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[here's a bad iPhone photo of Chris eating a bowl of goulash and drinking beer at the Hungarian Heritage section of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival. Of note are that she's wearing a tank-top, and her arms are completely human. She has even painted little silver gears on her black nail polish, because... because. She is giving the camera a total "mom if you put this on facebook I'll gut you" look. Her eyes are brown, and she has AMAZINGLY thick glasses, like, cokebottle thick. Make-your-eyes-look-friggin-gigantic thick. Her eyes are also dark brown. ]

7/4/2013, Washington, DC, National Mall

[The second picture is a webcam photo of her in the same shirt, except now those arms are robot arms and her eyes are that familiar creepy robotic with the glowing red bits thing. No glasses.

7/6/2013

Just putting these pictures up to confirm that yes, if you leave the city, your physical echoes (that's what I'm calling them now) go away when you get far enough outside the city. It seems like you have to leave the major metropolitan area/suburbs first. Other bits... for me, anyway, the more unpleasant physical effects didn't happen a second time, it was sort of... there, and then not. And then there again. Also of note, I left myself a note to "practice my physical dexterity" at home and I actually followed it, and even though I didn't have these, I AM a bit better at them, as evidenced by typing with fewer typos. They still shake and I have to type more slowly, though.

Other stuff:

> Leave yourself vague notes. You won't believe yourself with any of the weirdness, but I at least had the presence of mind to tell myself to wear long sleeves on the way back, no matter how hot it was. My excuse to myself was that BoltBus has a bad habit of cranking up the AC, but I listened to myself anyway, which is good because suddenly having robot arms on a bus ride would have raised a lot of questions.
> despite all that I forgot my glasses, and luckily there was an old pair at home but god they were dorky fml
> if you go down to DC this year folklife was great uhhh but i guess you only have one more day to enjoy it?? oops

Also yes, I'm back from vacation. Get me up to speed, did I miss anything? Cats, how did the museum raid go?

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So can you like. Actually feel with those arm things? Can you feel stuff with them or sense temperature or do they ever get itchy? What does itchy metal feel like????????

(Jsyk I am nominating "Iron Grip" as your superhero name.
Or maybe "Steelfinger."
"Glow-Eye McGee?")

I can feel stuff just fine. They don't get itchy. Sometimes I get the urge to reconfigure the plates a little but that's kind of a different thing than an itch.

we are not superheroes we are dumb civilians

but man I guess

why not Iron Fist? Idk

We are civilians who are GOING to be superheroes! Duh. It is so entirely and completely obvious that that is where this whole deal is going.
There will be capes and you will LIKE it!
And Iron Fist is pretty cool I guess? I mean it implies punching and punching is pretty superheroey.
DO you punch things with those arms? Does it hurt? Are they so powerful that things just EXPLODE when you punch them and then you make a witty one-liner like from the movies?
Something like "nice to BEAT you." Yeah!!!!!!!!

Fff if it makes you happy, just don't go shouting your superhero name from the heavens, okay? Gotta preserve your secret identity.

They're not any more powerful than my normal arms. They're just heavier, I guess, so they hurt more when I hit things?

Not like I can get in trouble discussing my secret identity on a secret network though, right?
And man. I BET they hurt more! Haha

[ And then she knows they hurt more, remembering it with such clarity that she falls off her chair and starts dabbing at her mouth to make sure there's no spat-up blood there.

IT'S ECHO TIME, MOTHERFUCKERS. Chris is suddenly 100% more terrifying wow ]

~~Areyuo~~ ~~Dno't~~

I bet they hurt ESPECIALLY bad if you are an aries! Because it is a scientific fact that arieseses have the hurtiest punches wow.
ARE you an aries? I am just checking so I can mark you down on my astrology chart, which is a thing that I absolutely have.

[ That sure is some subtle fishing to make sure Chris isn't Aradiabot there, wowowow ]

Yeah, secret network's pretty safe. Just don't let the cops know who you are. Except for Kotetsu I guess, he's on the network. And even if he wasn't he's a complete derp :P

[blink blink. That's a... really random question. ]

I have no idea? My birthday is April 1? What does my astrological sign have to do with anything, astrology is stupid fake psudoscientific bullshit anyway. Don't fuck around with that stuff, it rots your brain.

[ ok no need to fret. the chances are one in twelve. TO GOOGLE ]

HAHAJHHAHA YES.YES! You are so rihgt!!!!!!!!
Zodica astrpoplogy is HELLS OF LAMESS and yuo shuiold stay away from,m it!
ALL of us shoulldj ust RENOUNCE that stff forever. WHAT'S AN AR8ES ANYWAY WHO EVEN KNOWS!!!!!!!!
We shuold change the subject. SPORTS! I liek sports do you like sports?God sports are fuckign great wow.

Did your keyboard break or are you having some sort of seizure?

YES

I maen I droppd my laptop in tjhe pool gotrta b8uy a new one BYE TTYL!!!!!!!!

[ meaning she is going to hide under her bed for a few hours obvs ]

Uh

Okay

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