video | mysterious metal rash

[notwithoutafight]

[ Videl is in the cafeteria having lunch when she turns on her omnicom. She looks uncharacteristically pale and is touching her free hand to her forehead. ]

Hey, um... has anybody been noticing anything weird about themselves since we got back from Braal?

[ Very vague, she knows. How do you ask this kind of question? Instead of stumbling through an unnecessarily confusing explanation, she instead turns her comm over to focus the camera on her left forearm. A portion of her skin, perhaps a handspan in length, has turned a metallic grey, glinting under the cafeteria light. ]

I'm sure it wasn't there when we got back. I didn't notice it at all until like right now. It doesn't itch or anything, but...

[ She brings the comm in really close, trying to give people a better look at the bizarre anomaly on her skin. With awkward balance, she taps it with her fingernail. It makes a very quiet 'tink, tink' sound. ]

Do you think I should go to the med bay?

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[ OOC: Action tags are also welcome if you want you character to be having lunch with Videl. ]

Comments

[nerdninja]

There's a lot we can get from scans that don't even require skin contact. If we know what kind of metal is involved here, we'll know what properties it has and we can make an educated guess about how it's going to behave.

[notwithoutafight]

So like, they'll be able to tell me if it's going consume me in like an hour or if I'll at least get a couple days to say goodbye.

[nerdninja]

Or if it's going to do anything neat like reflect laser beams.

[ He's attempting to be comforting... ]

[notwithoutafight]

[ One of her ever-expressive eyebrows goes up. ]

I think I could live with that.

[nerdninja]

The doctors should be able to figure it out.

[notwithoutafight]

[ She expels the breath she had been holding as she approaches the med. ] Thanks... [ She says with a small but genuine smile. ] I'll let you know how it goes when I'm done in here.

[nerdninja]

If you need any help figuring out the pros later, I'll be around.

[ He's happy to provide all of the scientific reasons that being automatically armored in any particular metal will be totally great in some kind of situation, even if some of those situations aren't terribly likely ones. ]