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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3049341" data-attributes="member: 29014">*Steele nods and presses a button.*"Thurston.  Briefing room beta."*After a short while, a short brown-haired man who looks to be in his twenties with spectacles and a labsuit enters the briefing room.*"You wanted to see me, Mr. Steele?" he asks with a British accent."Thurston, we do have to take the big guy like we thought we might.  And we can't just make the girl handle it for us.""A pity, Jonas, but I don' think we need her anyway.  She creeps me out--somehow her mutant power is subtle enough that it doesn't set off the...""Thurston, we aren't here to talk about that.  The solution?""Well, I'm not sure it will work, but it's a thought anyway.  So, I don't know if any of you know about the waveform generator we recovered last month?  It's almost certainly Japanese, but the Japanese government claims that it isn't theirs.  Perhaps a political move of convenience, but it means we got to keep it.  I still can't make it work on its own because it's out of power.  I think it might be normally powered by something rare, like Lyrobium or Xenobium fallen to earth from the comet.  Anyway, you've got Cedric Purkiss, so you sort of have your own transformer, and I know he's a master of machinery.  If he and I work with this thing, I bet we can attach it to his body and allow the use of at least one setting through his own power.  This might short circuit something else, but it would be a better long-term solution than my other idea, which is to juryrig a temporary holographic emitter that would undoubtably last for only a few hours.""And the size, Thurston?""You're aware of the miniaturisation effort behind the recent boom in nano- and pico-technology, right?  It changes the vibrational state and coordinate compound structure of solid structures such that they contract very slightly.  Maybe some day we'll have a super-shrink ray based on these principles or something, but for now it produces a very modest effect that slightly reduces the target's size.  For an inert object, it works quite well, but it hasn't been tested on a living subject.  Of course, Carrion is fairly hardy, so he would be a good test subject anyway.  My guess would be that it will only be temporary, as the natural exertion and motion of a living creature will increase the vibrational states and return slowly to normal size over time."</blockquote>

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