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i_speak_softly ([personal profile] i_speak_softly) wrote2011-08-25 07:19 pm

Forty-Ninth Theory [Action/Voice]

[Don has never been to an ocean before, and last time he was at an amusement park he had to electrify the roller coaster to defeat an enraged colony of nanobots.]

[He is determined that this excursion will be one of pleasant discovery.]

[To that end, he takes the teleporter to the beach on Thursday morning, and spends the next two days exploring the park, the waterfront, and as far out into the ocean as his own limbs can take him. (Or farther, if anyone is kind enough to offer him the use of a boat.)]

[At some point during the two days, he opens his journal and leaves the following message:]

Researchers, experimenters, tinkerers, inventors, curious people of all kinds... join the "Scientists, Hypothesizers, and Engineers of Luceti League". I'm starting it right now and everyone is welcome.

[Voice]

[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-08-28 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
Do you mean for it to be a sort of social club?
semper_cogitans: (:|a)

[Action]

[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-08-28 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
[From the entrance, it's not particularly far. Robert begins picking his way through the significantly-thinned crowd, past a few other attractions, until he's left standing in front of the outside of the Hall.]

Ah... well, this is it.

[It's a long passage, rather ominous-looking, studded with mirrors on all surfaces... visually disorienting, of course, but Robert got used to it before.

He's still nervous of what Don might see, but he trusts that whatever it is, it'll be okay.]

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-08-28 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
No problem! Ed and Al need to socialize more anyway.

[Voice]

[identity profile] notshadowfever.livejournal.com 2011-08-28 12:34 am (UTC)(link)
Splendid, Donatello. I'll be there. [That's a promise. Eggman'll totally find out whatever happens.]

[Voice]

[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-08-28 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
I think it'd be nice to meet more people with common interests.

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-08-28 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh yeah, those are friends of mine from my childhood. They're into a special branch of science called alchemy.
semper_cogitans: (:/)

[Action]

[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-08-28 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
I wish I did... presumably it is some sort of Shifted simulation.

... But one just... enters it.

[And Robert steps, nervously, into the room.] With any luck, er... a persona will appear soon enough...

[Voice]

[identity profile] no-use-running.livejournal.com 2011-08-28 01:51 am (UTC)(link)
I think Robert would be interested. [Though she has a feeling that's already been taken into account.]

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-08-28 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
[She's gotten that before, it's okay.]

In your world it might not be.
semper_cogitans: (O:)

[Action]

[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-08-28 02:08 am (UTC)(link)
[Robert steps slowly, quietly taking in all of these forms of Don, even if there're his own there too, standing across from these versions - all drastically different, spanning the mirrors.

The toddler, bright-eyed, in front of a holographic replica of the Randi Institute, studying it with an obsessive gaze that seems out of place on a face that small. The turtle self - that sends a pang of guilt through Robert, standing next to Don the way he is - with reptilian eyes a stark gray against the pastel colours on his blunted face. The junkie again, with that same hollow drug-addled smile and the scruffy clothes and the needle marks stark on his pale skin. Even the math teacher from the AU, handling a piece of what he'd thought was Third Party technology, but was really Daisy's suit all along...]


... Yes.

... Yours are... fascinating...

[identity profile] crytearsofjoy.livejournal.com 2011-08-28 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
Of course they can.
semper_cogitans: (:|a)

[Action]

[personal profile] semper_cogitans 2011-08-28 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yes...

[He gestures to each of them in turn.] Myself at approximately three... myself during the species changing event... [... A longer pause, and a lowering of his voice -] ... M-Myself as... as a user...

... And lastly, myself from... from the false world, here.

... What about... yours', if I may ask?

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