013 - You used to be much more..."muchier." You've lost your muchness.

[notdreaming]

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Um. What happens if I broke it?

[ Kara looks vaguely terrified, and she's holding what appears to be Dean's (or maybe Ben's, has anyone noticed how alike they look?) porcelain head gingerly by its hair. The rest of the doll is conspicuously absent. ]

I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to, it just sort of... crumbled in my hand.

[ His feet are on the floor somewhere. ]

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[notdreaming]

Right now I think that's the opposite of a problem.

[surfaceshine]

That's because you're still in apologize mode.

I've moved on to what the hell does it mean mode.

[notdreaming]

Well... we don't actually know that it hasn't happened to anyone else, do we? The only reason we know about you is because I talked to you about it.

[surfaceshine]

Me 'n Ned, so far.

But we have about a dozen things in common, and that's just counting what I know about.

[notdreaming]

So we should ask around, find out what everyone else is up to with these dolls.

[surfaceshine]

Might have to wait until the flood dies down. Everyone's all riled up finding their own doll right now.

...which, where's yours?

[notdreaming]

I don't know. I haven't had any problems, it didn't seem important.

[ Somebody's a little caught up in her own invulnerability. ]

[surfaceshine]

We don't know what's important and what's not right now. All we know is what's different.

[Goddamn Kryptonians. Dean forgot how terrible the combination of invulnerability and youth can really be.]

[notdreaming]

So?

[ Worse: newfound invulnerability plus already hard-headed teenager. ]

[surfaceshine]

You're into science. This ain't so far off from that:

Find what's different, find what else is different, find out what they have in common, and yahtzee.

[notdreaming]

We would need a baseline for the flood too. The only way we could be accurate would be to interview every person on the barge.

[surfaceshine]

Or as many as we can. I know.

Most people are doing their own interviewing: cut out the ones that're actively looking for the people doing shit to their dolls.

Maybe cut out the people that are doing the shit. Not sure about that one yet.

[notdreaming]

You can't discard anyone until you've looked at the data. We don't know if there's a one way reaction, two way, or none at all. We don't know anything.

[surfaceshine]

We don't have time for the finer details right now though. Pick the biggest difference - I'm just a regular human and I didn't feel anything while most everyone else seems to be feeling something - and start there.

It's not actually a scientific study. It's triage.

[notdreaming]

You don't triage to try and figure out what's happening. You triage to stop what you can. That would be much easier.

[surfaceshine]

The first thing comes second, after we've stopped what we can.

Glad we're on the same page.