that, until a couple of months ago.

[matchbreaker]

... You know, there's another thing I never managed to ask my boys. I've only ever got the barest of descriptions of what you all went through in August. Mostly on that one post where people collected information.

[manufactured]

...I imagine the texts I sent you didn't help much in that regard - that wasn't precisely anyone's finest hour, but my timing could have stood to be better with regards to most of it.

[matchbreaker]

My own - to you or anyone else - were none too flattering too. The first few hours, I'd feared Silver skipped town.

[ Which she's... mmm. She still might owe him a stronger apology. ]

Still, your dangerous things worked out in the end.

[manufactured]

For what it's worth, I didn't have access to my phone for the entire next week, and by the last week of it everyone's morale was so low that it's a wonder anyone was still capable of managing anything.

Honestly, the entire group I was in was most united by exactly how little we all wanted to be there.

[matchbreaker]

That's enough, isn't it? As long as it worked out.

[ She takes a long sip from her wine though, looking at the view again as if something is clouding her thoughts. And, indeed, it is... Mmm.

... This "date" really is just them catching up on more and more things, isn't it? It's not bad, but it's not... well. This is what is going on in this lives, lately. So after a moment more- ]

... Did you by chance seen that one post where Officer Togusa was talking about forming a neighborhood watch type group, comprised totally of people on the app?

[manufactured]

[On the one hand, yes, that's more or less what this is... On the other, it isn't as though they really do that at all unless they set aside time for it.]

...I did, yes. Why do you ask?

[matchbreaker]

He seemed to think I had the stuff to be one of the organizers for it.

[ . . . She's not sure what she wants out of Wesker in admitting that. But it's still throwing her. ]

[manufactured]

Do you want to?

[What she gets is kind of dependent on what the answer to that question is, really.]

[matchbreaker]

[ . . . What a question. She considers it a long moment and... ]

I want to be useful.

[manufactured]

Then I think he's correct, if this is how you choose to do that.

There's a marked difference with you, when it comes to the things you do through obligation and things you do through a desire to do them.