china_shop: Skintones and grey, divided into thirds, with the third being closeups of Chu Shuzhi, Guo Changcheng and Ye Huo from Guardian. (Guardian - ChuGuoYeHuo)
The Gauche in the Machine ([personal profile] china_shop) wrote in [community profile] sid_guardian2025-06-26 08:56 am

Poll: Survival Strategies and Revenue Streams (drama)






Poll #33289 Temperature and revenue
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 12


What else could Chu Shuzhi, Guo Changcheng and Ye Huo have tried to keep warm in the zero-degree lab?

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cover the vent
6 (50.0%)

jam the giant fan
4 (33.3%)

check the shelves for materials to make a tent
5 (41.7%)

ransack the room for materials to burn
1 (8.3%)

put their hoodies' hoods up
9 (75.0%)

closer huddling (all three)...
8 (66.7%)

...on one of the bed things instead of the floor
3 (25.0%)

take selfies with the camera (won't keep them warm, but will pass the time)
0 (0.0%)

Chu Shuzhi could use his strings to rip the control panel off the wall
5 (41.7%)

Chu Shuzhi could use his strings to pull the door off its hinges or the linings off the walls (like he broke into the Hanga caves)
8 (66.7%)

like, NOT close the cover on the OFF switch (Changcheng, ILU)
6 (50.0%)

other
4 (33.3%)

What are Shen Wei's revenue streams?

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stipend from Dixing
10 (83.3%)

pay from the university
12 (100.0%)

investments from when he first came to Haixing
2 (16.7%)

investments in a lollipop factory, specifically
4 (33.3%)

an alchemical/Midas power
2 (16.7%)

a trust set up by his fellow soldiers from the ancient war that has been held in his name for ten thousand years in the belief that he will return one day
1 (8.3%)

moonlighting as a fashion model
1 (8.3%)

moonlighting as a restaurant chef
0 (0.0%)

secretly a best-selling author of epic historical novels
0 (0.0%)

he's actually a man of fairly modest means
6 (50.0%)

other (please specify in comments)
0 (0.0%)

trobadora: (Shen Wei - Professor Shen)

[personal profile] trobadora 2025-06-26 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Aesthetics! Impressing the sponsors! Actual lab science doesn't necessarily look that impressive to the layman. I bet that's why all the weirdness at the Inspectorate's lab, too, though it's not sponsors they need to impress there so much as politicians. *g*)

(Clearly it didn't work with the subzero lab, since it's closed. :p)
trobadora: (Shen Wei - Professor Shen)

[personal profile] trobadora 2025-06-27 12:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe they all came together in a brainstorming session ("What can we do to make sure these politicians think our lab is the coolest, so they'll give us more funding?"), and Lin Jing said, "I know! Robots and dragons!" :D
facethestrange: (guardian: zhao yunlan lollipop)

[personal profile] facethestrange 2025-06-27 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
BWAHHHH, this is the funniest thing, I love it so much. :D :D :D :D :D And 100% canon, lolol. :D
trobadora: (Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan - cheers)

[personal profile] trobadora 2025-06-27 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
:D :D :D
facethestrange: (guardian: zhao yunlan gesturing)

[personal profile] facethestrange 2025-06-27 08:13 am (UTC)(link)
"(Clearly it didn't work with the subzero lab, since it's closed. :p)"

Lololol!! :D :D :D