Queries and Quibbles--mind your Q's

[cityship]

[ooc: Read this bit.]

Something happens outside the ship. There's a concussive noise like something docking, and then the doors to Obs open again, to reveal a mostly intact, but somewhat bedraggled away team. One of them is injured, and part of the group works to get her down to MedBay, some of the others look stoic and a touch upset with what they've learned.

Some look pissed off that their various morphers and power suits have been stolen away from them again by Stacy's tentacles or dampened.

Something happens INSIDE the ship. A handful of individuals are released from their pods after quite some time of running imaginary mazes.

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[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

... he's still a foot and a half taller than she is. "Ooooh, cool!" Wyn says, looking very impressed. She won't ask to look-- well, maybe she could get a sample of the nanobots. "Wouldn't you get sick of ramen, though?"

"Nope, plain vanilla human-- well, except for the whole supernaturally-based good-with-machines thing. I've not really had any... oh, no, wait, yes I have, if you count making my friend a working replica of Cherry Darling's zombie-killing machine-gun leg for Halloween." That's what happens when your dorm is full of bad-movie-watching dorks and you're all up until 4 a.m. discussing Halloween costumes: you get functioning machine guns.

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"I would, but fortunately I have a darling wife who takes very good care of me by ordering a pizza every now and then." He beams even wider. The darling wife is darling, and can certainly cook more than just a pizza, but her repertoire is somewhat limited, whereas her knowledge of how to use a phone book is far more extensive.

"Supernaturally how? Do you have any experience with magitech or a specific field of magic? Because I'll definitely call you if we can figure out what day is Halloween on the ship, but those are two fields in which my understanding is more limited due to only recent exposure."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"It's kind of..." Wyn frowns, trying to think of how best to describe it. "So if sorcery is the the innate ability to basically understand how the universe works and do things that shouldn't really be possible, mad science is the innate ability to understand mechanics or biology or chemistry or whatever and make things that shouldn't really be possible. There's the usual side effect of crazy on both sides, just because of the whole 'things man was not meant to know' thing, but that's what I mean by supernatural." 'Crazy', in Wyn's case, is code for ADHD... but it's better than, say, schizophrenia.

"I can work with magitech, just because it makes a lot of things a lot easier. Before you ask, though, this is on the 'tech' side of the magitech. I understand how they both work and how they should work together, but I can't actually do the magic part, if that makes sense." And Wyn is tl;dr-ing all over the place today, but she's trying to explain as best she can (and she's got no patience for technobabble). "Also, I go to uni with a bunch of sorcerors. I've a decent grasp of magical theory, but like I said, I can't actually do anything with that theoretical knowledge."

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"I'll be picking your brain for data. No problem if you can't do it, I just wanna compare notes. Magic is not something either practiced or studied as anything other than illusion-based stage tricks in my world, except by certain religious groups through prayer or ritual. It lacks the visceral punch that it has in other worlds, but I'm not going to make any blanket statements regarding whether or not it actually exists as a legitimate universal force on my home planet."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"Fair enough." Wyn grins. "I'm not pretending to be an expert, but I know more than most people."

Wyn tilts her head thoughtfully as Allen describes his world's version of magic. "It could just be a secret. Normal people didn't know magic existed where I'm from until... the eighties, I think." This would, coincidentally, be about the time that a: someone tried to change the timestream, with very obvious effects until it was fixed and b: Ireland started using magic in their attempt to secede from the British Empire.

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"It probably isn't. I've brought some of the principles from other magically-endowed worlds over to mine, and the effect is limited. The laws are nonexistant or different across the planes. We're probably from different timelines of Earth. But that all sounds interesting. I'm gonna try looking up your Earth's history in the Media Lab next time I'm in there."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"We probably are, just because I haven't heard of any nanobot projects that were actually successful in the lab, let alone placed inside someone, and I'd know if there were." Wyn says, trying to think. She'd have been all over an internship (or just Nexus-based stalking) if there had been. "And the laws of magic being different would make sense... should be interesting to see what works here and what doesn't." And what explodes in her face and what doesn't.

"I'm from the Gaeltacht Quarter of London, England, the British Empire, if that helps. Current monarch's King William, which is probably more helpful if we're talking about alternate universes."

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"If you're from a world with magic and in the field of science without knowing me already, we are DEFINITELY from different worlds," Allen confirms. "I am understandably famous back home, on account of revolutionizing the field of micromedical engineering." It's possible he could get more smug about this, in the way that things like unicorns are possible. They're just horses with horns, but you're not likely to see too many in a day.

"The English politics don't match up either." He wiggles his fingers gleefully. "Not to sound mad sciency, to borrow your phrase, but I'm looking forward to picking your brain in the completely metaphorical sense."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"And you're modest about it, too." Wyn says, laughing slightly. "Not that I blame you, if you invented functioning medical nanobots, but still."

"You do tend to need to qualify metaphorical versus literal brain-picking around mad scientists. Except I don't do biological, so we should be okay." Some mad scientists are bad at metaphors, and there have been a couple of... incidents.

[twelvevoltman.livejournal.com]

"Oh man, do you ever." Allen shakes his head. "No offense, but the mad scientists I've met haven't been nearly this reasonable. Why 'mad' and not just 'science,' is that the supernatural definer?"

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

Wyn just snorts. "None taken; most people are a lot ruder about it, actually, because a lot-- well, almost all of us are completely batshit insane. It is the supernatural thing, mostly... and also, y'know, the whole general tendency to just snap one day and try to take over the world, which I'm not interested in, mostly because I'd be bad at being a ruthless dictator." Wyn is also a bit more self-aware than your average scientific supergenius, hence the realization that she'd be a fail-global dictator. "Also, ADHD's a lot easier to deal with than schizophrenia or whatever, hence the lack of snapping."