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Who: Everyone
When: Day 43, Nighttime
Where: The clearing, now no longer a beach

[ The beach fades away, leaving everyone back in the comfortable and familiar surroundings of the clearing and their-- beloved?-- train. There are some new stars in the sky, twinkling in ginger goldenrod, thyme apple, senna terracotta, jasmine blue, and clover pink.

The sound of a giggle fills the air and leaves behind bubbles-- touching one will give the uncontrollable urge to hug the nearest person. They will persist throughout the night. ]

Comments

[time5kip]

No, a guy having an alien baby is still definitely weirder.

[schrodingerscockroach]

....yeah, does push it over a little bit that he's a guy. Alien should be hard enough, let alone whatever that did to his system to work.

But it is close. Mass spontaneous pregnancy is still really weird.

[time5kip]

Maybe it was aliens in our case too. It's as valid a theory as anything else.

[schrodingerscockroach]

True. Would explain the odd number of forty-three. Forty-four babies if you had a twin?

Not sure why the short incubation period though.

[time5kip]

Had a busy schedule. You know. [ making a gesture toward him ] They had to impregnate your friend as well. Aliens these days can't catch a break.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[He snorts.] Keeping up the population of a new hybrid species is busy work.

[time5kip]

We should have said those with the intention of making a bond out of it. Wasted chance.

[schrodingerscockroach]

That's a simple fix.

How do you get an alien baby to sleep?

[time5kip]

Are we going full black humor for this or is it a normal answer? Because mine would involve bullets.

Especially considering some of the movies involving aliens I saw as a child.

Bond

[schrodingerscockroach]

Eh, babies may not be so bad if the species is intelligent.

And the answer is you rocket.

[time5kip]

Nice one.

[ he's actually smiling ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Yes, winning.]

Thank you.

Can you teleport moving objects?

[time5kip]

Theoretically. Whether it's moving or not doesn't really matter, but my powers require a concentrated effort. I wouldn't be able to do it in time depending on the speed of the object itself. If a bulled is coming at me it'd be easier to just teleport myself away rather than switch it around.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Nods.] That's good to know. [Sometimes it's important to know if your teammate can dodge or deflect bullets.]

Switch it around? Like fire it back or...?

[time5kip]

When it comes to objects I don't just teleport them. I switch them around. Like this.

[ He's going to show it off again - switching around a pair of pants with a shirt ]

[schrodingerscockroach]

Huh. Is that a limitation, or just more fun?

[Because one thing to another is cooler okay.]

[time5kip]

It's a limitation. "Teleportation" isn't correct - what I do is manipulate space and time. Well. Just space in this case, really.

I can move myself from one place to another, but when it comes to objects I can only replace them with another.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Objects need to be of similar mass, I take it?

[time5kip]

Not necessarily, but the more similar they are to each other, the easier it is. I probably wouldn't be able to switch around a car with a pen, but I can handle a certain degree of difference.

[schrodingerscockroach]

[Nods.] So similar weight and size just for more certainty and less headache?

Why is yourself free from that limit?

[time5kip]

Your guess is as good as mine. I have absolutely no idea.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Huh. Can you do the switch thing with people?

[time5kip]

If one of those people is myself. Takes a lot of energy, though. I only do that if absolutely necessary.

[schrodingerscockroach]

Hm.

....might be a balance of effect thing.

Like an object can't do anything alone, and even if its used, those uses are limited. You have its intended use and a lot of other potential uses could still work with something of similar size and weight. The potential effects of that switch are limited without outside factors.

A person somewhere else is a whole butterfly effect of things. They can act on their own and no two people are exactly alike.

If you were like a time and space effect blindspot, that could cover why you move easily and why you can brute force someone to your space. Only taking away potentials in an area, not adding.

[time5kip]

[ There's an half smile at that and he just looks at him, hands into his pants pockets ]

You're having the time of your life with all this theorizing, aren't you.