semievilgenius (semievilgenius) wrote in dc_nextgen,
@ 2013-03-23 23:02:00

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Meme: "Finger-Trap"
Max was carefully working on a concept for one of the defenses he was hired to create for the New Guardians' headquarters. He had a prototype set up, but it was a far cry from what he had been trying to make. Still, it was interesting enough not to discard completely. So he set it aside on the lab table while he worked on the next version.

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	bwa_ha_ha 2013-03-27 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	"Okay, get that going and let's see what we can see." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-03-27 10:19 pm UTC (link)
	"Well I'll have to do it one-handed, so I may be a bit. Don't worry, I don't intend on crashing your date," Max assured. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2013-03-27 10:38 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm not cancelling the date, no matter what. I can make this work." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2013-03-27 10:43 pm UTC (link)
	"It's just a date, Ri. If we have to reschedule, it's no big deal." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-03-27 10:52 pm UTC (link)
	"I'll get the damn thing off," Max muttered. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2013-03-27 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	Riley just huffs and puts his non-restrained hand in his pocket. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2013-03-27 11:10 pm UTC (link)
	Okay, something strange going on here. Weird. Well. Weirder than usual. "All right," she said. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-03-27 11:32 pm UTC (link)
	Max bites his lip to avoid saying any number of things he'd like to say right now. "Is there a way we could somehow temporarily turn the ring off?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

boosted_gold
2013-03-28 01:03 am UTC (link)

Riley shakes his head. "Not that I know of or that Dad ever told me about. It takes a certain amount of will to get it to start up in the first place, so this right here--" he points at his feet on the floor, "--is about as 'off' as it gets while it's still on my finger." He looks at the energy bands. "As far as I can tell, it's on minimal power to keep your handcuff things going, and the safety mechanisms in it won't let me take it off while it's still running.

The Legion didn't want any of its members to wind up as street pizza because of a bad fit or sweaty fingers. Go figure."

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	semievilgenius 2013-03-28 03:46 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah..go figure." Max got his camera out and started to fiddle with it carefully with his free hand. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2013-03-28 09:54 pm UTC (link)
	"Hmm. Maybe... a positive gravity field? If you can match the level of anti-grav the ring's putting out, the two fields should cancel and it should shut down." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2013-03-28 10:44 pm UTC (link)
	"Umm... I'm not very comfortable with gravity fields being up close and personal. That seems like the sort of thing that could make internal organs... not be internal anymore." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-03-28 10:59 pm UTC (link)
	"..I hate to admit it but that's actually a possibility," Max conceded to Dinah. "There, got the wifi connection up." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2013-03-28 11:16 pm UTC (link)
	"All right, hang on... patching in now..." She brought up the feed on her computer screen. "Hmm. Yeah. Grav field manipulation's still my best guess." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-03-28 11:52 pm UTC (link)
	"Perhaps, but we'll have to fine-tune things a bit so we're not launched into orbit." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2013-03-31 06:04 pm UTC (link)
	"Can I renew my vote for carrying on as normal and just waiting this out? It'd only be a couple days..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2013-03-31 07:53 pm UTC (link)
	"Don't worry, Ri. We'll do all the math and work it out just fine. This is a job for... SCIENCE!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-03-31 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	Max slowly turns to Dinah's voice. "Oh yes, that didn't sound ominous at all. And they say I'm 'mad'." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2013-03-31 08:07 pm UTC (link)
	"Not mad, just cranky. And Dinah, you do remember that the first time you said something was 'for SCIENCE' you lit me on fire?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2013-03-31 08:10 pm UTC (link)
	"Your hair grew back," she pointed out. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-03-31 08:11 pm UTC (link)
	"You set him on FIRE?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2013-03-31 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	"...We were testing to see if we could jumpstart his metagene. ...Which he turned out not to have." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	boosted_gold 2013-03-31 09:19 pm UTC (link)
	"That's why I went through 4th Grade with no eyebrows. The girls kept fighting to get to draw me new ones." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	semievilgenius 2013-03-31 09:29 pm UTC (link)
	"...sad thing is I still would have preferred that to my childhood," Max mutters. "Hmm, maybe a temporary EMP pulse..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	bwa_ha_ha 2013-03-31 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	"It grew back, Ri." "That might work, Max" Dinah agreed. "How shielded is the rest of your stuff, though?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)