[Nope, not really. This is Tony Snark Stark we're talking about here. But still, he looks unhappy about this constant stream of questioning from strangers. People are so nosy.]
[Sorry, Tony, this is apparently a station full of nosy people. And here's a really nosy one you're talking to.]
Then I guess how my suit works is 'nothing, just personal', as well. [And then, less deadpan, because she knows what palladium is used for (here, at any rate),] If it's for cybernetics, it's not a big deal. Lots of people have implants.
[He laughs at that, but it's hollow. He read up on those biotics, asari and otherwise. The humans with the implants and their headaches and problems. He has his own set of problems.]
[She would totally have told him anything he wanted to know - but. Curiosity. Lots of curiosity.]
You'd be surprised. There are lots of different types. Neural, skeletal, lymphatic, epidermal.... If you need to repair or refit something, someone on Omega can probably help you.
You guess? Look, masked lady? Do you know me or something? I feel like I would remember someone in a safety suit with swirly fabric.
[Unless he's going really crazy, considering that loss in time between Steve and Bruce.]
I'm not - [Well, yeah, he sorta is. He sighs. Help is help.] - ...copper. I'll need copper wires. A soldering iron. Set of precision tools would be nice, too. But what I really need is money, or... whatever you call them here. Credits. Same thing.
[And that comes as a surprise - and for a moment, she's too taken aback to think of any kind of response, and put on the spot, defaults to a rather defensive truth.]
I've met you. [With emphasis on the 'I've' and 'you'. Because it certainly isn't the other way around.] A couple of times.
[And still making a valiant effort to skate over that subject as much as possible.] Copper's easy to find. If I can find any other quarians on the station, I should be able to convince them to lend me their tools. Credits.... I'm in the same position you are.
[He's briefly reminded of Yinsen, about how they'd supposedly met and Tony hadn't remembered, but Yinsen was human and Tony was drunk off his ass. No amount of drinking could make him forget Tali's appearance.]
...Thanks. [That's a little harder for him to say, because he's not used to people being so charitable.] Can't offer much in compensation. Not yet.
[Quarians, right, sure. That's about the look she's getting from him. He'll try and remember that but, well, Tony. What he remembers and what he doesn't is usually always up in the air.]
Been here a week, more or less. [He shrugs. At least he's calmed down from when he first got here.] All I know is someone somehow pulled me from my nice comfy place in New York on Earth and shoved on a shuttle to this dung hole halfway across the fucking galaxy. Real quaint, this place.
[Tali's had a long time now of being around humans - she knows that look. But she'll happily ignore it if he's not going to say anything.]
Well, I don't know what causes it, but it's some kind of dimensional rift. Maybe it's a macroscopic manifestation of quantum mechanics gone wrong or.... Whatever it is, Omega's been turned into one. Or a rift has... taken on the form of Omega. I don't know the specifics. Anyway, there's more than one of them. And I came here from another one. You were in one of those.
[Those last sentences especially are reluctant because this all sounds so crazy - but how much crazier, relatively, than waking up to find yourself at the opposite side of the galaxy to where you started out?]
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[And then it's hard to resist asking.] What can you do with one point six grams of palladium? For no reason.
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Your mask is purple. And fuzzed out. ...Are your eyes glowing white?
[This is his way of getting you a) irritated with his existence and b) forgetting you asked that question in the first place.]
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My mask is purple. And opaque. And my eyes are white. Yes. Very observant.
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Doesn't that make it hard to see? Seems a bit odd. And what if you sneeze?
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How about I tell you how the mask works if you tell me what you need with palladium and scrap metal.
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It's nothing. Just. ...personal.
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Then I guess how my suit works is 'nothing, just personal', as well. [And then, less deadpan, because she knows what palladium is used for (here, at any rate),] If it's for cybernetics, it's not a big deal. Lots of people have implants.
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[He laughs at that, but it's hollow. He read up on those biotics, asari and otherwise. The humans with the implants and their headaches and problems. He has his own set of problems.]
Not like mine.
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You'd be surprised. There are lots of different types. Neural, skeletal, lymphatic, epidermal.... If you need to repair or refit something, someone on Omega can probably help you.
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I'm not from around here. Don't think there's a fixer upper for what I have.
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Does the name Abax mean anything to you?
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Nnnnno. Nope, not a thing. ...Should it?
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No, I guess it shouldn't.
[And a very quick change of subject.] If you're working on an implant, do you need anything else?
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[Unless he's going really crazy, considering that loss in time between Steve and Bruce.]
I'm not - [Well, yeah, he sorta is. He sighs. Help is help.] - ...copper. I'll need copper wires. A soldering iron. Set of precision tools would be nice, too. But what I really need is money, or... whatever you call them here. Credits. Same thing.
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I've met you. [With emphasis on the 'I've' and 'you'. Because it certainly isn't the other way around.] A couple of times.
[And still making a valiant effort to skate over that subject as much as possible.] Copper's easy to find. If I can find any other quarians on the station, I should be able to convince them to lend me their tools. Credits.... I'm in the same position you are.
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[He's briefly reminded of Yinsen, about how they'd supposedly met and Tony hadn't remembered, but Yinsen was human and Tony was drunk off his ass. No amount of drinking could make him forget Tali's appearance.]
...Thanks. [That's a little harder for him to say, because he's not used to people being so charitable.] Can't offer much in compensation. Not yet.
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And then she lets out an explosive sigh.] Okay, how long have you been here - what do you know about what brought you here?
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Been here a week, more or less. [He shrugs. At least he's calmed down from when he first got here.] All I know is someone somehow pulled me from my nice comfy place in New York on Earth and shoved on a shuttle to this dung hole halfway across the fucking galaxy. Real quaint, this place.
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Well, I don't know what causes it, but it's some kind of dimensional rift. Maybe it's a macroscopic manifestation of quantum mechanics gone wrong or.... Whatever it is, Omega's been turned into one. Or a rift has... taken on the form of Omega. I don't know the specifics. Anyway, there's more than one of them. And I came here from another one. You were in one of those.
[Those last sentences especially are reluctant because this all sounds so crazy - but how much crazier, relatively, than waking up to find yourself at the opposite side of the galaxy to where you started out?]