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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

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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

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Comments

[apothecrazy]

We could try one of those places but I must admit there's something fun about potentially drugged food.

I've never been on a date either.

[senku]

You're probably better off not thinking of this as a date. I doubt I'll remember to hold the door for you or anything gentlemanly.

I'm ten billion percent sure I'd get the drugged food. But I'm not against taking a chance on it.

[For science.]

[apothecrazy]

Is that something men are supposed to do?

[ Dating isn't a thing in her time. Marriages are usually arranged by fathers or, if one is lucky, a man takes an interest and outright proposes. ]

I would be disappointed if it's only in your food.

[ Yes, she is strange enough to want to be drugged or poisoned. ]

In any case, shall we give the Gilded Cage a try?

[senku]

I saw it in a movie once. I don't know how common it is with regular people. It was the first polite date thing I could think of.

The Gilded Cage works. If you're that set on getting drugged, I promise to share if I start feeling funny and you don't.

[apothecrazy]

I see.

Excellent. I'll meet you there around seven.

[ That gives them a few hours to do whatever before meeting up. Maomao, is going to try to mix up new aphro antidote to try out. ]

[senku]

[Senku prepares by...doing absolutely nothing out of the ordinary. Finishes looking through a book he had opened shortly before receiving Maomao's message. Makes a few notes for future reference. Brainstorms a list of chemicals that could potentially counter an aphrodisiac. Everyday stuff.

Actually, for something a little more unusual, add: remembers their conversations have all been text or audio (on her part) and looks up her Mating Season profile so he knows who to look for. And that takes him to a few minutes before 7:00, when he'll be waiting at the entrance to The Gilded Cage.]

[apothecrazy]

[ She's there at roughly the same time, maybe slightly later as she can be easily distracted.

She hasn't bothered to dress any differently than normal. Her clothing is plain, somewhat baggy with a long skirt that nearly reaches the floor, and overall very comfortable but probably not easily accessible for certain situations.

She gives a little bow as a greeting before shooting him a little grin. ]

Are you ready to try the food?

[senku]

[He's not much for ceremony, but he gives her a small nod in return, and then can't help but laugh at her question.]

You really are hoping for some aphrodisiac, aren't you? I can't lie, I'm curious, too.

[Although he's questioned whether an outside force influenced some of his choices, Senku is certain he's never been outright drugged. The thought of seeing how much he could resist is tempting. Sometimes a scientist has to become his own test subject.

But first, they need a table to be their lab. He walks in and waits for a member of the staff to notice them.]

[apothecrazy]

I just want to see if I can detect it or not. The stuff I've played with has been relatively odorless and tasteless.

[ Given their somewhat lower rank it takes a moment before they're noticed and guided to a seat. They're given menus and left while the server goes to do whatever while they try to decide what they want to order. ]

Ah... A shame trying a little of everything isn't an option. [ She doesn't have near enough chips for that. ]

[senku]

The stuff you've played with.

[It isn't a question, but the question behind it is heavily implied.

Looking over the menu, he sees he doesn't have a food budget truly made for a restaurant with diamond chandeliers and gilded cages either.]

What's our plan of attack? As many cheap things as we can afford to increase our chances? Go all out on two of their most decadent dishes because it's more likely the food is for a romantic night out and they'll want to help things along?

[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?