I am too freaking tired for this shit

[xp_artie]

So, some scientists have grown ...brain pieces in a lab, for want of a better technical term that I can't really be bothered looking up again right now.

The brain pieces have eyes. More or less. They can perceive light.

Now, here's a question for the telepaths in the room: how many pieces of a brain do you need before it develops a rudimentary consciousness? and are we creating sad little trapped entities in jars (again)?

Anyone know a friendly telepath who wants to go break into a German lab and listen to some petri dishes and determine where we're at in the mad scientist scale?

Are we at normal and creepy or approaching the point where a strike team, some car bombs and a bullet in the back of someone's head are needed?


(X-Force have my full report already. This is the redacted version, because hell, some of you deserve nightmares about brains in jars, too.)

(I mean, y'all, what if the brain pieces have a link back to the astral plane and are hosting a disembodied consciousness because someone was psi sensitive.)

Comments

[xp_tarot]

I still have a headache from your report. We know what the brain in a jar can do, it can try to eat Wall Street.

[xp_artie]

Sorry not sorry.

I think this is the low tech, not created by mutants version so it's 20 years off from that, but I'm not betting the mansion on it.

[xp_darcy]

(I mean, y'all, what if the brain pieces have a link back to the astral plane and are hosting a disembodied consciousness because someone was psi sensitive.)

i am going to have screaming nightmares about this and i hate it (the report was bad enough)

[xp_artie]

I'm not sorry, babe. you work for us now, so this is like, training or something.

[xp_darcy]

I'm still working on that whole "emotional detachment from horrific thoughts" thing, give me a bit. At least I read the report before lunch instead of having to revisit lunch after.

[xp_artie]

That's probably a good thing. And probably being completely detached is a bad thing, let's be real.

[xp_darcy]

Some layer of separation is probably good for me, but I can't imagine complete detachment. More just "shove it in a box, shove the box into the deep recesses of your brain, scream about it later."

[xp_jubilee]

Insomnia and great sex are good coping mechanisms I’m told.

[xp_darcy]

Mm, the insomnia's great until you forget what's real. And a gal gets tired of her toys and hand, eventually.

[xp_jubilee]

Okay, so like, I am not the person you go to for subtly except in very specific situations but I’m gonna like try.

Is that personal choice or lack of options? Cause like, duuuuude. We can help you with lack of options but personal choice is all cool

[xp_darcy]

friends with benefits has historically not gone well for me (i get Feelings and it makes shit messy.) toys don't care if i have favorites or Feelings.

[xp_jubilee]

Ah. Feelings. That’s harder if you’re like, the type to get possessive. I mean, just ‘I think of you as my squishy but I don’t really care who you do’ that’s a little easier. Although I am like the lassst person to talk about this. Like, I have bad track records with the squishies.

[xp_darcy]

I'm good at sharing, I just like having quality time access in and out of the bedroom, and that's usually where the problem happens.

[xp_wallflower]

It would depend on how careful they’re being. There are cases of people losing or being born with almost no brain that are completely cognizant but given that we still don’t know what we don’t know you’d need to experiment with a telepath for confirm.

I doubt that the scientists involved would be thinking about telepaths.

The research is important however to medicine, and they have ethical frameworks that they must work within.

[xp_artie]

mmm, the taste of ethics in the morning.

I agree, they were probably being careful but were they careful enough? Are you gonna bet on it?

[xp_wallflower]

From the article it appears they are using stem cells to grow the pieces.

Your telepath idea is good but I do not think you need ‘shut down’ legitimate science unless you have proof of a danger.

[xp_artie]

Well, at this point, I want to find out if there's danger. Then we can talk about the rest.

[xp_jubilee]

You always bring me such nice reports to read. It’s like, myself, I said today. That nice boy Artie, always such a helper.’

Just let me know if you need any brain meats turned to slag

[xp_banshee]

Seriously, though.

You lot are looking into the sentience of the brains in question?

[xp_daytripper]

It's what we do. Unfortunately, what we've found is that the public experiments are either the result of a lot of secret illegal experiments using mutants, or they inspire someone to do the secret illegal experiments using mutants. Mutant weaponization and mass production are big business.

[xp_banshee]

I'm aware, love. A lot of friends in the Underground running from one thing or another. Not often we stage a daring rescue, but sometimes something's necessary. I've no connections personally anywhere that might help, but I you let me know if you find people who need to disappear.

[xp_cypher]

Do they want South American villages where everyone is convinced they're Adolf Hitler?

Because this is how you get South American villages where everyone is convinced they're Adolf Hitler.

[xp_blink]

brb. gonna go stabkill those brains.