DEPLOYMENT 13: ☢ CAUTION!! ☢ ... wait, what?

[walking_nuke]

[To say "things got hot" yesterday would be an understatement ... but Balin recovered something very interesting after the dust settled.]

[PHONE (Afternoon, OPEN TO ALL)]

Yo, Mayfield. We got anybody who does biology? Xenobiology maybe?

[ACTION (Outside 847 Goldberg Street, Afternoon/Evening, OPEN TO ALL)]

[If you're anywhere nearby Goldberg Street, you might spy (or perhaps sense) an interesting sight.]

[Balin Wilbur is outside 847 Goldberg, in his usual PT gear ... and he's wearing Utsuho's control rod. It's what he brought home yesterday after his own confrontation with the rampaging hell raven. From the looks of it, he's trying to figure out how the control rod works, from the way he paces about, frowning thoughtfully—or concentrating and pointing it up at the sky every now and then.]

[It hasn't occurred to him that bringing Utsuho's severed arm and control rod home might be kind of weird—after all, AFS soldiers scavenge body parts and equipment from their enemies all the time. This is just Tuesday for him, both literally and in the words of M. Bison.]

[No, Balin has not started craving boiled eggs.]

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Phone

[theverymodel]

An expert. Geneticist, primarily. Also dabbled.

[walking_nuke]

[SCORE.]

Awesome. Didja get anything back from'a town yet, for analyzin' organic samples or whatnot? I got a sample I "picked up" yesterday ... Definitely ain't human, even if it looks like it oughta be.

[theverymodel]

Here since yesterday. Attempting to improvise with local resources.

[walking_nuke]

[Aaaand there's the catch ... Balin feels your pain, bro. He really does.]

Damn. Well, uh—how well's that workin' out?

[theverymodel]

Technology primitive. Physiology greater obstacle. Larger sleep requirement problematic.

[walking_nuke]

Yeah. Even worse'at'is place is modeled on a small town. No major industry, no research facilities ... Gotta do everything MacGuyver's way.

[Strange speech patterns ... And mentions of requiring more sleep now? To Balin this means either the guy was not a baseline human before coming to Mayfield, or not human at all. Either of which piques his curiosity.]

[theverymodel]

Hospital ill equipped. Single species. Part of illusion.

[walking_nuke]

Where I'm from Earth didn't have any contact with, uh, other sentient races back in'a Fifties. Gotta love "historical accuracy."

[The sarcasm is dripping thick off that last remark. And yet that "single species" response makes Balin's hunch about the guy's non-humanness stronger.]

... but, I take it you ain't human back where you're from.

[So he'll get this question out of the way now:]

You ain't affiliated with'a Bane, right? Or any races called'a Thrax ... or Neph?

[theverymodel]

Salarian. Unfamiliar with Bane, Thrax or Neph. Apparently divergent histories.

[walking_nuke]

Salarian ... yeah, ain't heard'a that race. I'll put it'is way, it's a damn good thing you don't got'a Bane where you're from.

[theverymodel]

Tendency toward hostility? Trouble enough as it is.

[walking_nuke]

Worse—tendency toward genocide.