Forty-Third Theory [Mostly Action]

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((General post for the next two weeks or so. Preemptive tl;dr, find him anywhere, though suggestion of day/place/activity is appreciated.))

[As May begins, and as a fairly large percentage of May goes by, Donatello can be found doing the following things:

-Jogging through the woods, tracking down any signs of life detected by the departed Mr. Scott's not-really-new-and-not-exactly-improved-either tricorder. ((New Feathers, feel free to jump in here.))

-Hauling huge loads of books to and from the library.

-Studying these books - in and around House 55, at the library itself, by the fountain, at the coffee shop, alongside the river... pretty much anywhere.

-Copying diagrams from the books into his journal.

-Working at the smithy, trying to create physical equivalents of these diagrams.

-Digging through bins at the item shop.

-Practicing wind magic or good old-fashioned ninjutsu in various open areas around the edges of the village.

And a few more specific actions:]


[Don needs a few minutes of your time. If you don't dare to approach him while he's working, he'll come looking for you.]



[Some rainy evening, Don will show up at Robert's door with a duffel bag and a goofy grin. You owe him a nanocomputer demonstration - and he brought you a gift.]



Frederic, a question, if you have a minute...

Comments

i like how these dates are going backwards

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[He's on the roof of C1, the furthest apartment building from home, Mike how do you do that.]

Aah!

are they? /checks LOL

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

[Uh, ninja?]

Geez, Donnie, chillax. What're you doing, anyway?

i don't know /quits pretending to be organized

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[He swears you're also part-bloodhound.]

[Don hands Mike the book he nearly just dropped off the building.]

Decompression sickness (DCS) is due to the formation of inert gas bubbles in tissues and/or blood due to supersaturation, where either the mechanical stresses caused by bubbles or their secondary cellular effects cause organ dysfunction. DCS can be caused by a reduction in ambient pressure during ascent from a dive, rapid altitude excursion, in space or a hyperbaric/hypobaric chamber. Bubble formation occurs when decompression occurs sufficiently fast that tissue inert gas partial pressure exceeds ambient pressure, causing supersaturation and bubble formation. The resulting clinical manifestations include joint pains, cutaneous eruptions or rashes, neurological dysfunction, cardiorespiratory symptoms and pulmonary edema, shock and death. Several mechanisms have been hypothesized by which bubbles may exert their deleterious effects. These include direct mechanical disruption of tissue, occlusion of blood flow, platelet deposition and activation of the coagulation cascade, endothelial dysfunction and capillary leakage, complement activation and leukocyte-endothelial interaction.

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

[Mike reads the first sentence, and then looks at Don.]

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[No response. He's in genius-land.]

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

Donnie! [Waving a hand in front of your face.] Awake, my genius brother! I have need of your skills!

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Hm?

[Donnie Delayed Reaction.]

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

The mallies gave me video games but they're all different. Fix it pleeeeeeeeeeeease!

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[His brain is still on nitrogen bubbles. He needs a better run-up to what you're thinking.]

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

They gave me a Playstation 3, but the games are all for this weird system I've never heard of, and they gave me Xbox controllers!

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[He rubs the ridge between his eyes.] What format are the games?

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

Wiiiiiii. [What kinda weirdo name is that?]

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[What?]

I mean, are they CD or cartridge?

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

[Oh.]

They're little CDs.

[i_speak_softly]

I can probably rip the data.

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

[He knew you'd come through for him!]

And the controllers? Oh, and the cords that came with it don't match anything.

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I'll work on an adapter. [In between everything else he has to do.]

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

[You like being busy.]

Thank you thank you thank you!

I'll make you some pie for dessert tonight! And... and cookies. And... [He's not going to offer to do your chores, Donnie. Sorry.]

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[Ulp.]

Please don't.

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

Awww, Donnie. The one time Splinter's telling you to eat sweets, and you don't want any.

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[He buries his face in his hands.] No more.

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

[Mike pats your shell, laughing.]

Then maybe I can repay you with some creative smuggling.

[i_speak_softly]

You know who needs to be smuggled to?

[Open-ended question to see if you spontaneously agree with his assessment.]

[the-mikester.livejournal.com]

Dude, Raph'll be so much less cranky when he doesn't have to eat bran muffins all the time.

[Nope.]

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[A pause, while Don weighs the potential consequences of divulging these details, and then he says:]

Robert is like this.

[He indicates something about the diameter of a personal pizza.]