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OOM: Delivery

Oct 24, 2009 19:58

Scene: Professor Oddenstein and his assistant are in the laboratory. Oddenstein is an old man with wild, white hair and wears a white labcoat. Typical mad scientist look. Penny, his assistant, is a young, red haired woman. She wears a plain brown set of monks' robes and multiple silver necklaces, each one with a different pendant, one for each god ( Read more... )

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pennied_to October 25 2009, 03:06:25 UTC

"Yes, I have written down some of its functions to get you started." Her eyes are on the parchment as she writes down more. Some details about how the device uses magnetic fields would be useful information.

fowl_beast October 25 2009, 03:12:46 UTC

"Good, our guest might be returning today." Oddenstein walked over to the portal machine with the device and opened one of machine's panels.

pennied_to October 25 2009, 03:19:27 UTC

"Guest? No one has been through the portal in days. I doubt anyone could survive in there for that long. Or has someone snuck in when I wasn't here? You are supposed to tell me when someone does so that I don't shut down the portal on them." Penny was now staring at the professor's back while he worked on the machine.

fowl_beast October 25 2009, 03:40:47 UTC

"Our guest, our funder, he doesn't need the portal to get into the killerwatt plane, or to get out, for that matter. The portal is just a convenient way for him to get into our realm."
Oddenstein finished replacing the part in the machine and walked over toward its controls.
"More convenient, anyhow."
He flipped a switch, and the machine hummed to life. The portal to the killerwatt plane opened up. Thankfully, there was enough energy stored in the Leyden jars downstairs to open up the portal again. The instrument panel on the machine showed that the jars were being recharged. A sigh of relief came from the professor.

"Looks like the couple is still functioning. We won't have to use the generator to recharge."

pennied_to October 25 2009, 04:22:45 UTC

"Or go in to fix the couple"

She got up to flip the switch that would allow electricity coming from the killerwatt plane to power the modified Dorgeshuun light orbs around the room. The Dorgeshuun used some odd combination of electricity and magic to power their city. They mass produced light orb filaments, but the alloy of tungsten they used burned up to fast when the light orbs were connected to a purely electrical power source.

Luckily they had found a source of wolframite and came up with a better alloy. Hah, she thought as she turned off the oil lamp that was lighting the room before. There has got to be the other metals hiding somewhere in this world if there is tungsten lying about.
"I have not heard much from you about our fund-"

fowl_beast October 25 2009, 04:32:47 UTC

"Oddenstein! Why was the portal down?"

Out of the portal stepped a turkey sized rooster.

"I needed to take out a part so that I could look at it. I had some notes on the part but there were some things about the part that I didn't write down. I needed to run some tests on it to remind myself of a few details. And so I could get a better drawing of it made."

There were actually quite a few parts he needed a refresher on. He wasn't going to admit to that in front of his primary source of funding, though.

pennied_to October 25 2009, 04:42:16 UTC

"Son of a-" Penny prayed to whatever god it was that she really worshipped for protection against magical attack. Naturally, it was granted. Piety had its rewards.

The chicken wasn't attacking her, though. Or the professor. Odd.

"You are funding our research?"

fowl_beast October 25 2009, 04:54:15 UTC

"You must be the assistant I've heard so much about. At least, you are the assistant who hasn't been turned a chicken, yet."

Evil Chicken glanced at the professor and then turned to face the assistant again. Wait, there was something familiar about her.

"Penny Drakis," he said in a predatory tone, "haven't I killed you before?"

pennied_to October 25 2009, 05:01:36 UTC

"-"

She had been fishing when he took her by surprise. He had tried before, but she had always been paying attention, and had been able to get away. She was... distracted... that day.

"You bastard, have you come here to try again? What's with the polite conversation?"

fowl_beast October 25 2009, 05:09:10 UTC

"Hehehe..." Evil Chicken started to snigger.

"You were a tasty morsel, a divine delicacy. Hahahaha! And now I know why. HAHAHAHAHA!"

pennied_to October 25 2009, 05:14:05 UTC

"Why!? Why are you here?"

The professor stood, astonished, as the drama between his assistant and his funder unfolded. Oh, this was going to end in disaster, wasn't it?

fowl_beast October 25 2009, 05:37:45 UTC

Evil Chicken was still laughing as he said, "it seems some god out there is looking out for you. HAHAHAHA!"

After his laughter died down, he spoke again. "Relax, you two are being very useful to me. I am not going to try to eat you."

Pause. "Infact, there is something you can do to be even more useful." Evil Chicken turned and walked back out the portal. He returned a few moments later, dragging what looked like a sack full of round objects in his beak. "A little help here?" The professor took the sack and examined its contents.

"More apples?" the professor was curious. All this trouble over apples.

"Yes, more apples. Penny, could you take these apples somewhere out way out west and hide them where people won't find them?"

"Try planting the seeds from one and see if a tree will sprout as well."

pennied_to October 25 2009, 05:42:44 UTC

"What?! That will take several days! I am still needed here, we were in the middle of putting together a list of parts needed to build a second machine. Why are you trying to get rid of me?"

fowl_beast October 25 2009, 05:56:20 UTC

"I am not trying to get rid of you, I am just telling you to do something that needs to be done."

Evil Chicken turned toward the professor. "There is enough on the list to keep me busy for a while, right?"

Keep Evil Chicken busy. What an odd idea, Why does he want to be kept busy? The professor answered after a while. "Yes, it is certainly a long list."

"Good," responded Evil Chicken, "give me what you have and I will go hunting for parts. In the mean while, you can finish up the parts list. You know, Penny, if I get lucky, I might just be able to bring back those corrupted crystals you have been telling the professor about. You might have a big pile of them to study when you get back."

pennied_to October 25 2009, 06:02:30 UTC

"Semiconductors. They are called semiconductors."

So that was why they were compiling the list. Oddenstein wasn't usually that forgetful.

"Excuse me, I have to prepare for a long journey."

Penny exited the laboratory, mumbling.

fowl_beast October 25 2009, 06:36:50 UTC

This was perfect. Hopefully she would drop a few apples on her way west. Just to spite him ( ... )

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