Some upkeep considerations

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

Despite all assumptions and claims to the contrary, I'm not an unreasonable man. Sometimes, I even sort of understand where you kids are coming from when you do your little angsting moments and lashing out against authority stuff.

However.

I've spent the past weekend cleaning up the messes certain folks had made of the boiler room, and the big explosion notwithstanding, there's a few things I'd like to reiterate:

1) If you really feel the need to vandalize and destroy something, let me know and I'll put you to work chopping wood. If you're one of those that can't handle anything sharper than a fluffy stuffed bunny, then there's other things around the place you can do to work out whatever little issues you have going on. The school has a well-stocked gymnasium, and I've seen some of you make good use of it.

2) Corollary to number 1: writing bad poetry in blood on the walls and leaving chunks of bone around isn't sanitary, no matter what your little mutation quirks are. Those of you that shed, molt, drop feathers or skin, or leave trails of whatever all over - the medical staff should have briefed you on basic sanitation procedures. No one here's going and using your pillow as a hankie, do everyone a favor and clean up after your basic biological processes.

3) If you are a big glowing ball of energy, feel free to disregard point #2. Starsmore, I don't know if they've set something up so you can read this, but do you have any idea how fruity you look? I'm just saying. It's an improvement over all the black, though. But if you keep hovering around my head while I'm trying to work, I'm petitioning to have you renamed "Tinkerbell".

4) Flyers - the platform on the west wing roof is still accessible through the main stairwell until 10pm. If you're out flying after that, be advised that the door will be locked automatically at 10pm. See either myself or Mr. Lee if you need the keycode for access.

As usual, drop a note in my box in the main kitchen or find me on grounds if you have any questions or suggestions.

Comments

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

I'm trying not to even think about how confused the trash collectors were last week with the bags upon bags of ruby quartz shards.

That or someone in this building has many, many red trinkets...

[x-juggernaut.livejournal.com]

All that stuff gets ground down in the compactor and taken out with the medical waste, since it came out of the lab. Speaking of which, what DO you usually do with your skin when you peel it off, anyway? It just dissolve or something, because I figured you'd be leaving husks like a snake leaves skin around.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Depends on the situation. I have little bags I put them in and throw them away when I'm done, usually. But my actual skin husks decompose faster than regular human skin would; built in safety I suppose.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Fascinating. Sorry to hijack the discussion, but as I seem to understand it - you're a dermal metamorph? Turn your body into an element or compound except for your epidermis? What happens if you change into something that's normally not flexible enough to move, like glass?

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Exactly, then take that epidermis off to reveal the desired form. As for the rest, well. I seem to bend a couple of rules; obviously I move better in a rubber husk than I do in a glass or a rock one, but the fact that I can move at all in a rock husk is still somewhat perplexing.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

And then you just, what, resume a carbon-based cellular form from the inside out? Amazing.

I'm sorry, cellular biology isn't really one of my strong points, but I'm finding this all so fascinating.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Seems like it. It's rather incredible, when you think about it like we do. Most people don't get very excited when I tell them I can change myself into pretty much anything I can figure out the molecular structure for.

Trust me, I really don't mind having someone to nerd out on. At all.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Really? Your instinctive control is that precise? Have you tried some of the elements with low half-life qualities? Then again, I don't know if anywhere around here would be safe to experiment with radioactive quantities of mass on that level. Or nanomolecular constructs like nanotubes and buckyballs?

And there's no need to think of it as "nerding out". Just think of it as expressing the amazing gift you've been given to someone who can comprehend the intimate details of it.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Well, if I want precise I need to know the structure inside out, but in an emergency I can make something up if I know what I need. For example, if someone were to fall out of a plane (it happens a lot around here so I thought it would be a good example) and I thought "I need to reach him/her" hard enough, I could instinctively husk into a stretchy rubber structure. Most of the time. I'm trying to eliminate the most of the time and replace it with all of the time by knowing exactly what goes into my husks.

I'm staying away from anything nuclear until I can make sure that no one is in harms way, especially given recent events. I'm not sure even The Box can handle radioactivity. As for nanotubes and buckyballs; carbon is sort of my "thing". I have several, regular metal alloy husks that are my default, but I researched carbon for so long that I still dream it's multiple molecular structures. I just haven't found a good use for fullerene yet. I suppose if I get into surgery?

You and I are going to get along swell.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

One of these times you're going to have to try adamantium, just to see how much molecular weight you can throw around.

Wait, does that mean if you get a sunburn or an annoying pimple that you can just 'husk' right out of it? That's so cool.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

I can get adamantium, technically, I'm just not good at it. There's so many things that can go wrong that no one ever thinks of, like what if I lose concentration and can't get the husk off? It was back in the old days where I was trying to do the most complex husks I could find, though. Then I realized starting from the bottom and working up might be, you know, an idea.

Of course! No one has this perfect of skin at 18 naturally, my dear. According to the hypothesis that homo superior's mutations are directly related to their personality that makes me quite vain, but let's ignore that and go for the fact that I'm intelligent/crazy/take your pick enough to memorize things like molecular structure, shall we? Oh, and have this thing about not dying. Mostly because I'm too busy.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Please. That theory on personality being formed by genetics went out with sending dogs into space. Besides, it's not vanity to be proud of what you can do. And if that means fixing flaws, so be it. Why be burdened by them if you don't have to?

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Very, very swell.

I can't resist.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

According to the hypothesis that homo superior's mutations are directly related to their personality that makes me quite vain,

Does that make me a magnetic personality?

Re: I can't resist.

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Cue the groan from the audience...

Re: I can't resist.

[x-polarisstar.livejournal.com]

Oh, if it was your mutation, you'd have said it too. *g*

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

You know, I bet between Dr. McCoy and the Prof's contacts you could get a field trip into either NYU, Columbia or Cornell's physics labs. They've all got set ups (and protectsions) for working with nuclear matter. You and the assorted docs could at least get some measurements done.

Can you do localized husks? Husk just your hand or something?

You could do a lead husk, then into a nuclear one but leave the lead shell on and provide your own containment, too...

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Now there's an idea, isn't there?

I'm working on those with Moira right now, actually. We were thinking in the future I might be able to go all T2 with the limbs as weapons thing, but your idea is more fun and less violent.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

My idea is totally just the first step on the way there. I mean really, if you had a lead husk over a highly radioactive one and only pulled off, say, a finger of the lead husk you'd have a pretty nasty weapon there. Basic, but nasty.

Hey, can you do any chemical structure or only any crystaline one? Can you do liquids or, more usefully, plasma?

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

We're trying to create a program to see if we can figure out if I would, you know, liquify if I did that, first. Puddle!Paige is not on my To Do list.

Potentially, any chemical structure, though.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Agreed, no Puddle!Paige, as that would be a sad, sad thing.

Theoretically if you were doing it in a room cold enough you ought to be able to do water's cyrstialine structure. I agree, however, that it's not one you want to mess about with without way more experience.

For one thing, how would you remove the a liquid husk from the husk underneath without hands...

Ok, yeah, definitely moving into worrying territory here.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

Although, you can do glass, right? Techincally not a crystaline structure... Hmm...

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

T2 had a shotgun. I think you're thinking the TX, for which you already have the outfit, so hey. :)

[x-foliate.livejournal.com]

Nono, remember how the T-1000 nailed John Conner's foster dad in the head? While he had the milk carton?

I think the TX's machinery might be a liiiiitle over my husking abilities, leather suit or not. ;)

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the TX was cuter, is the thing.

I concede the point about the arm weaponry though. :)