Advanced Mad Science, October 2nd

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

The Danger Shop didn't look like an Eastern European graveyard this week, but the desks had been moved to the sides in favour of a few odd looking things in the centre of the room. A phonebooth, a Victorian looking chair, and an eighties sportscar took up most of the space in the room, and all three of them seemed to have very odd wires and attachments and levers added to them.

The Professor leaned against the hood of the car while he waited for the class to arrive. "Good afternoon, students!" he said, as soon they had filled into the room. "Today's class subject is time travel. Time travel involves using a special device -- as such the ones behind me -- to puncture through the folds in the space time continuum to take yourself to a different time and occasionally a different place. There are many different methods of achieving this, many of which involve the use of a machine to take you from time to time."

He grinned malevolently at the class. "But the best way to learn about time travel is to throw you right into the deep end." A passed out a number of sealed cards. "Each of you have been given a different objective. You will pick one of these three time machines, and try to fix it. Luckily, this is entirely a holographic simulation, so you can't permanently damage the timeline. Try not to mess up the space-time continuum too much."

Up and ready!

Comments

Sign In [October 2]

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

Sign in collapsey style, and list your favourite time travel story.

Re: Sign In [October 2]

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine, who did take a peek into the future once thanks to a bit of fruit, but didn't much like what he saw there.

Re: Sign In [October 2]

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack Addy, the one were the person is their own mother, father, and child.

Re: Sign In [October 2]

[notclueful]

Cher Horowitz, who just caught that movie with Hugh Jackman coming into the future from Victorian times or whatever on cable

Re: Sign In [October 2]

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

Johnny Storm, and the one with the kick ass car that crazy doc made.

Generic All Purpose Talking Thread

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

Talk to each other, take notes, wonder where Prof Tomoe got a DeLorean from, whatever.

Re: Generic All Purpose Talking Thread

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine watched the lecture with interest.

Time travel that didn't involve something that resembled an apricot pulled from a giant pumpkin. This, he had to see.

Re: Generic All Purpose Talking Thread

[notclueful]

Cher wondered if being from 1995 gave her extra credit.

Re: Generic All Purpose Talking Thread

[honoraryphd.livejournal.com]

Time travel.

For once, Tomoe was talking about something that actually held interest for Victor. His notes were more attentive than usual.

It's Time Travel Time, Baby!

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

There will be some NPCs in these threads, but I've put everyone in partners since I won't be around in the morning.

Valentine/Zack Addy

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

The world is going to be destroyed unless you can find humpback whales from somewhere, and unfortunately, they've been extint in your time for hundreds of years. Go back in time to find some and bring them back to the future.

Re: Valentine/Zack Addy

[dark_slippy_thing]

Sidling up to the shiny DeLorean thingie, Valentine poked at the flux capacitor a few times curiously while he waited for his partner.

And wondered what the heck a humpback whale was, exactly.

Re: Valentine/Zack Addy

[twohalvesofaphd.livejournal.com]

Zack frowned. "How are we supposed to fit at whale in that?"

Johnny Storm/Victor von Doom

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

Through an error in time, your future Mother has fallen in love with you instead of your future Father. Whoops. If you want to keep existing, you'll have to find a way to get them to fall in love with each other while avoiding any uncomfortable incestuous affairs.

Re: Johnny Storm/Victor von Doom

[fantastic-torch.livejournal.com]

"I want to use the car. I want to drive the car..."

Yakushi Kabuto/Cher Horowitz

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

The good news is you have discovered a reoccurring portal in time. The bad news is you brought someone through into the present. The badder news is that unless they g back to their proper place in time, the elevator will never be invented.

And the baddest news is that not only is the Duke your ex's great-grandfather, he's also pretty hot.

Re: Yakushi Kabuto/Cher Horowitz

[notclueful]

Cher automatically went for the DeLorean's driver's seat. This is a bad thing.

Edward Elric/James Sullivan/Zim

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

You haven't studied all year, and you are about to fail your final history project. Unfortunately, if you do, a future utopia full of world peace and awesome rock music will never exist. You are to use the time machine to create the most excellent history presentation ever.

Re: Edward Elric/James Sullivan/Zim

[im-fullmetal.livejournal.com]

Ed who thought it was TOTALLY EXCELLENT, dude made his way over to check out the time machine. For once it seemed like an interesting theory. If maybe they could be made to change worlds as well...

Talk to the TA

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

He's here, he's a sexy Chibi Tomoe clone, and he's likely not from this time period.

Re: Talk to the TA

[sound-loyalty.livejournal.com]

Kabuto might be from the same time period, possibly. It's just impossible to tell sometimes, with parallel universes and their odd technological differences and fun anachronisms. At the moment, however, he was just trying to pretend the past weekend never existed in any time period.

Talk to Prof Tomo

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

Once again, he's avoided teaching! He's trying to see how many weeks he can go without a real lecture.

OOC

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

Time travel is my very favourite scifi trope, and I love movies that feature it. Bonus points if you can name all four movies featured here.

Re: OOC

[honoraryphd.livejournal.com]

I believe it's Star Trek IV, Back to the Future, Kate & Leopold (guessing on that one based on the fact that I remember the intial WTFing at the unintentional incest angle, thank you Richard Roeper for pointing it out in your review), and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

Re: OOC

[daimonhost.livejournal.com]

Yep, that would be all four!

They actually did a second cut of Kate & Leopold after it had hit theatres to try and get rid of most of the accidental incest, or at least avoid it. The original version where the former couple from the present realize what they've done and then pointedly Not Talk About It is still the better of the two though, IMO.