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AGE PLOT SHENANIGANS

WHO: Everyone and anyone!
WHERE: De Chima, various
WHEN: Around 6 PM EST, March 25th
WHAT: Age plot kickoff!
WARNINGS: Cuteness.

[ LET'S GET THIS PARTY OFFICIALLY STARTED! Opening events so we don't do too much comm flooding (although people are welcome to make their own posts for the event). You're welcome to toplevel with your character if you'd like to have them show up somewhere else for this plot.

Current toplevels:
Spring Festival in a De Chima city park
De Chima #1
De Chima #1, later (Minato)

The age plot will run from March 25th through Sunday, March 29th. More deets available at the plotting post. ]

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I'm not really hoping it's anyone in particular, but you gotta admit, it can't just be a coincidence. So? Do you think you can reverse it?

[A beat.]

And I hope that the mind thing reverses too, or else we're gonna have a bunch of nine year olds with the bodies of twenty year olds.

The physical stuff? Definitely. Gonna take another couple weeks, but we can do it.

... And wow, that's gonna be terrible.

Might be terrible. I'm hoping that the minds are gonna be reversed with the bodies... but I'm kinda hoping it's not going to take that long.

[Dealing with Shinji, Minato, Kaidan, Shepard, Bart, and god knows who else for a little while? Piece of cake. Dealing with the flock of children for a couple weeks? Not so easy. He's used to dealing with kids, but not for that long - and not when they've got adult minds that are resistant to ideas like maybe you shouldn't be chopping vegetables while you're tiny.]

But hey, are you okay? I know this whole thing kinda messed up your house.

Trust me, I'm not happy about it either. But it's gonna take that long to fix the generator, so ...

[ He sighs, glancing around at the cracked screens and other delicates in here ]

Me? I"m fine. I'm great. It changed me exactly the way I wanted. Shinji's the one who's pissed about all the dishes in the house getting broken.

Eh, he'll live.

[Shinji's his friend, so he can handle being flippant about the whole thing. He knows that Shinji will come around eventually, even if he's pissed now... and besides, he's probably even more pissed about being stuck as a little kid to be cooed over by the people that ought to be his peers.]

I just figured I'd check. I didn't know whether or not you got whacked by falling stuff or not. Is there anything I can do to help? I won't be able to figure out any of the tech, but I can do some of the grunt work if you need it.

[ Hiro's still gonna make up for it, okay. New dishes are the first thing on the list. ]

How much engineering do you know?

Eh, not a ton. Mostly, I'm handy with a toolbox, and I can take direction.

[And, from the sounds of it, he certainly doesn't mind taking directions from someone younger than him.]

I work at a garage, so I fix up cars all the time, but that's probably a little different from what you're dealing with here.

Liiiiittle bit, yeah. But that should be okay. I'll tell you which parts to wrench and which ones to pull apart?

[He gives Hiro a thumbs-up.]

I can do that. I'm off school, so if you need someone to do grunt work for the next couple days, I got the time. You have enough tools here?

Do I? Oh man, I've got tons. You haven't even seen Toolbot yet.

Tool bot. Okay, I'll bite. What's toolbot? Is it a tool box on wheels that beeps? 'Cause that's all I'm imagining right now.

Nah, that's just what Pym called it. It's more like a disk really. Buuuut it holds hundreds of tools.

...hundreds? Like -- that sounds like a video game toolbelt. Can I see?

[How does it even work?]

Basically. Dr. Pym gave it to me. See, he's got these particles that grow and shrink stuff, so he stuffed all these tools in the bot and then I just dial in the number of whatever I want to unshrink it and pull it out.

Oh, so it's a shrink ray. Just in reverse.

[That's a little more disappointing than what Jaime had been imagining, but he supposes that nobody here has quite broken the rules of physics yet.]

We got a guy who can do that kind of thing back home too. It's nice of him to give it to you, though.

-- What, seriously? We can't do it at all back home. It's pretty much impossible. I have no idea how it even works here and that's saying something.

[With a tiny laugh,] Then you could probably stand to learn a thing or two from some of the other scientists we've got here!

[Don't get an ego problem, kiddo.]

It's not widespread or anything where I'm from. It's mostly just the one hero that uses it -- The Atom.

Look, there's a difference between "really difficult" and "actively defying the laws of physics."

[ A sigh. He is still really interested though, okay. Even if just to say he's done something that would be impossible at home. ]

Superhero, huh? How's that work out for him?

Only way the big scientists got anything done is by trying to defy the law of physics. [He has to grin. He's seen too many things that go against all natural laws not to keep an open mind. Maybe his world's just a little more flexible than a few others.]

It works out okay for him, I think? I mean, he's part of the Justice League, I think. [Jaime shrugs.] Mostly he uses the shrink ray on himself.

Well - yeah but - oh whatever. I'll figure it out myself here and see what I'm missing.

Huh. Weird, okay. If that works? Not how I would use it, but hey.

I think that's his schtick. He's the Atom, he goes small? I mean, he obviously knows what he's doing.

[Probably. He's not super clear on what going small achieves beyond one or two moves, but hey, you do you, Atom. You're a supergenius.]

How'd you use it then, if you had the tech?

I dunno, use it on the enemy? That seems way more useful to me.

Yeahhh, but also possibly lethal. You can learn how to handle yourself if you get shrunk, but shrinking others seems like a really quick way to get them trampled.

... I guess that's true ... I'll just stick to my usual tricks.

Probably for the best! Nothing against the whole shrink ray thing, buuuuut it's probably best that you just stick to using it on tools.

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