my name is taako, and you work for me now.

"he's literally just doing what an adventurer is supposed to do"

"do you think they think of us as Giant Adventurers?"

"do you know how many other creatures would be infesting our cave if there were no adventurers?"

"how would you like it if you were bumbling along on your little adventurer day, and some giant dragon thing squished you for the crime of being yourself?"

no, the snarky comment is not helping, and i'm pretty sure you know that. no, the inability to read them in better faith is not helping, it's actually doing more harm, regardless of if that is intentional or not.

Tree Bark Tea that cures your headache? Yea we extracted the active ingredient and put it in a capsule because it tastes like ass. Call that Aspirin now.

Healing Salve from the succulent leaves of a strange plant that grows in desolate wastelands? Yea, we have Aloe Vera gel in pretty much every burn unit now. The leaves can be dirty which isn’t great for a fresh wound y’know so we extract it and purify it and shelf-stabilize it.

Antibiotics? Generally come from Fungi. They deal in rot y’know they gotta know how to deal. But I’d rather swallow a penicillin capsule than huff Rye Mold y’know.

Painkillers? You’d be surprised where they come from. Beautiful montane flowers. Beautiful tropical snails. White latex sap and invertebrate stinging glands. Nature, once again.

“But they’re evil chemicals that come from labs!” Look. A Lab is just a Very Clean Room. Folks make medicine in labs because if you wanna do chemistry and the room isn’t clean enough you end up with something other than what you’re trying to make. There is no location inside Reality that is not a part of Nature. Metal and porcelain and glass are all made of stardust and earth. We can make medicine in a cauldron in a cabin in the woods if you want it’s just gonna be full of living things and spores and shit and. Like. not work.

Nature isn’t your Mom. Nature regards you as little more than a Tree Propagation Engine. Nature is very disappointed in your choices; such as the choice to not go forage for large tree seeds and then shit out those seeds in shallow pits you dig. The choice to care about your Education and your Art and your Politics and your Entertainment are not choices Nature would have given you. Humans gave you those choices, by holding back the natural forces that are actively trying to check our population growth.

Nature sends gifts such as Influenza and Coronavirus to help us be more in balance.

Do you understand

The Humans in lab coats are not your enemy.

The Nature that wants to use you for fertilizer is.

Oh, this purple flowering plant will mess with your heart by making it go crazy when you eat it? Well if we extract those specific compounds from it, we can make heart medicine in a dose to help regulate your heart rate.

We call it Digitalis. It comes from the Foxglove plant.

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