Many of us have mini-fridges! They’re surprisingly inexpensive.

Makes sense. I think I was imagining dorms as too small to add appliances to beyond maybe a kettle

Oh, no, kettles are super not allowed. Nothing with a heating element.

Huh, is your building old construction or do they just think no level of fireproof material can compensate for the risk of young adults with the power to warm things

I was going to say it was definitely the second one but actually some of the dorm buildings are a lot older than this one so maybe it’s the first one plus wanting everyone to have the same rules.

Anyway I have my jarred ants.

I await your results with bated breath

HOLY SHIT AN ANT’S SENSORIUM IS ***WILD***

Whoa, you can borrow ant senses?? Like you can smell what they smell and stuff?

Yeah! Also I can make it move. Man, I want to ask Cricket if I can use the sense-borrowing part on him, I wanna see what 4D is like.

You'd have to wait for a 4D dungeon, presumably?

Oh, right. Well, I’m going to put these ants back outside before I rack up too much backlash. And then I am going to see if I can find an aquarium with mantis shrimps, because I have HEARD things about the COLORS they can see.

I bet Ripley's has them! Do you want me to come with you?

That would be cool!

When's good?

I’m still working with my professors and TAs and stuff to get makeup work for the past week but that’s mostly emails and I don’t have class this afternoon.

I should be done with June in about two hours. Planning to stick with school?

For sure! I might switch majors to biology, though, something where if I decide to use esper money to pursue a PhD I can write my thesis on animal sensory modalities or something.

Ooh, fun! Definitively answer what it's like to be a bat

Yes!!! Oh man I am gonna fulfill so many childhood dreams inspired by Magic School Bus episodes 

That's adorable

This power is GR9 I am gonna give my number to animal control and veterinarians and I bet I can get anywhere with coma patients and maybe I could establish an objective pain scale and like OBVIOUSLY there are so many cool things I could do in dungeons—like even aside from the obvious controlling monsters thing, I could do a budget sensor by sending in, like, pigeons or rats or something 

you almost certainly don't work across portals so you'd still have to enter the dungeon, I'm not sure how budget it'd work out to being, but if the backlash accumulation rate is good enough hell yeah

I don’t know about accumulation rate but I bet once I get enough practice at leaving myself prompts I remain functional at unusually high backlash levels. The anti-Columba as it were

That does sound plausible, though, like, you still should avoid getting quite that high without guiding on hand, it'll mess up all your organs and you need those

Well, obviously. But it takes a non-zero amount of time for acute backlash to metabolize to chronic, right, so if there’s an emergency…