𝚁𝚄𝙱𝙸 𝙸𝙽𝙱𝙾𝚇;

[dadyl]

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Daryl Dixon, 53

It's Daryl, say what you gotta say.

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[unorthodoc]

I'm going to bet your practical woodsman attitude hasn't stretched far enough to allow you to steal from the tavern yet. But I just so happen to have what you need.

[dadyl]

[ Him? Looting and scavenging? Never. ]

You don't know much about me, huh?

[ But admittedly booze wasn't his first round survival priority. ]

You sharing or selling?

[unorthodoc]

Sharing. Trading, maybe. Depending on what you have on offer. I need a fence.

[dadyl]

Ain't got much. My shit has a bad habit of going missing every time I get fucked around with out there.

I'll owe you.

[unorthodoc]

No problem, I like it when people owe me.

How are you with burying bodies?

[dadyl]

[ Yeah, that doesn't really make him feel any better. ]

Done it a hundred times.

Who's dead?

[unorthodoc]

Not who, what. I need to bury some spiders before the Duchess' groupies get back into town.

[ Also he forgot about them while he was in the woods and now they're gross. ]

[dadyl]

Okay.

But I'm adding the tax of you telling me what the hell you were doing with em.

[unorthodoc]

If I said "definitely not mad science" would you believe me?

[dadyl]

I ain't read that book yet anyway.

Tell me the goal. Get a hole.
In the ground.

[unorthodoc]

You're a poet.

The goal was to see what happened when spider venom is introduced to the human bloodstream.

[dadyl]

Was?

So what happened?

[unorthodoc]

I found out what it did. And then I got distracted. Now they're dried up spider jerky and leaking goo all over the floor. Really a terrible waste of resources, it's such a shame.

[dadyl]

Telling me what it did in the bloodstream is the deal.

[ He just hopes he'll understand the broad strokes. ]

Assume I'm bringing my own shovel?

[unorthodoc]

The venom seems to inhibit nerve function and causes numbness, delayed pain response and mild amnesia. It also stimulates the production of various neurotransmitters and sexual hormones, meaning that you're stuck in one place but you're pretty happy about it. The blood transfusion triggered the adrenal gland to overproduce stress hormones, inducing aggression and fear. Nothing we didn't already know, which was kind of a bummer.

Yes, bring your own shovel. And maybe a tarp.

[dadyl]

[ Hm. ]

Explains a lot.

[ Except the night that John had slid into Daryl's head for distraction, he'd told him he'd given himself up for torture to save House from exactly what Daryl had gone through up at the castle. So he doesn't say anything more than that.

But fucking spider venom, huh? Shit. ]

You supposed to have these? Or are we keeping a secret?

[unorthodoc]

No, Her Royal Creepiness knows all about it, she's fine with me cutting up her little pets to see what happens.

Of course it's a secret. But nobody has come to check it out yet and I haven't been turned into a newt or a frog, so I think we're in the clear.

[dadyl]

Smartass.

Hope your new trivia was worth the risk. Put em by the door, I'll be there soon.