Science Classroom; Tuesday [ 08/02 ].

[bootlessjane.livejournal.com]

So there it was. A large chunk of rock sitting in the middle of a laboratory classroom, waiting to be researched. Jane wasn’t entirely sure it wanted to be researched, though, with all the elusiveness and mystery it was giving off, but, then again, geology was hardly her area of scientific expertise, and she had a feeling it wasn’t quite Miss Granger’s forte either.

Thankfully, that was why they had their brilliant and inquisitive students to help, yes?

Goodness, she hoped so! Either way, a handwavey message had been sent out to the student body, encouraging anyone who was interested to come on in and help them out today.

“Hello, students,” she gave them a bit of an uncertain smile. “Thank you all for coming and giving us a hand with this most mysterious piece of rock. It’s so good to see so many of you eager to help, but Miss Granger and myself must ask you to take the utmost care. Clearly, we are uncertain what we are dealing with, so we must be careful.”

"Yes, please. I wish we had more information to give you," said Hermione, and don't think that wasn't bothering her. Of course, she'd also decided that if there was some strange mysterious rock that no one knew anything about, she was not going to be touching it unless it was absolutely necessary. At least without gloves. She knew that was probably just paranoia. "If there is anything you can tell us about it, don't hesitate to speak up."

“We’ve got gloves, microscopes, goggles, you name it,” Jane offered, “and also plenty of books for reference. Let’s use our resources and try to figure out what we can. Consider everything; even if you find something that’s just minutely interesting or different or strange, it could be useful.”

"Now, if anyone has any questions, we'll answer them as best we can," Hermione went on. "But let's get started and see what we can find, shall we?"

[[ written, obviously, with the fantastic smartestone and for all you sciencey types; please wait for the OCD is ready for examination! ]]

Comments

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

Claudia was there, naturally. The rock had her mighty curious, and she was looking forward to getting to poke at it with equipment.

"Scientific explorer, reporting for duty."

Who knew? Maybe it would turn out to be an artifact. Artie would be so impressed.

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[dollpocalypse]

Topher spotted Claudia. The whole thing with girls who did science was a cliche, yes, but still very appealling.

"H-h-hi."

Oh god.

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

Claudia smiled. "Hey man. Dissect any fun mechanical spiders, lately?"

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[dollpocalypse]

"Uh."

Now he was blushing.

"Not, uh, not, uh, not lately."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

You spent long enough in the sciences -- or anything else dubbed "nerdy" -- and you got used to socially awkward guys. "Yeah, me neither," Claudia said easily. "Which, on the one hand, yay not getting attacked by spiders!"

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[dollpocalypse]

Topher nodded. Jerkily.

Sorry, Claudia. He'd never met a girl who was both smart and pretty before. At least, not one who was civilized, Sam.

"Yeah," he laughed. "It's cool the island, uh, gave us something else to tinker around with, though."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

"I think it likes to keep us entertained," Claudia said. "Or it's actively trying to kill us. I'm never really sure which."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[dollpocalypse]

Topher blushed, grinned and did an awkward sort of flailing thing with his hands.

"Yeaaahh," he laughed, sounding dorkier by the second. "But hey, entertained. And not dead! So..."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

"You weren't here for the time the island sucked some of us into alternate dimensions filled with mutated monster people trying to kill us, were you?" Claudia guessed. Look, that sort of thing really stuck with a girl.

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[dollpocalypse]

"No..."

Wait, for real?

"But that's awesome."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

Yeah, okay, that one got a bit of a withering look. "Yeah, it was totally cool when they attacked us with fireballs and meat hooks."

Oh Topher, so young, so innocent to the horrors Fandom had to offer.

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[dollpocalypse]

Topher blinked. Nope, that still sounded cool.

"Oh," he said awkwardly. "Right."

He was just going to go ahead and pretend that that didn't sound like scary fun.

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

It was probably best that he did. Claudia liked to think that the world was full of reasonable human beings.

Oh Claudia, so young, so innocent. . . .

"But, yeah, it's been, like, a year since that happened, and we totally fixed the problem. So this'll probably be cool."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony, on the other hand, was less nervous around girls. If only because science and sex occupied vastly different regions in his brain.

"Hey," he said with a nod.

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

"Yo." It was always good not to be looked at like she was a unicorn or something.

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Unless she actually was a unicorn that one time...

Never mind that now!

"Any idea what we've got?" he asked, maybe a little too excited.

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

"Well, my theory that the island was molting is probably wrong." Which, you know, was good to know. "My other theory was an alien egg."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Tony looked from her, over at the stone. "I could get on board with the egg theory."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

"Scully said it probably didn't fall from the sky, so it might not be space alien. But . . . yeah. I'm hoping it doesn't hatch and try to eat us all."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"It could have fallen ages ago and taken this long to hatch," Tony replied thoughtfully. It would be another picture for his wall of aliens!

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

"Ooo, point. Maybe it's part of what's been making this island so abnormal all this time."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

"Always a possibility." Oh, Fandom. You made people special. "So, this is just a small part of it?"

If it was an egg hatching, what would happen to the island?

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

"Or it's, like, an artifact that radiates weirdness, buried under the island for long enough that its weirdness has seeped into all the plants and animals and the very dirt itself."

Which . . . didn't make her that much less likely to want to touch it, really. Oh the joys of being sixteen.

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[hoorayimrich.livejournal.com]

Really, people should be glad none of them smuggled it out under their shirts for further study.

"That would explain why the deer are blue. But then, wouldn't we start to manifest physical changes?"

A beat.

"Being ponies doesn't count."

Re: Arrive & Mingle - 08/02.

[notmyownage]

"Not if it works by way of evolution," Claudia pointed out. "Even mutations within a single person usually take awhile to manifest fully."