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Alice Grove MCDT - February 2015
Dark Matter:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 03 Feb 2015, 06:40 ---
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 03 Feb 2015, 06:35 ---My expectation/hope is that chapter two will start with us discovering just what the hell Jack has been doing all this time.
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"Miz Alice? I got the towels and hot water you asked for!"
"Good. Gavia, whilst you're stuck here, your first lesson is to wash down my dirty dishware."
"WHAAAT?
"Ardent, you can dry afterwards."
"WHAAAT?"
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This turned out to be a surprisingly prescient prediction (minus the part about Jack).
Kugai:
Bet that this has been the first 'Real' work those two have done.
And nice to see Ardent got his tail back. :)
pwhodges:
It's been "weeks", but that's still pretty quick to regrow a full-length tail, I'd say.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 10 Feb 2015, 01:41 ---It's been "weeks", but that's still pretty quick to regrow a full-length tail, I'd say.
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That's the wonders of nanotech, I guess! Ardent's nanobots have probably been working overtime to turn every bit of excess nutrient he consumes into a new tail. He's probably been 'overeating' by baseline human standards but something tells me that Alice knows how the technology well enough not to mind.
Notice that Gavia is flying and telekinetically manipulating the pail. I think that she has decided that she is not going to touch the dirt (yuck!) or get her hands dirty with these 'primitive' chores and implements (yuck!). I have the feeling that Ardent is going to throw himself into the local culture feet first (if he and Jack don't end up as BFFs, I'll be surprised). I'm also betting he'll unintentionally cause a lot of trouble along the way! Gavia, on the other hand, will probably have to be dragged kicking and screaming into socialising with the 'primitives' or having anything beyond the bare minimum to do with this world where she's stuck for the moment. Whilst Ardent is happily wearing what I suspect is a shirt Jack leant to him, Gavia is still wearing her futuristic space-robes. Wearing the disgusting bio-product apparel of the Preserve is another thing that she will only do under threat of immediate harm.
Something tells me that Alice would consider dragging Gavia kicking and screaming to do something or forcing to do something to fit in a personal pleasure. I'm waiting for the first time we see poor Gavia stuffed into one of those 19th Century dresses to attend the Town Fayre or something. :-D
TinPenguin:
--- Quote from: pwhodges on 10 Feb 2015, 01:41 ---It's been "weeks", but that's still pretty quick to regrow a full-length tail, I'd say.
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--- Quote ---"Regeneration is not an instant process," study co-author Elizabeth Hutchins, a graduate student at the university, said in a written statement. "It takes lizards more than 60 days to regenerate a functional tail."
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http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0105004
That is over eight weeks, and Ardent is significantly bigger than a lizard. But most lizards don't have nanotech and rich resources of handwavium.
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