Cam catches a summons while he's in the middle of Atriama. He's seen it before, it's fine.
"I have some left over back in my camper, thanks! You look like you're on a pretty strong hit there."
"Mostly not used to trying to - do stuff, while. Copyin' out a whole genome'd be hard enough sober, with no stakes - "
"Is that surprising, you're all different anyway . . . . . . 'm being told to tell you you can up your dose slightly and you'll 'be fine with it'; dunno who - purports to know that; the one I'm talking to was also told to tell me, apparently, won't say by who . . . m. By whom, but apparently, 'legedly, you can go up to expressions level and not hate it. By buying a very slightly 'less'" airquote "'baby'" airquote "kind than what you already have, not - guess I shouldn't've offered ours. - 'Yet maybe', what does that - hm. Mmhm."
Jackie peeks at the paper. "This does look about like what I remember of genomes from school, if you wanted confirmation on that."
"Mm. Wanna still talk to the volunteer yourself or was that just cause you thought I was - not very. Right now."
"You're not very and also I need more information than this to make the bodies and coordinate on timing."
"No presh. Can just ask more questions for you, though, if - " He pauses and closes his eyes, speaking slowly and carefully enunciating on each word. "Omnilol doesn't impair judgement; it's just very difficult to split one person's worth of attention span between multiple conversations and. And sets of sensory input. So - maybe it's still easier for you to go up yourself, but - yeah."
"I mostly just am not sure if I understand what's on the paper. Like what's a rangebow."
"Sweaters across the range of the rainbow, so people can tell the bodies apart. Was gonna rewrite it less note-to-self-ily, 'cept you were back before I expected."
"Ah. I think I'll go up myself just so I can be more confident I won't make some kind of mistake and have a bunch of bodies to dispose of, but appreciate the offer."
"And if your stuff is too strong and my stuff is too weak I will need to make another trip to the drugstore... anything else before I go?"
"Nnnnno. Do you want me to bother checking this again, writing it up neater? Or's that redundant."
"It was nice to see you again! Thank you for the machine translation I'll work really hard at it."
"Might be able to still catch me on - the other side - before this dose runs out, if you hurry."
"I will do my best."
Cam is off to the drugstore to make a purchase! And back to his camper to trip in it!
Unlike the previous times, several entities are queueing to speak with him as soon as he's up. Two living singlets, one cloud with maybe five or six people - he has a general sense of the size of the clouds but not with enough granularity to pin down an exact number - another with thirtyish, and one that's incomprehensibly large.
Wow, would it kill them again to form a line. Can he get them all in a... conference high.