futurology | !IMPORTANT! video; username: 82736775

[The video is from everyone's favorite camera-shy mad scientist, 82736775. This time, he's not even present in a carefully-framed way; he appears to just be using his jewellery as a Go-Pro.

The view is a large machine in the middle of the woods. It's crudely constructed, with loud, grinding gears and exhaust tubes belching smoke. There are three figures scurrying about -- Dipper, Shiki, and Hide, for those of you who would recognize them -- pulling levers and turning cranks and struggling to hear each other over the machine's groaning. Jars of fairy goop hang off the thing like lanterns in a coal mine.]

Listen uuuup, bitcheesss!

[The view jerks, then readjusts as the sky comes into focus.]

Thanks to my genius and everybody else's scrappy, can-do attitude, we're about to make scientific history. By which I mean w-we're about to blow this bullshit away.

[His hand enters the frame. He is flipping off the sky.]

Engage Operation: Fuck You, Magic!

[The frame stays centered on the sky, though the machine's groaning reaches almost deafening levels. Above the cacophony, there's a high-pitched whining: something is warming up. All over Chantes, the ground shakes.

Then bright green fills the screen and everything is so loud that it's almost silent. Those of you who are at a distance may see a gigantic green beam shooting into the sky just before everything turns bright white for a few long seconds.

And suddenly, there is light. Stars. Two moons. The sky is back.

82736775 is laughing maniacally. He swings the frame around to the giant machine, which has blasted wide open: smoking panels have fallen to the ground, exposing frayed wires. His assistants are also on the ground, looking dazed.]

Suck my dick, Narnia! Haha, yeah!

Now let's figure out what to do and get the hell off this rock! Team science, ouuuut!

[ ooc. IMPORTANT! the sun is now returned. from this point on, there are normal day-night cycles in chantes! be aware there are two moons, and the sun rises in the west. use this post to discuss what to do now! threadjacking encouraged. thank you to my fellow players and our modteam for making this plot so successful! i love you all.

UPDATE! check this thread for conversation on a peaceful option. ]

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There's nothing suspicious about this. A Pearl and a Peridot should never fuse.

Because you hate each other or is this your caste thing?

Both. Gems of different kinds aren't supposed to fuse. The cutesy spin she put on it is putting fusion lightly. If I fused with someone other than another Peridot, I would stop existing.

I dunno. Might be nice.

And instead you'd have someone a lot worse. I've done fusion experiments before.

[Whoop, time to make this a little more private.]

I'd be interested to hear your r-results.

[Ugh, right. She said she'd share information with him, didn't she... ]

...

Gems can actively choose to fuse as long as their gem remains whole and intact. A gem, once cracked or shattered, can't fuse.

Willingly.

But it's not impossible.

Hold up. Cracked or shattered meaning what, exactly?

What is your... human central processing unit?

The brain. [Is she implying she doesn't have... a brain...] I'll show you a diagram later.

Your "brain" is my "gem." A cracked gem would mean I would have split your brain. Make sense? A Gem with a cracked gem would likely function about as well as a human would with a split brain.

So shattered would be complete annihilation. Gotcha.

[So her fusion experiments would have been on corpses and...]

Y-your experiments were sanctioned by your Diamond, or was this a pet project?

Officially sanctioned, yes.

They were done on the shattered gems of rebels destroyed during the war. We don't overpopulate, and so we don't shatter gems unless it's necessary, and so these experiments were new data for us. They were entirely mindless, without conscious thought, and attacked anything nearby that made sound. It was fascinating, but just further reassurance that fusion without an important reason and singular goal, is dangerous.

Edited 2016-01-29 20:29 (UTC)

[Remind Rick to ask how Gems do reproduce...]

You said you experimented on cracked gems, too. Just as mindless? And what about intact gem experimentation?

I didn't work on cracked fusion. But I imagine it wouldn't be much better. Like I said, two types of Gem aren't supposed to fuse, because you lose who you are supposed to be. Pair that with a Gem that's already damaged, and you'd get something entirely out of control.

Intact Gem fusion of the same type is allowed only in specific scenarios. There isn't much to experiment with there. You just get a more powerful version of the base Gem.

[Rick is quiet for a second, thinking. He is too drunk for this right now, but hell if he wants to waste the time sobering up to continue the conversation.]

S-so fusing an intact gem with a fragment of another type is out of the question. Kinda disappointing. I bet there are plenty of applications for cross-fusion [he just made that term up] if you can work around loss of, uh, self.

Proprietary-wise, it is absolutely out of the question. Current source material-wise, also out of the question.

...But still not impossible.

[ She'd do it, if she had the resources, and was given permission to. It could be interesting. ]

I guess there could be. The statistics of the then fused gems would be unpredictable. You could get the benefits of one gem's statistics, but also amplify their weaknesses, depending on who the fusion is with. It also requires a shared level of thought between the two that fuse. Anything less than that, and they'd be fighting for control the whole duration of the fusion.

Y'know... given the right materials, I bet I could come up with a close approx--approximation of a gem. An artificial one. It'd be lab testing only, to mitigate some kind of psychotic fusion on a rampage, buuuut... data might be interesting.

[If he is worried Peridot may have some kind of moral objection to a lab-grown Gem "brain" used purely for experimentation, he doesn't mention it.]

I doubt it.

[ And not because she has any moral objections, because as Rick might have guessed by now- she doesn't. ]

Making Gems is a huge production. You need drills, injectors, proper terrain, a solid planetary core... This planet might be good for it, but without any more of my technology, I can't tell.

Making an artificial one, and not only making it to actually form in your lifetime, is probably impossible.

...But if you want to try, I guess I can help. I'm a certified Kindergartener, so if there's anyone that would be able to help you with this, it's me.

[ MIGHT WANT TO EXPLAIN "Kindergartener" DOESN'T MEAN ACTUAL TODDLER. ]

[Rick's not about to mention how he can manufacture concentrated dark matter without bothering with large-scale machinery, because that's not really her business. He is pretty sure she is underestimating him, though.]

Okay... first, "Kindergartener." What.

[ She'll underestimate until proven otherwise Rick. ]

A Gem who maintains a Kindergarten. Right, you humans don't have those... It's essentially where Gems are grown.

[Well... that sounds dumb as hell, but he has no real reason to question it.]

Makes... sense. [???] Let's do this shit, then. See what we can do.

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