[Open] Some Weeks Are Just Busy

[10billionpercent]

Who: Senku Ishigami and anyone who wants to participate!
Where: Various cars
When: Llama Day 2 - 4
What: Senku has a lot of things to get out of the way before the mission drops.
Warnings: SCIENCE!


Day 2

The day after platform, Senku is up and about the exact moment he wakes. He hasn’t changed out of his pajamas even, wearing a loose fitting graphic t-shirt with the words “Everything happens for a reason...and that reason is usually physics.” written on the front, and a pair of orange and black plaid lounge pants. Senku has never once turned up and sat in his pajamas before for an entire day.

He has set himself up in the standard car, and with a couple of books stacked, he has propped up two clocks on a table.

Senku crossed his arms on the table and dropped his chin on them as he stared at the clocks, unmoving. He was going to be there for the next twenty-one hours.

Day 3

This day was going to be a combination of experimentation and training, which was really also an experiment.

Senku set himself up again in the standard car at a table with a tool box and a selection of three manadrives, as well as his broken SCA he’d yet to disassemble. It took him so long to get to this, he wasn’t going to need to bother with breaking the ones on hand. He wasn’t seated today, he was standing at the end of the table with a screwdriver, ready to tear them apart.

Later, Senku found himself in the training gym. He had his two tailed pink kitten Orion with him, as Eva said they needed to get him trained properly, but outside of that, he was looking for help.

“Hey, can you help me with something?” Senku was holding a volleyball he’d swiped from the other gym in his hands, just in case they had no other means of assisting him. He was kind of hoping this experiment went well.

Day 4

With the mission looming, some preparation was desperately needed so that people could be prepared. Tidus had acquired a food dehydrator, which was probably going to be much faster than the oven method he was using before and Senku was looking to test it out.

The selection this month was heavily weighted to fish, so fish jerky it was going to be, although he was starting with a small piece first. He sliced it into smaller pieces and started seasoning each one with some of the different spices that were so thoughtfully provided this time.

“Hey, do you want to taste test something with me?” Senku asked.

Once he sorted out how the flavours, he’d make enough so that people could grab it for a snack while out, as well as start making onigiri. He wasn’t sure about the other teams, but he wanted to have enough for orange, and some extras to take with him in case he ran into anyone who happened not to have any food on them.

No one was going to starve on Senku’s watch.

Evenings Day 3-4

Senku spends a good chunk of these two evenings in medical, minding the carriage. It’s never hard to find him and he can read his book or work on some other project in there just as easily as anywhere else, although catching him on the fourth night, he has his personal laptop out instead of a book and he’s typing away at some of the findings he’s managed this week.

There was no rest for the wicked, after all.

Comments

Evening Day 3

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Raven was headed for medical for one of her self-appointed shifts, an was slightly surprised to find Senku there. "I didn't expect anyone to be here. What's wrong?" Raven had planned to dose out melatonin capsules into smaller bottles and write out instructions for them. The 3D printer had been help for printing out medicine bottles.

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"Nothing." Senku answered easily, as it was the third day he was reading a book - Fundamental Neuroscience - in anticipation of a conversation he was planning on having surrounding some brain scans later on.

"Minding the medical carriage. Do it all the time."

[azrthmtrnznthos]

Somehow they must've missed each other then. Oh well. "Long as you're not hiding or putting on a brave face, over an injury or pain." That was what Raven cared about, as she moved over to one of the free counters. Smaller bottles placed spaced out, she started dosing out 30 melatonin capsules in each until she ran out.

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"Nope." Senku turned a page. "Haven't found a way to hurt myself lately."

It took a moment while she was doing that before something clicked. "Ah." He murmured. "Tidus suggested you might know about potion making?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"I've been doing infusions, which are similar--just more concentrated so you mix 'em with water--to help with sleep. As well as for healing."

[10billionpercent]

He knew how to do infusions of things, at least when it comes to natural medicine. "For healing? What are you using for that?"

Senku was more curious than anything.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Mostly herbs. Dried ones I'd ordered for spellcraft. The potions and infusions I've been making are from some healing magic books I ordered from home."

[10billionpercent]

"I understand the infusing process, so that doesn't surprise me but it does surprise me that you're just infusing something. Are the herbs native to your world or something to that effect?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"They're common in my world, and I think they'd be common to most worlds? I use infusions on at least some of them because a full potion would be too potent and toxic. It's also a way of stretching my resources."

Was it really such a surprise?

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"How do your potions work, perhaps, is a better question." Senku mused. "If it's just common ingredients, everything I would've made that was an infusion before would've worked like a healing potion. Do they work like the mission ones?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"They might be slightly less effective or different than the healing-ones, as I haven't made anything that potent yet." What did he mean by how did her potions work? "It might be in how I've prepared them. There's ritual involved, after all, and mine ARE from healing spellbooks."

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"Fascinating." Senku commented. "I know what to do with a great many plants and herbs found in my world with their healing properties, I mean that's how medicine evolved after all, but because we don't have magic I can't just whip up a magic potion without some kind of instruction or something to that effect."

He also didn't know if he could do it with his limited experience and power either.

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"I hadn't exactly planned to right now, but I could make a more concentrated sleeping potion if you want to watch." Raven offered, as she continued to fill pill-bottles, labeling the melatonin carefully with what it was, and for. She'd write more detailed instructions for individual's bottles.

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Senku glanced down at the book he still had open on his lap a moment, memorized the page and shut it carefully, setting it aside.

"I'd like that, actually."

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Alright, let me finish this and get some supplies, and then I can make the more potent sleeping infusion I was planning. So maybe 10 minutes, meet me in the kitchen?"

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Senku seemed to hesitate for a moment, but he nodded after that. "Sure. I'll meet you there in a few minutes."

[azrthmtrnznthos]

He'll probably beat her there, as Raven has to gather her supplies. When she does show up, she has her backpack with her over her shoulder, and her healing spells book under the other arm.

"The infusion I was going to make uses Valerian, Dandelion Root, Rosemary, and Juniper. I also have some distilled water to add to the regular water. We'll also need a pinch of salt and one star anise bud." Hence why she had her backpack with her. Flipping open the book, she found the spell she wanted and handed it to Senku so he could follow along.

Honestly it wasn't much different than a cooking recipe. Except the book was precise in what order to add the ingredients, how many stirs to give in what direction, what kind of color or smell they should detect at what point. Ritual would be a key part of things here, and probably helped with the magic. It emphasized that one should focus on the intent of the spell as one did each of the steps.

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"Ah, thank you." Senku appreciated the book and he leaned against the counter a little bit to skim the recipe. It really was an infusion, like making a tea blend or something of that nature.

The number of stirs and the intent must have been the key to making it magical.

"These steps here, is that the magic part?"

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"It's part of it." Raven said, measuring out ingredients, and occasionally checking the book. "Do you know what magic fundamentally is?"

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"Well, the magic I'm becoming familiar with is the manipulation and redirection of energy." Senku commented. "But probably not what you were looking for."

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"Magic is basically using your will to affect change, often this manifests via an altered reality somehow." It was a very basic concept. "In this case, the magic isn't so much in the recipe itself, as it is a combination of the recipe as ritual, and the focus of the caster during preparation. It's all of it taken as a whole, including the will and focus of the caster." At its heart, that's what magic was, as Raven had been taught. "Some people can be more effective at this than others, and there might be some innate power or talent that can be useful, but it's all about focus and will. At least, that's how I was taught."

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"I think I can safely say from my experiences that my magic is not innate, because I'm having to work really hard at it." Senku commented a little dryly.

"That's alright, I don't mind hard work."

[azrthmtrnznthos]

"I think any innate talent might affect the strength of the magic, but I couldn't say beyond that." Raven looked him. "Honestly, these ingredients on their own, when combined, will make someone sleepy. But my experience has been it's the magic user who makes it a true 'sleep' potion." With a little shrug. "I'm not sure how else to explain."

[10billionpercent]

"Yes, they would, they're the same ingredients used in Eastern medicine." Senku responded. "Which was how I was confused about how you were turning them into a potion, but I suppose if you mean it's intent then..." He considered that.

"It's an interesting prospect all the same."