haha so here's a funny thing

  actually no i can't be light about this

  i am out of water

  i mean i got water

  but it's all unfiltered stuff straight from the river and who knows what kind of junk is in there

  also delivery is via teleportal

  extradimensional nonsense could be happening

  who knows how portals work

  yes yes i am good with teleports. it does not mean i know what kind of weirdness happens between point a and point b. could have a whole alphabet of troubles in there. could be like ancient chaos gods fiddling with my water and having a wee in it for all i know. also it's grotty city river water that giant ants could be using as a sewer. could be full of radiations. i don't know what kind of postapocalyptic nonsense is happening upstream. factories breaking down. leaking toxic junk everywhere. i've watched movies. i've read comics. i know how this stuff works. basically what i am saying is that drinking that stuff could kill me. or give me superpowers. either way it's not a controllable scenario and i do not do well with those.

  right yes i am a superscience genius girl you do not have to remind me of that. i can run tests to see if its drinkable. i can invent filter stuff.

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  but i didn't do any of that because i was busy doing yknow actual fun superscience that i wanted to do instead of eg essential superscience to keep jin alive

  curse my enormous easily distractable brain

  so now my day is spent being thirsty and

  wait there are vending machines around here

  i have fizzy drink

  crisis averted. shut off the alarms. i can just loot drinkables. no problems here. does soda have an expiry date? eh even if it does. so much sugar in those things you could just

  wait without water i cannot make tea

  okay yeah we're back to crisis mode. put that flashing red light back on. sirens activate.

  get your head down jin

  get inventing filters and junk

  no wait test the water first. figure out what we need to take out before you invent the thing to take it out. a before b before c.

  and calm down for flip's sake. what is this? amateur hour? it's like you never ran up against a bad dealio before. have a chip, jin. drink your disgusting fizzy drinks. get those tests started. think about good things.

  like giant ant swords

  and how they are

  *fun*

  so the thing about making a giant sword out of antbits. the really good thing. is that antbits

  in the shape of a sword

  powered by antgutgem batteries

  cut through ants so well. so satisfying. so crunchy. ant goo everywhere. ant legs flying through the air. did some jousting on starfax pimsneyback. just riding along with my giant sword. slicing through ants along the way. like some kind of bonus level or something. had a couple of scavenger drones with me. sucking up them gem drops. i got all the upgrades. minimap working so good. so sweet. it is just really nice when stuff you make does the thing it's supposed to do and there are no problems or unexpected nonsense. or if there are surprises or problems or whatever they're the kind where you're like 'oh okay i can deal with this i know what to do'. that is a good feeling. one of the best.

  okay i got the bleeps. time to go see what kind of wriggling uglies this water's packed with.