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WELCOME TO YOUR PRIVATE CHANNEL, VARIAN. FOR SECURE COMMUNICATION, USE 018.07.154.55 *** CHARACTER NAME/ALIAS has joined 018.07.154.55 <thealchemist>This thing is SO COOL okay- hey, hi, Varian here! If you're seeing this then you've reached my channel for messages. Leave me one if you need something!

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[alchemistake]

I'll take that as a compliment.

[Varian replies as he flicks his goggles up from his face, letting them rest just in front of the two spikes growing from his forehead.

He'll definitely be keeping his eye out for unprompted touching though, because in Varian's lab that's a BIG no.]

Wow...so you're bioluminescent, huh? I read that some merfolk could do that, but I haven't had a chance yet to see it for myself.

[missleadingquestions]

[Luckily, the question distracts Maya from prodding at something precarious just in time.]

Hm? Yeah! Isn't it cool? Me and Dandy and I think even Marco glows.

[She pokes both of her cheeks instead and the glowing magatamas there, though to Varian they might more represent the shapes magatamas are based on; pulled fangs.]

Tadah!

[alchemistake]

Wooow. You know, this might require further study. I've been working with experimenting with different kinds of lighting in alchemy, like neon...trying to figure out something natural would be cool too.

[BUT she didn't come here for him to just be nerdy at her about her changes.]

But uh! Make yourself at home, mind the mess...and please, keep your hands to yourself. No offense.

[missleadingquestions]

[Maya's hands go up as if to show she's not touching anything, forcing a smile that absolutely doesn't show how much she definitely doesn't want to touch things just because he's told her not to.

Who is the child here]

Gotcha!

Oh, by the way.

[distracting herself from that by doing what she came here to do, Maya produces one of those Steel Samurai manga she was so excited about.]

Ta-dah! I brought the first few books in the series, just in case you're a quick reader.

[alchemistake]

[The Goblin reaches out to gently take one of the manga in hand, delicate so as not to wrinkle the pages or bend the cover. It's quite unlike anything he's seen before as far as books go...it's not like a regular hardback, or even a flyer. And of course he doesn't know yet you're supposed to read it backwards, but he'll get there eventually.]

Woah. This...has a lot of pictures in it, doesn't it?

[He comments as he flips to a random page, realizing straight away that the actual words are minimal compared to the drawings inside.]

[missleadingquestions]

[Exuberant about the possibility of spreading the comic bug even further, Maya nods, hair baubles bouncing as she does.]

The whole thing's pictures! With speech bubbles. The pictures tell the story instead. See?

[Maya points on the page he's opened to.]

That big guy there? He's the Steel Samurai— kind of like a robot Knight— and the guy he's cutting through is an agent of the Evil Magistrate.