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GIRL Expo: Day 2
Date of Scene: 16 November 2021
Location: Pym Technologies
Synopsis: Girl Expo Day 2! Much Science! Much Tech! Wow! Do not eat the rats! Jane Foster is alive! Demon Girl?! The best is yet to come!
Cast of Characters: Nadia Pym-van Dyne, Madigan Belle, Keli Quintela, Ree, Janet van Dyne, Kaida Connolly, Jane Foster, Kian




Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
Day 2 of the GIRL Expo kicks off with a bang. The space of the Great Hall of the Pym Technologies campus has been laid out with what can only be described as Super Genius Science Fair!

Exhibits from all the members of GIRL have been set up throughout the space.

Riri has an exibit on advanced metallurgy and her new Tricarbotanium alloy and research into elements found in the Island of Stability.

Shuri is showing off a revolutionary new power source capable of producing a phenomenal amount of energy using only a small quantity of Vibranium.

Valeria has an exhibit of forcefields generated from an innovative crystal based technology that might even rouse Kryptonian interests were they to see it.

Nadia is showing further advancements of Pym Particle technology she has been quietly working on on her own, combining the particles with Ionic radiation to potentially make use of individual transformative properties in isolation with huge implications, though the project still seems to be early days.

Vivian is showcasing nutritious and delicious meals made without harmful chemicals that can also survive longterm story for space travel.

Kaida has developed revolutionary new food pills that offer slow caloric release but with enough calories per pill to equal two meals released over a longer period for people either on the go or with higher caloric needs ...or for certain scientists who forget to leave the lab and eat...

Madigan has developed SUPER rats! that can digest sewer waste, with super powers on a ratly scale, assuredly this is fine and nothing could possibly go wrong were these to be actually released. And many many more exhibits as well.

The second day of the Event is open for the public to see the exhibits! Nadia is here of course! As well as the other members of GIRL mingling around and greeting people, discussing their work, posing for pictures. She's dressed in her more usual clothes, her GIRL bomber jacket, 'Just a GIRL who loves Wasps' T-shirt, black and red plaid skirt with frilly black lace, and a white labcoat with a lapel reading 'Ms. Pym-Van Dyne' draped over the top, since she technically still does not have a doctorate. She stands near the entrance welcome people.

"Hello! Welcome! Greetings! Enjoy the SCIENCE!"

Madigan Belle has posed:
At her exhibit, Madigan has got a couple, 2 to be exact, rats running around in a maze made of everything from plastics, to waste materials, to metals. Around it is some kind of clear industrial glass that's a big globe. Why a globe? Well, that way there's no corners for them to chew on and get out. Yep yep yep. "The one with the white fur with the black circle of fur about its eye, is just so cute, such a cutey. Aren't you a cutey? Yes... oh, right, yes, this one is named Sir Bob of the Elephant Knights. And the other one, the albino rat, well, she's named Misses Nose Wiggles McRed." She eats while she watches the rats eat, dressed not so much in a lab coat, as much as her more college accoutrements. Plaid skirt, black blouse, and a pair of fashionable glasses.

And she does have a stool nearby the exhibit for her to sit down on without all the fuss of a regular chair, what with her less than normal mobility. It's also kind of high up, so more for slight lean-sits than actual full up and down kind of sits.

Keli Quintela has posed:
    Keli's kind of a last-minute addition to the Expo, but she /did/ come with something to show off--a robotic arm, meant to be a prosthesis. And of course there's plenty of robotic arms out there, but Keli's /particular/ specialty is making these things from scraps. So the presentation she put together (yes, she put together a presentation) is more about the fact that it's made entirely from recycled materials, nothing new in its manufacture. It's really more about re-using materials and solving the world's garbage problems than robotics--there's a whole section of the presentation detailing the way developing countries and particularly the Global South are being overrun by landfills, problems of continual resource extraction, that sort of thing.

    She's dressed in jeans and a t-shirt and carrying what looks like a fairly heavy backpack. She's actually not really hanging out by her exhibit, not at first--she wants to go around and see other things first, taking a moment to poke her head in at Shuri's exhibit, first off, then heading along to others.

Ree has posed:
Of course there's going to be a crowd. Even if all of this is out of the range of understanding of nearly everyone in the room, it's all still super-cool! One of those wandering about is dressed in full-body covering, head to toe, with pants and a hoodie pulled up to obscure her face. She's even wearing gloves, a likely sign of someone here to steal things if ever there was one.

The female-ish figure walks in, is immediately noted by security, and steps to one side of the doorway. Near enough to Nadia, she sighs. Then seems to do a rock-paper-scissors with herself, which apparently leads her to looking to the right. "So many things. Not enough time." She has a nice enough voice, bit rough maybe. But as she glances toward Nadia, yellow eyes look out from that dark hood.

"Sorry. I'm a few years behind on technology. What's coolest?"

Janet van Dyne has posed:
For Janet, GIRL is essentially a business deal. It has to work-- for no other reason than the world NEEDS what GIRL is making.

And also because Nadia's success means the world to Janet.

So for her, it's meetings all day. Vendors, suppliers, consumers, collaborators. Every meeting she has scheduled this week is at the GIRL Expo. It's good for Nadia, good for the Expo, great for GIRL, and ultimately profitable for Pym Industries.

Janet emerges from the office area with a handful of other people in suits and lab coats. She shakes hands with an older fellow, smiling politely, and he takes his leave with the somewhat flustered expression of someone who is worried they just got taken to the cleaners.

Janet's in a pantsuit combo of champagne and silver in vertical stripes. The trousers wear a little too tight to be strictly office appropriate, but the power move is the midriff-baring suit vest she's wearing in lieu of anything else. It's clearly part of the three-piece set, going with the jacket one of her aides has folded over her arm. It's just the sort of power move she would pull in a negotiation. The nude four-inch pumps with pointed toes cost more than a modest mortgage payment.

Faux french cuffs at her bare wrists and the detachable starched white collar at her neck just twist the knife a little, proving to the world that Janet wears what she does because she can.

"I'm gonna take a break," she tells the team. "I wanna circulate. Go get lunch, be back here in... an hour and a half," she decides, glancing at the tiny designer watch hidden on the inside of her left wrist. "Also I'm starving to death, someone find me some ahi tuna somewhere."

With that she heads into the Expo with an unhurried stride, sipping periodically from a GIRL-branded water bottle in her hand.

Madigan Belle has posed:
Looking up as Keli is wandering by, "Hey, aren't you that girl from yesterday? All shy in a corner, with that guy in the expensive looking suit?" Madigan wonders to Keli, "I'm Madi, by the way, Madigan, short for, you know. You clearly got to talk with Nadia, then, yeah, otherwise you wouldn't be here with an exhibit." Idly, she quickly twists a top part of the globe open, and tosses in pieces of a bar of soap, then a few screws, and also some particle board. Then she screws back on the topper, letting the rats go hunt down what would otherwise be garbage, but as food.

"So, what's your jam-o-jam? Do you like rats? I think they are amazing, of course, especially, after they've been all upgraded. Do you want to feed one? I'd let you pet them, but they might eat your arm off..." Quirking her mouth back and forth in thought on that, "Unless they were full, but... that doesn't, really, happen often. Hmmm, perhaps I should figure that out." There's a soft pause.

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
Near the door, Nadia looks Ree up and down curiously. Somewhere in the back of her mind she is wondering what Natasha will make of this, but Nat is off seeing to the security of the keynote exhibits, the ones that could actually be really dangerous in the wrong hands.

Instead, "Are you cold?" Nadia asks cheerfully of the bundled up young woman. "What's the coolest?! Everything! There are so many cool things, I want to go and see them all!" Shouldn't the head of GIRL have already seen them? Maybe ten or fifteen times, but that doesn't mean she doesn't want a sixteenth, or a twentieth! "But hmm if I had to pick, Maddy's rats are really cute! And Kaida's pills could free us from eating maybe! And Keli is new! New people always do cool new things!" And if you stand there long enough she'll probably name every exhibit as the one she'd pick if she had to pick one, because she really can't actually decide which is the coolest.

Kaida Connolly has posed:
There's a certain girl that was not present on night one for a variety of reasons and on night two she isn't all big into being out by her table. She bounces from foot to paw like foot and looks out from behind a curtain before ducking back. Usually she's extremely brave but this is different. People might have questions. Good questions. About science! WHat if she can't answer? What if it is the wrong answer? What if she just gets screamed at and someone tries to call an exterminator!?

"You're supposed to be here, Kaida. Supposed to be here!" She nods and huffs and stomps a foot and in a lot of ways, that's the problem. She's not often /supposed/ to be places. Often she isn't supposed to be places and that is way easier. A thousand times easier. IT's clear she isn't supposed to be there and so she is fine but now she's supposed to be here and what if someone doesn't think so?

"Ok." And finally there's a blur of speed and on the table in a tiny lab coat over her usual outfit and a pair of tiny goggles is Kaida who swallows and smiles big right next to her display. She stands up as tall as she can and her ears flick backwards.

Ree has posed:
Well. Huh. "Wasn't expecting..." She tries to say. Then, "I'm not.." Then after Nadia's had a moment, the girl with the eyes says, "OKAY! I'll start with the rats! Sheesh, seriously. It's all cool, I'm gonna go check them all out." She turns, wandering toward Madigan's booth, not really meaning to be rude but sometimes it's what ya got.

To Madigan, she walks up hands in pockets, and says, "Can I try one? I've eaten a lot of rats, can see how they taste for ya." NO! BAD!

She looks at Keli with her skin still hidden, and sighs. "You're the food girl right? You know that people will still want to eat even if they don't need to. I mean, I hope you know that. Still cool stuff anyway, I'm not gonna argue. Probably, I mean. I'm ...gonna shut up."

Keli Quintela has posed:
    Keli blinks at Madigan a few times. She hadn't been shy, really; she'd been talking to people! But she smiles brightly and goes to peer at the rats. "They're really cute," she says, "and they can eat garbage? Ohh, that's a good idea. Of course, yeah, you don't want them to eat /everything/."

    She leans in a little closer, fascinated as she watches the rats eating the soap. "I'm more of a roboticist. Nowhere near as good as anyone else here, but..." She shifts her backpack, almost idly. "Does the ability to eat garbage pass on to their babies or do you have to re-engineer every generation?"

    Then Ree's there and she blinks at the figure. "Food girl? Huh? No, no, like I said, I'm uhh... the robot arm." She gestures a little ways down the rows of exhibits.

Jane Foster has posed:
Space. Gotta get some spaaace. The GIRL science fair must be where a woman of letters surely needs to spend an evening seeing what the next generation possibly decided to whip up. Nothing quite like seeing the future unfold at your feet in varied accomplishments by those too young to drive, vote or purchase libations the rest of the scientific community deeply enjoys. One Jane Foster makes her appearance in a fundamentally straightforward way, having parked some distance back from the Expo and hiked the rest. Perhaps valet parking /was/ the right way to go?

Unlike the black-tie affair present the night before, she can slink through the masses in a comfortable sweater and scarf adorned by the Apollo 13 Mission's famed chariot and solar-maned equines. Bad luck it isn't, hopefully, cinched by a pretty brooch that embodies a synestia in all its fine-lined detail.

Her credentials might need to be shown for entry and the unfortunate task of making a phone work long enough to bring up the ticket information delays her at the entrance, sufficiently apologetic on her side and no doubt on security's, though these things happen. Patience makes perfect, and while she waits for them to check her in, the Nobel winner looks over the details from afar. Because she most certainly can.

Madigan Belle has posed:
"Eat one?!" Madigan's eyes get big, and her mouth opens up a bit in surprise, and you can see her expression shift in real time from stunned to appraisingly smiling, big, "Of course you can. I didn't even think about that, rats could be nutritious! Powered by waste... by... trash..." She giggles slightly, and shows off teeth with her grin, "Which one did you want to eat? Sir Bob of the Elephant Knights or Miss Nose Wiggles McRed? Don't mind the metal shavings in their stomach, those will pass in time. I'm not even sure if their skin is digestible, this is such a great idea!" To Ree.

To Keli she offers a little nod, "Yeah, it's that whole everything piece I still have to work out, I mean most of the time they are just eating and eating and eating. I mean.." She pulls out a candy bar and opens it in a smooth motion, starting to chew on it, "Who does that? That's just a lot of problems, just consumption unhindered, not stopped?! Really a problem. Though, yeah, robotics -isn't- as cool as genetics, but it's still super cool. Don't get disheartened."

And she's finishing her candy bar, while opening up the top of the globe to try and get at one of the rats. She's half-leaning half-climbing as best she can with her leg braces on, stretching her arm in as best she can, wiggling her fingers, "Come on Misses Nose Wiggles McRed, try and eat my fingers, juicy juicy fingers..." A quick pause, "Oh, babies! Yeah, I think so, trying to test that out, that's why boy and girl. Just imagine, hundreds of rats in just a few days, cleaning the sewers or a garbage pile... oh, come on! My fingers are way better than screws."

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
"Janet!" Nadia spies the emergence of one of her favorite people in the world from where she has been perched near the door. "There's so many people here! This is amazing! How did your meetings go?!" She asks while waving to some more people.

That is when a certain arrival appears that causes her to stop dead for a moment. It is perhaps fate that Nadia has been working the door when none other than Jane appears. "Dr. Foster! You're awake!" She is practically bouncing up and down. "Nevermind her ticket, let her in! That's Dr. Foster!" And the ticket takers and security stand down, because without Natasha around to give stern looks arguing with Nadia is rarely worth the hassle involved. "I thought you were.. last time I saw you.." She knows better, at least these days, than to just blurt out the story of helping Thor steal an entire SHIELD medical bay with Jane inside it.

"Janet! Look! Dr. Foster is here!" The excitable girl is reaching new levels of excitement. "Oh wow, where to begin, I've wanted to show you all of this ever since we started!"

Keli Quintela has posed:
    Keli blinks again at Madigan. "Umm... but if she eats one... then you can't breed them." There are about a dozen things wrong with every part of this conversation all of a sudden, and Keli steps back to let the two converse about eating rats. She really does need to hurry along to see the other booths before anyone goes poking after her prosthetic arm. "Good luck with that though!"

    "The food girl" is an exhibit Keli /did/ want to look at, so she'll aim herself that way as she extricates from whatever Madigan and Ree are about to test out here. Not seeing yet that "the food girl" is... a mouse.

Kian has posed:
    Kian has been touring his kinsfolk around the cities -- the winds between the 'glass canyons' of the skyscrapers have been spectacularly popular with them, and Kala has had that glint in her eyes that says she has a new training regimen in mind that's going to make her spectacularly unpopular until and unless she's also spectacularly successful.
    The choice of flight areas today was not accidental.  Kian remembered mention of a GIRL science event today, which he knew would appeal to his science fiction-nerd older sister Shiri, and science-nerd younger brother Keth.  Sports nerd Kala would just have to deal with it for the time being.
    "This iss not really normal Eart' technology," Kian is saying as he leads the other Akiar into the exhibition space.  "This iss unusually advance.  I mean, mos' Eart' people do not haf access to interplanetary ships."
    "Terry's way is a lot easier," Shiri comments, and some may recognize the Rannian translator she bears -- as do the others, except for Kian.  He has to make do with what bits of fluency he's learned the hard way.
    He dismisses his sister's comment with a wave of his hand.  "Yis, but there are not many who can do what he does."  And then he greets his teammate with a cheery, "/Kie/, Nadia!  I haf brought my kin-folk to see what you are up to scientific'ly,"

Ree has posed:
"Honestly, everyone gets so upset when you eat their pets," Ree says softly, lifting her right hand to her head. It pushes the hood back a bit, and red skin is revealed beneath. She sighs, then looks at Madi. "Got a point though. I'd mess up your display, too. Rats are loaded with fluids, and they tend to squirm when you bite down."

Then she stuffs her gloved hands back into her pockets. "Brilliant stuff here. I'm just an engineer myself. Not much use at the level you all work at. Thanks for the offer, they look pretty edible." Then she turns, walking toward the cool booth with the forcefields. And can be heard saying loudly, "Oh come ON! This is just cheating now."

Kaida Connolly has posed:
"Ok, no no no!" Kaida appears over at Madigan's table like a shot and points, "No eating the rats!" She states and nods her head, "I won't stand for it! I know it is your experiment but I will not stand idly by while they are eaten! I am already not entire great with the idea of experimenting on the rats but I know they are being given a new option for food and are being treated well enough but no eating!" Kaida huffs and stomps a tiny foot before pointing at Madigan and then at Ree and then nods again before she is gone. A moment later she reappears and points at Madigan and then at Ree once more before she is gone again.

"And sorry about that!" She says to some people visiting her table, including Keli and smiling at her.

"This is a...a wonderful new invention." She points at the pictures and then pill dispenser before walking over and pushing a button to dispense one and hold it up.

"This pill contains roughly 1200 calories of energy and will release it slowly over the course of four hours!" She nods her head, "It is an excellent way to provide caloric intake to someone who needs calories but either doesn't have access to, or the time for food. So far, it is purely for calories only and provides no other forms of nutrition but I am working on that!"

Jane Foster has posed:
The slow approach through the expansive hall doesn't favour one direction over another. Jane goes as the current moves her, at least from the outset. Drifting to the nearest shiny booth and considering the creations or scientific approaches there would totally and happily absorb her, and not merely to read the different bits of information posted by the scientists at work. Watch her dive headlong before asking questions, though her name snatches her up from somewhere.

"Awake?" The pealing voice playing out from a relatively close direction brings her turning away from the fascinating effects of food -- so many food-related discoveries here. Nadia isn't hard to pick out with her telling jacket, stylish and well-spotted in the mix. But still, she stills for a second with a growing smile. "I promise, it's no trouble to have a--"

Anything else is probably overrun by Nadiaconomics, the conservation of energy while exuding large amounts of it. "It wasn't nearly as dire as it must have seemed." She gives a friendly wave, and looks after Janet since she has to be impressively around here somewhere. Though Kaida is making it awfully tempting to eavesdrop.

Madigan Belle has posed:
Wiggling, and squirming, actively trying to get one of her rats, "Who built this thing so tall!?" A pause, "Did I do that? I must have not really thought I'd need to..." And she turns, "Huh? You don't want to eat one... anymore?" And that's when Kaida shows up, Madi's eyes get wide, her eyes are looking left, looking right, like, 'are you talking to me?' cause there could be a million people here in conversation about eating rats. She pulls her hand out just as Misses Nose Wiggles McRed was making a dash for those juicy fingers. Now two people are out food.

"What?! No eating rats? Well, that doesn't seem very natural. I mean, how can you control the population... you've doomed us all!" Madigan keeps her wide eyes, but now they look more like Dr Evil saying one million dollars.

When Kaida points at her, she shrugs her shoulders, points at herself, in question, "Me? What ..." Then she's gone, and then she's back again, and Madigan grins big, giggling a little bit at the odd Kaida, "She's like a cute little ninja." Looking around, talking to no one, as everyone's now left her booth for the moment. "Annnnnnd, note to self" She's saying aloud, "Figure out how to make rats taste like cotton candy. Or Dr Pepper, ooooh, dr pepper cotton candy!"

Though her attention does go in the direction of Kaida's food pills, "Twelve... hundred... calories...?" She is opening up another treat, from a nearby backpack, it's a Twinkie, and she's hmming with a full mouth, "That's like almost, 6 twinkies... what if we put one of those IN a twinkie..." Her eyes light up, and she starts to shuffle in the direction of Kaida's exhibit, going a bit slow as she has to sway her hips to get her legs to plant, lock, and let her do it again. Holding up a twinkie, "Hey hey hey, I'uhve gohtsh thush ghrut..." swallow, "idea!"

Nadia Pym-van Dyne has posed:
And then Kian is there, with his family?! Nadia apparently missed this memo! "Kian! Welcome! And Kian family welcome! Do they manipulate the laws of physics, too?" She asks curiously, before turning with a flourish of her loosely worn lab coat. "Yes, we have so much amazing SCIENCE! to show everyone!" She grins at Dr. Foster. "I am so glad you are here. I need to talk to you about some things later! But for now, SCIENCE!"

It is at this point Nadia disengages from the door and begins making her way back towards her own exhibit, because she really does want to show people what she has been working on with Ionic Radiation and Pym Particles. Her booth isn't too far from Ying's which is also using Pym Particles to target specific cells and tissue, with implications of eventually being able to shrink tumors and turn Cancer treatment on its head.

Though she pauses near Kaida's exhibit on the way by, "This. THIS! is exactly what I need for lab work!" No, Nadia. You do not need more excuses not to eat or come up for air.

Ree has posed:
The tricarbotanium keeps the hooded girl's attention for a few minutes, but without Riri herself to interact with she isn't allowed to play with the stuff, so she seems to wander on after a minute or two. After a moment she ends up looking at the cybernetic arm, peering closely, and says, "Could just...hm. Oh I gotcha, cool."

She doesn't want to draw too much attention to herself, but she peers at the mechanism. Then starts to reach out to touch it, when security stops her arm. It jolts her hood, and her face is exposed. Red skin, sharp teeth, yellow eyes. Not the human norm, it makes them draw back, and she says, "Yeah, yeah. I'll leave." The girl starts to draw back, not sure she was ever meant to be here anyway.

"Could just fix the molecules of that weld, but you can't just rely on torches for that kind of tension. It'll snap." Then she pulls her hood back on, and looks for the exit. "Not gonna cause trouble."

Madigan Belle has posed:
"Wow! You have such cool horns." Madigan comes up, finishing her twinkie, on her way to the pill food. "And totally the best color, I mean, red, you know, cause, like, not sure what gene would cause that. Though it's not as uncommon as you think." She pauses and stands there, "Are you leaving? Is there somewhere you're going, you first wouldn't eat my rats, now you are heading out before seeing this pill thingie. Did you know, we can probably make it taste like rats?!" A pause, and she furrows her brow, shaking her head, "No, that's not right. We can make rats taste like cotton candy, dr pepper cotton candy." She's muttering a little quickly, "And then we could make the pills... no! I was right. We can make them taste like dr pepper cotton candy rats. Perfect."

The glove gets a look, and she gives a grimace, "Are you some kind of engineer? How'd you get your teeth, are your eyes because of lack of pigment, or some other strange combination of pigment? Do you work on a lot of projects, what's your name, who are these people, do you know them?" Her attention at the end going to security. All rapid fire questions.

Keli Quintela has posed:
    Keli listens to Kaida's explanation politely and then moves on, quickly so she can at least spot things, making note of what she might want to come back and ask questions about another time. Maybe after the Expo, if there isn't time during! She's endlessly curious.

    It's a good thing she's moving fast, because then Ree is looking at her exhibit just as she comes up on it, and she waves security away. "Oh, c'mon, leave her alone." She blinks a couple of times at red skin and yellow eyes, though. Then her eyes widen.

    "Are you an /alien/?!" she blurts. Completely missing the actual aliens--with wings!--that have joined the expo.

Jane Foster has posed:
"We can absolutely enjoy the science," Jane replies with a laugh when Nadia insists. There may be a time to talk and a time to admire the developments they've worked so hard on. The decision made by one responsible adult shall be roaming through the displays. Naturally following after Nadia to her booth would be expected, though she won't be rushing headlong past everyone else for working so hard.

On the other hand, a consummate scientist as herself is going to be quiet for a while absorbing information about the use of Pym particles -- and was that /space/ food? Right.

Ree has posed:
Ree pauses, then reaches up to touch her horns. It brings her face out a bit, but it's a worried gesture. "Look...doctor?" she says this to Madigan. "I really do want to eat one of your rats. You don't have to make them taste different, really. But I'm not normal, most people would get squicked out by the idea. I ate them back home, because it was what I could grab."

She pulls back her hood fully, exposing her face, horns, the lot. "Not an alien. Devil, and a minor one." that's to Keli. "I was a builder in Hell, I made stuff. I don't know if that's engineer or just putting things together. But you need to beef up that weld. Just melt the molecules properly, you can fix it right?"

She says this like it's one of the easier things to do. Move molecules around. Then she glances at security, who are eyeing her skeptically. "I get a lot of bad reactions, sorry. I can't do what you all do, this place has some seriously funky stuff. Seriously, who came up with the automated doors at the entrance? That blew my mind."

Madigan Belle has posed:
Keli definitely has more sway with the security folks, than Madigan, she never really paid attention to them and often confuses them as wait staff. And she quirks her mouth to the side as Keli asks if Ree is an Alien, "An Alien? Conveniently who looks like..." She pauses, when Ree calls her a doctor and she beams, "Doctor Belle, Doctor Madigan Belle." A quick pause, "Soon to be, just have to get around to finishing my thesis on the epigenetic effects of post-birth mutations and which polygenic groups they affect to create ... well, geno-atypical characteristics." A bit of a shrug, but she grins bigger, "But, I -am- pretty much a doctor already, I mean, like, in genetics, and chemistry." She brings a hand up to her burnt sienna hair and kind of slides it back over one of her ears and offers just a hint of a flick of it.

"And, you don't have to ask. It's a great idea. Eating rats, they breed super quickly, and if they can eat nearly anything... why we could SOLVE, solve, with a capital S the world's hunger problem." She continues, "Is there a reason you walk around with your hood up? I mean, if I had horns, I'd be all, BAM, and showin' them off. Plus the eyes, and I think I should get my teeth filed." Her mouth opens some, her eyes look off to the side, she's furrowing her brow some while her tongue is visibly pressing up against her teeth, testing them. Looking to Keli though she wonders, "How sharp do you think I should make them? Do you think your glove could be turned into legs? What if someone decided to turn the robotic hand off, can they do that? Does this thing have weapons?" She's curious about the gauntlet now as well.

Ree has posed:
"...you're insane. I like it." Ree grins sharply at Madigan, then leans over and sneaks one of the woman's rats out of her display. She walks back, munching, and starts getting those panicked looks from security. AGAIN.

"Hey, good luck on the PHD," she says, red on her lips now and not from makeup. Then she reaches over and touches Keli's prototype, rearranging the weld so it's actually one piece of metal now, not two put together. "I'm gonna get thrown out anyway," she explains. Then she says, "You ever want to test on demonic entities, I'll be somewhere in the city. You know, eating rats and stuff."

Then she grins, saving the half-eaten rat's ass for another time, and moves on. She knows someone who referred to it and..you know. The things you do for a friend.

'I wouldn't give a half-eaten rat's ass for your opinion' was what they said, but you know. It's an opportunity, and she has GOT to see the look on that bitch's face.

"Later!"

Keli Quintela has posed:
    Keli blinks a few times. "Ayy, diablo, alright then." She seems fairly easy-going about that kind of thing, curious but not 'ahhh oh no!' "Anyway I was, umm, just quick-welding it in my room, I didn't really have the right tools, but it's a display model anyway and..."

    And Ree just up and re-arranges the molecules, evidently. Okay then. She goes to inspect the change, curiously.

    "It's meant for people who've lost limbs," she says aside to Madigan, "and also to show, umm... not everyone has big fancy labs to work with, and a lot of the things made in big fancy labs /could/ be made just fine with second-hand materials. I did this in my dorm room, from stuff I found a junkyard. That's... really the entire point."

    Her tone is half-distracted, as she inspects the new join. Hunh.

Madigan Belle has posed:
And the rat is taken, Madi doesn't stop it from happening. She looks back over though and sees Ree chomping on the rat, and furrows her brow some, "So - quick thing. If you start to feel like something is trying to eat its way out of you... um, come see me? I'd really like to film it. You know, for science. And, maybe we could do something about it..." A pause, as she grins big, showing off teeth to Ree, clearly not as good of teeth or sharp of teeth. "Well, I best go and check on ..." She squints and quirks her mouth to the side, "Misses Nose Wiggles McRed seems to have escaped the clutches of a devil, demon, person."

Waving to Ree, she looks back to Keli, "Well, I that's cool. I mean, I could chop off my legs if they weren't so damn amazing. And get myself some new ones... you know, cause, like..." She taps the leg braces wrapped up around her legs. And then she's looking around, "Note to self. Make rat skin thicker, and tougher, but more tasty. Just in case."