A little pride upon the shelf

[agradecido]

Who: Abelas (getoutofmytemple), Rhys (rhygret), Jyn Erso (insurgent), Venom (poolhall_killer), Zevran (agradecido), possibly Angel (r3f4c70r3d) & assorted visitors, neighbors & hangers on!
What: Neighbor funtimes!!!
When: Mid-September through October
Where: The apartment residence where they all live
Warning(s):
- mentions of terrorism and the fallout thereof
- definitely language
- possibly nudity, I mean Zev lives there y'all know how he is



[ Setting so far: Finding the starter housing too small and too open to the general populace, Zevran moved out of house #4 and into an apartment with his co-worker at Shades Darker, Venom. Somehow, Rhys, Abelas and Jyn opted to move in right next door. Shenanigans ensue! ]

Comments

[rhygret]

[ It makes feel both really smart and knowledgeable...a really surprised? Behind the assholeish smugness and all that. It's really hard fro him to fathom what it must be like for this sort of thing not to be basic everyday knowledge.

He won't lord it over Abelas's head or anything like that, but he'll definitely sound just a little bit incredulous that he somehow isn't aware of all this. ]

It's...yikes, okay. Let's just start with the fact that the stuff that makes you sick are these really tiny organisms that attack your body. Those are viruses and bacteria. When your body fights them off it makes stuff called antibodies which basically make it so that you can never catch that kind of illness again.

Humans have a lot of those, because we get sick a lot. We're sort of used to it? But we also have a ton of different medicines to treat that sort of thing too, and vaccines. Those are basically synthetic antibodies made in a lab so that you don't have to get sick to never catch it again.

[getoutofmytemple]

[The tone did not bother him, Abelas was not one to dish out something he could not handle himself. To him, information was information regardless of delivery. Still, he found himself only loosely grasping the concept Rhys was describing. It did invite quite a number of interesting questions at least.]

Curious. Such would imply that the Elvhen had a superior defense against such ailments if we had not seen such things in recorded memory, however our vulnerability to them would prove otherwise.

[Of course there was no longer any real way to gauge such things, the empire and its people had long passed. Even if it had not, it was hardly his place to start making inquiries about medical matters.]

It matters little now.

[rhygret]

Well it could also be that you just didn't have any diseases or anything near you. Or they brought ones that you guys weren't used to. But...yeah.

[ Rhys shrugs in surrender. ]

It probably doesn't matter so much...now. Sorry?