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]

"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."