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No! No, brain. 

Bad, bad, brain.

She is going to get a power specifically for making that water element demo unit for atlantis (for a fire, water, air, earth system, if that's available, so she doesn't have too many robot things to make before she gets back in balance), updates her shopping list and quickly expanding notes document, goes to have a shower, sockets that ideal form healing power from earlier in place of the elemental robot stuff, double checks to see if there's any new info on when she needs to be up for Team Stuff:tm: and then in the famous words of Samuel L Jackson, go(es) the fuck to sleep. 

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The gift dutifully generates an "Elemental Robotics: Water" power that is compatible with a traditional four-element system. Since this is less of an overview, she gets more concrete details on how to actually assemble a channel for elemental water energy and use that to power a robot.

She's going to need, at a minimum, a bunch of sheet metal, metalworking tools, wire, blue LEDs, and a few computer components. A 3D-printer, nuts and bolts, pressure tubing, a computer-controlled milling machine, and a set of CMOS batteries would not go amiss, either. Oh, and grease and sealent to make things move or stop moving, as appropriate.

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Nothing else comes to interrupt her as she completes her planned evening routine.

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Morning morning, morning dawns! 

- She has a cute lil idea for doing a thing for an offering to Apollo and/or Artemis that means that she might have to reschedule things a lil sometime but oh well!

She'll go and make breakfast and check her messages and the team chat and her schedule and everything - what's the day looking like? 

She'll pop out the healing power 'cause she shouldn't need it, though she doesn't have too much in mind for her remaining slot - probably some powers for specific light skills to make and drop as needed, at a guess? But she'll decide on those later once she sees how busy her day looks like and what she's up for. 

 

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Her morning is unscheduled, and no new messages came in the night to disturb her. The team has been asked to assemble at 1:00 PM in the mountain to make a plan for investigating the Venom situation.

When she gets to the kitchen, Miss Martian and the clone they rescued from Cadmus are attempting to determine how to convert a carton of eggs into breakfast. Between one's telepathically-implanted knowledge of cooking and the other's real-life experience with touching actual objects with her hands, they have at least not managed to set anything on fire.

"Oh, Topaz! Hi!"

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"Hi and good morning, M'gann!" 

She waves with a light fond air. 

She noms her toast and amiably listens along to the din of the morning. Ahhh, she could get used to this. 

"Oh one small thing - I've got some unactivated memory crystals that I've been hoping to use to transcribe some stuff - I could just nab a power for it but I think you'd be better at it than an all-in one package I could easily make, so... Could you help me out with that? Just been looking into making some notes for how I've been lanterning and making things that might be a bit more - hands-on and useful than a text description. I imagine it's the same sort of deal with telepathic disciplines, sometimes?" 

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"Oh, sure, I'd be happy to help with that! Transcribing things is easy."

:Send me the specific stuff you want to record?:

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Doing this a little awkward, but having the empathic powers helps a good bit - part of the function of them seems to make it easier to just... call them to mind and hold them there, to feel them thumping in her heart, and that makes dragging forth the fullness of the memories a good bit easier. 

:These might be a little more intense than normal, so be careful, okay?:

There's a good few of them! There's her initial efforts with that silly knife, the proper green ring, the blue-green ring... She'll even send over her work making the green empathic barrier around the ritual and the warding talismans and the lantern creation ritual, since they're something that she expects will be of interest, even if they're less directly applicable to her teaching Joan than the fundamentals like the shift of thought towards the determination to build and the inevitably of creation or her own process for making things work well with Will

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Miss Martian carefully relays all that into the provided crystals.

:This is really interesting,: she comments when the details have been recorded. :It's kind of like the posture-of-mind needed for telekinesis in some ways, and completely unlike that in other ways.:

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:I can imagine! There's a lot that I don't have to think about when I'm able to call on an instinct power like this, but there's so much to poke around at when you stop and think some more.: 

 

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And with that, some brief thanks, and wrapping up the rest of her meal, she's off to the rest of her work! 

She's got plenty of day ahead of her, now - even with the appointment pending, there's plenty of room for worky working more. 

Right now, she's still got the lantern creation complex around, so she might as well make good use of that - there's the skillsets for the subspace stuff in there, and there's got to be something more she can do with the immortal hope stuff. And she's feeling... good, and stable, and earthy? The lingering effects seems to have stabilized by now, so that's a good thing. 

Quick brainstorm of things that she could do with that - make a proper subspace pocket for herself, make the key for the lantern for transporting that around, see if there's anything she can do to upgrade the violet power core - to make it less prone to spillage, at least, she's pretty sure she could do even without getting a violet power, and...

hm. 

She knows that straightforwardly the subspace pocket stuff should work, but what she's not as sure about is what she can do with having a nice little source of immortal hope, here. 

There's... probably some sort of transubstantial mysticism she could do to get a decent immortality by internalizing sufficient immortal hope into the structure of her soul, or something? There's got to be something there, even if having a lantern doesn't help her too much with accomplishing that.  But the thing that seems likely to be more readily achievable is doing something with the power core - could she sort of... get a thread of that immortal hope and twine it into the structure of the violet system to make it something of a lantern? She doesn't need it to be fully featured, but it seems like it'd be nice to have the option and there's a decent chance you can make better rings or what have you with a source of even possibly maybe immortal love on hand, right? Though she wouldn't want to do that if it was particularly risky to the functionality of the lantern, given the amount of prep work that took and how hard it was on her even with a dedicated setup and everything. 

As she thinks, she pokes around the internet for some basic dimensions for an arrow for a later project, and starts making a sunstone arrowhead to some specs she finds online. 

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