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[unetrustworthy]

 [Midii's lips were pursed together in concentration when the screen turned on, eyes turned downward.  The tip of a writing utensil could be seen moving as she jotted down one last note before looking up.]

Something was brought to my attention recently.  I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner, but it could be really important.

Allergies.

Is there anyone here who has them?  Of things from home, or maybe of something you've realized you're allergic to here.  Plants...food...metals...I'm curious to know.

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[invisibill]

[It wasn't really an allergy, but he figured it was close enough. ]

Yeah, I ran into a flower here that I'm pretty sure I'm allergic to. Seems like it was similar to one back home.

[Allergies, being a ghost around anti-supernatural flowers. Same thing really. ]

[unetrustworthy]

[Allergies, intolerance...anything that elicited an adverse reaction was what she was after. So Danny's response was relevant enough to earn a nod.]

Do you know what kind of flower it's called here? And what it looks like?

[invisibill]

I don't know the name of it. But it's kind of pink.

[redlightgreenlight]

I'm highly allergic to dumhet.

[She's mostly joking and besides, Midii did not fit that profile.]

[unetrustworthy]

[She might not have, but there was a moment where she very nearly began writing the response down before pausing. A quite noticeable pause, actually. Slowly, she lifted her gaze with a mixture of dawning realization and suspicion.]

What exactly is 'dumhet'?

[redlightgreenlight]

It's an inherent trait that some people possess, and can be contagious in some instances.

[She smiles.]</small. Don't worry, I know you don't have it.

[purered]

Fortunately I haven't run into anything that caused any noticeable reaction. Did you encounter something that caused you trouble?

[unetrustworthy]

Not exactly.

[She shook her head. In hindsight, her eagerness could have been misinterpreted as either a sense of urgency or recent slight, but she was only very intently focused on her latest subject of study.]

At the ball, I was talking with a friend about the flower arrangements she helped me pick out, and she brought up allergies. It made me realize I hadn't even considered the possibility when I was setting up, and since I'm supposed to be studying herbalism, I thought it was something I should know more about.

[purered]

Ah - I see now.

Perhaps the Healer's Guild might provide you with a list of common allergens in this world?

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[bostonhowler]

Back home I'm allergic to monkshood.

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[unetrustworthy]

[There was a lengthy silence on Midii's end at the response, mostly because of the unfamiliarity of the word. She took a moment to silently echo the pronunciation, and worked on a spelling from there.]

I don't think I've heard of that before. Is it a type of plant?

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[bostonhowler]

[ She hums softly, debating. ]

Well, it goes by several names. Wolfsbane, aconite, and monkshood. All the same, really. I haven't run into it here.

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[denyamenti]

Hmm... poppy, a long time ago. And there's a fruit here, with spots, that caused a bad reaction. Given the amount of strange foods here, it's fortunate there's only been the one.

Why is it so important?

video;

[unetrustworthy]

[The face...caught her off guard, if only because it had...been a while since they'd last spoken. But only for a fraction of a second.]

[In fact, she would have recovered much sooner if he hadn't offered a list with multiple options. The fruits were a familiar type of allergy--she could vaguely recall someone from her childhood mentioning their allergy to some kind of berries--but she had never heard of anyone allergic to poppy before. Nodding to herself as she mouthed a few words inaudibly, she lowered her gaze and added the notes to her journal as she spoke.]

It's part of my field of study.

If I'm going to learn how to use plants to help people, it would make sense to know how to avoid hurting them in the process.

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[denyamenti]

It's not a bad idea to have more people around here who don't rely on magic to heal.

[ Nothing against magical healers, but a balance would be better. ]

Poppy isn't the default treatment for pain anymore, so it hadn't come up.

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[ninjainviolet]

Do "Idiots" count?

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[unetrustworthy]

...no.

[Also, Valdis already made that joke.]

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[ninjainviolet]

Damn. And they make me itch, too.

[ Hey, she doesn't speak kedanese very well...if at all. ]

Then, as far as I know, I don't have any allergies...oh, wait...would becoming dizzy after taking a medicine be an allergy? Or just a reaction?

[lasergrenades]

Strawberries. There's something like it here that doesn't seem to cause the same reaction, but I avoid it anyway because it's kind of too close for comfort.

[unetrustworthy]

[She nodded, adding that to her current list of notes. Of all her responses yet, she seemed the least surprised by Pepper's.]

I've heard of that one, specifically, before. Someone else mentioned fruits, too, which makes me wonder just how common it is for people to develop an allergy to them.

[lasergrenades]

I think a lot of people are born with the allergies they have, but I know they can come and go. Like, I knew someone who was only allergic to pollen for about a year, but that's it.

Doing a study or something?

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[commandandcontrol]

It might be faster to list which ones I don't have?

That might be an exaggeration. But I'm lactose intolerant, which I'm not sure counts as an 'allergy allergy' or not. I've also got non-celiac gluten intolerance.

More serious allergies are a few varieties of tree nuts, but not peanuts, thank god. But it's pretty serious if I do eat any of those, which is why I carry epinephrin.

...and I just realized that I might need to do something about replacing that in the long term.

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[unetrustworthy]

[...wow.]

[That was...quite a list.]

You didn't think of it before now? Something like that's pretty important, if your allergies are as serious as it sounds.

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[purrns]

Feathers. Which, when we have a lot of bird-creature appear here makes it a whole lot of not fun for me.

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[unetrustworthy]

[Her eyes widened in slight surprise. Feathers...that was a new one.]

I would never have guessed.

Is it all feathers? No matter the kind of bird?