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Bar is occasionally weird about time even within her precincts. Some people go into the bathroom, or upstairs, and get stuck there for ages on end from one side's perspective- but only a few moments from their own.

In Ray's case, it's been about a day since he started feeling unwell and went upstairs to take a nap. He's spent that day in bed trying to:

a) drink lots of fluids
b) blow his nose enough
c) get over the sudden and powerful urge to call himself 'Megatron' and start building some kind of bizarre device to extract energy from the world's housecats or something similar
d) bring his fever down a couple of notches without resorting to painkillers.

It hasn't worked so good, so he's downstairs in search of OTC painkillers and some tissues that won't take off much more skin from his nose. Fair warning, the man's still infectious.


[OOC: yeah, he's still an IMDB Flu vector, for those who're interested.]

Comments

[basic_powers]

...Tyler's seen either of Ray in better condition than this. That is why Ray's going to find the kid with the inflatible bouncepad offering him a big oj with a worried expression.

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Ray accepts the orange juice with a smile once he's done blowing his nose. "Thanks," he says. "So are you here to tell the emperor he has no clothes, or are you supposed to be playing one of the shoemaker's children?"

[basic_powers]

That...that is very new.

"...Ray, are you feeling okay? It's me, Tyler."

[gone_byebye]

"I know." Ray rubs at his face with the heel of one hand. "Sorry, Tyler. I've come down with-" He sneezes. "Something nasty, and I keep hitting these ... really weird patches even though I don't have a high enough fever to be hallucinating. I just couldn't s- excuse me-" He blows his nose again. "Couldn't stand being up in my room with it any more. I was going nuts up there by myself."

[basic_powers]

"...I can understand being that cooped up," He replies, tugging Ray over to a booth just incase the next hallucination has him a little more agressive. "...are we talking weirder than work or usual Milliways weird?"

[gone_byebye]

"Just-"

Ray starts blinking suddenly, and holds up one hand to oh-so-cautiously feel along the length of his nose. When he gets to the end he stops, and then reaches for his ears.

"... I don't have tusks either, do I?"

[basic_powers]

"...nope." But this has pretty much answered Tyler's question.

[gone_byebye]

"Oh good," Ray says. "Because for a moment there I was sure I was supposed to be an elephant. That was... I should have that orange juice now."

[basic_powers]

"...before you think you're a snake or something..." Oh good there's the booth seat, maybe Ray'll be better if he's not standing up. "...you want me to get someone from the infirmary for you?"

[gone_byebye]

Ray smiles, and nods rapidly, and makes a series of very odd yabbling noises that would sound more appropriate coming from a cartoon purple dinosaur that thinks it's the family dog.

A moment later he looks horrifically embarrassed.