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Speed Dial

by Paul Taylor on April 11, 2018 at 11:02 pm
Story: Wapsi-Archive
Characters: Daylla, Dustin
Location: Gryphon Middle School

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  1. BarerMender
    April 11, 2018, 11:27 pm | # | Reply

    310 lbs? No wonder she shattered the door.

    • TazManiac
      April 13, 2018, 9:53 pm | # | Reply

      “300 Pounds!!!…”, no- three hundred & TEN Pounds…

    • Senok13
      April 16, 2025, 3:10 am | # | Reply

      She is metal, duh… But don’t bring the new info up ever again, as she is also a girl.

  2. Carl-E
    April 11, 2018, 11:43 pm | # | Reply

    I wa never really clear on this – what the heck IS Dayla, anyway? I always thought she looked a bit like a rag doll of some sort, but maybe she’s made of animated stone or something?

    • GlytchMeister
      April 11, 2018, 11:56 pm | # | Reply

      She’s some kind of living metal. Her ancestors were living stone beings, her mom was more metallic (possibly ore?), and Daylla is even more metallic than her mom.

      • All-Purpose Guru
        April 12, 2018, 10:52 pm | #

        Just out of curiosity, where did you get this info? I’ve been woefully uninformed about Daylla, and she’s one of my favorite characters…

    • All-Purpose Guru
      April 11, 2018, 11:58 pm | # | Reply

      She’s apparently made of metal.

      Weighing 310 lbs might be somewhat *limiting* in romantic situations.

      • Michael
        April 12, 2018, 5:02 pm | #

        would be just my league. 300lbs here. Hehe. But I think i am a bit taller – and have more volume.

    • B0mar
      April 12, 2018, 12:02 am | # | Reply

      Living Metal, and she can move, so portions of her are by turns semi-liquid. [Heh! got the density right] My guess is some variety of metal Foam, with a rigid exoskeleton, or she’d weigh more than THAT.

      • Dave
        April 12, 2018, 12:07 am | #

        Or, her interior is composed mostly of lithium, which is about as massive as an equal volume of pinewood (density about half that of water).

        Of course, it’s rather pyrophoric, but that might account for her “volcanic temper”.

      • gyrre
        April 12, 2018, 2:00 am | #

        The foam is an interesting idea.
        If memory serves, Jeph Jacques explains the AI brains in his universe as using some sort of foam lattice.

      • gyrre
        April 12, 2018, 2:02 am | #

        I really need to get more sleep.

        The AIs I mentioned are specifically from the webcomic Questionable Content.

      • jwhouk
        April 12, 2018, 11:21 am | #

        I think we know about QC and AI’s, gyrre. 😉

      • Sheik
        April 12, 2018, 2:40 pm | #

        There is no reason she can’t be mostly empty space.
        This is her humanoid form. She might be considerably smaller at 310 and solid, maybe the size of a three or four year old child.

  3. Great Scott
    April 12, 2018, 1:29 am | # | Reply

    ah, yes, Lithium. Back in high school (a long long time ago), they had a secret jar filled with a large piece of lithium (or was it Sodium?), in some sort of oil. About once a year, they’d take it out, cut off a small piece of it (very soft, cut with a knife), then they’d drop that small piece into a cup of water and get away — it would explode with a large bang. Always very fun. (Probably can’t do that now — OSHA regulations and / or general paranoia about terrorism.)

    • FTL
      April 12, 2018, 7:23 am | # | Reply

      It was probably Sodium… the reaction was used as an example to teach new lab assistants at my high school to ALWAYS follow safety instructions during prep. In may second last year a to large piece was used and it broke the container and launched around the fume cupboard… really hammered home the fact that “Sh1t Happens, so be prepared for the worst!”

      • Skywatcher
        April 12, 2018, 12:03 pm | #

        Does it ever! For nearly 50 years, my dad was a research chemist in the field of peptides. He lost a few teeth due to a project exploding in his face.

      • Michael
        April 12, 2018, 5:15 pm | #

        I have been boss of a lab in the oil business. Some years in a 120000 barrel per day production.
        You need to be careful and know what you do, really.

        We had an emergency flare for the gas that was produced with the oil and was usually processed into lean gas and condensate. For about 2mio Cubicmeter per day that would be roughly 70million Cubicfeet per day if that is better units for you. In the beginning they had the procedure to throw a molotow cocktail from the bundwall after the operator opened the valves. One time the one to throw the molotov cocktail was standing with the wind and when he lighted the fire he was standing up to the naval in flames. He was lucky that the safety overal protected him. Only the hands were burned and full of blisters. He got an emergency flight home and only left one stiff finger from that.

    • Tim
      April 12, 2018, 11:21 am | # | Reply

      An old school of mine bordered a large pond and a stretch of woods beyond, and had an awesome chemistry teacher. Many games with Sodium, Lithium, and other water reactive chemicals were had… with proper supervision. One day he basically catapulted some sodium into the lake to see how many times it could bounce under its own explosions launching it back up.

      • Cpt. Obvious
        April 12, 2018, 6:40 pm | #

        Had a chemistry teacher who caused a nice explosion once. He was doing inventory and took the opportunity to top off the liquids for those materials that has to be stored in liquid. Thing is there are some that are stored in water and some that has to be stored in oil. After working through most of the inventory he suddenly found himself holding a glass jar containing a large chunk of Sodium under the tap and turning the water on. He said that when the water started flowing he suddenly realized what he was doing so he just dropped the jar with the Sodium and dove for cover, and then it seemed everything exploded.

        He was lucky and didn’t suffer any permanent damage, that time.

      • All-Purpose Guru
        April 12, 2018, 10:59 pm | #

        Similar story. My math teacher in high school actually went to the college I ended up attending, which had a large creek wending its way through campus, with bridges crossing the creek at opportune points.

        He told us before I went to college about tossing small chunks of sodium into the creek and having flames floating down the creek.

        Once I went off to college (at that school) he told me the whole story, about how they cut off a small piece of sodium to drop into the creek– and promptly dropped the bigger chunk into the creek too.

        30 foot high tongue of flame floating through campus (several bridges that cross the creek had flames going ABOVE them as it floated on by)

        I had a pretty cool math teacher.

  4. gyrre
    April 12, 2018, 1:52 am | # | Reply

    She’s one smart cookie.

  5. Gavote
    April 12, 2018, 8:37 am | # | Reply

    Lithium, sodium, potassium, and if you aren’t radiation averse you can step up to rubidium, cesium and francium. Technically potassium is radiologically active, but people freak if you tell them bananas are radioactive.

    • RBZ
      April 12, 2018, 8:50 am | # | Reply

      All fruit is radioactive. Bananas are just an exception as they require the radioactivity in order to seed effectively. And the amount of radioactive exposure you get from eating a single banana is so low that you’d die long before you ate enough to reach anything like a dangerous level.

      • RBZ
        April 12, 2018, 8:50 am | #

        *die of old age or food poisoning, or being hit by a bus, etc.

      • Michael
        April 12, 2018, 5:21 pm | #

        Thats true. The natural background radiation is everywhere and on a different level. There are few areas on the earth that are not healthy to live at.
        Additionally you have houses built with granit stone or bathrooms with tiles that might give light in the night (just boasting really). In some areas radon is coming from the ground and collecting in the basement. That last phenomena do have an impact so as statistically increased cancer of the lung. But all that is a joke only compared to smoking.

  6. Robert Nowall
    April 12, 2018, 9:14 am | # | Reply

    Hopefully when Daylla slammed into Dustin, she didn’t break his phone.

  7. Guesticus
    April 12, 2018, 9:30 am | # | Reply

    Less yapping, more tapping!

  8. Vorlonagent
    April 12, 2018, 1:57 pm | # | Reply

    You didn’t think you needed to prepare?!? You don’t just waltz into the championships unprepared!

  9. Sooperspook
    April 12, 2018, 6:43 pm | # | Reply

    Wait, so noone in the past two months tried calling Daylas phone?

    • jamwa
      April 12, 2018, 11:32 pm | # | Reply

      considering what the world grid is, it is well possible that only a near by signal could actually reach the phone (yeah know that in real world the signal goes from your phone to a tower and back to the called phone even if you are standing beside each other, but comic physics).

      really, it has to have some form of shielding just for avoiding anyone tampering with it. its not like you want random people poking at this thing in random ways.

    • Guesticus
      April 13, 2018, 11:15 am | # | Reply

      Considering they assumed she was dead, what possible reason would anyone think to phone her?

      • Storel
        May 9, 2018, 2:46 am | #

        They didn’t know she was dead, though, just that she disappeared. So you’d think they’d at least try her phone…

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