Video | welcome, hallo, buenos días, ohayō, etc, etc! | UN: Newt

[groupiedrifter]

[Newt comes shuffling into view on the screen, holding a cup of coffee in his hand with a bag of what seems to be Sour Patch Kids harrowingly hanging out from beneath the pinky finger of the very same hand. Disheveled but more than happy to provide his services after dragging himself out of bed, he taps his knuckle on the chalkboard beside him — one that used to be Hermann Gottlieb's, may he rest in peace (in a not dead way — may he rest in peace on a beach or something while wholly alive and thriving).]

Noticed an influx of new and kinda-new faces over the last few days or weeks or whatever.

So here's my handy dandy welcome board! Recently updated, to keep with the times.

Read it over and get a feel for how this place goes; I'm gonna finish off this coffee before I take any questions.

[As he takes the world's most obnoxious-sounding sip and burns his tongue, here's the board in question:]



[And then, after a bit of time, he turns the board over to the other side:]



[No worries, current crew, if you can't get one of those introduction papers in person!

Because he's attached them in file format, too.]



[And in case you wanted a text format copy:

Name:
Age:
Birthday:
Favorite color:
Favorite food:
Favorite subject:
Favorite toy:
Favorite animal:
Favorite candy:
Favorite activity:
Favorite place:
Favorite book:
Favorite TV show:
Favorite movie:
I am good at:
I want to learn:
Least favorite subject:
Place I want to go:
If I could make one wish, it would be:
If I could have one superpower, it would be:
This is what I want my teacher to know about me:

(Have at it — threadjacking is encouraged).]

Comments

[greenpower]

[Ugh. How dare he be interested in the one thing she cares about.

It works.]

Uh. Maybe. I'd have to make the formula, and it's a little

very

unstable.

And we'd need to be somewhere with dead plant matter.

[groupiedrifter]

... Oh, right.
Unstable isn't good. It's fun sometimes!!! But not ideal.
Maybe we can have a controlled area in the lab, with Viveca's OK.

[What's the worse that could happen??? Accidentally filling the whole lab with plants????]

[greenpower]

[Plant zombies. We could end up with plant zombies.

In Ivy's defense, that was like half Batman's fault.]

Unstable tends to go boom if you expose too much of it to oxygen, or sometimes the new plants live just long enough to have an existential crisis before they melt... Not, like, ideal.

But look.

It is pretty cool when it works.

[groupiedrifter]

Yeah, lets avoid anything that might blow up half the station, huh?
I don't wanna lose my good standing with half the crew.

[HE WORKED HARD TO GET THAT GOOD STANDING.]

... SMALL medical emergencies are fine.
I have a chemical shower station.

[greenpower]

[She shouldn't be tempted, but Ivy rarely gets to show off for people who appreciate the science.]

Do you have a mosquito in amber?

[groupiedrifter]

I freaking WISH.
I had one on my desk back in MIT, but it was hardly prehistoric.

[greenpower]

That would also be a sticking point since I need samples from the mosquito's gut to make the formula work.

The older the better.