preliminary notes 000 [CW: drug withdrawl]

[ragsnbone]

voice;
[ He sounds slightly familiar to a couple people, but there's a shaky quality to it as if he is trying to cover up something and being extra perky in his attempt. ]

Sorry don't mean to make a mess of things. I dropped the tray again.

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[ He really isn't around much even during the mandatory times, he's the guy wrapped in a blanket looking like he is ready to either die or fall face first to the ground and then die. He's got a pale, sickly look under his tan, and his eyes are mostly glazed when they do not go just pure milky white. He looks 100000000000% ready to just toss himself on the nearest sharp object when he isn't muttering in Thai or some kind of weird hissing language, and getting him to sing just has him coughing. A lot.

When he does manage to move, he walks as if he isn't seeing anything around him, and there's moments when he just sways like he's on a ship at sea before giving a shake of his head and smiling. Often he can be found in the infirmary where he can at least get some pediatric drinks for when he can't eat anything else. But he is mostly a mess, shivering in corners and running into people, which he is sorry to do and will try his best to apologize. ]

Comments

[wildguardian]

"Especially considering the cat and I are both patients," Yunlan notes, giving Wu Xie a dry glance. "What do you think we're going to do, bring you up on charges? With who?"

[ragsnbone]

"This is not my ship." He shrugs. "Originally."

Look he may have been really out of it, but he remembers the other ship with the room that had the layout like his shop did, way back before he decided that Wang Meng could have it and run it better than him. Which meant the guy just redecorated and cleaned up the yard. Also did something with the ship chair which was so unfair. Wu Xie loved that ship chair.

"Frankly I don't think this Nurse thing really knows what is good for mental health. They sound more like a very forked up version of a villainous day care provider than an actual helper."

[qingofcats]

"Duh," Da Qing mutters. Because really, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.

[wildguardian]

"It's not?" Yunlan's eyebrows shoot up. "You mean you were one of the ones on the Barge? You don't happen to remember a creepy-ash white room and a voice out of nowhere talking to you about getting picked by a new ship, do you?"

[ragsnbone]

"I guess?" He shrugged yet again, rubbing his mouth and then laughed. "I really have no clear memory of the whole thing. Kinda that problem with sometimes thinking I'm a snake or living like thousands of years ago. I do remember telling the white room voices that they are just another trick of a dying mind. Not sure if they liked that."

[qingofcats]

"Maybe not a face stealer, definitely a nutjob," Da Qing pronounces with a huff, and an amazing impression of an eyeroll given his eyes aren't actually capable of that in this form.

[wildguardian]

"I assume all of this thinking you're a snake bit comes with the hallucinogenic venom, yeah?" Yunlan adds, dryly.

[ragsnbone]

He knew that flavor of an eye roll. Xiaoge often did that at him and Pangzi both, but that thought brought with it a rolling feeling of loss that he needed to stamp down on.

"Yeah. Someone on it sees the world like a snake - funky vision, weird scents and all. There's documents on it but since they are copies of heresy from local tribes no one felt they were accurate."

He rolls his eyes at that because he has found that it lays well to heed the locals and their tall tales. Like with the sand seas or the nine-headed hydra tree.

[qingofcats]

"That must be some serious venom if one run in with hallucinogenic snakes screws you up for that long." Does he sound skeptical? He definitely sounds skeptical.

[wildguardian]

"Let's not be mean, Da Qing," Yunlan says with a grin. "Come on, haven't you heard wilder stories come true every day back home?"

[ragsnbone]

"Well, to be honest, with these snakes, either you die very very fast or you get high." He spreads his hands out and smiles a soft 'aww shucks smile'. "My luck is that I got very high."

[qingofcats]

"Oh come on!" Da Qing's tail flicks hard enough it whacks up against the side of lao Zhao's head. "Look at him, he's trying that bullshirt again!

"Didn't anyone tell you we're not cops here?" he asks the guy. "And I don't think any of the Assistants or the nurse would care about whatever you were actually doing either, they just want you to plaster on a fake smile and playact at being saccharine-sweet."

[wildguardian]

"To be fair, I think you've got that trick down!" Yunlan says, nodding at Wu Xie. "At this rate you'll be an Attendant in no time, my man."

[ragsnbone]

"But... I'm not lying about the snakes. The venom's high properties only work on a few people and I'm one of them."

The problem with the bull that he deals with when it comes to the tombs was that no one would believe him about the bull actually being real. Like take the giant zombie carp that almost ate him in the caverns under the Bronze Tree. Or even the Tree itself and the one eye snake. Or the dead baby corpse that tried to eat him and his friends. Or anything really.

"Don't cops have a good chance of running into weird stuff at times? Besides the whole talking cat thing."

[qingofcats]

"It's not that it's crazy, it's that you're trying too hard," he points out, exasperated. A polite person would probably have let this go a while back. Da Qing is not, and never has been, a polite person... and he's kind of still holding a grudge for this guy having Shen laoshi's face.