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You knew that this dull grey metal was different. Not like phosphorescence, borrowing its power from the sun. \n\nLike you, it crackled with its own power. The more uranium, the more power.\n\nNo other substance necessary, which meant this //wasn't// a chemical reaction, but something much smaller, much closer to the fabric of reality. <<hoverreplace>>There was something smaller than atoms<<becomes>>We can SPLIT ATOMS<<endhoverreplace>>, and your whole universe shook with possibility.\n<<set $visits = $visits+1>>\n[[*|Cabinet]]

[[NEVERENDING]]

Billions of [[radioactive]] <<if $cancer eq false>>[[cancer]] <<else>>definitely-something-other-than-cancer <<endif>> cells explode out of your ribcage, knitting together boils and nodules into organs and skin. You breathe radon. You GLOW.\n\nIn the light of your body, you see the edges of your blank wooden coffin.\n\n<<replace>>Stand up.<<becomes>>Nowhere to go.<<endreplace>>\n<<replace>>Scream with rage!<<becomes>>RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!<<becomes>>Nothing happened.<<endreplace>>\n[[Pound on the walls]]\n

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Impossible! Your beloved isotopes would never hurt you, never hurt anyone!\nThey were going to //heal//. It was all going so well!\n<<set $cancer = true>>\n[[You were TRICKED|Grow radioactive undead flesh.]]

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Even inside the cabinet, a sign reads: DANGER. HIGHLY RADIOACTIVE. DO NOT HANDLE WITHOUT PROPER SAFETY EQUIPMENT. Everything is in leaded boxes.\n\nYou open them and the clicking grows louder. Your skin shines brightly as you run your fingers through file after lead-lined file. These are all so familiar...\n\n<<once>>What do you want to see first?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<becomes>>What next?<<endonce>>\n\n[[Your first paper on "Uranium Rays"|Uranium Rays]]\n\n[[Your papers on the discovery of two new elements.|Isotopes]]\n\n[[The design for your mobile x-ray machines.]]\n\n[[Your work on the treatment of cancer.]]\n\n[[Your dress, neatly folded and bagged.]]\n\n[[Your cookbook.]]\n\n<<if $visits gte 2>>You pulse with actinidal fury. You feel ready to [[leave]] if you want now.<<endif>>

"STOP!" the patriarchal security guard cries out. "Back into the crypt! We don't need you anymore!"\n\nThis is //just like// when the Nobel committee tried to keep your "adulterous hands" from shaking with the king of Sweden after <<replace>>your relationship with Paul.<<gains>> Some of the right-wing papers said you drove Pierre to suicide, but you ignored their lies.<<endreplace>>\n\n<<replace>>TAKE THIS!<<becomes>>"The prize has been awarded for the discovery of radium and polonium. I believe that there is no connection between my scientific work and the facts of private life. I cannot accept ... that the appreciation of the value of scientific work should be influenced by libel and slander concerning private life."<<becomes>>Give him radium ulcers.<<becomes>>He cries out in pain, melting into slag.<<becomes>>[[Time slips away from you.|Radium]]<<endreplace>>

<<once>>You melt the latch with x-rays from your eyes and push open the door.<<endonce>> You can hear <<if $geiger eq true>>the Geiger counter<<else>>[[something strange and mechanical|Geiger]]<<endif>> crackling loudly as you approach.\n\nYour files are here. You can <<cyclinglink "smell" "feel" "*taste*">> them.\n<<set $visits = 0>>\n[[A file cabinet marked "RADIOACTIVE" beckons.|Cabinet]]

Outfit unlocked! \n\n(Not that it's cold when you emanate the power of the universe.)\n<<set $visits = $visits+1>>\n<<timedgoto "Cabinet" 4s>>

Quarantined.\n\nEven your fingerprints are lethal, their half-life 1,601 years.\n\nYou'll miss //Moules en Sauce de Thorium.//\n<<set $visits = $visits+1>>\n[[Eat the delicious glowing pages, taking their power into you once more.|Cabinet]]

Radioactive Zombie Marie Curie

You were so proud of this one.\n\nWhen explosed to radiation, tumor cells grew more slowly than healthy cells.\n\nWhen the news broke, everyone wanted to bathe in radiation for its healing glow: radium water, thorium toothpaste, uranium-lined drinking cups.\n\nIt was a comfort to you as your fingers cracked and bled and went incurably numb.\n\nDecades later, it paved the way for radiation therapy. At first, though, they sewed little radium pellets into tumors and hoped for the best.\n<<set $visits = $visits + 1>>\n[[That's what they did to Henrietta Lacks|Cabinet]]

You remember cradling them to you in that blue smock of a dress you wore for a <<mousereplace>>lab coat<<gains>> and on your wedding day<<endmousereplace>>: little test tubes, each one a lovely name of its own.\n\nThe first, Polonium, for your beloved Poland, even after they forbade you to study and drove you off to Paris.\n\nThe second, Radium, the <<insert "best of all.">> It glowed in test tubes and on the little ticking hands of watches. Its strange gaseous emanation was going to sterilize the wounded at war. It burned away tumors with the light of its purity.<<endinsert>>\n<<set $isotopes = true>>\nThey were [[beautiful|Cabinet]].

Radioactive -- your own word. The energy inside of atoms buried beneath the earth.\n\nUranium.\n\nPolonium.\n\nRadium.\n\nRadon.\n

<<once>>Wood shatters with the force of your fists, but outside is a layer of solid lead.<<becomes>>You reach out and feel the cold, solid lead box encasing you.<<becomes>>Clenching your fists.<<endonce>>\n\nYour hands once held fine instruments and test tubes. Tended to the sick. Touched a [[husband]], then a [[lover]].\n\n[[Pound them again.]]

Paul, one of his former students. Five years younger is nothing.\n\nThe presses hounded you, called you a "foreign Jewish homewrecker." You're not even Jewish.\n\n[[Bastards!|Pound on the walls]]

Lead, wood and plaster crumble at your touch. You leap into an open, domed mausoleum. \n\n<<mousereplace>>There are fresh flowers next to your crypt.<<becomes>>The flowers at your crypt turn brown and wilt at your touch.<<endmousereplace>>\n\nYou catch a [[glimpse of your reflection]] in the metal vase.\n\n<html><i><a href='javascript:void(0)' class='internalLink' onclick='state.display("Pantheon")'>This isn't where they buried me...</a></i></html>

BONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!\n\nBONGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!\n\nSolid lead can stop an x-ray, but [[it can't stop...|reveal]]

<<timedreplace 3s>>You have slumbered in the dark. <<becomes>> You have slumbered ==in the dark.==<<becomes>>No. <<gains>>You slept, shining out your bones. <<gains>> Trapped. <<gains>>\n\n\nGamma rays shower out of your remains.<<gains>>\n\n[[Grow radioactive undead flesh.]]\n<<endtimedreplace>>\n<<set $cancer = false>>

//Radioactive Zombie Marie Curie//\nby Michael Alexander, October 2013\n\nDedicated to Marie Sklodowska Curie and Immortal Henrietta Lacks.\n\nThanks Wikipedia.\n\nImage of Paris Pantheon\nBy Son of Groucho from Scotland (Tales From The Crypt 3) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 )], via Wikimedia Commons\n\n

\n<<timedinsert 2s>>@@font-size:150%;RADIOACTIVE @@<<gains>>@@font-size:150%;UNDEAD @@<<gains>>\n@@font-size:150%;font-weight:bold;MARIE @@<<gains>>@@font-size:150%;font-weight:bold; CURIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@<<becomes>>@@font-size:150%;RADIOACTIVE UNDEAD@@\n@@font-size:150%;font-weight:bold; MARIE SKLODOWSKA CURIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!@@\n<<endtimedinsert>>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<<timedinsert 15s>>[[...or do you explode?|EXPLODE]]<<endtimedinsert>>

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You and Pierre came up with that word, a new name for the invisible forces that were humming all around you in the laboratory, night after night. The air wasn't //electric//, it was something MORE.\n\n[[*|Grow radioactive undead flesh.]]

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<<once>>You are somewhere utterly elsewhere.\n<<endonce>>The sign reads: "__Bibliothèque nationale de France__"\n\nSomething in you knows where to go, down passageways and up stairwells built so very differently from when you were alive.\n\n[[Come to a heavy door.|Bibliotheque2]]

"One of our joys was to go into our workroom at night; we then perceived on all sides the feebly luminous silhouettes of the bottles of capsules containing our products. It was really a lovely sight and one always new to us. The glowing tubes looked like faint, fairy lights." \n\n<<timedinsert 5s>>—Mme. Curie<<endtimedinsert>>\n\n<<timedgoto "Bibliotheque" 15s >>

You gather your subatomic particles and blow yourself out the ceiling into the stratosphere.\n\nBut wait! A [[flock of lesser scientists|cluster of scientists from throughout history]] bars your way! Impudent fools.

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it isn't. 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They called radioactivity the "Weak Interaction." You'll show them //weak//.\n\n[[Reach critical mass, obliterating everyone who isn't Einstein. He always stood up for you.|Constellation]]

A voice in your mind says:\n\nGEIGER COUNTERS THEY VIBRATE THEY CAN HEAR YOUR LUMINOSITY CLICKING INTO THE ENDLESS NIGHT YES YES WHIR CRACKLE\n<<set $geiger = true>>\n<<timedgoto "Bibliotheque2" 2s>>

Michael Alexander

You are the power at the heart of explosions. You scour away cancers. You light probes on the way to distant galaxies. Your thoughts showered light like radioisotopes.\n\nThe world was too coarse for you.\n\nYou glow endlessly in the infinitude of space. Of all existence only you have no half-life, brightening ever more fiercely as time goes on.\n\n<<timedgoto "END" 10s>>\n\n[[?|END]]

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They called you "his greatest discovery."\n\nWithout you, he would have spent his life staring at magnesium.\n\nA rainy day. Slip.\n\nHis skull, crushed like ripe fruit under a carriage.\n\n[[Oh, Pierre!|Pound on the walls]]