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Nope.

But hey, awesome for you finding out new applications for ectoplasm. Which evidently some people think is a funny name, but liminal goo is equally ridiculous, so whatever.

[Thorne is not bitter at all.]

Well, had to stop the poacher asshole from running somehow.

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You okay?

When you have a sec, you'll really need to explain how you did it for me.

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Yeah. Sort of. Ugh. Maybe not completely, but mostly I'm just pissed off at Sonic Screwdriver Dude for being a shithead. But I mean, considering some of the shit I backread--backthought?--on the network, maybe I shouldn't have expected anything else.

You know where to find me.

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Sonic what? What even happened?

Okay. So. I ran into this guy looking for some machine that the Arcana are using to feed liminal space directly into our brains or whatever. I figured that it would suck for him if he spent the entire time between Jaunts looking for for a nonexistent machine, so I told him that shit didn't work that way. And he was all "Language!" at me so I said that wasn't how stuff worked. And he was all 'Are you an Arcanum? How do you know?' And okay, I might have dunked on the sonic screwdriver thing he was waving around as a metal detector, but in my defense it really did look like a scary vibrator. So he called me a 'pudding-brained primitive'--seriously--and accused me of not being able to think for myself and I was like, dude, I'm the person who figured out the base matter of liminal space, and he asked me if I'd been peer reviewed and all that shit and I said no, because it's pretty fucking hard to get peer reviewed in liminal space, but I gave him a really quick summing up about how I discovered it and he went on this whole long rant about how I'm basically stupid and a bad scientist and all that shit. And then he laughed at me.

And, like, I know he's probably just a nasty old man who doesn't think people who look like me are worth the fucking time of day, but it still stings, you know? This is my field and he's just some pendejo who uses soundwaves to unscrew things.

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Asshole.

See, I woulda just told him shit doesn't work that way in another language. Think my English is good enough to pull it off. How the fuck's he expect anyone to do a goddamn peer review around here, anyway?

I don't think that would have worked. I'm pretty sure he was English. Well, British. He kind of sounded vaguely Scot-- Wait, no, fuck it, he was English. [Petty Thorne is petty.]

And yeah, no, I don't get it either. I think maybe he was setting up standards he knew I'd probably fail. He was that kind of asshat.

Yeah, well, Mitsuru and Aki are the ones who took French. I only have the two options. [Unless something weird sticks around from a jaunt or something.]

Then let him waste his time lookin' for a machine that ain't there. Clearly he won't be happy any other way.

Yeah. He deserves to waste his fucking time.

Still got some stories about other assholes I need to tell you, if you want a distraction. Or the goo wall thing, since you weren't there for it.

Both are good.

Well, like I said earlier, you know where to find me. Any food requests?

Katsu curry. Chicken katsu curry. [Like they'd make at Over The Bridge in Japantown... well, not that Shinji would have ever have eaten there, but honestly, it's Shinji and his is probably even better. The point is, it's a special treat for her.] And something chocolate for dessert.

Got it. Come on over whenever.

Will do.

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I think I can speak for everyone when I say "no", Shinji-san.

Can I ask why you ask?

Huh. Didn't actually think it'd be something brand new.

It's not really something I'd think to try to do. What happened that let you figure it out?

Caught the poachers' inside guy in the act. Really all I had on hand to stop him was liminal goo.

[Even then he wasn't sure it would work, but it did the job all right.]

Better than he deserved, really.

Honestly between traveling and stuff back home I'm starting to get real distrustful of the older generation.

Yeah, well. [The main reason he didn't call Malik in - when he's pretty sure he can guess what happened to the guys he caught - was that it was in the middle of the facility. Too messy.]

Took you this long?

[Don't mind Shinji, he's overly cynical.]

I had a few good examples back home. And quite a few more here, actually. Just...Jaunts tend to have bad guys.

Nope - that's a new one on me.

And you know this stuff pretty well, don't you?

Relatively speaking.

[There's still a lot she doesn't know, after all.]

Damn, I'm even surprisin' the experts.

Bet you could pull it off.

[Probably!]

How'd you do it?

You know how I ran into the poachers' inside guy? Needed some way to keep him there until I got some backup and I didn't have much, but I figured if I could get just the goo I could block him.

Ain't sure how I got just the goo, but it worked.

Huh.

I haven't really done a lot with the goo - I can make a tether, but that's not quite the same thing. Possibly the same general principle, though.

A tether?

Yeah - it's maybe a few centimeters wide, but I can get it pretty long.

...Wonder if I stumbled into that at some point, somehow. The only other thing I know of with goo is Thorne's template business, and I sure can't do that.

Or maybe you found an alternate method.

Maybe. Either way, goo wall.

Well, more of a goo bubble.

...Maybe that's what did it. You can already create bubbles, right?

Yeah, but it never directly involved the goo before.

Yeah, but bubbles aren't really meant to keep things in, though; they're more geared towards keeping things out, and even then I think people can come and go as they please. You were trying to keep this guy contained, so you needed something stronger than a bubble, but the general shape of a bubble was still useful.

...Got a point there.

It's been known to happen on occasion.

Just on occasion?

[She put up with Junpei. Surely it happened more than once.]

Multiple occasions?

[She had gotten pretty good at logicking herself around certain conversational topics while she'd been at Gekkoukan. Certainly, that had been the best approach to take with Hidetoshi.]

[It's... probably better for everyone that Shinji never met him.]

Sounds more like it.

[Probably.]

Okay.

[And that's as far as she wants to go with that, since she'd been mostly joking to begin with. She just hadn't expected him to take it seriously, and now she's kicking herself because what does it say that she didn't anticipate that?

Regardless, a subject change is probably in order.]

Anyway, I think it makes more sense to look at it as a solidified bubble than a tether that's been stretched out the other way.

[To be fair, he was partly joking back. The other part just doesn't want to see Minako undervaluing herself.]

Maybe. I wasn't in the bubble - would that make any difference?

I don't know - I mean, I could see using that as a protective wall, too. How long did you maintain it?

Good few minutes. Some of the people who showed up wanted to unload the dragons he did load up, so I took it down then.

That might be something to test at some point, although no matter which side of the wall you're on you probably don't want to have to maintain it for long.

[She's mostly thinking aloud right now.]

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thank you sistertype

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We can actionspam here or move to a toplevel?

Let's go to a top-level

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