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[buildsomething]

[The video flicks on to Tony's tired face, though he actually looks pretty good, considering that he's still mildly sick. He grins at the camera, though, the pleased look of someone who's managed something.]

Hey, so. For anyone still caught with this plague thing, I've got a...well, not a fix. A work around, maybe. A focused EMP seems to deactivate the nanities long enough for some of the symptoms to fade, at least for a little while. It doesn't get rid of the things entirely, but it should give you a nice break from feeling like shit.

I'd like to thank my lovely assistants for working with me on this.

[The camera pans across the workroom to focus on the couch, and the two bodies sprawled on it. The eagle-eyed might recognize one (or both) of them as Bucky Barnes, but the way they're both just kind of slumped in a heap makes it kind of hard to tell. It's not that large a couch.

One of them twitches slightly, and there's a snort as Tony turns the camera back on himself.]

That's it for now. I'm still working on a more permanent solution, but magic is really not my thing. Someone else wants to have a crack at that part, be my guest.

[A sudden crash comes from what seems like the vicinity of that couch, and Tony gives the screen a sardonic look before the feed cuts.]

Comments

[11calls]

Would they or would they be stubborn?

[Men sick goes one of two ways in her experience.]

[buildsomething]

No comment.

[Stubborn all the way. Fun times.]

But I do have quite a few medical scans going, so there's only so much lying to be done.

[11calls]

[Yep, Alex definitely knows what 'no comment' means when it comes to this. So, she just nods.]

Well, they'll probably complain about that too. So the naninte block only works for a certain period of time?

[buildsomething]

Seems like it, yeah. The magic just...restarts them or something. Little bit frustrating.

[11calls]

So they're definitely codependent, and whoever did it is good in both?

[buildsomething]

As far as I can tell, yeah. I wouldn't call it codependent so much as symbiotic.

[11calls]

Gotcha. So it's definitely got to be hit from both sides and probably with the right sort of magic? Whatever one it's sort of started from, I guess?

[buildsomething]

I don't know enough about magic to say, but I'd figure so.

[11calls]

Is there any identifiers that make it so that you can tell if it's a local or not? Because I'm kind of working on a theory.

[And interviewing people like mad.]

[buildsomething]

On the nanities? Not that I can tell. There's no makers mark or anything and it's not a design I recognize.

[11calls]

Is that unusual? For them not to me marked or something in some way?

[buildsomething]

It means that whoever they belong to doesn't care about patent infringement.

[His voice is more than a little dry.]

Not unusual, exactly, if it's someone's private project that got away or something.

[11calls]

I highly doubt this got away from someone on accident, though.

[buildsomething]

Doesn't seem like it, no. I wouldn't say the lack of any markings is a sign on it's own, but taken in context...well.

[11calls]

Yep, still working on the investigation with the idea that the person is someone who works with both magic and nanites and has a grudge then.

[buildsomething]

Sounds like as good a theory as any. Good luck.

[11calls]

You too. I'll let you know if I come across anything helpful.