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As the many multiversal guests are gated in, singly or in groups, a crowd slowly begins to form in the entry hall. Lioncourt looks up from her meditation break and claps her hands twice: in moments, a dozen automaton servants file out from the adjoining rooms, hands of gleaming white porcelain holding equally elegant china tea-sets. A pair of the automatons open the doors at the far end of the hall, revealing a tiered rose garden, the stone benches dotted here and there ringing a large central clearing.

"Tea is served, either here or in the gardens: I would appreciate it, however, if some of my guests might proceed onward so as to reduce crowding."

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ambrovimvor

She shudders slightly "Inefficient and a little disturbing."

"Well we do require some food for building blocks, simply not for energy, so we do have a functional digestive tract, though most of the organs are smaller then in a Gen Appendicitis is not common, but does occur occasionally."

Edited Date: 2015-06-09 05:48 pm (UTC)

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scatteredstars

"They wouldn't start with minds," Tyche says absently. "That would be even more inefficient."

"Do you mind if I do some analysis? Visual and audio, nothing invasive." (She has observed Anda's flinch reaction to surgical procedures, even if she isn't entirely sure why)

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ambrovimvor

"I don't mind."

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scatteredstars

Tyche had previously only been using her enhanced senses in a passive, absent-minded way. Now, she retrieves a few more devices, points one at Anda, and... applies all the senses.

Radar (metals, pulse rate, respiration), infrared (temperature, chemical imaging), lidar, ultraviolet, x-ray (the device was an emitter; implants skeletal structure), ultrasound (movement, density, imaging), infrasound (vibrations, heat beat). Chemical sniffer (the other device; analyzes air). Electrical Sense (electrical fields).

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ambrovimvor

Body temperature is several degrees above standard human, there are some unusual hormones, and the nervous system is quite unusual, with lots of extra branches.

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scatteredstars

They have more limbs -- nerves associated with those are to be expected. The other additional nerve tissue is a surprise, however. Tyche looks more closely at that. Can she tell anything more about what is going on there?

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ambrovimvor

there appears to be two mostly distinct sets of additional nervous tissue, connected by a bundle in the centre of the chest, near the heart.

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scatteredstars

Tyche tries to make out more about the central bundle.

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ambrovimvor

There's not much activity (comparatively) there at the moment.

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scatteredstars

Which doesn't tell her very much. Maybe Anda knows more? Tyche relates her findings to her.

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ambrovimvor

"Mmm..yes, that's a channel thing. We have two storage systems for selyn, one for the selyn we use personally, and the other is the selyn we usually give to other Simes. The bit that joins them we call the vraimic node. It's possible to shunt selyn between the two systems, for say, emergency survival purposes."

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scatteredstars

Tyche nods thoughtfully. "How much of that additional nervous tissue would you expect non-channel Simes to have?"

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ambrovimvor

"Significantly less, I don't know if you could tell, but a channel's secondary storage is much larger then their primary, and a channel's primary system is larger then an ordinary Sime's system."

Edited Date: 2015-06-09 10:48 pm (UTC)

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scatteredstars

"Interesting. Do you know why your primary system is larger?"

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ambrovimvor

"Mmmm...we don't understand it fully, and what we do understand is rather...technical." She shrugs apologetically and spreads hands and tentacles in a "what can you do" gesture.

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scatteredstars

"Hmm." Tyche seems to be out of questions for the moment, though she looked tempted to ask about the technical explanation.

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ambrovimvor

"So, anything else you want to talk about, or shall we let you get back to whatever you were doing?"

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scatteredstars

"I should probably explain the fabber, but that will be easier when I can demonstrate. Speaking of which--" She looks at the fabber on the table "-- I should ask Lioncourt if she has anything that can be used for feedstock."

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ambrovimvor

"What does 'feedstock' mean?"

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scatteredstars

"Something the nanofabricator can break down and use to build things. --They're programmed to ignore living tissues and the like, as a safety measure."