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After sampling what passed for food around here--Stacy really needed to get her hands on some cayenne pepper, maybe a little garlic, some parsley, oregano and bay leaves---Gambit found himself wandering around the city by himself. After making the rounds, he eventually stumbled upon the statuary, a large hall full of a various statues from a multitude of different worlds, times, and realities. Some of the events or people being commemorated, he recognized. Others, he did not. But, with nothing better to do, Remy wandered into the hall and began to look over the statues.

He was more than half-way through his little tour when he finally noticed something strange at the base of one of the statues. It was, what appeared to be, a switch. Furrowing his brow, he knelt down in front of the statue and eyed the device for a few moments. Looking back over the statues he'd already passed, he realized that they all had identical switches on them. Feeling rather adventurous--much like the proverbial cat that got killed by its equally proverbial curiosity--Remy flicked it.

...nothing.

"Now dat's silly," he thought aloud to himself.

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"You might say dat," Gambit said with a slight nod and a wry grin. "Well, I ain't even been inside a ship dat look like de inside of a crawfish. Or woke up naked and covered in snot, but I s'pose dere gotta be a première fois for everytin."

"Not sure I know what a crawfish is, but I get the picture." Jim reaches over to where his pack of cigarettes is usually rolled into his sleeve, realizes that they're not there, and settles for rubbing his arm. "I get the feelin' that this has been a pretty weird day for all of us."

"Understatement of the year, that." Wyn says dryly, leaning on a statue. "University students don't usually get kidnapped by spaceships." Her university is odd, but not that odd.

"Huh. A student? Wonder what the hell a spaceship would want with a kid like you?" Jim leans his back up against Mr. George Washington. "What you studying, kid?"

"Engineering. Yeah, it's useful, but there's probably a huge gap between engineering from the 21st and the 26th centuries and I probably won't be able to do a thing with most of the stuff on the ship. I don't really do organics." Wyn says absently, frowning in thought. "I mean, maybe it's got something to do with being a mad scientist?" ... oops.

He laughed. "What's a pretty young miss like you callin' herself a mad scientist for? No offense intended, darlin', but I'd graduate before shooting for that kinda title."

"'Cause it's true," Wyn says, slightly defensively. She's not a huge fan of being patronized, and she's not used to people questioning her credentials as a mad scientist. (It's not exactly something you lie about being, is it?) "Not so much the mad part, but the inventing-things-that-bend-the-laws-of-physics part."

Eh, don't worry, Wyn. Raynor just likes nicknames. And this would be him seeming genuinely interested. "Really, now. Well, which of these laws have you bent so far?"

"Mostly the laws of thermodynamics, but that's 'cause they're easy and I need to not lose energy as heat." Wyn says with a shrug, like this is completely normal for her. "Generally, though, I just build things that shouldn't be possible where we are in the timeline. ... like robots and a sentient AI and portable linear particle accelerators." Except her particle accelerator got confiscated after she put a meter-wide hole in the dean's sedan (and the several trees behind it). She's still upset about that.

Remy quirked an eyebrow at the girl and gave her a wary look. "Sounds to me like you got too much time on your hands, cher."

Jim, on the other hand, gives a bit of an approving nod. "Hell, if she can make that sorta stuff here, I say give her all the time in the world."

Wyn just snorts. "I'm on a weird, squishy spaceship. What else have I got to do with my time?"

"I don't know what I've got to work with here, but it should be interesting." Wyn continues thoughtfully. "There should be some stuff from the future to play around with..." That's an exciting idea ~~and should probably terrify most people~~.