The best science is MAD SCIENCE (Open scene)

[brainy5]

Most of the classrooms in this alleged school seemed to be empty. This suited Brainiac Five perfectly well, because it meant he could take one over for his own purposes. Which did not, at the moment, include Legion business, but had involved several angry notes on chalkboards like 'PHYSICS DOES NOT WORK LIKE THAT' and 'MY SOUL FOR A FUNCTIONING

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[computerwizkid]

Dairine was still getting the hang of the school, which involved a lot of exploring. Most of the rooms had been empty, dusty, and frankly, rather boring. She was rather suprised to find one occupied.

She walked in with Spot, who resembled a MacBook with legs and eyestalks, skittering across the stone floor at her heels. Looking around, Dairine grinned at the sight of the chalkboards. She'd felt similarly, as she tried to figure out what, if any, relation the wizardry here bore to her own brand of wizardry. At least her magic still worked, though. This guy seemed to be having a bit more trouble.

"Whatcha working on?" she asked. "If you don't mind my asking, that is."

[brainy5]

Brainy was nearly always happy to explain what he was doing! In nonmathematical terms usually, since that tended to make people stare at him blankly, or start drooling. "It's going to be a transmatter gate. Designed specifically for transmatter between my home dimensional and temporal frame and this one, though I suppose I'll also include intradimensional transiting once I resolve my... power source and interface issues."

[computerwizkid]

"Cool. Technological basis rather than wizardly? I've alway kind of wondered how that worked," commented Dairine, as she walked in a slow circle around the device. "Always used wizardly worldgates, myself. Ever been through the Crossings? I know they've got some techy gates there, incoming, at least."

[brainy5]

"My knowledge is exclusively technological. Or was, before I began reading through the library." It would have been so much more efficient if he'd simply been able to connect to a datastream of some kind, but no! The primitives had to use paper, god-king of inefficient data storage. "Unfortunately, technology appears to be mostly ineffective here, so I am attempting a wizardly conversion of technological principles."

The Crossings? The Crossings. "I have not. Or if I have, they weren't called that. Where I'm from, magic tends to keep to itself. My people don't even believe it exists."

[fiercefluffy]

Octavian, too, spent some time exploring. Caution tempered his curiosity, so that he chose a deliberate tactical approach to exploration. He had mapped out parts of the castle, in a vague outline. Next was a more systematic survey of each part, one by one. This part seemed mostly abandoned

[brainy5]

"Brainiac Five. Pleased to meet you." It was polite to return introductions, after all. And this Octavian was direct, or seemed to be, which was a bonus in Brainy's book - he asked questions without prefacing it with roundabout queries or backwards guesses. "This is an abandoned classroom, which I have appropriated for use as a personal laboratory. Currently I'm engaged in an effort to construct a transmatter gate using primitive - which is to say magical - materials and methods."

[fiercefluffy]

To Octavian's ear, Brainiac Five was no less likely a name than many of the modern names he'd heard. He was, after all, in benighted Britain.

Octavian often found use for roundabout queries, but saw no need to weary himself with them when they were not necessary. As for backwards guesses, those he avoided scrupulously, as best he could. Backwardness was antithetical to Octavian.

He saw nothing amiss with the appropriation of empty rooms. "For what purpose do you seek to construct a 'transmatter gate'?" The question of what transmatter might be could wait.

[brainy5]

That was... all right, Ultra Boy might ask a question like that, so Brainy tried to restrict his blank 'are you serious' staring to about a second's duration. "A functioning transmatter gate would allow me to return to my dimensional and temporal frame at will. I suppose it would also allow travel in this dimensional frame, as well."

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[wh0_kill3d_m3]

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