[41] - [Video] [A wee bit forward-dated, after Merlin's post.]

[sharpememory]

This wouldn't be happening if you all wore gloves. [And Barron holds up his leather-gloved hands. Annoyingly, he actually looks to be in good health.]

I mean, come on, people. This is why personal hygiene and not being naked are a thing, you know?

[Where Barron comes from, gloves are just as critical as pants. Why are none of you wearing pants. :I]

[Private - Cassel]

Stay in your cabin, seriously. This shit always gets nasty fast. [Barron kind of thinks that you can't handle this. Sorry, Cassel.] And don't turn into anything with tentacles, people may think that you're a crazy doctor guy.

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[buywithme]

Is it being spread by touch? Is that something that's happening with this?

[Usually he'd tell you about cultural differences or something, but... right now CLEANLINESS seems important so maybe not.]

[sharpememory]

Isn't that how all diseases spread? [Thanks, memory loss.] That's something that just about everyone knows.

[routemistress]

[Iris, who's infected, is too tetchy to deal with this idiocy right now, and expresses her feelings with a graphic and obscene ungloved hand gesture at the communicator.]

This wouldn't be'appening if we weren't lettin' a flipping germ warfare specialist run loose round the bloody boat. Who let 'im into the bloody infirmary, any road?

[sharpememory]

Really? Really? There are kids around here, do you really have to be doing that? [Barron... isn't as grossed out as he purports to be, because hey, he can dig some lady hand.]

A what now? Did one of the doctors do this?

[buywithme]

Through bare handedness? I don't... I don't think so?

[sharpememory]

No, through all that touching. People touch their bare hands together and then touch their faces?

[routemistress]

Oh please, if they're old enough to get stuck 'ere they're old enough to know what their body parts are for. 'Orrible little retrograde spawn, the lot of 'em.

[She sees you looking and makes another gesture, because Iris is a huge troll.]

No, you thinking-impaired mollusc, I'm talkin' about that filthy old corpse Davros. Someone turns 'is entire race into a filthy set of tentacled war machines an' we're okay with 'aving 'im treat decent people? Really? You people are all morons.

[sharpememory]

[Barron would still be hung up on the hand, but the stuff about Davros is way more concerning for now.]

I can't really say that I've ever wanted to be a tentacled war machine, so I should probably keep an eye out for this asshole. What does he look like?

[buywithme]

But... I don't think there's anything inherently unclean about hands? Why are they any dirtier than gloves?

[routemistress]

Like a zombie in flagrante delicto with an espresso machine, you can't miss 'im. Wheeling 'imself round the bloody infirmary like 'e 'asn't devastated a thousand planets, the disgusting old bastard; I can't credit no one's dropped 'im down a liftshaft already. It's a deliberate insult to us, is what, making us breathe the same air as 'im. Someone should do something.

[sharpememory]

[Barron shakes his head.] Would you rather touch plants with your bare hand or with a glove on?

[sharpememory]

I'm not really into murder right now. [Which is actually true.] I dunno which old guy you're talking about even with all of that, but I liked the bit about the espresso.

[buywithme]

With a glove on.

But then I would take that glove off before I touched my face.

[routemistress]

[She gave Wade his katanas, but she has the sais herself; those lovely clean spikes that he makes look so good in the CTS. She's not nearly so expert with them, but Davros is a sitting target in every sense of the word. Why hasn't anyone dealt with him yet, anyway, that nasty old warmonger long past his sell by date? He's probably shedding infection from every pore, breathing it out in a poison cloud of hate.]

...It's not murder when it's defending the 'elpless, is it?

[Saving people, solving problems; it's what Iris does. She should have done it long ago. The decision's made, and she gives Barron a suddenly euphoric smile of resolution, then blows him a kiss from her fingertips.]

You'll be all right, sweetheart. It'll be over soon. Don't worry.

[fearthepackingchips]

But where's the fun if you can't be naked every now and then?

[Says the guy wearing a full-body condom.]

[private] omg shut up barron B|

[patheticvillain]

Wow, thanks. The thought never would've occurred. I'll be really careful to control my completely uncontrollable blowback. Don't forget anything useful.

[mistconduct]

Dude. What the fuck are you even talking about? Are people not washing their hands after pissing? Gross.

[timesbureaucrat]

[Narvin looks into the camera, very serious and solemn. Then holds up a bare hand, his expression unchanging.

Then slowly licks said bare hand from palm to fingertip.

He's affected by Iris' infection. Psychic entrelacement. And not caring about propriety and appearances as much as usual lends opportunity for all kinds of trolling.]

[private] your brother is full of 'useful' advice, Cassel c:

[sharpememory]

If you don't transform anything, you won't have the blowback. So you can control it. [Because apparently life isn't that simple.]

And for the record, that doesn't happen to me anymore. The whole magic space boat thing has some pretty good cures floating around. [Such as the cure of no power, so no blowback.]

...lolling so hard irl, Red Mist what are you even.

[sharpememory]

That... might be part of it? [Barron is so not sure where to start with this.] But as a general thing, people should be wearing gloves all the time.

Oh god Narvin ;-; Perfect c:

[sharpememory]

Oh, dude. Come on, really? [Barron is more than a little bit grossed out.] This is like, a serious thing.

Threadjack!

[surfaceshine]

[Someone's hunter sense is tingling.]

...Iris? Sunshine. Poptart. I'm... You feelin' okay?

Culturally uneducated is what.

[mistconduct]

Okay, yeah, good luck getting everyone to agree to your tyrannical OCDness, Guy. I don't think that's going to happen.

[sharpememory]

That second bit might be a bit too much information for me.

[Private]

Dude, also. We need to have a serious talk about something.

[sharpememory]

I dunno. My warden says that it still is, but I guess other people might not. [This is a lie, Prefect hasn't had that conversation with Barron.]

Yeah, it's probably just a flood. I'll be fine.