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[brainmeme]

[The video comes on to someone noisily eating. They're taking ramen noodle packets and ripping open the flavor packs, and pouring the stuff into their mouth. Honestly who would do this.]

Man am I glad Pearl isn't here. I can just hear her right now. [Amethyst transforms into a thin, tall, pointy woman and her voice turns to that high, mocking voice. You know the one. Everyone does it.] "Don't eat mysterious food from strange Gem constructs, Amethyst! You can't know what it's made from! I know everything!" [She takes a huge, ungraceful bite from the dry block of ramen noodles before transforming back.]

Whaaaatever. The food's good. I don't care if some closet spit it out. Probably trying to make me stay forever or something. This is a pretty intense simulation this gem's got going. The room even looks like my old room. Sorta. I kinda have to fill it with stuff still. It looks all empty.

Anyway, since someone might give me a hard time if I take too long and this place is big, if anyone sees a gem that looks like it's powering this place, go ahead and tell me on one of these phones. I mean, I could just look through every room myself, but I really don't want to. And if a bunch of humans are all hanging out here doing nothing anyway, I figure it won't be much more dangerous if you guys help out.

Uh, if you run into a room and it's some kind of death maze or something, though, run away.

Comments

[singloversing]

Really? ...What else can you do then?

[She definitely has his attention now. He's never known anyone who actually had magic powers before, and he's sort of fascinated.]

[brainmeme]

I can change shape into whatever I want. And I'm really tough, it takes a lot to actually hurt me. Oh, right, and I can fuse with other gems! We dance and then come together and get bigger and better!

[singloversing]

You...dance to do that? [That's definitely not what he would have expected.] That's kind of neat. A-All of this is amazing actually! I've never met someone with superpowers before.

[There's Beatrice, but she got cursed so that doesn't really count. That's not really a power. Then there was Fred the talking horse, but that doesn't really count either. He's a horse; he can do what he wants.]

[brainmeme]

Yeah, every gem's got the same powers, basically. Different weapons, but otherwise it's pretty much the same. So it's pretty normal for me. No radioactive waste spill that made me special or anything like that.

[singloversing]

Well, that's...good, I guess? A radioactive waste spill would probably be super bad anyway.

[brainmeme]

Unless it gives you all the powers of a puma or something! Or the ability to fly! Or walk through walls.

[singloversing]

I'm...pretty sure it would still be mostly a bad thing, actually.

[He's no fun.]

[brainmeme]

You're no fun! Don't you watch superhero movies or anything? That's how the regular ol' human gets their powers!

[singloversing]

Does that actually happen to people? I thought it was just a movie thing...

[She's the superhero so she'd probably know, right?]

[brainmeme]

Totally. Happens all the time. You should try it out sometime! [Pearl isn't here to tell her what a horrible idea this is, trying to goad a human into soaking himself in radioactive waste. Who let Amethyst out of the house.]

[singloversing]

Uh...I'll pass, thanks.

[Wirt has no faith and also no sense of adventure whatsoever.]