Why are they called fingers if they don't fing? [video]

[googledox]

[When Brainy turns his omnicom on, he's clearly still in his bed in Medbay. One of the little hover devices is nearby, dangling multiple IV bags that are attached to a cuff on the wrist he's not holding the omnicom with. His hand seems fixed up a little but is still heavily bandaged. The swelling on his face is gone and while he still has some visible darker green bruising, it's clearly healing well.]

[For a moment, he opens his mouth as if he's going to speak. Stops. Opens it again. Stops. Then the train of thought finally leaves the station.]

Fun fact: Coluan neurobiology is quite complicated. Our neurochemicals loathe any competition; how dare those zeta-opioid receptor agonists presume to tell them what to do? Even when they're specifically formulated for my species, it takes very high doses of conventional pain killers to affect the average Coluan's mental state.

[A pause.]

Apropos of nothing, has anyone else noticed the walls of the outpost moving lately?

[He reaches out his hand towards a wall, just sort of vaguely flailing, as if he expects it to be closer than it is.]

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[unrecovered]

[Oh thank God he's okay]

Go back to sleep, Brainy. The walls should be steadier when you wake up.

[googledox]

I've slept approfs -- appromix -- close to 48 hours in a row. I'm very tired of...

[A pause.]

...being tired.

I wanted to see how everyone was doing. It looks as if you're yelling at each other in public, so I'll assume that means everyone is fine.

[unrecovered]

You're also drugged out of your mind.

[...well, he's not wrong.] Pretty much.

You realize the press is going to lose their goddamn minds over you, right?

[googledox]

Naturally. I'm sure they'll be ecstatic about seeing me repeatedly punched in the face.

[unrecovered]

Less that, more "holy shit Brainy took one for the team, look at our redeemed hero."

[Like Brainy needs it. There sure is some sarcasm there.]

[turntex]

yeah they do that sometimes
just get up and stretch their legs maybe reposition a little for a change of pace
its a little disorienting but hey can you blame them
being a wall is probably a really boring existence outside of those occasional jaunts

[googledox]

Don't be ridiculous, Dave, walls don't have appendages.

[He's not arguing that they can't move, just that they don't have legs.]

Clearly, they have an alternate form of locomotion.

[turntex]

well shit youre right
any theories??

[There is nothing in the world he wants more right now than to hear a drugged-up Brainy try to explain the locomotion of walls.]

[googledox]

They're in state of dimensional flus - flusec - flux. Half in our reality, half in another, and in that other reality, there is the most drastic of differences: that they are several feet in a different direction.

[He waves his hand vaguely.]

That's my hypothesis. Further study is required to verify my observations.

[whyarewehere]

Nah. It's definitely the floors.

[ Teasing now, sincere gratitude that Brainy's alive and well la-... well, it's Grif. Probably never. Expressing real things is hard. ]

[googledox]

[He looks down over the side of the bed.]

Well, what do you know, it seems they are.

[goddamngrenades]

Close your eyes, bud, and let the nice opioids do their job okay? Everything'll probably be stable when it's out of your system.

[googledox]

No, it's fine, most of my tracks of consciousness are still resting. Only this one is awake.

[goddamngrenades]

...I'm gonna assume this is part of that wild alien biology at work and read up on it later. Cuz it sounds more complicated than you can probably explain right now.

[unrecovered]

Oh, I'd love to hear this explanation.

[When given the option for harmless fuckery with a drugged teammate, you always go for it.]

[superscholar]

[ yeah, gohan has to wonder just what kind of pain killers brainy has to be on for this post to happen. ]

... How are you feeling?

[googledox]

Like I've spent some time in a centrifuge, but still being alive is certainly novel. I'm told I have the team to thank for that -- everyone's timely intervention and Cortana's emergency medical care saved my life.

Dr. Gym'll said if I'd been delayed from treatment in Medbay for as little as five extra minutes, I almost certainly would've died.

[superscholar]

Well, I'm gonna have to find Cortana, and thank her then. I don't know how any of us would've dealt with it if things had turned out differently.

[ and he meant that. he really meant that. ]

[walkingballpit]

Cheeky, upstart zeta-opioid recepter agonists. It sounds suspiciously too much like antagonists, which - in the battle for cranial supremacy - you have to admit that they are.

[ Robbie isn't laughing. It's not because he thinks laughing will ruin the joke. The situation isn't very funny when there's that many IV lines. He just wants to offer something other than 'how are you?' or 'you should get some rest.' ]

They're clearly the ones moving the walls.

[steelandtemper]

Oh darn, you pulled through. I wanted to see if a Coluan brain made a good AI template.

[Since his life is no longer in danger, actual genuine emotions will not be displayed.]

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[superscholar]

Excuse me, are you Cortana?

[ he only pauses for a second, if only because he knows this is cortana, and he's really just being courteous. ]

If no one has said it yet, thank you for saving him.

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[steelandtemper]

[Dammit Gohan didn't you see the bit about no real feelings.]

I was the only one who could learn his physiology fast enough to matter and my donor is a highly skilled physician. I was the logical choice.

[Legitimately a little confused about being thanked for doing her job.]

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[superscholar]

[ it's called gratitude, dammit. ]

That doesn't mean you don't deserve to be thanked.

[deafleppard]

You're right.

That's a pretty fun fact.

Like, wow.

[pinball_wizard]

They want you to teach them how to dance Brainy.