a supervillain kidnaps a girl to fatten her up
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Pinch.

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Excited yelp.

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Cackle. "Go look around the convention, red velvet, it won't last forever."

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"Yes, boss." She gets up and commences wandering aimlessly.

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There is a demonstration of a tubular animal that can turn inside out! It's fuzzy and harmless on one side, and spiky and venomous on the other. It can invert itself and is being marketed as a guard animal that will lull burglars into a false sense of security. It doesn't seem to have occurred to anyone that meeting a six-legged fur-bearing sea cucumber in a domicile might itself be kind of alerting even before it flips around.

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Katie decides to let someone else inform them of that particular design flaw.

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There's living athletic mats; they can adjust their tension and density to account for falls from aerial silks while still being stiff enough for floor work. They currently judge when to do this with eyeballs in the crevices between each mat section, but the creator says that by next year they should be making do with unobtrusive light-sensitive patches. Would she like to touch one and observe its textural range?

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She's disgusted, yet intrigued. Fuck it. Not like she's gonna get another chance.

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It feels sort of like someone grew moss over a trampoline. Faintly damp and fuzzy and sproingy.

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Surprisingly pleasant! Eyes are definitely creepy though.

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"They're ideal for sparring or juggling with live blades, practicing stunt work in high heels, or other potentially piercing activity, because if punctured, they will self-heal!" chirps the mad scientist, a tiny woman with some extra eyeballs of her own. "Unless you get them in one of the eyeballs, but that's why the current model has them redundantly and future editions will omit that organ."

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Sparring, huh? Katie begins fantasizing wistfully about a romantic rapier duel or wrestling match between her and Mo.

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The next booth has - oh, no, it doesn't have it any more, there has been an explosion problem. Very small and contained.

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Is everyone OK?

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Bit of a burned hand. Somebody loudly announce that their PREMIUM BURN SALVE will sort it.

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Good, good. What was it that exploded though?

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A salamander. Somebody got too into the mythologicals. They've also got a prototype phoenix but it's just in the egg right now in an incubator set to 400º C.

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Sad! Hopefully they're able to get the issues worked out. Katie appreciates the whimsy.

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The next booth is coconuts that grow meat. Like, meat meat.

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Like, on the inside, right? What kind of meat?

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Yes, in place of coconut "meat". "Right now it's a pork/chicken hybrid!" says the relevant mad biologist. "If there's uptake I can do more kinds but each tree does still take three years to mature to the point of bearing fruit even with Dr. Chlebek's plant food."

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Pork/chicken hybrid doesn't sound like Katie's thing. She'll be back in a few years when it can do beef. She fantasizes about her appetite having grown to the point where she can single-handedly clear out the entire supply.

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The next stall has plants that grow rayon.

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What's rayon? Is this an "updog" type deal? Katie's too smart to fall for that.

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Rayon is a semisynthetic fiber normally made with a lot of chemical processing of any natural cellulose source, but now it grows in tassels on these grasses.

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