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[unmasking]

—Uh, hey!

[Peter waves at the camera. He looks like he has it on the wrong level, and then he fixes it to not be looking mostly at his mid-eyes until he looks better, much better, without a camera giving everyone a near immediate relationship with his nose and mouth and probably pores. Look, he can accomplish things.]

—Sorry about that. And whatever you might've seen instead for a moment. I'm looking for a lab, and I'd say "hypothetically, say a guy is looking for a lab of all his own," but really, I need a lab to conduct some experiments. I promise I'm not planning to blow up any showers or the kitchen or anything like that, I—I generally avoid fires. Generally. [Except that one time in chemistry, but he's much more graceful now.] It's just that I'm used to having a lab of all my own, and I've checked the map a few times, and ... well—I don't wanna assume, you know, that I've got access to that.

[It's only now that he realizes that he should've gone for upgraded webshooters, but he didn't really want to ditch what Tony Stark gave him. They're from Tony Stark! They were a birthday present from Tony Stark.]

And this also came up with a buddy ... a pal ... you know, a new guy here, who's new like me, that maybe we should come up with a way to track the disturbances in the—[Force. Don't be a nerd, Parker.]—in the way things are here. Has anyone tried that yet?

Oh, and I'm Peter Parker. Yeah, I'm a nerd. You guessed it. But what can I say? I managed a lab in my own room back home, I can't go without here. Especially here.

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[khajidont]

If you know Carlos, he might be interested in figuring something out. He seemed pretty into scientific research last time I spoke to him.

[That, and he wanted to dissect a necromorph. Which says a whole lot about people dedicated to scientific inquiry, doesn't it?

But that's not the bit that really caught his attention.]

What sorta thing d'you have in mind for the whole tracking the disturbances in the Force deal? [Because come on, there's only one way to finish the phrase 'disturbances in the', and that's not 'the way things are here'.]

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[unmasking]

Carlos is my roommate ...

[That he hasn't exactly spoken to. Peter is bad at this stuff. He makes a pretty visible note—as in, he leans over to write something down—to do that. As in, to stop just coming in to crash without talking to people.]

Something that can track signatures. Energy signatures or gamma signatures, depending on what it comes from. They have a thing like that to track bad guys at home. Or the Hulk. I—uh, I saw it on the news once. [Smooth, very smooth.]

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[khajidont]

Yeah? That makes it easy to get ahold of him.

[Jaime is super jealous. Carlos seems like a nice scientist. He gets the crazy one.]

I dunno what the Hulk is, but I think we've already got a few guys around here who can sense energy. [And by 'a few guys', he... mostly means himself, not that he knows how his own tech works. He taps his chin, considering. People are fallible, but machines? They could definitely use one of those.] D'you know how the machines they've got in your world work?

[fe_male]

Had a better lab down on the planet, but there's ways to get things done up here. Depends on where you know to head in the storage areas. Or the private living quarters. [ hi his roommate apparently lost a head recently and it's not his own maybe you've seen him ] What sort of flavor are you aiming for?

[unmasking]

You don't recognize me, do you?

[Damn, Tony Stark, and not his Tony, but at least he sounds like Tony. Better to get that out of the way either way. There's a small chance that maybe he just doesn't remember him.

Actually, Peter doesn't think that's possible at all. Birthday presents usually imply some level of intimacy, and Tony even remembered to give him one.]

And ... uh, well, I'm looking to make a stock of something, semi-regularly, at least by the looks of it. I promise it's a good thing, but I can't really—I mean, I'd actually tell you, just not over ...

[He waves his hand at the screen.]

[fe_male]

[ He at least has the modicum of grace available to look marginally apologetic, since it sucks meeting people who aren't familiar with you on a one-way street. ]

Even if it was a bad thing, as long as it's interesting. To a degree. [ He's mostly actually surprised that you recognize him, and it seems to be positive. Most people who come in knowing him seem to be angry for some reason or another. ] Sorry though. You can swing by if you want, reintroduce yourself.

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[lar]

Nerds are fine, considering we have all kinds of weird going on, too.

[ Have a contemplative stare here. ]

I'm Ella, and I'm not sure of how's our lab situation.

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[unmasking]

Hey, Ella. And yeah, a nerd might save the world some day and all that. Better to treat them nicely. Or let them have a lab. Right?

... Okay, so that was a little presumptuous of me.

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[lar]

[ She simply smiles, because hey, nerds. Strangely normal after all. ]

Hey, you can never be too presumptuous in a place where deities and cyborgs and wizard are all crammed together, you'll get swept by the huge influx of pride coming out of us otherwise.

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[badnewsboy]

[a Loki is peering at you +1 Loki, Peter.]

Did you find a lab for science yet?

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[unmasking]

I've got leads.

Are you a man of science, Loki?

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[oldsoldiersneverdie]

The changes in the timestream, you mean?

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[unmasking]

I didn't mean that, but that's a really terrible plan, too.

[pride_of_amarcia]

Yeah, there's not a lot of space for things like that here...

[unmasking]

Not even like a tiny lab? I don't really need a whole testing center, just something to mix chemicals.

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[zessica]

A lab? Like with beakers and dissection tools? What would you do with that here?

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[unmasking]

Well, I have a thing I need to help out here, and I need to make it. So honestly, something ... small would help. But apparently there are a couple things around here if you know the right people.

Beyond that, I think it'd be a good idea to have a read on things. If this base was here for a while, I'd like to see what's up with the moon, if anything was done to it, stuff like that. I think it's better to act on our own than to have everything fed to us.

[Read: he hasn't exactly been granted the best information about the Initiative.]

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[imperfectness]

[Hello Peter, here is a Carlos smiling and pushing his safety goggles up out of his face.]

Oh, hey! You're the new roomie? I'm Carlos. We have a lab down here, not far from the- uhh- agriculture wing.

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[unmasking]

Yeah, I'm feeling pretty foolish now on that front. It seems like it might be good I asked, though—sounds like I wasn't the only one in the dark about it, at least!

Anyway, hi, Carlos, it's good to meet you, too. Sorry, it's been busy.

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[therapeutics]

What kind of experiments? [ she inquired, being a snoop, peering over her glasses. and what kind of lab would facilitate such things? if the possibility existed to get a private lab, well - she wouldn't reject the opportunity. as long as she got one, too. ] If you don't mind me asking. In the name of science, and all that.

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[unmasking]

Well, the personal thing was just a ... personal thing.

[Good to get that out of the way. He hopes it's a big enough hint of "that's my own business."]

But I'd like to be able to test some things here. See how much the composition of this moon matches mine. See if any of those ... thingies have any chemical reads we can get on them.

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[ardor]

A new guy here who's new like you, huh? [Despite the question, she seems pretty amused.]

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[unmasking]

Yeah, and I happen to come from Redundancyville, USA. Though that'd probably be somewhere else, like in Florida. Which thankfully, not from Florida.

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[mallarkey]

What disturbances? Oh my God, are there actually disturbances up here?

[ Why is space terrifying? No, it's okay, he's calm. ]

I mean, hi Pete. Is that really your hobby? Science... stuff?

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[unmasking]

Well, see, there were those zombie-things, and I was thinking, as obvious as it might be that they were just a thing that needed to be dealt with, I'm thinking we need to be more prepared. Besides, when you factor in all the time movement and the potential problems with opening up literal doors to other worlds, you have to consider these things.

[There's a pause, and he doesn't look that bashful, because hey, at least he knows this guy. Sort of.]

So you're right, I guess. See! I proved it.