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[problematical]

[ River's sitting in her suite in the Water, evidenced by the soft colours and natural materials in her background. She touches the screen carefully, teeth pinching her lower lip as though she doesn't know recording has started -- but then she starts speaking without changing anything, so maybe she does know. ]

High chance of improbability even in this 'Verse, can't go between-between-between. Even if you use orthogonal coordinates, meeting at right angles. Two wrongs to make a right, two rights to make a wrong, the graph is broken. Order of chelonii or testudines but even the largest can't hold a city. Can't check the book, no chapters on waking up in new places.

[ She seems briefly frustrated, whether at the improbability of her situation or merely her own inability to verify what the kedan told her is unclear. She hadn't had the opportunity to think on it much with being drafted into the bottle, with all that had followed that and now that she did, she was still no better equipped to explain anything. Her fingers tangle in a dingy chain around her neck, tugging at a small ring and charm that seem very tarnished. ]

I'm supposed to have a job.

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Comments

[spideyfanone]

[They also have three fingers and are faintly fuzzy, at least?]

Useful as it is, I'd have opted out if I got a chance. In the reality cluster I'm from, X-gene mutations are kind of a lottery. I'm more extreme than most, though.

[problematical]

[ That does ease her mind, oddly. ]

Will you tell me about it?

[spideyfanone]

[A chance to be pedantic? Yay!]

The X-gene? Present in an indeterminately large portion of the human population in most realities that have it, but doesn't always activate. When it does it's usually around puberty, though some lucky jerks like me are born this way, and sometimes it kicks in later in life. There are also secondary mutations that usually hit in your twenties. Effects are unpredictable in the extreme, but usually there's some manifestation of powers, whether it's psychic abilities or shooting bolts from your fingers. Physical mutations are less common and a lot of times less useful, though it's kinda fun being a fuzzy-gecko-cat-bat sometimes. I'm also a teleporter. I have friends who, let's see, Mr. Howlett has a healing factor and can pop out these cool claws, Miz Blaire converts sound into light and she can do solid projections, energy, or illusions, Corporal Summers fires concussive blasts, Xave is just kinda super-psychic... And that's just random people I hung out with.

[problematical]

[ She's attentive and alert through the explanation, head tilted just slightly as though to catch every nuance. ]

So none of them are made.

[spideyfanone]

Nope. That's metahumans, though that's an umbrella term for science, magic, technology, weird lab accidents, alien beams, being an alien, being half god...

[problematical]

How do you know which ones are good and which ones are bad?

[spideyfanone]

Mostly you just have to watch what they do, I guess. Not all that different from anyone else, just with more lightening bolts from the sky.

[problematical]

But some right things are wrong and some wrong things are right.

[ Despite the playful words, she looks pretty serious about it; the remark doesn't come across as either philosophical or hypothetical. ]

[spideyfanone]

[He's familiar with the problem.]

Right. Not that different from anybody else.