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

[meepmeepmeep]

"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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[special_rabbit]

"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."

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[designateddadfriend]

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

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[special_rabbit]

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."

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[designateddadfriend]

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

He really needed to get out more.

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[special_rabbit]

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!"

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[designateddadfriend]

"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?"

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[special_rabbit]

"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.

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[designateddadfriend]

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?"

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[special_rabbit]

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.

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[designateddadfriend]

"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.

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[special_rabbit]

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."

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[designateddadfriend]

"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?"