sm_monthly Apr 2 theme
It's sort of like the treatment for GRECA, only the opposite.
Title: Career Fair
Author: purplekitte
Theme: Plastic surgery
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Version: Anime
Rating: PG
“Another failed ritual to summon familiars. They’re not smarter than daimons. I need some sort of help or I’ll spend all my time on trivial data analysis and constructing daimons and not on my real work.”
“You need grad students.”
“Yes, metaphorical grad students. Which ritual should I do next, a real demon summoning?”
“No, Father. Actual grad students.”
“You think I should recruit grad students to find the Holy Grail using daimons from another planet and killing their human bearers in the process, and what, pay them by the hour?”
“Why not? Where do all the mad scientists come from? They must have been grad students once.”
“I suppose I could put an ad in the university bulletin and ones around to the departmental bulletins at other universities for their senior undergraduates or masters students to see.”
* * *
“It’s no use. They’re all too weak in magic. Besides, one of them only cared about the applicability of aliens in optics; another wanted to clone elephant birds back to life. They don’t even have the magic to start exposing them to the negative energy of the Tau and expect even one of them to live, and then the university will start complaining I’m stealing everyone else’s grad students, and then they won’t give me a budget, and I’ll have to spend all my time writing grant proposals for money!”
“Don’t despair, Father. I have an idea. Human females are much more likely to be magically inclined than males, right?”
“Yes, but how are we going to attract female bioengineering graduate students? It’s not they’re common in Japan even in 1994.”
Hotaru made a slight addition to the ad.
* * *
“Free beauty spa and makeover? In here?”
Professor Tomoe was barreled down by yellow-, green-, blue-, red-, and brown-haired young women running into his lab. “Why did we offer that? I don’t even have magitech that can do makeovers. I don’t know what a young, evil human female would want to change their appearance to.”
“Go to the department store; buy clothes in adult x-small that you would not let me wear in public, in bright primary colors. Don’t rush back; we’ll need our girl talk time.” Mistress 9 closed the lab door between them.
Title: Career Fair
Author: purplekitte
Theme: Plastic surgery
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Version: Anime
Rating: PG
“Another failed ritual to summon familiars. They’re not smarter than daimons. I need some sort of help or I’ll spend all my time on trivial data analysis and constructing daimons and not on my real work.”
“You need grad students.”
“Yes, metaphorical grad students. Which ritual should I do next, a real demon summoning?”
“No, Father. Actual grad students.”
“You think I should recruit grad students to find the Holy Grail using daimons from another planet and killing their human bearers in the process, and what, pay them by the hour?”
“Why not? Where do all the mad scientists come from? They must have been grad students once.”
“I suppose I could put an ad in the university bulletin and ones around to the departmental bulletins at other universities for their senior undergraduates or masters students to see.”
* * *
“It’s no use. They’re all too weak in magic. Besides, one of them only cared about the applicability of aliens in optics; another wanted to clone elephant birds back to life. They don’t even have the magic to start exposing them to the negative energy of the Tau and expect even one of them to live, and then the university will start complaining I’m stealing everyone else’s grad students, and then they won’t give me a budget, and I’ll have to spend all my time writing grant proposals for money!”
“Don’t despair, Father. I have an idea. Human females are much more likely to be magically inclined than males, right?”
“Yes, but how are we going to attract female bioengineering graduate students? It’s not they’re common in Japan even in 1994.”
Hotaru made a slight addition to the ad.
* * *
“Free beauty spa and makeover? In here?”
Professor Tomoe was barreled down by yellow-, green-, blue-, red-, and brown-haired young women running into his lab. “Why did we offer that? I don’t even have magitech that can do makeovers. I don’t know what a young, evil human female would want to change their appearance to.”
“Go to the department store; buy clothes in adult x-small that you would not let me wear in public, in bright primary colors. Don’t rush back; we’ll need our girl talk time.” Mistress 9 closed the lab door between them.