For anemoi and general voice-testing.

[myimmunesystem]

[1]
[Hi roomie. You now have a... well... it's hard to say exactly. All you can see is an elaborate blue-and-black suit, wrapped around a body that's more than sufficiently female, with a mask that you can just manage to identify two eyes through. Well, whatever she is, she's now your roommate.]

Don't worry. I don't take up much space.

[2]
[Video. Even with the distortion of the mask, Tali's voice seems a little more... stuffy than normal.]

*sniff* Excuse be if I sound a little fuddy. I got slobby with some suit baint'nance and I caught sobething that's been going around... *sniff* adyway, I've been here for a while, I seem to possess some tegnigal skill and I wand to contribute. I'b looking for a job. Does adyone know where I bight start looging in by-ahh, ahh... ahCHUU!

[She doubles over from the sneeze. There's no way to see what's going on in that mask, but her defeated slump says that it ain't pretty.]

Ugh, keelah... I hade it when dis habbens.

[3]
[On a mission! The ruins/crashed ship/underground cavern has rolled out the welcome wagon in the form of some chittering insectoid baddies that look pretty damn hungry. You've been backed into a corner, and between shotgun blasts she turns to you.]

We've only got so much ammo! Do you have any ideas?!

Comments

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[very_model_of]

May be able to synthesize Quarian antihistamine.

[myimmunesystem]

Really? [A small sigh of gratitude.] I can use all the helb I can ged. Thang you, Bordin.

[very_model_of]

Proper protein synthesis will be difficult. No way to be sure of purity. Only viable solution 25% chance of ending up as powerful hallucinogen.

[myimmunesystem]

Is dere a way to test it to be sure? Besides just habing me take it, dat is. I'm dot really into dat kind of experimendation...

[very_model_of]

Sirocco lack's necessary technological sophistication for necessary testing facilities.

[myimmunesystem]

So the only way we can fide out is for be to taeg it... *sniff* All right. It's only a one-in-four chance adyway. If by obni-tool starts singing to be, I'll probably know sobthing's up.

[very_model_of]

No long term side effects either way. Could be fun.

[myimmunesystem]

[She brings a glove to her respirator in thought.]

...Well... I guess it could. [A little smile in the voice.] I only hope I don't do anything too stupid if it turns out to be hallucinogenic.

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[gogoghostpowers]

Did you...did you just sneeze inside your helmet?

[myimmunesystem]

It... *sniff* habbens occasionally. The mask has indernal gleaners, but they can odly operate so quickly.

[The tone is long-suffering. This is obviously a recurring problem for her.]

[gogoghostpowers]

Eugh. Why don't you just take the helmet off and use tissues? It's faster and it'll keep you from sneezing a little while longer.

[myimmunesystem]

Ugh, believe me I wish I gould, but dat is sort of what caused the problem in the first place. I get sig if I open my suit, or taeg off my mask. It's tegnigally more an allergic reaction than a sickness, but *sniff* the result is the same for me.

[gogoghostpowers]

Oooh, ouch. Never mind, then. Uh...good luck with the helmet wiping?

...What are you allergic to, exactly, anyway?

[myimmunesystem]

Thanks. I'm going do need it. [She sounds amused.]

Apparently by body is built from a different set of prodeins than yours. I don't rebeber the details but that is what I heard in the lab. Some species gan handle it, mine... is not so luggy, I guess.

[gogoghostpowers]

Some species? Uhhh...if you don't mind me asking...what species are you?

[myimmunesystem]

Guarian.

[wait.]

*sniff*

I mean, Quarian. You didn't thing I was human, did you?

[gogoghostpowers]

...Nnnnoooo, of course not! Why would I think a thing like that?

...So. Quarian. I've, uh...never met a Quarian before.

[myimmunesystem]

I suppose you gould gall us rare, ebben in by world. I rebember being stared at a lot after I left home... [She fidgets with her cowl self-consciously.]

[gogoghostpowers]

Oh, uh, really? I couldn't even tell! Although the, uh, helmet isn't something I see every day.

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[lowkeyinaminor]

...oh, it's quite alright. I seem to recall something about a magical talking dog so you're hardly the strangest roommate I've most likely had at some point or another.

[myimmunesystem]

A talking dog? [She says through a distorted chuckle, and she looks over her shoulder where she'd been examining the bed fabric.] Now you have me curious about what it would say...

[lowkeyinaminor]

From what I remember, "Murder murder death murder." Of course, our memory isn't exactly the most reliable here.

[myimmunesystem]

...

[Yeah, that mask does nothing to hide the look of general WTF on her face at that.]

Err, maybe I'll ask again later. Much later.

[lowkeyinaminor]

It's likely for the best. I don't remember much beyond that, I'm afraid.

Do you remember anything of import? Mine's been a cascade of milkshakes, that dog, and...goats so far.

[myimmunesystem]

Sounds like you've lived an interesting life. [She flaps the bedsheet and lets it drift down.] Not much at all, I'm afraid. I've only been here long enough to be told of what was going on, be endlessly analyzed and scanned, and to have one of the scientists try to get me out of my suit.

...

For species survey reasons, of course.

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[shineslightintodarkness]

[Rudolph reloads a crossbow, quickly scanning their surroundings]

Most creatures have a natural aversion to fire... if we can ignite something quickly, that might buy us time...

[myimmunesystem]

[She casts around for something herself, spies the drums with the red flame symbol on them and points.]

Can you fire that crossbow and make one of those leak out? I'd fire at it myself but [She blasts the shotgun at an encroaching bug-thing.] it wouldn't ignite. It'd just explode.

[shineslightintodarkness]

[He nods]

Get ready to move, Miss Tali.

[Rudolph takes aim, and fires - and the drums burst into a brilliant conflagration, nearly blinding him]

[myimmunesystem]

Ready!

[As predicted, the insects screech and skitter off, and Tali shields her eyes from the flash and notices the human disoriented.]

--This way, Doctor!

[Not wasting any time, she takes his free wrist and starts up the path they'd just cleared, up the tunnel.]

This was a bad idea! I hope that you got the information you needed...

[shineslightintodarkness]

[He moves quite fast for an older human, quickly blinking away the spots]

Yes, and what's more we know know those things are out there so they can't ambush anyone else!