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@senku
3719 / male / idk / 10♣ (10 of clubs)

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My Self-Summary

I'm Senku Ishigami.

My Future Plans

I want to find out as much as I can about the resort and how we got here. If there's a way back home, I was in the middle of some pretty important things when they brought me here.

Since it looks like we're stuck here for a while, I also want to explore Game 52. Hit me up if you want to help me experiment.

My Talents

I'm a scientist.

Favorite Books, Movies, Music, and Food

My favorite book is whatever is most useful to me right now. My favorite food is ramen. I don't have any particular favorites for the other two.

My Ideal Partner

I'd like a mutually beneficial relationship.

Height 171 cm/5'7" Body Type Nothing impressive Smokes No Drinks Not really, but I can distill alcohol. Drugs Not the kind you're thinking of. Sign Capricorn, AB blood type if you're into that one - I don't believe in any of it. Education Never graduated high school Occupation Scientist and Village Chief Income I made up my own money so I don't have a good answer for that. Children The ex-wife and I never had any. Pets None Hobbies Science

art credit: one. two. three. four. five.

01. WINE OR BEER

WINE

.02 CLOWNS OR MIMES

CLOWNS

.03 SHOWER OR BATH

SHOWER

.04 PIRATES OR NINJAS

Do I need a pirate or a ninja more at the time?

.05 TITS OR ASS

I'm sure yours are fine.

.06 COFFEE OR TEA

COFFEE

.07 SPICY OR SWEET

SPICY

.08 SUMMER OR WINTER

WINTER

.09 LEATHER OR LACE

LEATHER

10. ROUGH SEX OR GENTLE SEX

I'll let you know when I've had some.

Personality Type
ISTJ-A

ENERGY

58%

Introverted

MIND

70%

Observant

NATURE

52%

Thinking

TACTICS

78%

Judging

IDENTITY

97%

Assertive

personality test. art credit.

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[apothecrazy]

[ Subjects like this is one of the few times she's actually animated and doesn't sound or look like she's bored. ]

Do you remember that person called 'J'? Apparently, they were behind giving out gifts when we arrived and they gave me some mysterious white powders and needles. After some experimentation I found out the powders were mostly aphrodisiacs and that they could be created from some of the flowers found in the gardens.

And since then I've been trying to come up with a counteractive.

[ And thus she's played with them. ]

Hmm... [ He has good ideas on both accounts, but it's difficult to choose. ] Why not both? I'll order something expensive and you get a lot of little things? We can share from there.

[senku]

[It's been a fun detail to throw into conversations, but now he's jealous all he got was a book.]

I remember the message J sent everyone, but I didn't realize they gave out the gifts.

Home-grown aphrodisiacs, huh? If something is important enough, manufacturing your own is the best way to get exactly what you want.

[He wants to hear more about her tests, but puts off digging into that until they've sorted out what they're ordering.]

That works for me. [He looks more closely at the menu with that restriction in mind.] Do you think only the food could be drugged, or should we try one of their fancy cocktails, too?

[Alcohol was one of the purported anti-aphrodisiac substances he thought of, but he's not interested in drinking enough of it to have that effect.]

[apothecrazy]

It seems quite a few people received gifts, though many also received letters or nothing at all.

[ Or so they had claimed. ]

I would imagine the drinks could also be drugged. If they can put it anything, they will.

[ In her experience, aphrodisiacs were often mixed with alcohol. After all, alcohol lowers one's inhibitions, what better compliment to the drug than that? Though, too much could work as a counteractive if only because one might be too drunk to act upon their sexual desires. ]

[senku]

I'll add one of those to increase our chances.

[As soon as the server returns, Senku orders one of the restaurant's specialty cocktails along with four plates that sound like fancier versions of the small snacks that used to be served with alcohol in Japan. Well, "used to be" from his perspective, which leads back to their initial reason for going out.

When they're alone again, he gets right to it.]

What do you want to know first about what happened to my version of Earth?

[apothecrazy]

Let's both get a drink.

[ She likes alcohol and wants to try a few of the drinks.

She orders a drink for herself, something that isn't supposed to be sweet but claims to be spicy, how interesting! Along with that, she goes for one of the larger and more expensive dishes, something that looks like it has enough for the two of them to share. ]

I suppose start with how it began?

[senku]

It began with sparrows.

[Kind of anti-climactic as a starter.]

Sparrow statues were showing up all over. But the thing was, once you looked more closely at how frequently it was happening and how spread out they were, there wasn't even a millimeter's chance it was a prank or an art installation or anything else having to do with statues. They had to be real sparrows turned to stone somehow.

[apothecrazy]

Why sparrows?

[ She supposes they are small common birds, but why them and not insects or some other breed of bird? ]

[senku]

I'm sure it was a test of the technology on a species smaller than humans, but I don't know the answer to why sparrows specifically. I still haven't been face to face with whoever was behind it to ask.

[And he would really love to ask. He can understand why an invertebrate might be too far away from human physiology to be a good test, but why not a small mammal or even a more directly related primate?

While he continues his story, their drinks arrive, but he ignores his.]

When the test on sparrows was successful, they turned to us. I still remember the green light spreading to cover everything.

[apothecrazy]

That makes sense. [ However, the choice of a bird over any number of other animals is curious. Maybe it's because they're a rather common bird?

Maomao takes a sip of her drink if only to give it a taste. It certainly lives up to the claim though she does note some sweetness to it. Could it be the aphrodisiac or just a bit of sweetness to counter the spice? Only time will tell. ]

I see. So how were you released from your stone prison?

[senku]

The key was nitric acid. At some point statue me got washed into a cave full of guano. I know I said I have terrible luck, but getting washed into that cave was definitely a stroke of luck.

Heh, or maybe my bad luck is the reason it took 3700 years to get to that point.

But when I tried to revive someone else, I found it wasn't quite as simple as pouring nitric acid him to bring him back.

[He's an animated storyteller, pinching his nose closed and making a face when he mentions guano, mimicking pouring nitric acid on Taiju.]

That's when I realized. I kept myself conscious the whole time, counting the seconds. I burned so many calories thinking, it wore away the stone from the inside to keep my brain fueled. That gave the nitric acid a fighting chance to break through the rest.

[Now Senku finally takes a large drink from his cocktail. His mouth is getting dry from all that talking.

Fruity. Is the warmth sliding down his throat all alcohol or partly aphrodisiac? He's on alert now for any changes.]

[apothecrazy]

I think you were lucky not to lose a limb to hitting a rock or something of that manner. [ Though from the way he talks, the stone wasn't solid, but rather a cocoon that enveloped the victim. ]

You were conscious for nearly four thousand years? [ She's not sure which is more difficult to believe, that he was conscious for that long while turned to stone or that somehow the stone kept him nourished. Her brow furrows as she turns that information over in her head.

The nitric acid makes sense for releasing one from a stone cocoon. ]

If the acid wasn't enough to release others, what else did you do?

[senku]

You're not wrong. By the time I woke up there were more than a few people who needed to be put together like a jigsaw puzzle. [He points to the lines on his forehead.] Even those of us that were revived had scars from spots that were slightly eroded.

Heh, I know it sounds like a ridiculous claim, but I was. Every 800,000 seconds, my consciousness threatened to fade, but I fought it off. I was determined to stay alert because I was sure letting myself go to sleep was certain death.

[His mouth feels dry again. Is it from talking, so soon? Or something in the drink? If it's something in the drink, it's an ingenious setup because the only thing to do is take another sip.]

The solution was nital - nitric acid and ethanol. It needed a crazy precise mix, but it could revive anyone.

[apothecrazy]

[ Her drink is all but forgotten about while he tells his story. With this new information, she's even more confused. She thought this was just a cacoon of stone but now he makes it sound like they were solid stone. ]

I need some clarification here, everyone turned to stone, were they solid stone all the way through or something akin to a cocoon?

[senku]

When I woke up, it was like busting through a shell. Heh heh, if I was more for metaphors, I'd call it some kind of rebirth.

But looking at other people, they were stone, through and through. The depetrification process just seems to work from the inside out.

[He feels that urge to quench his thirst again, but holds back.]

You should try this one before I drink it all. It hasn't made me ragingly horny yet, but I can feel something going on.

[apothecrazy]

I see. So you were in something of a cocoon but others were solid stone. [ That makes more sense to her. ] However, if the depetrification works from the inside out, how is that the concoction worked?

[ When he offers the drink she takes it, sniffing it first before taking a sip. It's too sweet for her but there is something else there. Something that instantly leaves her mouth drier than before. She makes a soft 'huh' and passes the drink back before taking a drink of her own. It's far from quenching but it doesn't leave the same dryness behind. ]

Would you like a sip of mine?

[senku]

It seems to be a chain reaction on a molecular level. It must work its way down to the deepest layer of stone and then push the transformation outward until the final layer of stone cracks away to reveal the flesh.

Of course, even with what I've witnessed and figured out on my own, I still have so many questions about the process. When we find the person who made the petrification device, I'll finally get answers to all the whys and hows.

[It probably sounds like wishful thinking, adding the impossibility of not even being in that world anymore with the original difficulties of finding the creator of the device while also hoping they will be forthcoming with any details he might want.]

This is more your field. If there is something in my drink, is it better for me to stick with that one drug or take a chance on piling them up?

[apothecrazy]

I see. [ She has a hard time imagining how that would work, but it makes sense somehow. ]

In all likelihood, they use the game aphrodisiacs in everything they put them in. While there are a few different types with varying strengths, I don't see why they'd use something different in every drink.

Now the food, on the other hand, might have something different in it if they spike it.

[senku]

Then I'll try some of yours, too.

[In continuing to go all in on the "will we get drugged?" mystery game.]

Did drinking mine make you want to instantly drink more? I'm not feeling any other effects yet, but that has to be intentional.

And I saw you sniff it. Did anything smell off? The problem for me in figuring out if anything tastes or smells strange is not knowing what the base ingredients taste or smell like in the first place.

[apothecrazy]

[ She watches him drink, waiting for any kind of reaction from the spicy drink. Even if her drink isn't drugged, the spice mixed with alcohol alone should be enough to get one's blood pumping. ]

It did dry out my mouth a little, I can't say if that's due to the alcohol choice or some sort of other drug. [ Because alcohol is a drug, after all. ]

Not that I could detect, but I've found the aphrodisiacs I've been playing with can be difficult to detect. They seem to be odorless, or nearly so, and the sweet flavor is so subtle it can be easily covered up.

[senku]

[Her drink has a definite kick, and he makes a face after he swallows.]

It's clearing out my sinuses, I'll say that much. Give me a minute and I'll tell you if that vasodilation spreads anywhere else.

Heh, I guess it's reassuring that they know their stuff. No bargain basement aphrodisiacs from this establishment.

[The server walks up with Senku's appetizers on a platter right as he says that, but talk of aphrodisiacs doesn't even merit a reaction. It would take something like actual nudity to make him falter even a bit in efficiently placing the small plates in front of them.]

[apothecrazy]

[ Maomao lets out a soft sound of amusement. ]

It is good for that, I would like to know the recipe so I can make it for myself. [ She's made a similar drink in the past. She gave it to Jinshi to help roughen his voice for a disguise. Although, that drink had been much spicier.

She's not surprised by the lack of reaction from the server. She's certain they're used to such talk and likely more. ]

Those look good.

[senku]

[Senku spears something that looks like an elevated pig in a blanket.]

If the sausage one is the one that's full of sex drugs, I'm going to be disappointed in them for being so obvious.

Don't wait for me. Take what you want.

[He takes a bite of his (given the comparison he just made - ouch) and the waiting game continues.]

[apothecrazy]

[ Maomao hums at that. It wouldn't surprise her if they went that route. ]

Thank you. [ She takes one of the sausage rolls as well and bites into it without a second thought. She thoughtfully hums as she chews. The dough is rather bland but the saltiness of the sausage certainly makes up for it. ] Not bad. [ She decides. ]

[senku]

Agreed. At least if they don't drug us, we're getting a decent meal out of it.

[One of his other choices was a plate of potato croquettes, and they've arrived as perfect spheres. As he pops one in his mouth, he thinks it's another shape that's a little too obvious.]

So I think I covered the most important parts of turning to stone and depetrifying. Do you want to hear about the actual device that caused it?

[apothecrazy]

Nothing from your drink just yet? [ She knows it can take up to thirty minutes for the aphrodisiacs to take effect for some people. In her experience, even a sip should be enough to feel a little something once it hits.

Speaking of, she takes a drink before taking up one of the croquettes. Yet more food she's only come to know since arriving here as potato isn't a common ingredient back home. ]

They certainly made some choices with the food shapes. [ It's almost laughable. ]