[network] @featherydouche; video; unsafe medical experiments for fun and profit; morning 190 [open]

[mrcreamsicles]

[No text today! Instead, the viewers of Norfinbury get a video showing a weird orange bird guy filmed from inside a house. In addition to the shades, behind which a faint orange glow is visible, he's got on the standard peacoat people receive here. It's the same violent shade of orange as the rest of him.]

Hey. A bunch of you already know by now, but the name's Davesprite, and I'm this thing called a sprite and I'm part crow.

[He caws demonstratively.]

But I'm posting this because House and I just did some experiments about the whole nonhuman thing yesterday. See, some people were positing that maybe I only look weird because of distorted perceptions and junk, so we wanted to test basically if I'm the way I should be or not.

Thing one, I've got a hole through the middle of my chest where my sword used to go, because sprites are weird. Don't worry about it. Watson told me how normal objects found here go right through anomalies, but stuff coated in rubble dust hits them. So he and Sherlock wanted me to try to stick some rubble in my sword hole. Spoilers, it worked.

Thing two, my blood's bright yellow like somebody cracked a glowstick open, and it doesn't look like a human's under a microscope. Since the admin said my bloodtype's been "adjusted", House wanted to inject some of it into himself to see if he could. And that worked too.

If you want to go and lecture us about how that was dangerous and stupid and we could have gotten ourselves killed: Yeah, I know, but too late. Sometimes you gotta be stupid to get science done. And now we've confirmed that looking nonhuman is still real and not just some illusion cast on our senses via the nanomachines, and that regular humans can accept "adjusted" blood with the right type.

Thing three's got nothing to do with the experiments, but House wanted me to share that he found an SD card back on day 183 with Andromeda and Winter talking some more. If you saw the post I made about the card I found a while back, the one where they were talking about the cult? It sounds like this one relates to that.

[Here at the end Davesprite links a few files. First are video recordings of him and House performing the experiments described above. His blood in the relevant experiment is indeed a yellow as he said and slightly luminescent. Along with this he includes a couple photos of his blood taken under a microscope. The blood cells aren't human or avian, but a shape that looks somewhere between both.]

[Next, he includes the audio file of Winter and Andromeda talking.]

(OOC: Replies may come from either Davesprite or House!)

Comments

[eclecticbassist]

[ "Aplastic anemia is a rare condition in which your body doesn't produce enough blood cells because of damage to the hematopoietic stem cells in your bone marrow. Marie Curie never really acknowledged the danger she was in, but I think she would have hated all the medical quackery with radium. Her daughter, Irène, died of leukemia ten years after accidentally being exposed to polonium when a sealed capsule on her laboratory bench exploded. It sounds like a superhero's origin story but she just got cancer. They were both kind of old when they died; sixty-six and fifty-eight, respectively. They had enough time to make sure the next generation could carry on their work and that makes me think of Grandpa, even though he was a lot older when he died. Sometimes I would hand him tools or parts or uranium while he tinkered with Jadebot—" ]

i do my best ;)
depleted uranium is only a real hazard if you ingest it anyway

[ Jade really likes talking about nuclear physics. She just does most of it in her head so she doesn't annoy people. ]

the concept of a nuclear winter is kind of tricky!
for one thing the name is a misnomer
the global climatic cooling is thought to occur after a loooooot of firestorms, which are not unique to nuclear devices
wildfires cause them all the time, and can produce minor "nuclear winters" confined to the hemisphere they burned in
the cooling is caused by soot lifted into the atmosphere blocking some of the suns light
time and a little rainfall removes the aerosols very efficiently!
lots of theoretical models ignore rainout in favor of more apocalyptic conditions
its also been like a hundred years since the bombing happened, right? and the buildings are made of metal?
there was not much fuel for a firestorm, i think
a nuclear winter would have ended by now!!
well.... assuming the rest of the worlds nuclear weapons were not launched :\
the hypothesis is that about 100 firestorms would be enough to cause dramatic climate change
ideally in the summer when there is intense sunlight
but it is unclear how long it would take for the aerosols to be removed
i guess a century would be...... relatively back to normal??
there is no known threshold where the stratosphere is permanently altered

anyway, house and ecks had a few and gave them to us!
combined with the ones we found that is like..... 8?
they seem to resemble some of the current residents
one looks like brian! which is.... a little disconcerting
but hopefully the spiders are just really into arts and crafts >_>

[mrcreamsicles]

hmm
it looked like summer in the video
winter mentioned it was summer when she last remembers being in russia so thats gotta be when then backup weve talked to was made
and i think miller mentioned summer too when that mystery disaster that got the admin to order him into cryowhatever happened
id have to check back again
we also know the town kept going after that because that forcefield protected part of it so who knows what future disaster went down
aside from winter being stuck in russia still with no view outside we havent got much to go on
the admin told watson something about restocks too which if you ask me says theres gotta be somewhere to get the restock from
but the time period is past how long session is likely to last so easy transport probably isnt a thing anymore
usps shut down its service maybe

you want to tell me more about the made of metal thing
i havent gone prying up the building materials save for digging some nails and junk out of the rubble

im just gonna stop wondering why creepy stuff like that happens
the towns messing with us what else is new
and until it becomes relevant like the eyes and the cult nonsense then guess what that mystery can sit right where it is

[eclecticbassist]

ive seen a few people suggest time-resetting shenanigans as an explanation for how supplies get "restocked" between sessions
which is to say they dont
that would make sense when people are being grabbed from other universes right?
you cant mess with space without stepping in a steaming pile of time!!

it seems that every building in town is made of some kind of metal that hasnt been identified yet
i would guess lead because its very efficient at blocking radiation

[ The effectiveness of a shielding material in general increases with its atomic number, and that's kind of neat. Lead's atomic number is 82, which is the second-highest atomic number of all practically stable elements. ]

you cant really tell the walls are weird unless you scrape away the paint on the walls and stuff

i would really like to know who or whatever made these dolls though!
maybe we could talk to them like you did with andromeda
the dolls must look like us for a reason

[mrcreamsicles]

hm
the thing about time here is its hard to get a read on how it actually works
i dont have special time perception and even if i did i doubt it would work here
plus we gotta contend with knowing we cant always trust our eyes because the nanomachines mess with stuff
like when the snow was stopped in the air back
uh
you know when

[Murder night. He's... going to skip over that. His feelings about it are still complicated, but he knows it's not her fault.]

steph told me about some other incident here where time felt all weird and stretched out too
and someone else here
im not saying who because they want to keep it on the down low
someone who had time powers before got jumped back and forth across time and space around the town that second time the static happened
back when you were seeing green everywhere
time doesnt seem to work the same way in every universe either
or at least time travel doesnt but that probably implies stuff about the mechanics overall
science man who invented it
probably some stuffy old dudes got together forever ago and argued out the laws of physics and banged gavels all bam we hereby ratify that gravity makes apples conk dudes in the head

[Jade is always going to be the big scientist between them.]

anyway
dolls
you talk to them if you want but im gonna steer clear
i got enough creepy shit to worry about already