Fourth Transmutation [Video]

[thebloodseal]

Who: Alphonse Elric and you
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: SS Vanquish, if you really want
When: February 4th

[When Al turns on the communicator, he has several smashed, liquified, and otherwise disassembled gumballs on top of a sheet of wax paper on the Vanquish's kitchen table. Hey, he didn't want to make a mess while he did science.]

I'm not sure if it's because I don't have the ingredients quite right or if these are made of something different... but I haven't been able to completely break these gumballs down with alchemy. I'm sure people have tried eating them, so is there anything different about the taste or smell? That's one area I can't do anything in, unfortunately...

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[firstrebel]

Please tell me you thoroughly scanned for things like explosives before you cracked open any of those crates. And are you taking precautions against things like poisons?

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[thebloodseal]

I got them from another ship, actually- people have ways of getting around the seals.

Poison isn't a worry for me, thankfully. But this armor is my body, so I can't chew them, either.

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[firstrebel]

[ She notices he kind of skirted around her comment about the explosives. ]

It wouldn't bother me except the people who run this station seem to think they're contraband of some kind, which - is suspicious.

[ Basically, she's having a hard time dismissing them as totally harmless. ]

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[thebloodseal]

Mmhmm- which is why I wanted to experiment on them. If they're just candy, they shouldn't have triggered an order to freeze our assets. So that makes me suspect they're something more, unless gumballs are a really rare commodity in this part of the galaxy.

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[firstrebel]

Maybe sweeteners are a controlled substance in this part of the universe?

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[thebloodseal]

Or there's something like that disguised as the flavoring or sugar. [He prods what looks like a wad of chewed gum.] It's this part that I can't break down further- what's left when you strip away the flavoring and coloring and sugar.

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[firstrebel]

Yeah, I couldn't say. I'm no chemist, but good luck, and be careful. Try not to blow up your ship on accident.

[thebloodseal]

I'll do my best not to!