behemoth, meet the opposition

[mrglam]

Sadde doesn't seem quite able to focus on homework at the moment. He's fidgeting, and sometimes stares off into space for long periods of time before James has to snap him out of it.

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[peterxy]

"Um, what do you want me to do? Boop the glove?"

[thinkering]

"Yeah, just a little ways. I don't lose memories, I'm a reasonable experimental target."

[peterxy]

She squints at the glove. "Can you, like, stand up, walk around a bit, then come back?"

[thinkering]

"Sure." Lorica stands up, walks around a bit, and comes back.

[peterxy]

Rewind watches, then squints at the glove again, and nods. "Yeah, like, the glove counts as separate from you if it's not, you know, around you. Like, if I try to rewind the glove five seconds, I'll rewind all of you, but if I try it far enough that you were standing up, then I rewind just the glove." And she demonstrates, touching the glove with a finger and causing it to appear mid-air somewhere Lorica had been.

[thinkering]

Lorica catches it and puts it back on. "That sounds almost like a safety - if you rewound somebody's outfit and it had previously been somewhere they were now intersecting - can you get anything to appear intersected with anything else under other circumstances?"

[peterxy]

"No. The colors disappear if there's something in the way. Or, not disappear, but just, um, the part of them that's... in the way? Like..." She stands up then starts gesturing around to indicate the places Lorica had been. "If I put something here," she says, occupying one of those places, "then I can't rewind you so you'd be in this specific place, but I can rewind you before or after this."

[thinkering]

"But air's fine. If I... blow up a balloon... then I assume you rewind it as a unit? Would the air rewind back into my lungs or would that be blocked off?"

[peterxy]

Shrug. "Dunno. Never tried that."

[thinkering]

"Do you know how you work underwater?"

[peterxy]

"Newp."

[thinkering]

"Well, I know what we're doing when we block out some time for power testing, then."

[peterxy]

"Sounds cool!"

[thinkering]

"It'll be fun. Do I seem odd to your power in any way at all that might mean I don't make a good example, besides the fact that I remember it?"

[peterxy]

She squints. "No, not really. I mean, it's really weird that you remember it, but the colors work the same way."

[thinkering]

"Okay, good, no need to comb the other Wards for people willing to experimentally lose memories. Me and robots and balloons."

[peterxy]

"And water!"

[thinkering]

"Yep! Ooh - if you rewind someone who's been, say, shot, does the bullet appear in motion again or just pop into place where it was with no momentum and fall?"

[peterxy]

"If I don't rewind it far back enough that the bullet hadn't been shot yet, it'll be in motion."

[thinkering]

"It'd require very good reaction time to make tactical use of that but it's good to know."

[peterxy]

"Mmhm."

[thinkering]

"Make a note of anything else you want to test. For now, we've had a long day, and I bet you could use a nap or something."

[peterxy]

Pause. "Uh, yeah, actually. Wow I'm tired, I didn't even notice that."

[thinkering]

"It'll sneak up on you."

[peterxy]

"Mmhm. Yeah, I'm gonna."