Popular Science | Thursday, 3rd period

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“Hey, we’re working with a classic for the final,” Miguel said cheerfully. He was holding a Coke in each hand, and his hair was a bit mussed. “We’re going to build a body from parts, then try to animate it with electricity.” That was totally fun, right?

He set down the bottles and keyed up a very clean lab. It flickered for a second, then settled into a Victorian attic. He scowled and hit the controls, but it stayed put. Miguel sighed. “Okay, fine. We’ve got electricity,” if you couldn’t tell from the storm raging outside the windows, “and we’ve got bodies.” He waved to a few tables. “There are ones already put together if you’re squeamish. Otherwise, there are parts over there.” In that walk-in fridge that was somehow inexplicably still there in a corner of the wooden attic.

“Go to town.”

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Electrically!

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Astrid Magnussen

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Norman Babcock

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Peebee

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Beaker

Listen to the lecture/watch the source material

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Here it is!

Class Activity!

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It's your final - build a person!

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Norman blinked, and then actually laughed a little. Between the first aid class this semester and his actual experience with zombies, he wasn't even a little bit squeamish and was pretty deftly figuring out what pieces went where while he worked.

This kind of thing was actually sort of his jam. Not that he'd ever do it in real life, ever.

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"Just a big jigsaw puzzle, yeah?" Miguel said.

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"Kind of," Norman agreed. "Only most jigsaw puzzles can't complain if you put them together wrong."

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"So don't put it together wrong," Miguel pointed out. "Or maybe give it an extra arm or something in compensation."

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Thank God for Health class. After all the things Dr. Yang put them through, Astrid's squeamishness about this sort of thing was tampered down to just a general, light thread of mild discomfort. It benefited her as well that she approached it as she had a lot of the other things in class, as more of an art project than a science one, because there was no denying that the human body in itself could be a work of art, had been for centuries, millennia...

Of course, Astrid was picking out and putting together the ugliest body parts she could find among the options, because, after all, beauty was only in the eye of the beholder. And taking a moment to make sure to mark her creation with a pinwheel tattoo with a pen, because, hey, it was the final, right?

She may have had to spare a smirk and a glance over toward what Norman was doing, too, since this really seemed the sort of thing he'd be into.

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"Good to see the theme is carrying through," Miguel said, with a nod at that tattoo.

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If you think Beaker didn't manage to put together and animate a person, then have it chasing him around the room trying to eat him, it's like you've never met Beaker at all.

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Miguel facepalmed, then caught the person by the arms and wrestled it back to its table. He opened his mouth to suggest Beaker start again, then...realized who he was talking to. "Let's call this an A and turn this corner of the room off, okay?"

Talk to Miguel

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He's here!

OOC!

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Back onna plane for me! 8D