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[x_maker]

So I'm supposed to be using this journal to express myself and communicate with the rest of the people at the school. The Professor tells me communication's important, and I suppose that it's one of those things that you aren't graded on but it's a test anyway. Fine then.

Apparently everyone here 'does' something. I make stuff. I imagine it in my head, I see it, I make it. If you want some big reason beyond that, just accept that I'm a genius, and leave it at that. Child prodigy, whatever. So that's what I do. Are we "communicating" yet?

Go ahead and stare at the leg when I walk by you in the halls. I know you're going to, and it doesn't bother me. Been used to it for about a year now. Check out the hand, they're a matching set. I don't need your help going up the stairs or opening a door.

Everyone tells me I'm going to like it here, and I'm going to make a lot of new friends. That would be odd, seeing as I'm not certain that I had any old friends, and I'm not sure I'd miss them if I had any. So if I don't run over to shake hands like we're best buddies when you walk into a room, it's not your fault. Unless it is.

This system's set up to buzz me with an email when someone replies to these entries. How quaint. Well, I suppose if this is what passes for communication, it shouldn't be too hard.

EDIT: Yes, Kyle. I've already met you. I can hear you typing like a woodpecker from here.

Comments

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we get that a lot around here, the baffled physicists.

But that has to be one of the coolest powers I've ever heard of. Wish you'd gotten here when I was rebuilding my friend's coffee maker--that took me forever to figure out how to do.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Wait - if I understand things correctly, you 'duplicate' yourself? Like, as in, creating mass out of nothing and making it into an autonomous biological copy? How's that work?

I only ask because there's this glaring thing called the Laws of Basic Thermodynamics that claim they've been violated pretty severely, and I don't think they're happy about it.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's about the size of it. Nobody's been able to figure out how I do it--I need a kinetic energy kick-start, but I can get that from snapping my fingers, so it's nowhere near enough energy to pull an Einstein even without the, y'know, explosion.

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

I can already tell this is going to give me a headache. I mean, theoretically nanites can be programmed to replicate themselves, but they need source material to work from and it's slow as hell. Not to mention microscopic.

I guess I'm going to have to get used to the fact that the "laws" of physics have loopholes here. Like the man out in the backyard blatantly violating the square-cube laws. Tell me it's an optical illusion and that isn't a ten foot tall linebacker carrying an armload of TREES.

[x-crowdofone.livejournal.com]

No, that's Mr. Marko, the caretaker.

I think there's actually a lot more loophole than law, most of the time.

[x-kitten.livejournal.com]

the "laws" of physics have loopholes

Personally I think the answer is in the genetics, but I dislike genetics emensly so I tend to simply document the loopholes and go on.

I'll add you to the list of people to be careful of phasing around, since my powers tend to disrupt electronics (assume your cybernetics are electronic in nature, because mechanical would be awkward and so very 19th century.)

Hi, I'm Kitty, by the way.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

there's a class to figure out Jamie's powers since the resident genius' can't. I'm not that brave ;)

[x-forge.livejournal.com]

Frankly, because you didn't have this genius around. Everything has an explanation. If the laws of physics don't explain it, then the laws need to be rewritten. It's how science progresses.

[x-blink.livejournal.com]

ttthhhpppppppbbbbb!!!

smartypants. to misquote a famous mad scientist: physics? where we're going, we don't NEED physics!"

Do tell.

[x-tarot.livejournal.com]

An explanation for everything? Even seeing the future?

By way of introduction, I am Marie-Ange Colbert, and the resident 'precognitive'. One of two, if I am being completly accurate, though Nathan's does not count, as it is broken.