003 | Tony Stark | Audio

[manofiron]

[ Normally Tony would ramble on for a while, but he’s a busy guy lately and he really doesn’t have the patience to beat around the bush. ]

Not to rain on the gluttony parade, but does anyone else question trusting manna from heaven – figuratively speaking – after the whole “drug our air with hallucinogens” incident? Or is that just me being paranoid?

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[nevermindtherunning]

Gluttony aside, not everything was edible in those crates. Rather, I was tangled up in a nasty bout of spiders.

...Unless you're interested in eating them, then be my guess. Only careful when heating them up, as they proved to be a bit flammable.

[manofiron]

I hear that's something people do. Eat spiders. Wasn't ever my thing, though. Honestly, it sounds disgusting.

You burn them all or are we going to have an episode of Kingdom of the Spiders soon on top of everything else?

[nevermindtherunning]

I burned a good portion of 'em - the bigger ones. I think some of the smaller ones got away, perhaps in the woods. Nasty little buggers!

Although, interesting fact, their venom is partly composed of Acetic acid!

[manofiron]

So get the spiders, extract the venom, refine it a little, and have ourselves a handy supply of acid. Okay.

Now we just have to find ourselves an arachnophile or two.

[nevermindtherunning]

If you don't mind my asking, what would you do with said acid? A bit of work for such little there is. If they bit you, I'm sure it would cause tissue necrosis and judging by what limited supplies I've seen, don't think we're medically capable of handling that.

[manofiron]

I can think of a few things. All designed to keep our town safe, of course. I'm a scientist and an inventor. I make things. That's what I do.

[nevermindtherunning]

Ohhhhh really? [The Doctor is very curious now.] What are some things you've worked on? Anything here? Anything I can help with?

[manofiron]

Materials being as hard to come by as they are around here, I'm still sort of in the planning phases of my work. Once I get to the building part, I can let you know.

[nevermindtherunning]

I'm going to be working on a few projects myself... I'm the Doctor, by the way, pleasure to meet you.

I'm interested in anything you have to offer.

[manofiron]

Tony Stark. Resident futurist and engineer extraordinaire.

What's your specialty?

[nevermindtherunning]

[That earns a chuckle.] Everything. Physics, maths, chemistry, botany... the list goes on.

[manofiron]

That sounds familiar. Of course, I'm only starting to dabble in biology. Need only came up in the last few years.

[nevermindtherunning]

Well, if you're looking for a consult or a partner, you know where to find me. I'm going start off tracking the wind patterns and the star charts, as they don't quite match up with anything I'm familiar with. Time is distorted here, and that's a bit... bothersome.

[manofiron]

You're on. And that's as good a place to start as any, really. From what I hear, people have been coming in from all along the timeline. Met one of them myself. I'm not the forerunner on space-time anomalies, but I'm thinking that's not normal.