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[Now he's had more time to practice filters, he's trying one out. He's sure this matter has been brought up before at some point in time anyhow, so it's not like it's too sensitive. But he has to ask, since it seems like people never discuss it. At the moment, Mulder can be seen holding a small handheld mirror and tapping it absentmindedly into the palm of his other hand. He has a thoughtful expression on his face.]

...I bet it's been tried before, but... Has anyone ever had the barcode on the back of their neck examined? Is there a doctor in the house, or anyone with a medical background who's ever tried removing it from someone? ....Or maybe just someone in possession of a state of the art grocery store scanner to check it out? [What, YOU NEVER KNOW.] For that matter, can we be entirely sure they haven't implanted anything additional in us?

Aside from that, I'm almost starting to feel a sense of routine and normality, between my ongoing quest to commune with the spirits and now working on what's essentially becoming the Lucetian X-Files. I have some faint hope that documenting the experiments will give me a better understanding of this place. Although I would kill for a computer to type them out on. Uh... not literally kill, for the record.
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A flood of newcomers means I get to officially upgrade my New Feather badge to the next level... [Warning! Warning! Incoming snark mode!] Welcome to paradise, everyone. The food is free, but the TV reception is terrible, the recreational activities consist of reality-altering experiments which will make you wish you were on reality-altering drugs, and the vacation staff running the place have a mysterious fetish for wings. Overall I give this resort a half star. You really should have gone to Disneyworld instead.

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My first guess on the barcode is a tracking device. Maybe where they hide the translator too, because I seriously doubt the entire fabric of reality speaks English as a primary language.

...Kinda like the grocery store idea though. Wonder how they decide pricing. Genetic make up? Skill set? Area of Origin? Color of our hair?

You can try asking for a computer; dunno if you'll get one or not, but I have a laptop they gave me if you want to borrow it.

Tracking device is what makes the most sense to me, too. Maybe they also store some of our identifying information, things like home worlds and so on. Good point about the translation, too, it's a logical assumption, considering that aside from it and the wings, I haven't come across any other abnormal physical alterations. Although implanted devices are hard to be certain about.

...People from the less interesting planets get thrown on sale. I bet it's genetics, though. I'm sure they already have all of our genetic information compiled in a database somewhere.

Thanks about the laptop, I might take you up on that offer, especially if I'm not able to get my hands on one of my own.

No problem.

Damn, you and I must be in the bargain bin, then.

Pretty much. The majority of people where I'm from don't even believe in extraterrestrial life.

[Exceedingly wrong, in Mulder's opinion.]

I have to wonder if the barcode would just grow back if anyone tried removing it...

Knowing them? Probably. I'm not up for trying it, though.

...It can't be done on your own.

[Nope, this is so very much not an indication that he may or may not have started trying and FINALLY had a last minute visit from the common sense fairy before he actually made any cuts or anything.]

But even if it could, I'd be concerned that it might have the same effect as the wings. That and I've seen what removing implanted devices can do in comparable situations.

It could be if you were flexible enough, and had a well-placed mirror.

[Derek may or may not have had the same idea sometime in the past...obviously though, that same fairy had been laying in wait for his sorry ass as well...]

But yeah, the end result likely would not be pretty. If nothing else, I'm sure you'd end up with a nice big open wound in your neck. That, and they'd probably send the 'droids to bring you in for a reinstall if the thing didn't repair itself.

Ok, maybe not completely impossible, then... but harder than I had assumed it might be. Maybe if someone were more expert on slicing and dicing they'd have an easier time trying.

[He sighs, at the thought of the droids storming in. It's almost tempting to try and push fate a little, and see what happens, but to do that he'd need to find someone ~~crazy enough~~ willing enough to try 'helping' him remove his. Or get a better mirror, hm...]

Big Brother is always watching, so I wouldn't be too surprised if they sent in their droid army to catch someone who succeeded. Looks like we're pretty well stuck with them.

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Pretty much.

...it's kinda like 'Hotel California', if you look at it sideways.

Checkout any time you like, but you can never leave...

...By the way, how did everything turn out with that problem you were having?

About as fixed as it's going to get, barring a miracle.

...it's safe to take walks again.

['Safe as it's going to get', implying he's not CURED cured, but... Hm.]

You're still a vampire, or at least have the potential to be one, but that part is... dormant now?

Just kicked back to where I was when I first got her. Still infected, still likely to go downhill again. But for now, yeah.

Ouch, now that's some exceedingly crappy timing on behalf of our ever friendly abductors. Of course, they probably did that deliberately, to test how you would react, in that state...

I'm glad to hear that you're at least better for now.

I think in this case, it was the best that could be done.

Yeah. It got me some time back.

That's one lucky thing about this place, the stasis we seem to be in. But... I realize now that I've never questioned this... what had changed to make it speed up in the first place?

The virus itself is...something of a living thing on it's own. So it pushes.

And I died during one of the drafts, so it got a better toe-hold on me.

Oh... the 'penalties' that they give us? Yours was a hastening of that virus?

...Can you always sense the virus inside of you?

[This is all so very very intriguing to Mulder, especially given that virus-inflicted vampirism isn't as commonly documented in his files.]

Yeah. Right to the edge of when I'd go over normally.

I can. It's always there; always pushing. It's not so bad the first day, but if it's allowed to progress, the push gets worse as it goes. Like an addiction, eventually, you end up giving in if you don't end it before then.

Addiction is a prevalent theme for vampirism in general, with that insatiable thirst for blood... You seem to know what you're doing in not listening to it, though.

...You managed to keep it from infecting anyone else, I hope?

Only managed to infect one person, unintentionally, and their own nature protected them from it. They've gone home, now, but other than a sort of 'scar', they're fine.

That's a relief that it didn't become widespread. I think you have a good handle on keeping it contained, usually.

Figures that our lovely captors wouldn't go through the trouble of curing you fully though. You have to figure they potentially could, if they wanted. [But for the sake of mad science? Yeah, he knows that people like that would never fix anything they found interesting.]

Don't think they can cure me. Just slide me along the timeline until I'm not as bad off.

Ah, so there's another limit to their power.

Yeah. God they definitely aren't.

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