[text] only slightly backdated to Friday of Week 24

[tiptoeing]

[Locked to the Avengers, Pepper, Lyall, Bones, and Tosh]

I'm back. The trip was worthwhile, I think.


[Locked to Kaylee and Tosh]

Kaylee, Tosh, I have a project I could use your help with. The area where the ship's power core is located is going to need life support routed there as soon as possible. Between the three of us, we should be able to rig up a solution fairly quickly.


[OPEN]

For anyone who might venture out into the mountains, be careful. I encountered some saber-toothed cats and an Andrewsarchus there.

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[Audio]

[professorwolf]

Welcome back, Banner.

[Hulk visitations apparently warrant the dropping of a title.]

Glad to hear it. And I will keep on the lookout for the cats and the andrewsarchus. Perhaps Chime and I can do something about them. The last thing we need is competition, particularly in the winter.

[He pauses, then adds,]

What precisely does an andrewsarchus look like?

[audio]

[tiptoeing]

Thanks, Lyall. [Well, since titles are being dropped here, he might as well reciprocate.]

Perhaps you can, but I think they mostly keep to the mountains, and I don't think removing them from their natural habitat is a good idea.

Andrewsarchus mongoliensis is probably the largest mammal on land that's ever existed, at least on Earth. Not much is known about it because all that was ever found was a skull...the fact that they exist here is an incredible opportunity. But they're probably very dangerous. [not that this fact bothers him]

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[professorwolf]

Ah. I have seen those, though not yet actually tangled with one. I shall look forward to the experience.

[He smiles, perhaps a hint of predator in it.]

Between myself and Chime, we may be able to bring it down. I am less interested in removing it from its habitat, but potentially eating it. Meat is growing a bit scarce, with winter coming on.

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[sadandsingle]

Not a problem.

Would you like to stop by my flat and have tea sometime? I want to talk to you about something.

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[tiptoeing]

Of course, when is convenient for you? [He assumes it's about something science-related. Poor Bruce.]

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[sadandsingle]

After we're done for the day on the ship sometime - let's say Monday? Are you free then?

[Like either of them really has a full social calendar.]

[Text]

[damn_it_jim]

Superego, ego and id now all on speaking terms with each other? Good.

Medea's stable and she should stay that way while Solus and I work on a treatment. Thought you might like to know.

[text]

[tiptoeing]

Something like that.

Thanks for the update. If there's anything I can do to help, please let me know.

[text]

[damn_it_jim]

Now that you mention it, are you pure nuclear physics, or did you cross into the biology of it at all? If you know any biochemistry, or enough to get a crash course, I could use an extra brain. Solus is going overseas with the plague cure.

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[evervarying]

Andrew-whatnow? Did you get any vid footage?

[audio]

[tiptoeing]

Andrewsarchus. Andrewsarchus mongoliensis is the species, specifically. And unfortunately I didn't. I was a little...busy, at the time.

[audio]

[evervarying]

That's Greek to me. Or Latin, I guess. Technically.

And too bad. It's kinda hard to tell what's supposed to be friendly and what isn't, out here.

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[unshackledferocity]

I have seen the cats. [ They weren't a threat to her; she's beaten up their kind before. ]

... what are Andrewarchus? [ It sounds like a tree. ]

[video]

[tiptoeing]

A supposedly extinct mammal that is much, much larger than a saber-toothed cat.

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[wrench_and_ruffles]

I can definitely handle that. It's easy peasy if you're not actually in space at the time!

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[tiptoeing]

Easy peasy is exactly what I want to hear. Tosh and I are familiar enough with the ship's systems that we can help figure out anything you're not used to.

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[wrench_and_ruffles]

Compared to having to get life support back on line while the oxygen's running out, this'll be nothing. Help with the different system's will be nice though.

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[nodavinci]

Didn't miss much.

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[tiptoeing]

Didn't actually miss much or didn't miss much on the scale we're used to as far as "much" is concerned?

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[pepperspray]

I'm very glad to hear that. Now that you're back, is there any chance I could convince you to come have dinner with Tony and I, or should I arrange for occasional air drops of sandwiches on the ship?

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[tiptoeing]

I could stop by for dinner. When?

[video]

[did_i_say_percy]

Thank you for the warning, sir. Although I don't think I'm going to the mountains anytime soon.

[video]

[tiptoeing]

[curiously] Any particular reason?

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[redledgerdays]

You only think?

[someone is teasing]

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[tiptoeing]

[he can tell, even through text]

"Worthwhile" is sort of a relative term.