[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]

[evervarying]

Yeah, I was kind of afraid of that.

Do you know if the prehistoric monsters predate the ship?

[nodavinci]

Really? That sounds incredibly boring. No wonder I don't take vacations.

[Which is technically true. Technically.]

[professorwolf]

[Lyall's replies in kind, wryly:]

Yes, well, some of us are special that way. Regardless, I would love to hear these theories sometime. I was a bit of an amateur ruminantologist, back home. I confess to miss my work a bit, but haven't had the time nor the contacts to attempt to pick it up again. Dinosaurs, still, have always been outside my realm of expertise.

[damn_it_jim]

Well, all right then. Come by and we can work and each tell the other to go get some sleep, and then we'll both ignore it until the nurses threaten to shoot us. Deal?

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[redledgerdays]

And that would be?

[Natasha might be keen on keeping her own personal secrets, but she has no such compunction when it comes to her teammates. after all, she's been spying on them for months, and she doesn't like having incomplete intel

not that she'll push the issue. she has no interest in meeting with the Hulk again]

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[tiptoeing]

[He's not really surprised, but it's not a question he minds answering.]

The Other Guy's still in there. [there's a pause] I vaguely remember having conversations with people. Did you know he could do that?

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[redledgerdays]

There were rumors, but nothing substantiated. Does that mean you're in control?

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[tiptoeing]

I'm not sure what it means...this is just the first time I can remember that it's happened.

[tiptoeing]

Deal. Though threats of shooting don't really work on me.

[video]

[tiptoeing]

"Indoor" isn't exactly the right word...it's actually underground. But yes, that's the only garden in the area I know of.

[video]

[did_i_say_percy]

I would very much like to see it, but I think Briar doesn't like me.

[damn_it_jim]

Don't say that where the nurses can hear. They'll only think up something special to motivate you with.

[tiptoeing]

I'm pretty sure whatever they can think of, I can handle.

[video]

[tiptoeing]

What gave you that impression?

[tiptoeing]

I'm not much of a dinosaur expert either, to be honest. But there are a number of possibilities, and I intend on doing a little research before I say anything definitive.

[audio]

[tiptoeing]

I don't, actually, but that's something I want to find out.

[professorwolf]

Ah, well, far be it from me to rush your research. Only be sure to share, once you've come to a working theory.

[Maybe a faint tease, there, again. As if Bruce would forget to tell people what he found out. Though really, for all Lyall knows, he would. Some scientists do.]

[video]

[did_i_say_percy]

I met him the other day, and he seemed--I don't quite know how to put it--sharp perhaps? It felt more like a hostile confrontation than a conversation. [And Armand had had great hope just because Briar had looked young, possibly younger than he was himself.]

Good to fade out on this?

[damn_it_jim]

Hah. You're either a braver man than I am, or your PhD-not-MD is showing. Never anger the nurses.

Check in when you get down here.

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[redledgerdays]

So is this going to become a regular retreat?