Okay.

[xp_cyclops]

This is going to sound very odd, but has anyone seen my turtle?

Horatio does not appear to be in his tank.

ETA: Uhhh... how precisely are Catseye's clothes appearing and disappearing as she shifts? I just saw her do it, in the hall...

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ETA: Uhhh... how precisely are Catseye's clothes appearing and disappearing as she shifts?

Biochemically-triggered mimetic polycellular fabric. I was bored the other day.

correction

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he designed it. I sewed it.

really weird stuff.

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[x-forge.livejournal.com]

It's amazing stuff, thank you. Now I want to see if I can get it to adapt to certain power signatures - make it so that some of the energy-projectors around here don't have to worry about setting their clothes on fire.

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it doesn't sew right. it bunches up and doesn't finsih cleanly.

WEIRD.

Re: correction

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

You cannot see it, but I am giving you the rolling of eyes here. You did fine, it looks okay - and I think that once we figured out how to get it to hold stitching, it could probably be machine-produced. Yet another patent idea to hold on to.

Re: correction

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it needs more colors too.

[x-catseye.livejournal.com]

ShinyBitsBoy is doing the long words because they're long words thing again.

NEW TOY!!! :D

*PURR*

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

It all makes sense when you start understanding them, I told you:

Biochemically triggered - remember that you sweat a little when you change? Well, there's a hormone in it that the clothing reacts to. Thus-

Mimetic - the structure of the material has a sort of memory. It's why it can go from collar to clothing so fast.

Polycellular - what it's made of. Feels like silk, wears like cotton, but it's one solid piece instead of a weave.

Really, Catseye. I swear you'll have a head for science one of these days.

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...

COPYCAT CLOTHES!

:D

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

That is... absolutely fascinating. Once we've corralled my turtle, tell me more about it?

Huh. The applications...

[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

...Okay. Wow.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

It's nothing that amazing, really. When you think about it, most textiles have a default state - all it took was convincing the material to hold two "defaults", and accept a biochemical trigger to shift between them. The fact that the stuff doesn't wrinkle was an unexpected side effect.

[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

Yes, well, I don't know that you started out not being able to use your powers without winding up naked....

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

You're a metamorph as well, right. If Clarice is amenable, I think we could probably fix something up that would work.

[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

It did prompt me to learn to stop in the middle, which has been very useful, and I don't strictly need it... I'm not saying it's not a marvelous idea; I just don't want to be any trouble.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Oh, think nothing of it. I wouldn't make stuff if it didn't have a purpose. And Clarice was saying that we need to see if it can be made in other colors.

[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

If you're sure, thank you very much -- and if Clarice winds up too busy, I can sew.

...What color is it currently? I've had my nose to the ground mostly and transforming does things to my colour vision that I didn't stop to translate when I did see her.

(Of course, I could go look now....)

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of course I am!

but I'm telling you, color. not this dull gray stuff.

[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

Oh, didn't see this comment when I asked.

Grey isn't a bad color though....

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but wouldn't a light blue be better? or green?

or POLKADOTS!

[x-rahne.livejournal.com]

Maybe darker blue or green?

Not polkadots.

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And I'm going to get a sample at some point, aren't I? When my students do something exceptionally clever, I do like to see it.