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[personal profile] pathography 2025-09-04 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm.

[ He doesn't know giardia, but he does know he'd rather not get horribly sick in the jungle...or subsist off boiled water forever. ]

We'll have to do some experimentation - I've never tried to filter water. Are there methods used where you're from?
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[personal profile] pathography 2025-09-04 11:04 pm (UTC)(link)
We'd have to solicit recommendations for anything magical.

[ Nothing chemical, he can work with. Make it magical, though, and he'll have to pass the project off to someone else.

Anyway, he's thinking back to home, what little he might know about water purification, but nothing in particular comes up. So he's limited to the theoretical possibilities, ways of ensuring good health in general. ]


If we passed the water through something else - say, charcoal or sand? - that might help. But we'll need a way of testing it for impurities first.
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[personal profile] pathography 2025-09-05 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
We can figure that out as soon as we have a way to tell if the water's likely to poison us. For that, we might need some magic.
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[personal profile] pathography 2025-09-05 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Perfect.

[ That solves that problem. ]

In that case, as soon as we have water samples, I can begin testing our options.
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[personal profile] pathography 2025-09-05 10:05 pm (UTC)(link)
That seems like it'd be best accomplished over the network, if we trust it for these purposes. [ A little wryly: ] And so far, we have.

[ They're talking through it, after all. ]

I can ask, if you'd prefer.
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[personal profile] pathography 2025-09-06 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure I'll be a better emissary. [ Dryly. ] But I'll put the word out.