I8DT - That Special Spark

by **Sara Stanton** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 4:35 pm

Sara is in the Mutant Studies Lab, setting up an experiment as she waits for Will.

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Jan 01, 2012 11:45 pm

"What's on the docket today?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 7:06 am

"Alright, so... I got some voltage clamps and a potentiometer to get a proper read-out." she points at a row of small chamber with small electrodes. In one of them is part of the frozen arm though it mostly looks like a pink piece of ice and in another an old piece of Will-Clay. The third and fourth ones are empty and in a fourth is a rat that doesn't look particularly happy to be there but not all that annoyed by the electrodes taped to it.

"That way we have a negative control and can also monitor the effect of different states on your tissue."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 12:56 pm

"Ah, I see!" Will said.

He didn't see.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:14 pm

"To see what the difference is between old tissue, separated tissue and, well, unrelated tissue. And the empty ones are for your finger and the other for a fresh piece of clay that you touch but that's not directly connected."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:16 pm

"Oh! That makes total sense. I get it now.

Poor rat."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:25 pm

"I borrowed him from Izzy so... he's probably better off. But yeah, just touch each one, say what you feel if anything and then try to shift it into, I dunno, pick a material."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 1:50 pm

"What will YOU be doing?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:03 pm

"Taking notes and checking the readings."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:13 pm

"Right, OK," he said, going over and touching the arm.

"So, just into anything, then?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:31 pm

"Yeah. Well let's keep it simple for now. Just wood or plastic or something." she says, stepping behind the computer monitor.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 2:42 pm

"Right," Will said, concentrating...

The arm wasn't doing squat, apparently...

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 3:10 pm

"Okay, that was expected. Do you feel anything like the other day? Cold?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:21 pm

"No, nothing really. Well, my fingers are cold, but that's 'cause it's frozen."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:24 pm

"Okay, that makes sense cause I'm not really picking up anything."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:52 pm

"Righto. The clay, next? How, uh, "fresh" is it?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 4:59 pm

"About a week old."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 5:23 pm

"...where'd you get this?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:31 pm

"That's the bit I took after the last tests."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:39 pm

"Oh! Right. So, about a week, gotcha..."

Will held on and focused.

And THIS time...something was happening. Well, not obviously so, but the readings Sara was getting were showing the cells slowly, slowly shifting

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 6:56 pm

Well she was getting something though with no data to compare it to yet that's all she has.

"Hey, it's working! I'm reading electrical patterns!"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jan 02, 2012 8:45 pm

"But I'm not doing electricity?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 3:06 am

"No but somehow you're telling it to shift, no? And you do that by thinking. Nerve signals."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 1:57 pm

"Oh! Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm doing. You're saying you're getting something?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 3:50 pm

"Yeah..." she says, quirking an eyebrow. "Something the matter?"

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:02 pm

"Well, it's not...I mean, it doesn't take this long when I'm shifting me. Why?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 4:06 pm

"Well it's old. Maybe that makes it sluggish? I'm surprised it's reacting at all!"

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 5:37 pm

"Yeah...that's....that's interesting.

Kinda...kinda weird, isn't it?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 5:45 pm

"Why is that weird?"

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jan 03, 2012 6:48 pm

"Well, it's...well, it WAS me, but it's not now..."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:56 am

"It's not? What do you mean?" she asks, taking notes.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 12:46 pm

"I mean, I'm a person. That's a lump of clay.

...no, that's taking it too far. I guess...maybe it's like an artificial limb or something? Like, it's not PART of me, so I shouldn't be able to move it? Or something?"

Will was clearly trying to explain this, himself.

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 1:19 pm

"But it used to be part of you, the person. In theory it's like... reattaching a severed finger. Only much less complicated."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:20 pm

"That...that makes sense, actually..."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:24 pm

"But hey, this is why we're here. To find out what works how you'd think it does and what doesn't!"

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:25 pm

"Exactly! So, that...sorta works.

Was...I think the OTHER...well, you know...was doing this, so maybe we're different?

Or maybe I"m just bad at it."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:30 pm

"Doing what?"

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:54 pm

"Making this..lump shift."

by **Sara Stanton** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 2:58 pm

"You mean that there were so many of him that were shifting?"

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:17 pm

"Yeah! That. THat's...I dunno what the hell that was."

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