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video/action ❆ day 161
[The feed flickers on to a view of the library. And Meja, sitting at a table, with a big book out in front of her. It appears to be a book about plants, hazarding from the pictures visible on the video feed. Laying on Meja's shoulder is a white rat, who appears to be sleeping. Her armor is glamoured into a dark blue coat.]
I don't suppose anyone's been poking around the lab machines, as of late? Some of the plants in hydroponics are getting quite large, and I've been curious about food applications since I started. Unless we'd like to completely depend on random chance in the cafeteria. It was suggested to me that we should test the plants properly, to see if they're edible, but I'm terrible with anything mechanical.
Is anyone interested? I should mention that if this work also includes testing machines, it will be dangerous and should not be undertaken lightly. I can heal wounds, if it comes to that, but I'd like to exercise as much caution as we're able to, here.
[She smiles.]
Tusen takk.
I don't suppose anyone's been poking around the lab machines, as of late? Some of the plants in hydroponics are getting quite large, and I've been curious about food applications since I started. Unless we'd like to completely depend on random chance in the cafeteria. It was suggested to me that we should test the plants properly, to see if they're edible, but I'm terrible with anything mechanical.
Is anyone interested? I should mention that if this work also includes testing machines, it will be dangerous and should not be undertaken lightly. I can heal wounds, if it comes to that, but I'd like to exercise as much caution as we're able to, here.
[She smiles.]
Tusen takk.
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[She figures it should go without saying, at this point, that Meja has her help if she wants it, but she's speaking up all the same.]
It's been awhile, and I'm a little rusty, but I should remember how to use most of it, unless some of the equipment is entirely foreign. I was kind of a science nerd in college. Biologist, actually.
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I'd appreciate it. When I was growing up, the most high-tech things in town were the nuclear decontamination units. And I wasn't exactly allowed near them.
[No unauthorized personnel had been. Considering a possible side effect of using them was contamination, everyone had been happy to comply.]
We shouldn't need anything too fancy, I don't think.
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[They're both smart, resourceful women. She has no doubt that they can adapt.]
Here's hoping neither one of us loses any extremities in the process.
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Don't worry. Extremities I can do, if one of us happens to lose an arm or worse. Not that the process will be pleasant, but it won't be hopeless.
[A Valkyrie can recover from anything other than the specific combination that kills them. Sometimes it takes a while, but they do eventually. Healing yourself back from being crushed? Not. Fun.]
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[She winces, the mental image being less than pleasant.]
I've seen severed arms before. Not a good time. Though those were animate. Crawling around all on their own, along with the rest of the...
[She gestures vaguely, dismissive.]
The pieces.
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Ja. Killing a Valkyrie, you have to be very... specific, in what you do. [And she's not going to elaborate more on the network. Juuust in case.] Otherwise, we can heal. It might simply take a long time, depending on the injury. But we're patient. Well... most of us are.
[Eloise is a force unto herself.]
But, no crawling limbs. Thankfully.
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Given I'm unlikely to get killed by any of it, I think you'd better count me in.
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[That would be unusual, given that killing her (again) requires a powerful magic weapon through the brain or heart, but perhaps it's not out of the realm of possibility.
She smiles brightly.]
Thank you, Balthazar. The more help, the better for all involved. Some of it may not be pleasant, of course. Like the, ah, mistletoe I had to cut back.
[Actually, the problem there is that it was too pleasant. But awfully invasive, physically and mentally. And she's probably going to blush if she thinks about that too much.]
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You're welcome, darling. I'm not necessarily mechanically gifted, but I've maintained some unique artifacts. If you like, I'll have a look in the labs and see what I can turn up, shall I?
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[And then Meja will stay as neutral as possible, when involved, because being a storm entity sometimes has the downside of shorting things out. Luckily, that hasn't happened yet, but there's a blackened security system panel on Midgard that can attest.]
The scientists probably had a similar problem they needed to tackle, if all of this food is any indication. And let's hope for no killing plants, while we're at it. I like us both with all of our functions intact.
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I'll head that way now, I think, in that case.
You've a point about the scientists. I'm still wondering where they've all gone, but it seems they needed some form of nourishment when they were here.
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[Meja doesn't really care about confronting them, truth be told. She's not the vengeance-seeking type, except in extreme cases (one name starting with a capital L). It's much more important to find out how this place works, exactly, than to punish the people who had considered their summoning a fringe benefit. Some people need to get home. She's one of them, even if she enjoys all of the friends she's made here. Not everyone needs to leave, maybe, but the option of leaving would be nice.
Those research notes would be perfect right about now. As would any manuals that had come with said scientific equipment, even if the manuals for some of it had probably been as thick as a phone book.]
If nothing else, it does prove they were... organic. Or most of them were, at least.
[Of course, there's the Machine...]
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The Machine being here doesn't shed much light, either, though. Someone has to have built it. It's all very odd; I feel as though it's a puzzle with half the pieces missing.
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["Procuring." More like stealing, in that case. She wouldn't put it past them, considering what the scientists have been willing to do in the past.]
You're right. We've got less than half the steps. Maybe the things in the lab can help put some of that together, in addition to testing our plants for... well, not killing whoever ingests them.
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It seems to me like it must mean something, but I can't imagine what.
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I'm afraid not — that must have been before I arrived. I don't sleep. I've been known to have... visions, I guess you could call them, when I meditate. But that's the closest I get, and they're rare. What kind of city did you see?
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I haven't tried since then, but I get the impression it might be possible still. The city...it was sort of bright. Crystalline. But you couldn't see the faces of the people walking about.
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Do you think I'd be able to get there, even if I didn't dream of the city to begin with?
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[He's not even just talking about the orgy dreams, Meja! Gallery parties and running around beaches along the Riviera are nice, too.]
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It could be useful, and interesting, if we can find the place. ...if 'find' is even the proper word for a city you can only explore in your dreams.
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Right? It's not really a location, per se, I think. Maybe a memory of one. Tell you what, I'm going to work around here now, but I'll call on you later; maybe we can make plans to sleep together. [Grin. Now he's being deliberately silly.]
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Bring your sleeping bag, and I'll paint your nails. Since your hair isn't long enough to braid.
[Yup. Sleepover jokes. She went there.]
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Careful, I'll take you up on that. [Maybe not the nail-painting, though. He cut the feed with a sly wink, but he'll be thinking about the possibility of dream sharing, and wondering how able they'll be to direct the results.]
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[ He can heal as well. ]
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Thank you. Some of them look ominous. Or they did the last time I poked my head in one of the labs. There's no telling exactly what they do. I do imagine, however, that some of them scan biological material, judging from all of the... odd trauma that people in the town used to arrive with.
[No memories of ever leaving, jittery nerves, nightmares. It has to be something here.]
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[ Which says a lot really, given what he's done to his siblings. ]
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[They really can't afford to just leave them be, unfortunately, in Meja's mind.]
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Is anything around here simple?
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[After giving her her sword back, the hellhounds gone and not a threat anymore.]
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Of course. I'll contact you immediately. Didn't figure him as the ignoring kind, however. What's your name?
[SH only goes so far.]
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[Meja doesn't sleep, but she's well aware that humans generally need to.]
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[He could use a distraction.]
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[One or two sprigs of plants for testing. None of the creepy moving mistletoe with its odd bodily reactions. She already knows not to plant more of that.]