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Ianto Jones does coffee and snark (nosuitnoservice) wrote in the100,
@ 2016-01-23 06:44:00

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!network post, clara oswald, ianto jones, jane foster (mcu), mary jane watson (616), prue halliwell, trish walker (mcu)

I'm no god of thunder, but an Ask Me Anything is bound to dredge up something interesting anyway.

For those (few?) who don't know me I'm Ianto Jones, I work in IT, but back home I was with a secret alien research facility. I spent two years at the main branch in London and three years with the much, much smaller Cardiff field outpost - five people and a pterodactyl. Hit me with questions.

(As a free bonus answer, no, the pterodactyl did not do fieldwork.)

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	oswaldftw 2016-01-22 06:00 pm UTC (link)
	Most peculiar species you ever ran across. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:02 pm UTC (link)
	Humans. Aside from that, sex gas. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	oswaldftw 2016-01-22 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	Sex gas. That was a whole species? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:14 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. Crashed in a meteorite, got released, possessed a girl and went on a rampage absorbing people's orgasmic energy to feed on. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	oswaldftw 2016-01-22 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	Oh. That poor woman. Did she turn out all right? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, Jack managed to lure it out of her and trap it in a force field. It couldn't survive in our atmosphere for long. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	seejanerun 2016-01-22 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	What thing seemed like magic to you at first but turned out to have a very scientific explanation behind it? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:04 pm UTC (link)
	We did have psychic training standard at London, which sounds incredibly unscientific. Not that I actually understand the science behind it since it's not my field, though the Doctor could probably explain it. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seejanerun 2016-01-22 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	Can you train a psychic? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	Not to a huge degree, in humans at least. I can't read minds or anything - about the only thing I can do is slightly block psychic influence, which is mostly what they were aiming for. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	seejanerun 2016-01-22 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	That's disappointing. I was hoping we could just trigger some genetic thing that would expand our minds. Not that I'd want to be psychic. It would just be cool to study. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	They would have loved that. Though if you believe Jack, sometime over the next three thousand years we do get pheromones and the ability for men to get pregnant. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	justhitjackpot 2016-01-22 06:01 pm UTC (link)
	Do you like to dance? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, but only if a lot of other people are dancing as well, because when I was old enough to start going to clubs it was during that phase when dancing mostly just meant flailing around chaotically. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justhitjackpot 2016-01-22 06:08 pm UTC (link)
	By yourself or with a partner? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:18 pm UTC (link)
	If I'm with a partner I prefer slower songs. Otherwise by myself. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justhitjackpot 2016-01-22 06:33 pm UTC (link)
	What's your favorite song to dance to? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:42 pm UTC (link)
	Hm, tough one. Maybe Blur's Song 2 or System of a Down's Chop Suey. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	justhitjackpot 2016-01-22 06:44 pm UTC (link)
	You can dance to those songs? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:46 pm UTC (link)
	"Dance". :) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	laufeydottir 2016-01-22 06:02 pm UTC (link)
	What was the most difficult case you ever had? Personally or professionally. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:12 pm UTC (link)
	I think... the Night Travelers. They used to disguise themselves as a traveling circus troupe and impressions of them had been caught in old film reels. A local theatre that my dad took me to every week when I was a kid played it and they escaped and started killing again. A lot of things in Cardiff had personal connections, but that one was hard. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	laufeydottir 2016-01-22 06:31 pm UTC (link)
	What exactly did these Night Travelers do? I can't imagine they killed their victims on the stage? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	When they were in our time they didn't even bother performing, they were just targeting people they came across on the street, putting them into a catatonic state. The stories from the old days, people would go to their show and never be seen again. I'm not sure what they did with the bodies back then. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	laufeydottir 2016-01-22 06:41 pm UTC (link)
	Their bodies were alive but catatonic? (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 06:46 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah. They recovered after we got rid of the Night Travelers, thankfully, because the hospital didn't have a clue what to do with them. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	firstcharmed 2016-01-22 08:38 pm UTC (link)
	What was the pterodactyl like? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 08:53 pm UTC (link)
	Not the most cuddly. Cleaning out her nest was usually pretty easy because she'd take off and start flying around when someone started coming up, but sometimes she'd be a bit more social, especially if you came in with salmon or chocolate. A pterodactyl landing next to you can be pretty intimidating, though. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	firstcharmed 2016-01-22 08:57 pm UTC (link)
	How big are they? Obviously I've never seen one, just in a museum. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-22 09:04 pm UTC (link)
	Only slightly shorter than I am when standing. Which means really long dinosaur beak right in front of you, though at least she doesn't have teeth. Her wingspan fully extended was just about six metres. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	firstcharmed 2016-01-23 02:34 am UTC (link)
	Oh wow. I used to work in a Natural History Museum. I would have loved to see a real pterodactyl. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	nosuitnoservice 2016-01-23 03:14 am UTC (link)
	It was one of the better things about the job. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	firstcharmed 2016-01-23 03:17 am UTC (link)
	I can imagine. All I got to do was hang out in a room full of bones. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	actions_speak 2016-01-23 03:09 am UTC (link)
	What type of aliens? (Reply to this) (Thread)

nosuitnoservice
2016-01-23 03:21 am UTC (link)

Pretty much anything that came by Earth. Our own space programs (the official ones like NASA etc) don't have anything that can even get out of the solar system yet, but we do have enough tech out there that other species are noticing us and coming to see what's going on here. London pretty much collected anything they could find that got left behind, figured out how it worked and riffed off it. In Cardiff there was a rift in space-time though so we'd get single individuals that had slipped through - that's where the pterodactyl came from, too. There was also a stable population of what we call Weevils in the sewers that we regularly had to deal with if one wandered out. They're humanoid, semi-sentient, but very aggressive when they're out of their element and full of sharp teeth.

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