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OK, so mistakes were made

I read somewhere that capcaisin stimulates the "Ow, Hot!" sensors in one's mouth. Menthol does the same thing for the "Ow, Cold!" sensors in one's mouth.

So, logically, if I have a Carolina Reaper pepper with (stolen from April) breath mints I should be fine and they'll cancel each other out, right?

Wrong.

I now know what Hellfire tastes like. Because as it turns out the Ow, Hot! sensor and the Ow, Cold! sensor are _two different pathways_ and can thus both be active at the same time.

Biology sucks.

I might be watching too much pop culture

I blame April Parker for this.

But I now have a hand with several useful tools and a semi-autonomous mode. Can hop right down off my wrist, scurry around, and do stuff.

(Techie Note: Bluetooth fucking sucks. It took me longer to rewrite the networking stack to be secure and to suck a lot less and work with regular wireless receivers than it did to make the mods in my hand)

(Further note: X-Force might be interested in this tech, as it'll talk to Bluetooth in any number of potentially nasty ways.)

So, naturally, it's Thing Mode.

Not quite Mr Fusion, but a small step towards it

2MJ in, 3MJ out.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/what-enabled-the-big-boost-in-fusion-energy-announced-this-week/

From the article:

In terms of specifics, the lasers of the National Ignition Facility deposited 2.05 megajoules into their target in that experiment. Measurements of the energy released afterward indicate that the resulting fusion reactions set loose 3.15 megajoules, a factor of roughly 1.5. That's the highest output-to-input ratio yet achieved in a fusion experiment.

My stuff hits 10:1 if not better. How it does this, well, I have a few ideas.

Oh, look. A big step forward

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/12/fusion-energy-breakthrough-by-us-scientists-boosts-clean-power-hopes/

My stuff is, of course, better, but this is relevant to my interests because if they get to the point where they can make fusion happen, I can use my tech, wed it to their construction and materials science, and make _mad bank_ while benefitting all humanity.

I have learned three things

One: Electrons like to flow through prosthetics when you're tired and dumb and make stupid mistakes
Two: The engineering team around here is dedicated and skilled and handles their business well
Three: The ultimate cause of our woes was a godsdamned squirrel. In the upstream transformer station.

Ultimately, all upgrades have been completed successfully.

All right.

Someone want to tell me where a stranger to this place could find a decent fabrication facility, or should I go cut down a tree and build my namesake?

Not even a full day and I'm already being hit up to build something. But that's cool, it's kinda what I do. And it's not a weapon, Clint, so you can stop frothing.

Oh, and by the way, I'm Forge. Ex-Army, mutant engineer and inventor of some renown.