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jonathan worth (dierache) wrote in bellumletale,
@ 2010-05-28 23:46:00

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beauty, dr. watson, invisible man, irene adler, moriarty

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Everyone is likely equally exhausted, and by now I'm sure many of you have gone to bed, but I felt like I ought to say this now, for everyone to read at their own discretion.

If you met a man last night going by the name 'Jackson Miller' under my apartment number, he is not who he says he is. His name is Professor James Moriarty. He's ~~I can't believe I'm saying this~~ from the Sherlock Holmes stories.

Please believe me when I say that he's extremely dangerous and you should stay away from him. He's the prototype for the modern super villain. He literally runs all of the crime in London. He is cold, ruthless, will do whatever it takes to get what he wants, and he is more than willing to kill people who get in his way.

I felt like I had to say something so that he didn't have the chance to go undetected again.

That said, ~~[...]~~ I'm not him.

~~needless to say, I'm not going to be in the safe room any time soon~~

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~~I don't~~ ~~I didn't~~

I'm sorry.

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sneakingaround
2010-05-29 07:22 am UTC (link)

I have considered that the trigger is not scientific. However, I have data that suggests a genetic change does occur between a Bellum Resident in his "normal" state and his "transformed" state. The phenotype demonstrated relies on a change in the genotype. The trigger of that change may very well be mystical in origin, but I believe that it works at least partially through physical means.

If you had ever taken biochemistry, you would know for a fact that nature is quite mad.

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bookshelved
2010-05-29 03:42 pm UTC (link)

You have tested this then? Is it only on stories that change physically? Or on non-physical altering tales as well? And, if I may take it a step further, those of us who have abilities when we are not our tales - have you found any DNA from prior to when our abilities began, to see if we're different even now, like this, from what we were when we were children, say?

Nature is chaotic, not mad, doctor. Ask the flowers. They'll tell you as much.

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sneakingaround
2010-05-29 08:42 pm UTC (link)

My sample pool has been very small, so my data is limited. If you are willing to provide me with such samples, I would happily test them to provide evidence that such changes did occur. The residents of this building seem to place "science" in the same category as "horrific torture," which is mildly amusing as they are intimately familiar with the latter and blissfully ignorant of the former.

When nature's favorite enzyme is flawed, it does not make a better enzyme - it completely changes the way in which the flowers work in a complicated fashion in order to preserve that enzyme. I believe the flowers would agree.

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	bookshelved 2010-05-29 09:27 pm UTC (link)
	I think you would need to track a new resident, from the time they first walk in the building, to be able to truly know. We could be changing more every month, and we may simply be unaware of it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	sneakingaround 2010-05-29 09:36 pm UTC (link)
	I am. But I cannot present one individual and call it a study. The more data I have, the less likely one piece is an error. ~~If you were as well-versed in scientific protocol as you clearly are in wasting time, you would know this.~~ (Reply to this) (Parent)

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