snowblindrpg | [network] @ADMIN; Arrival

Method is irrelevant in this circumstance.

[But this is a chance to test a theory.]

Are you suffering any NIMA related problems?

nope
not sick
not manic
not in pain
not obsessed

those're the ones we know about for sure, anyway

it's interesting given i've probably been pumped full of more mn than most people

[Excellent, that's what he's hoped to hear.]

Have any studies been conducted into the correlation between extended lack of symptoms and likelihood of revival?

no
i was trying to track mn poisoning levels and various factors for a while
admin cut off the info months ago and hasn't responded to requests for poisoning levels since

[He'll even provide you with his spreadsheet, Sherlock. Isn't he nice?]

based on the cases i know
i haven't seen a correlation
it's difficult to track when people don't actually report their symptoms, too

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[He will just bookmark that spreadsheet now, and tut to himself about uncooperative experimental subjects.]

You should find the worst sufferer of each symptom and take a blood sample to test.

i'd need to coordinate getting all of them to the hospital
we don't have supplies to preserve samples here
there's a compound microscope i enhanced in the hospital, first floor

[Sherlock will be sent a rather precise layout drawing of the first floor of the hospital. There is a cabinet marked with 'microscope' in the administration office.]

you're closer
the best i've got right now is a magnifying glass
@zd's at a high pain level
never killed
he's probably close enough to make the trip to the hospital easily for you to examine

[He will make John find the other people and get them to the hospital, the logistics of actually convincing people to join him sound exhausting.]

I am going to see the anomaly first, I will conduct NIMA related experiments when I reach the hospital.

[At least someone understands his love for a good puzzle.]

When you die again, come to me as soon as it's convenient for examination.

[Finally someone who will go conduct the experiments he wants to but doesn't have the time for.]

keep me updated
i'm working on a theory in the eastern tunnels

i can trade you over the eye app from my contact if you want to work with it
or just ask @donner directly
provided you can share
you can use it

[He's just not going to touch the issue of his next death. House has been contemplating it and the fact that he'd really like to not be weak from self-inflicted hunger. They still haven't checked what might happen to someone staying in the food restock points overnight...

That's a dark thought that will have to wait, though. He has another project for the moment.]

[He's not fooled. He knows this man has an obsession with his own death, and is likely to pursue it again. Possibly at his own hand, more likely antagonising a person to do it for him, a way to lie to himself and say he didn't want to die.

He doesn't care.

He'll take the data if he does dies, when he dies, until then he's not going to spend his time trying to act the Samaritan.]

Send me the app.

[And then he switches to private, not seeing the need to be anything other than candid here.]

I will send you my notes, observations, and photographs in return for a prescription of morphine. I cannot think clearly with this bullet wound.

how many of the others have you gotten to write you a prescription so far?
i wanna know how impressed i should be

and we'll send you the app when you get to the fire station
it's anomaly city in the museum
if those idiots do the sensible thing like split the group for exploration
that'll be one thing
if they all stick together like morons
they're gonna need the app more than you or me in the immediate term

[No, he needs the app. Forget the others, he has examinations to do.]

You will make four.

[Really no reason to lie to this man. Not about this, anyway.]

How many copies can be sent out?

[Well, he's impressed.]

watson, wilson, me
who's the fourth?
the cutthroat bitch?

we only have two copies of the program
mine
the other one belongs to freamon
how're you with precocious little girls?

Children don't like me.

[Mostly because he treats them like he treats everyone else.]

Unusual child, to like you enough to give you a duplication of her app.

[It makes sense House's is the duplication, the other way around of House giving an app to a child makes no sense with what he's deduced about the man so far.]

she doesn't like me
i just know how to get around her
tell her you think she's clever and special if you want in her good books
thinks she's got something to prove

[Everybody has something to prove. It just varies from person to person what that is. He's really not interested in discussing this child, though.]

Send me your copy when I get to the fire station. Morphine first.

i'm prescribing you vicodin
recurring prescription
enjoy some variety in your life

[So that's what House is addicted to. Noted.]

Prescribing it for yourself was ineffective then.

evie and i had a disagreement about my prescription
you get a bottle of something that'll substitute for what you like
i get another prescription showing up in the pharmacy when i need it
win-win
got a problem, holmes?

Two prescriptions fill at once for the same person. That seems a flawed supply strategy.

[Surely that means they run out of pills twice as fast? Though it does make him want to get to the pharmacy.]

Very well, Vicodin will do.

watson got a run-down of relative stocks of supplies and ran the info around to the rest of us
high-grade pain killers are fine
and we've got less than half a year to figure out a way out of here
or the "beast" gets us all
i'm guessing that's the point when mn poisoning is high enough in the majority to cause death
or we devolve into mindless anomalies for whatever reason
i'm assuming your read through the backlogs where we got some of the deleted runs for the network

[And he'll put in the script for Vicodin!]

fyi
i dunno what your tolerance level is
but the dosage i'm giving you is 80 mg/day
you might wanna halve the pills
if you wanna stay functional

[It's 20 mg above the recommended maximum dose, in fact, if Sherlock would realize anything like that.]

[He didn't know, because Vicodin is not available in Britain, but he's not about to admit that. He will note it down, however, and experiment with different dosages until he finds one that works for him.

If he needs it.]

How long has it been since you halved one?

how many years on from watson are you?
two?
three?
definitely after the fall

[Any sense of enjoyment fades abruptly. He knows this is a defensive reaction from someone who has been called out, that House is therefore touchy about his addiction even if it is common knowledge. It doesn't make the implied threat any less dangerous.]

I wouldn't know what comes after the fall. Nothing for me, at least.

[Got to stick to the lie.]

well, you're full of crap

1. watson didn't know about the bullet wound
he might buy whatever bullshit story you're feeding him
but you don't get shot in the lower chest and not show signs of it
and he sounds like he saw you well enough to notice the signs

2. you knew what i was threatening earlier
let's not pretend you didn't
or you'd have asked some sort of clarification
or impressed me with your deductions and how much of an idiot i am
we both know deflection, kid

3. show me the wound
bandage off
if you won't
i'll have to assume it's the same reason you won't take it off for your boyfriend
they don't stitch up dead guys
and you wouldn't have had time between moriarty "shooting" you and your little stunt
which it sounds like you're trying to claim

[House is a bad person to have public conversations around, Sherlock. He's not nice like Watson.]

[Even though he knows he should be worried about what Greg might tell John, he finds that the overriding feeling right now is exhilaration. It's not often that he gets to meet another person who operates on a similar wavelength to himself and he's drawn towards the potential this might have.

Also, he can tell that Greg isn't the sort to go and tattle to John for no reason. He will want to hold onto this for blackmail, for taunting, or just to bring out when he's bored. He will keep lying on the off chance this conversation is shown to John, it gives him plausible deniability.]

1. John never observes. He sees with his heart and always misses the important details. It's not surprising that he missed that.

2. Even I miss things sometimes.

3. I stitched it up myself yesterday with threads taken from my scarf. It's why I did not choose to introduce myself until this morning.

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