Looking For A Lost Friend

[museicalmarty]

Have a confused Marty wandering around the general question area, looking like he's searching for something -- or, rather, someone. "Where the hell -- okay, you know what? Place is for questions -- anybody seen Victor? He said he was going to 'clear his head' about an hour ago, and we thought he'd be back by now."

[For those curious, Victor does happen to be in the Nexus -- passed out on a rather large couch that Marty just hasn't come across yet, thanks to the weird way space and directions work in this place. Maybe it thought he needed the sleep]

Comments

[museicalmarty]

Probably. And hell, you could BE a lobster if you wanted. A giant one, sure, but it wouldn't be THAT hard, would it?

Heh, awesome.

[palmerthing]

Yeah. They need water, so I couldn't do it here, but I could do it.

[museicalmarty]

[jokingly] What, can't figure out how to make yourself a land lobster? Or are they too weird for that?

[palmerthing]

The breathing would be rather difficult, I'd have to rearrange some things. Lungs take up a lot of space, you know?

[museicalmarty]

I -- never really thought about it until this minute. [looks at his own chest] Guess they do for the whole "inflating" thing, huh?

[palmerthing]

It's very annoying, honestly, but oxygen is hard to collect without a pretty broad surface and lungs can be full of little wrinkles for that. Better than trying to breathe through your skin.

[museicalmarty]

Yeah, I don't think that would work out for most things. If only because any time you got any major gunk on you, you'd be struggling for air.

[palmerthing]

It would be hard even just to go out in the rain.

[museicalmarty]

And the award for "worst and creepiest way to drown" goes to. . .

[palmerthing]

Pretty sure we didn't need or want an award for that.

[museicalmarty]

Well, the category exists now, sooooo. . . [smirks] Look, this is gonna happen when we talk weird and creepy biology.

[palmerthing]

Yeah, I know. Probably a whole bunch of other unfortunate awards we could come up with in fact.

[museicalmarty]

Yeah, I imagine most of the stuff you could twist yourself into would win some weird ones.

[palmerthing]

That could be a game if we ever get bored enough, invent prizes for me to win.

[museicalmarty]

Heh, yeah. I think Dee would be into that. If only because she could think up weird prizes for herself too.

[palmerthing]

Oh yeah? I thought she only had the two shapes.

[museicalmarty]

She does, but she's pretty creative. Plus she could just give herself awards for "shiniest," "most DeLoreany," stuff like that, if she wanted.

[palmerthing]

*Palmer laughs.* Alright, that's fair I guess. Since I'd win so many and all.

[museicalmarty]

Gotta leave a FEW for the other shapeshifter in the room, even if she can't do more than one!

[palmerthing]

I don't think I can be as shiny as metal anyway. Or car-shaped for that matter, wheels are hard.

[museicalmarty]

Yeah, I don't think there's anything natural that runs on wheels. That's kinda reserved for man-made stuff.

[palmerthing]

Some things evolution just can't do. What use is half a wheel? Or even a whole wheel, unless you have roads?

[museicalmarty]

Yeah, exactly -- I don't see animals paving down parts of the jungle.

[palmerthing]

Thankfully. Humans cause enough trouble . . .

[museicalmarty]

I know we don't have a great track record for taking care of the planet. If the scientists hadn't found you, global warming might have eventually let you out.