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[trapdoor_spider]

[The video that Myrnin is running in order to document his excursion down here to the train is spotty at best, cutting out from time to time and often more snowy than clear. He's flipping gadgets, connecting hoses and occasionally pulling metal bits and ends out of a bag at his feet. It's unclear whether the bits and ends serve a purpose or just

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[am_i_being_rude]

[The Doctor is currently personifying the very definition of 'hovering'. Bits and ends and building things naturally pique his interest, and then with everything else it's kind of a wonder he's not.. doing more than hovering. He's very excited.] D'you need any help at all? I'm very good with this sort of thing. Practically make a living out of it.

[trapdoor_spider]

[Oh good! A lab assistant. It's exactly what he needed. Of course the resemblance gets him a disgusted look and a muttered:] Wasn't aware I was so friendly when I was human. [Naturally he believes the Doctor is another one of his many times over great-grandsons just as he's convinced Campbell he's a relative]

Right, helping. [He rummages through his bag, comes up with a length of curved, copper pipe and hands it to the Doctor] That should go over there. [He points in a vague direction to the left] There's a bit of rubber tubing I think would be better replaced with that pipe fitting.

[am_i_being_rude]

[He's not totally sure what to make of that. So he leaves it for a moment in favour of looking for the tubing Myrnin didn't really point out.] Ah, here we go! [Tubing in pocket, pipe on, sonic it into place to ensure it doesn't go anywhere, since he has no idea what they're building.] Humans tend to have a predisposition towards the friendlier side. Not all, obviously, but the most of them. Kind of refreshing after all those species that.. don't. [Have excitement, will babble. He's back where he was before now.] Sorry, what is it we're building?

[trapdoor_spider]

[But see that is what makes him a brilliant lab assistant! The ability to know what Myrnin is talking about when he doesn't really make it clear! Or something like that]

Even the unfriendly ones are vastly entertaining. [Perhaps in a different manner than the Doctor means. Myrnin holds a wrench out] Tighten that up there, would you? [It's another vague gesture toward something that appears to be about shoulder height. Myrnin hasn't noticed the sonic. Yet. He will though.]

[am_i_being_rude]

[He takes the wrench and goes to find something at shoulder-height that looks like it needs wrenching. Actually whatever they're making is sort of sensical, in at least the mechanic fashion. Sort of.]

I'm.. not sure I've ever really gone in that direction with it, but I suppose they can be. [There must be a reason he's been obsessed with the planet for the last seven hundred years, and that's as good as any. He hasn't missed that Myrnin didn't say what it was either.] 'Entertaining' isn't really the word I'd use. Definitely fun though. Resilient, maybe.

[trapdoor_spider]

Truly? You find them resilient? [He actually stops what he's doing in order to boggle a bit at the Doctor.]

[am_i_being_rude]

[He glances back over at Myrnin because that was a somewhat confusing reaction.] You don't? [he considers this.] I've seen so many of them adapt in the middle of remarkable change. Not all of them, mind, but enough.

And they're everywhere. If that doesn't indicate a certain hardiness...

[trapdoor_spider]

Yes so are rabbits and I'd hardly call them resilient. As a race, perhaps but individually they're incredibly fragile. It takes a great deal of work to keep them alive.

[am_i_being_rude]

Compare anything to something sufficiently evolutionarily advanced and it will pale in the difference. [Handwave. Textbook quoting.] Anyway you can't discount the groups of them; they stick together for a reason. There's hundreds of species in the universe that work on the same basic principle and they're no less regarded.

[trapdoor_spider]

That's a valid point but many things in groups are stronger.

[am_i_being_rude]

And knowing that they're stronger when in a group, you find this to mean they are less resilient while knowing this fact?

[trapdoor_spider]

I'm not as concerned with them as a group. It's entirely fascinating the things that they will do and the lengths that they will go as well as the decisions that they make as a group, however individually they are entirely fragile. [Unfortunately this point of view probably comes from Myrnin's viewing of humans as mostly a replenish-able food source, entertainment and entirely too risky to actually care about. All of that being said, he does care about a few. Occasionally anyway]

[am_i_being_rude]

[He doesn't really have a counter-point to that, because on their own, the majority of humans really are fragile, in more ways than one.] 'But that's the beauty of them. Being so frail and and then... exploding across the galaxy regardless. It's the individuals that do the most out of that lot, not the groups. [Well it's not as though the Doctor's own view isn't somewhat skewed as well. Maybe not quite so much though.]

[trapdoor_spider]

[Myrnin ponders that a moment while he tinkers with a set of gears, tapping on them, oiling them and in general just...tinkering]

I would agree with you there. The individuals can be quite extraordinary.

so sorry. migraine, and then this notif was lost under others.

[am_i_being_rude]

[He wasn't expecting agreement at... any point, really. And isn't sure what Myrnin is specifically referring to either.] Yeah. [He's watching what Myrnin is doing, working out what needs working on - or trying to, since it seems a bit arbitrary. He gestures to some of the tinkery bits around him.] Any of these need...?

No worries, back tagging is love. Hope the migraine is better

[trapdoor_spider]

[If it helps any, the number of individuals Myrnin finds extraordinary are very few. He could count them on one hand.] Considering the short amount of time they have to work with and the limited resources.

[He glances up at the Doctor, tilts his head and considers the bit of machinery in front of him] That bit right there. The bend is too sharp an angle I fear it'll slow down the process. If we could find a more subtle curve to rush it along I think the machine would run a bit more efficiently.