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Almost. It's the runoff from the eridium refinement process! It isn't as straight-up deadly to humans as liquid eridium is, but the applications are far more wide-ranging
It weakens synthetic and organic materials in small amounts, making them more susceptible to damage, and in large doses can mutate or even kill creatures or people that it's applied to!
Figuring out how to apply it to weapons without it eventually wrecking them as well as your enemies has been one of the more recent breakthroughs in weapons technology
It's kinda been a gamechanger honestly?? We sell way more guns now because following up shots with a slag weapon with a combustive one or whatever wrecks the heck out of your enemies. So it encourages people to buy more than one!
It's kinda awesome
But then you get the dumber bandits doing things like sitting in barrels of it or trying to drink the stuff to make themselves more powerful and it HECKS. THEM. UPPPPPPPPP. G r o s s.

[ She's just not going to go into all the experiments that go down in the wildlife preservation reserve because NOPE ]

Yeah that does sound like something the military would love to get their hands on.
Or anyone producing weapons, I guess.

Sitting in it, though?

Sitting. In. It. They aren't the brightest. The local bandits aren't so much missing braincells as they're missing entire frontal lobes.
There was this one group of them that I was keeping an eye on who eventually landed on the idea of drinking molten metal to reinforce their insides to make them bulletproof. THAT'S the kind of intelligence they possess. Sitting in toxic byproducts of dangerous materials doesn't seem that bad in comparison! :P

Okay that's

wow

How did they survive long enough to be able to walk well enough to make it into the acid barrel

We'd fucking destroy them

Duh! Of course you would! Most bandit gangs are just kinda bullet fodder??

oh wow that sounded sociopathic um
I mean that they're just kinda
disposable??

friCK THAT SOUNDED WORSE
My point is that only a few of them stay organised and/or alive long enough to form a cohesive unit, let alone an active threat!
The ones that DO get that far can be pretty dangerous, though
I mean you'd likely curbstomp those too but not as easily as your common trash mob bandit :T

wow I really have to stop talking about them like they're just there to be shot and forgotten huh this is embarrassing

no it makes perfect sense don't worry

[ he's embracing your sociopathy, Angel! through no interests of his own! ]

trash mobs are trash mobs

still surprising they last even that long though

or do they reproduce by mitosis

omg! Don't encourage me, that's terrible!! XO
I'm sure at least SOME generic-seeming bandits are perfectly rich and textured individuals with their own lives and complex emotional reactions
(does that sound convincing)

And weirdly enough bandit reproduction isn't something I'm an expert in >:P
Though now that you've mentioned it I'm 100% certain that they HAVE to reproduce asexually because the alternative is so gross my brain rejects thinking about it. Violently. I've blacked out three times just writing this and there's blood spewing from my nose, it's the worst!!

ah yes i'm sure they even have bandit dreams and aspirations and little bandit children waiting at home

funny how thinking about all that makes some people more reluctant to kill

[ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ]

oh come on how gross can it be

[ didn't they fuck Claptraps at some point it really seems more plausible that most of them weren't born locally and just dumped there by the corporations instead but who could really tell. at the very least there seemed to be an alarming lack of female bandits and general residents on the planet. ]

Doooon't! If you start talking about how they have little bandit puppies waiting for their bandit masters to return from their bandit workplaces too I'm going to die!! XOOOOOO

[ Puppies > children. Even bandit puppies. Oh god they'd probably wear little ammo belts arounbd their necks as collars and jesus fucking christ Angel is now genuinely a little bit gutted by this line of thinking. Maybe if she does get to go home she can start some kind of abandoned bandit dog sanctuary or something. Yeah.

If she wasn't so blinded by the mental image of lil psycho dogs she'd realise that most Pandoran bandits would probably eat puppies rather than kill them, but shh. BRICK HAD A PUPPY, IT COULD HAPPEN ]

SUPER gross! Like imagine if they hrrggHGHGGHHH
(that's the sound of me choking on my own blood and bile and D Y I N G)

THEY COULD
IT'S POSSIBLE

[ oh no did he just inadvertly make her less murder-happy. ]

Fuck? Each other? Guns? The puppies?
Alright let's just leave it a secret of the planet. Don't die now.

TOO LATE I'M DEAD
This is my ghost speaking
I'm going to barf ectoplasm at you and then tattle on you for murdering me on the next obituaries, then when everyone kills you in revenge I'm gonna tip the administrator five bucks to make sure you get a really terrible death price
She's gonna turn your hair PINK >:CCCCCC

Ouch
Will you reconsider if I say I'm really sorry and promise to do better

Just the pink part, the revenge murder is cool

:|aaaaa

Yeah, okay, that sounds genuinely remorseful to me :T

[ pls ]

Great

See you later ;)

Count on it!! >:P ♥

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sry my eyes glazed over

how fuckin DARE

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