The Multiverse is F'd, Y'all; Wednesday, Second Period [11/15].

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"Now, I'm going to be completely honest with you guys," Summer said, leaning on the desk in front of the classroom-classroom while waiting for their portal to this week's destination to show up, "I'm kind of winging it with this class."

Shocker, right?

"In fact, I've mostly been cribbing from previous, similar classes I've taught," she continued, "which, you know, is fine, because some of this stuff is just classic and will never stop being relevant, however, due to the off-the-cuff nature in which I've been approaching it this semester, that means I'll probably leave a lot of the things I wanted to go over on the cutting room floor entirely by accident. Which is why, today, I wanted to make sure we did take some time to head out to a planet in my universe called Glaagablaaga...good luck saying that three times fast....home to the Garblovians. Now, if you're from a place where you're used to interdimensional....or even just interplanetary travel, the whole concept of a planet of individuals different from you might not be that mind-blowing, but it can be if you're not used to it. But we're using this trip today as a good example of the difficulties of communicating across the multiverse, because while, on the surface, there might seem to be some similarities between Garblovian culture and ours, they don't speak a word of a Common language like English, which, for some reason, is actually really widely known around my galaxy and a lot of other dimensions, too. Who knew? Anyway, they don't speak it, they do seem to understand it, though, but they have their own language and they are fully convinced that you understand it perfectly, which I'm assuming you do not. So let's go and see what we can do to work on some communication skills by interacting with some Garblovians.

"Oh," she added, as the portal arrived as if perfectly on cue, and she gestured for them all to come up and slip on through, "one more thing: they do tend to randomly explode, so if that happens, don't be startled, it's just a thing, and I promise you, the blue goo really does wash right off."

Rube Goldberg and You, Wednesday, November 15, 2023

[meepmeepmeep]

Beaker was not forgetting about breaking into Stark's to get to that sweet, sweet makers' space but a busy scientist's gotta eat, right?

Thus the overly complicated hot dog grilling machine!

Did it work right now? Yes!

Was there a better than even chance that something would catch fire before class was over? Also yes!

"Meep meep meep meep mee!" Beaker said, gesturing to all of the equipment necessary (plus a few trumpets) to make your own extremely complicated food maker!

The History of Assassination. Wednesday, First Period [11/15]

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"Apologies for missing last week," Ghanima said as she breezed in, Trebor balanced on her hip as he chewed on her hair. "There was an issue with the Spacing Guild, and as wickedly clever as my brother is, the more delicate acts of diplomacy are not his strong suit."

Especially not with both Alice and Hania constantly urging him towards mischief.

"--however, he makes for an excellent distraction. Everyone is so busy watching the infamously 'volatile'," you could practically hear the airquotes, "--emperor, no one is watching the empress."

"But I hear the office moose found you a substitute teacher, and none of you died from it, so I shall assume class went as well as could be expected, and we shall start with today's lesson -- the 'assassination'--" there were the airquotes again, "--of Kit Marlowe."

( The greatest tragedy is not death, but the loss of one's true self )

"Since there are only written documents on which to base any conclusions and since it is probable that the most crucial information about his death was never committed to paper, it is unlikely that the full circumstances of Marlowe's death will ever be known. However, I'm curious. Just based on the evidence at hand... what do you think the more likely? An accident, a crime of passion, or a deliberate assassination?"