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Completely Safe Science With Beaker!, Friday, June 3, 2022

"Meep meep meep meep meep!" Beaker said, gesturing grandly to the dishwashing soap, hydrogen peroxide, and yeast on his bench.

Did anyone recognize the components of elephant toothpaste?

Beaker, still meeping authoritatively, went through the steps for making elephant toothpaste as he mixed the soap with the hydrogen peroxide, then carefully (...well, for Beaker) added the yeast.

And a huge plume of foam engulfed him.

"MEEP!"

At least he didn't catch fire this time?

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Not on fire!

Amaya Blackstone

Doctor Aphra

Travis Montgomery

Gray

Kurt Wagner

Nell Ingram

Shane Gooseman

Miguel O'Hara

It could've been worse!

Travis had shown up to class today in his turnouts with a fire extinguisher.

Yeah, yeah, "there are safeties in here", whatever. He was prepared.

And Amaya really couldn't help herself from commenting as much.

"Gotta admit," she said, "have to admire that level of appreciation for proper safety gear."

Was it bad, though, that her next thought involved thinking it would be a shame if he went through all that trouble for nothing?

"It's my job," Travis said, glancing over at her. Was she being sarcastic? It was hard for him to tell. "And, you know. I've met this guy before."

Oh, no. Amaya's appreciation for proper safety precautions was entirely sincere. Here was a woman who always wore her work gloves, just in the off-chance she might need to do any emergency sudden blacksmithing.

And also, she, too, had met the guy.

"Good call," she said. "Now I feel comparatively unprepared."

Travis gave her a little smile. "I'll bring a spare extinguisher for you next week."

"That'd be appreciated," said Amaya, with a nod, figuring even if she didn't use it, an extra wouldn't hurt.

"You know," she realized, "I should probably get one of those for myself one of these days..."

Sure, she had some buckets, and she'd made a variety of her own extinguishers over the years, but they were definitely of a particular Rube Goldberg-esque variety.

"You --" Travis cut the question off at the quick. There was no point on this island questioning why anyone wouldn't already have a fire extinguisher available somewhere. "Yes. Yes you should. And fire alarms, if you don't already have those. They'll alert the station right away so we can come help put anything out."

Did you want to constantly alerted at the fire station, Travis? Because...

There was a paaaaause.

"Hopefully not anything," said Amaya. "I kind of need some of that to do my job."

He did not, actually. But surely there were systems in place specifically for blacksmiths, right?

Not that Travis realized that was what she did for a living.

"Well, as long as your place is up to code, then you're probably alright. You want to make sure you're set up to alert us if there's anything big enough to pose a significant threat to people or property."

"Oh, it's definitely up to code," Amaya said with a nod. "I looked into all that when I built the place, and made sure to hire out any of the particularly fussy parts rather than having the students do it."

"Excellent." Travis was way too relieved to hear that. "So what sort of work do you do, anyway?"

Amaya blinked at that, because, yes, she'd been around long enough she just sort of figured that was pretty common knowledge.

"Oh," she said, as if realizing he wasn't joking, "well. I'm the blacksmith."

"Ohhhh. Yeah, yeah, fire's kind of a prerequisite for that, isn't it."

He really needed to get out more.

Especially when it came to knowing the businesses that came with a big fat Fire Hazard sticker on it.

"Just a bit" Amaya snorted faintly with a small grin, "yeah.

"But," she added, because she really couldn't leave any sales pitch unturned, "if you find yourself needing any fine metal work, custom made or standard weapons, or the occasional contraption, you should swing on by!"

"I will . . . absolutely do that," Travis said with a chuckle. "Can't say it's something I've needed before, but around here you never know, right?"

"Especially around here!" Amaya agreed, with conviction. "Why, I'd say if you haven't at least got a spare blade or axe or mace or even just a handful of throwing stars on hand, you're doing it wrong. And even a few non-weapon things, too. I've worked a mighty fine silverware set, I've found some good markets for masks, and even a few furniture pieces, though not so many since...."

She paused a little on that.

"Well, maybe I might have to pick some of that back up again, too," she added, because someone was still completely unaware that the island's resident woodworker had indeed come back after all.

Travis nodded, and was about to tell her he didn't think he needed anything like that, then paused.

". . . You ever make a pike pole?"

See? Never hurt to make the pitch!

"Oh, I love a good pike!" Amaya said, eyes brightening, and absolutely thinking of a completely different pike, but it was fine, she'd be able to manage that other one just fine. "Got a few on the wall right now, actually! Don't get a lot of requests for them around here, but the Daventry Guard? Back where I was before here? Very big on their poleaerms, but, then again, they always have had a pretty long reach."

Amaya, no.

"Right. Um." Travis was thinking maybe there was a miscommunication happening here. "Well, firefighters use them when we need to break holes in roofs and things, to vent a fire. I've got a few, but if I had a handmade one? Envy of all the other firefighters."

Well. Of Vic, anyway. Who would then call him a nerd, but that was fine.

Amaya squinted a little, as if flipping through some sort of database of a variety of different weapons, tools, and generally heavy and pointy objects.

"Handmade and custom," she threw out, because that was important, too. "I'm real good at the fancy detailing work if you wanted to make it as pretty as it is useful. Maybe I'll have to swing by sometime and have a look at what you got, and we can workshop from there."

"Sure! And maybe I can hook you up with some fire safety stuff, even beyond what's required by code. Can never be too careful, right?"

Kurt had known a few people back home that had pyro and related powers and abilities. But their instructor for this class... seemed to have more of a pyro curse than powers or anything like he was familiar with. It definitely made for interesting classes.

Maybe not quite as heavy handed on the yeast?

Travis didn't trust that that foam wouldn't combust at any moment.

He'd met beaker.

Amaya was far less inclined to just want to blow things up today (so far), but she had to admit, this stuff was fascinating, and she might be getting...ideas.

"Ok now THAT is awesome!" Kurt said as he watched and then started carefully measuring out (much much smaller amounts) at his own work station. He wasn't sure if he could teleport himself out of elephant toothpaste so, probably best not to tempt fate.

Gray started enthusiastically mixing the ingredients together, but then fell asleep facedown on the desk before he could add the yeast.

Hopefully that wouldn't be a problem.

When Nell saw him fall asleep she jumped up and made sure the yeast was well away from everything else so he wouldn't wake up in a giant mess of foam.

When Gray woke up a few minutes later, he looked around in the confusion of the partially-awake. Had something moved...?

At least his nap hadn't resulted in an unplanned explosion...this time...

Easier if you speak meep.

Summer!

What?

Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.

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