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How much do you remember about your brother's portal? He told me that you were able to get it working again on your own.

[He could waste time with pleasantries but honestly what would the point be?]

'working' is generous

it ran for about a minute

i guess it almost ended the universe too?

but yeah i remember most of what i did

why?

[ Hahahahaha he knows exactly why. ]

Edited 2021-02-02 02:23 (UTC)

[Yeah he does. But we'll humor him.]

I'm trying to replicate it here but my memory of that time is [MMMMMM] spotty. At best.

I have a scaled-down prototype but no matter what I do it won't stay on. If you could look it over for anything I may have missed I'd be grateful.

[It's hard to admit that the problem might not be with the task he's set himself but rather with his own shortcomings. He doesn't often talk about that period in his memory, how everything is like the contents of a drawer that's been slammed shut and jumbled up. Picking out the memories he needs from the pile has been difficult enough without other people knowing about it. It's a wonder he got his pet project to this point at all.]

[ He can relate to the memory issues thing, if in the other direction. It's actually kind of annoying how easily he remembered the portal compared to stuff he actually cares about. That's what he gets for staring at it for 30 years. ]

sounds about right

that stupid thing NEVER wanted to stay on

i'll take a look

[ He should probably be more cautious after how the whole portal thing turned out last time, but hey: it also got Ford back last time, and he has no intention of sitting here spinning his wheels when there's something he can actually do to fix their latest bout of separation.

Though there is one thing he's concerned about. ]

you're not building in in your basement are you?

Where else would I build it?

[ ... No wonder this guy is friends with Ford. ]

somewhere that gives you plausible deniability when the feds come knocking?

or won't be the first place someone looks if they're trying to spy on you?

or won't put your house at ground zero if the whole thing explodes?

come on haven't you ever committed a crime

[ Stan has no room to talk but look. He's better at giving advice than following it. ]

I've been killing and eating folks for five years. Do you think the police would ever dream of coming near my house. Even if the law here applied to monsters, and you don't have to look too hard to realize that it doesn't, my home and my workshop are off limits and most everyone knows it.

The explosion issue I'll give you but the other option was my place of business and I'm not losing my entire source of income on top of the chance we have at getting people out of here. The real thing we'll build somewhere safer, provided the little one works.

yeesh fine i get it

your house is some kinda murder factory or whatever

thought we had monster cops anyway

that javert guy runs a prison or something right

Edited 2021-02-04 19:08 (UTC)

[OH GOOD, a sore spot!]

Javert showed up and decided he was an authority without doing anything to earn it beyond taking over the prison. Then he murdered a child for breaking a law he made up, and bragged about it publicly. You'll forgive me if I don't reckon he counts for much.

yeah varian. i knew him

[ 'Knew' because Stan hasn't seen him since then and he's got a pretty good idea as to why.

Ugh, what a depressing subject. ]

look if you really think your reputation or whatever is enough to keep people from poking around until you're ready to make the real thing then i'll buy that

but you said it yourself. javert's a nutcase who decided he knows what best for everyone. there's never just one guy like that either

all i'm sayin is that making it harder for someone else who thinks they know what's best to get in the way could save you a lot of headache

[That last part stings a little. A lot. As someone who was that guy for a while, Fiddleford would like to think he understands how dire it can be from the other side.]

There's a reason you're one of a handful of people that knows I'm doing this in the first place. I'm hoping I don't need to tell you to keep it under wraps.

[He wants to hope a guy so concerned about outside scrutiny would know how not to be a snitch.]

I don't want to get everyone's hopes up in case I can't deliver.

don't worry i know how to keep a secret

speaking of which

you got any idea how long this is gonna take?

It depends. If we can secure a steady power source, and that's the only problem with the prototype, building the big one could take as little as a few months. Or it could take years. It's awful hard to plan around this place.

The goal is as soon as possible. 'Possible' is the key word.

figured as much

if you don't want the kids to know then we might have a problem

i don't wanna get their hopes up either so i don't mind not telling em

but if i'm going to your house over and over again for months they're gonna figure it out

[Oh, right. The kids. The kids that he knows are just like their uncle Ford and chronically unable to keep their big ol' Pines noses out of everything. Shit.]

I'd say tell them we've set up a poker night but I don't gamble and I'm not a great liar.

I'll put it this way. How much more of a problem will it be if they find out on their own, versus being told up front?

dipper's as nosy as ford and mabel's just as fearless

if we tell em now at least we'll know what they know and where they are

if they find out on their own we won't know it until they fall out of the a/c vents in matching homemade tactical sweaters

That's what I figured.

[He really doesn't want this to balloon to be too much bigger, but Stan is right, there's no way for them to not tell Dipper and Mabel that will actually result in Dipper and Mabel not finding out. Better to just get it over with.]

Do you think they'll listen if we tell them not to come near in case it does explode? I'm alright blowing myself up on accident. That's a risk I've factored in. I don't want to hurt kids.

[ That's an answer that Stan has to think about for a minute. ]

50/50

i say let 'em show up once or twice and see how boring it actually is

mabel'll stop coming over on her own and you can distract dipper with a notebook full of math

then we just let 'em think it's another boring maintenance day when we finally turn it on

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