fandomhigh | Introduction to Mad Science, week 4

By now, the students should have been familiar with the routine. Evil laboratory, bad lighting, kooky mad scientist at the front of the room, etc. This week, the desks were back, and Professor Tomoe had set up a dusty chalkboard at the front of the room. Written on the chalkboard were a number of different sentence fragments, including: "DEVISE A CUNNING PLAN", "FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION (BUT VERY LIKELY TO HAPPEN)", and "FIND A GOOD TARGET", as well as doodle of pure heart crystals, and a half finished game of hangman down in the bottom corner. A coffee pot had been set up on a tripod on top of a lab burner, and was starting to brew, filling the class with the warm scent of coffee.

"Good afternoon students!" he proclaimed. "Today, we're having a bit of a change of pace and doing more thinking than acting. Many mad scientists fail because they do not properly think out their evil schemes. Oh sure, it seems fine enough to build a giant monster and send it out to destroy the conveniently abandoned warehouse district, but meddling law-abiding folk can foil those plans with incredible ease. Instead, I prefer to do things on a more personal scale."

He circled the third sentence fragment before turning back to the class. "The best plans are made by deciding what kind of target you wish to go after, find a person who seems pure of heart that fits into that category, merge a daimon egg with an item related to what they do, and then let your monster run amok and destroy property while also attacking your victim. For today's class, I want you to write me an outline of what kind of person you want to attack, and both how and where you'd pull off your plan. I want you to be thorough, because you'll be putting this plan into motion. And seeing how there's a 90% chance that every plan will end in dismal failure, try to prepare for that too."

He took the coffee pot off the burner and poured himself a cup. "And for next week, I want you to bring in item that goes with your plan. Bring something of your own, buy it, steal it from someone else; I don't much care where you get it from. But choose carefully, as we're going to do something special to it."

And with that, he laughed evilly for a solid minute and a half.

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La.

There's a lot of work that goes into mad science behind the scenes. It's not all cackling and making your monster grow.

Work on your own plan, and help other people out if they need it.

The professor's very good at coming up with plans. Most of them fail, but he still as a lot of ideas.

He's at his desk, pulling out the notepad from the first week to work on more ideas of his own.

He's no longer paying any attention to the pot. You could totally score some coffee if you tried.

I'm attending a funeral tomorrow afternoon, so I won't be around to answer pings until the evening. If you really need something from either Prof Tomoe or myself, leave a note here and I'll deal with it when I get home.

Lucas Wolenczak

Zack Addy

Zack plan was cunning, very cunning, yes.

Andrew Wells

Andrew had been staring at his blank sheet of paper for the past ten minutes. He was completely confused as to what he was supposed to be doing, so he leaned over to see if he could read what one of the other students was writing.

Andrew would have been able to see that Zack had scrawled and doodled all over his page (http://pics.livejournal.com/twohalvesofaphd/pic/0001deqz).

Yasutora Sado

Chad was taking notes. He wasn't sure if he was making any sense out of any of his notes, but they were there, being taken, all the same.

After looking down at his paper thoughtfully for a good chunk of time, Chad was starting to wonder if he was completely incapable of thinking of an evil plan.

Andrew frowned. He didn't know anything about building robots.

He started his own list:

1. Convince this Zack kid to build me an army of demonic robots.
2. Compliment Zack frequently on his mechanical genius.
3. Use the robots as a distraction in an elaborately choreographed music routine.
4. ...

And then he got stuck again.

Edward Hyde

Edward was talking notes, more on the viability of the teachers' plans than creating his own. This looked like risky business.

Donatello

Ami Mizuno

Ami was taking notes. She had been locked in her room all last week, working on some maths, and now was ready to learn things.

Valentine ~~who signed in absolutely on time. Ssh.~~

Valentine? Was a fan of coffee. Really.

Valentine? Was also thirsty. And, as fate would have it? The ~~insane guy~~ teacher wasn't looking at the pot.

Valentine? Was totally making a lunge for the coffee pot.

Introduction to Mad Science, week 4

Sign In [July 31st]

Take Notes on the Lecture

Work on your own evil plan.

Talk to the Professor

Steal Some Coffee

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