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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 12:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he is very clearly struggling to speak, breaths coming in short bursts. he even tries to struggle against thorns shoving him into the backseat because now this just looks like a kidnapping? help.

and thorns is sick, too…
]

Wait. I think we just need to——wait.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 12:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[ plap plap. elysium puts on thorns' sunscreen more aggressively than he has the toner and moisturiser.

coincidence
]

You wanted to go to the markets, right?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 12:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thorns is not collapsing!!! also this definitely looks like a kidnapping and someone who is just walking their dog stops to stare at this.

he does pause long enough to look back at elysium. ]


What?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ this is so hostile

he nods... ]


Yeah... see what we can pick up that we can afford at the moment.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 12:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[ they wonder if they need to call the cops… their dog starts barking… ]

I think he mentioned this as one of the side effects… it'll pass. Don't look so worried.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 12:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[ not only does elysium have to content with the harsh reality that's his ass, but the reality that they have to pinch pennies…

his baby looks stressed…
]

We look into work while we're at it. Maybe get started early?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 01:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[ there is a long pause.

he stops trying to get to the front so he can look at elysium properly. ]


Side effects of what?
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 01:24 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah...

[ their honeymoon is so short (still not married). ]

It may be easiest to do jobs for everyone at first before settling into any one thing. We need to make connections.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 01:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[ that's a good question




he passes out before he can answer. but at least his pulse and everything else has gone back to normal…? wow. nothing to worry about!!!
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 01:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[ AAAAAA

he shuts the door and hops into the back seat!!!! the bystander has indeed called the cops and gave them the plate number so that's going to be fun. thorns meanwhile just zooms to the nearest hospital. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 01:40 pm (UTC)(link)
You won't hear me disagreeing. Although…

[ hmmmm. he will do his best not to waddle. for the first however long, he's questionably normal. ]

We should see what their logistics system's like. That'd get us into neighbouring settlements and easy ins with the population. Well, it'd get me easy ins with the population. You learn a lot through regular chatter.
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 01:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[ do ers have normal wait times where you're at or are they also hell

because if you're breathing and have a pulse you are almost literally bottom rung in priority. goodbye. thorns will have to deal with cops and the er and scien this truly is just the worst timeline for him.
]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. We need to also look up the closest cities. So we know where we can travel to, but also to see what things are like there...

[ if the closest city is.... problematic, there is always the chance those problems might make their way here. he thinks about the farm they visited before and how it was outsiders that made things more chaotic than they already were. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh. That's easy.

[ elysium rattles off just that along with their approximate travel times before punctuating them with a wink. ]

The main concern's running into people we know… yeah? They're big hubs. That's why I mentioned neighbouring settlements… other villages and towns we can poke around, since no one's going to go out of their way unless they're sent for a mission.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[ honestly it depends. you sometimes have a short wait and sometimes you are there forever it's like gacha

but thorns will, in fact, get pulled over so he will now have to waste a large amount of time trying to explain that he is not kidnapping the guy who is unconscious and he's taking him to the hospital. apparently the person said they watched as thorns slammed elysium against the car before throwing him inside......

tears up ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
[ elysium gets a kiss on the cheek for being so smart.

how is his waddling? does he still look okay or does it outwardly look like he is struggling. ]


Maybe we can ask to help in the kitchen...
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[ oh… here it's a minimum two hour wait unless you are actively dying. you either low roll or lower roll tears up

it does not help the car is registered to the guy in the back but it's okay… thorns is freed eventually… at some point elysium's unconscious self rolls over and ends up on the floor. this is fine.
]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[ just for that someone's going to show up for a mission and elysium will curse them

but until then, he can relish under thorns' praise. and his waddling is going well partly because every step is purposeful—though, that's assuming thorns allows elysium to dictate the pace. they're going at half their usual speed, a little more than that if they're purposefully being leisurely.

it would be incredibly easy to bully him.
]

You didn't want to try the farm first? I thought you would've preferred something outdoors.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[ fucking shaking

they eventually make it to the hospital and thorns parks. he goes to grab elysium and is just

why is he down there. hello. time to pick him up. ]


What the hell.
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 02:41 pm (UTC)(link)
[ he would prefer the farm first... he didn't want it to be that obvious...

elysium gets another kiss! wow! ]


The farm works. They might have chickens.

[ okay. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 09:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[ thorns very bad no good terrible day continues…



a corpse can't speak so elysium is just a lump. the way dahut has tried to reach thorns or elysium about matters but because he is blocked, he can't get through… okay!

the hospital will just determine he's? sleeping? deep sleeping? they are fascinated they can't tell what's wrong. he's about to be the hospital's research subject… thorns is leaking scien's work…
]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[ woah. two kisses. thorns is being so cute…

he returns every one.
]

What kind of farm doesn't have chickens? [ a snort. ] Don't replace me. We won't be able to take any back with us. Not yet, anyway.

[ the belated realisation he's setting them up for manual labour while he's sore as hell will hit any time now ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
[ well, scien never made thorns sign a nda so he does not give a fuck.

thorns will just mention that elysium drank unknown chemicals and that maybe they should pump his stomach to be safe. ]
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[personal profile] oversea 2025-10-02 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
That's fine, they wouldn't be the right one anyway...

[ it's muttered, but thorns wants his very specific child. he wants his baby. he is willing to take more, but he wants that one. ]
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[personal profile] transmit 2025-10-02 10:26 pm (UTC)(link)
[ HELLO

one of the nurses doesn't bother hiding their disdain. what do you mean questionable chemicals. did he eat a tide pod. there are people dying, thorns.

for their crimes (really just elysium's crimes) they are put on standby until they can do this. yippee
]