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[quintet]

This is the right place to look for a helping hand, right?

So, first, I've been staking out the hunting grounds for a place to sleep, lately. It's the one with all the stinging insects; not that you aren't all charming, but at least I know what I'm eating over here. But aside from all that, I've got a decent pile-up of their leftover webbing. It's interesting stuff, but I don't have a direct use for it.

So if anyone wants it, I'm happy to give a trade. Make me an offer.


In related news, I've been working on a new style. I don't really go in for insects, but the webbing is interesting. I need something that moves to test it on properly, though, so if you think you're tough enough to take it, I'm looking for someone to help work out the kinks.

Don't worry, it's just a basic thesis right now. I'm hoping it might go all the way to telenoisis if I keep developing it, though. There's something in this, I know it.

I'm Quintet, by the way. Serious inquiries only.

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[quintet]

...What does being a Guinea Pig have to do with anything?

Is this just another one of those casually racist things you people say all the time? It's getting pretty old.

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[crystalmaster]

Nah, it's because on my planet, scientists use guinea pigs in some research. So anybody asked to help with research, especially in ... unusual ways, is sometimes colloquially called a guinea pig.

[quintet]

[Quintet stares at him through the screen for several long seconds. What. What the hell? That's so fucked up?]

You understand how that's worse, right? That you aren't helping your case at all?

[crystalmaster]

It all depends on what you want the people for. Are you gonna fling the webbing at them and get them caught up in it? Because otherwise, I'm not sure why they'd need to be in motion.

[quintet]

The webbing is a material I'm offering for trade, it's not really a flinging kind of a thing. Why would you even think that?

[Like, it's a weird idea, but. That's not. How would that even work?]

Look, if you don't want to help, then don't. I've already got volunteers, you can go.

[crystalmaster]

Because you also said you wanted something that moves to test it on, right after talking about the webbing. It sounded like you were gonna use the webbing on the test subjects. I'm just trying to understand what you want for sure. I don't agree to anything without knowing better what I'd be in for.

[That, and he doesn't want to accidentally blunder into the test site.]

[quintet]

But I said what I was going to test out my new style and I need an actual person to do it with. If I knew exactly what it was going to be like, I wouldn't need to test it.

[Oh my god. This guy is. So frustrating.]

Listen, I don't need help anymore. I'm good. I hereby rescind the request. Go back to bed, guy.

[crystalmaster]

[Radley finds her equally frustrating, especially when he was trying to make a connection. He still has no idea what the webbing has to do with the test, and by now he doesn't care much, as long as he doesn't potentially walk into it by accident.]

Okay then. Good luck with ... whatever it is you're gonna do.