Science You Cannot Possibly Comprehend, Monday, Period 5

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"I hope last week taught you all that I spoke the truth from the beginning of this class," Doom said as the class began. He was standing in front of a large metal ring at the front of the lab. "The concepts in this class shall be difficult. The actual creation of devices will require explanation and to build any of the inventions we discuss from scratch will not be possible in the remainder of class. I have no interest in giving you busy work, so you will not receive assignments or assistance to continue any of these inventions outside of class."

"Should you choose to further experiment outside of class, that is your decision. It is your initiative to take. If you can complete a device on your own time, it is possible that you may impress Doom, but it will not affect your grade," Doom explained. "And now that I have been forced to explain this in simple terms due to the difficulties certain students had in grasping the concept, you have lost precious minutes to complete your build during the second half of class. You may thank Victor Mancha for this disruption."

"Also, no more food orders during class, Cecil Baldwin. Anyone who orders food in this class will be assigned detention. No further warnings will be issued."

"With that out of the way, I wish to follow up on last week's discussion of travel through time with talk of travel through space. Or, to be more accurate, interdimensional travel. When I was a youth, that was what first brought me to this country. Your military brought me to America to invent for them during the Cold War. In secret, I began work on a device that could transport me into the Hell realm of a devil some of you may know as Mephisto," Doom explained, pure hatred in his voice. "I had unsettled business with the demon. A rival's interference led to the failure of the device, but for a brief moment, I crossed between universes. It was the first time anyone in my world had done so via a mechanical device."

"Today in Fandom, interdimensional travel is obviously commonplace. You can achieve it through magical means simply by crossing the causeway. If you prefer to use an unreliable service, you may order a portal from Portalocity. I prefer something I can control," Doom said. Because of course he did. "Reed Richards created a device he called The Bridge, which could transport beings to a place outside of space and time. This device is based on that design."

And that's when Doom launched into the detailed explanation of wormholes, tears in space, the fabric of dimensions, dimensional harmonics, and so on, and so forth. After twenty minutes, he had delivered a relatively succinct explanation of how it was possible for a metal ring to allow you to go from one dimension to another. Hopefully you were able to follow along, because he did not stop for questions.

Doom touched his gauntlet, where he had hidden the only control panel for this specific Bridge portal. A shimmering yellow light appeared within the ring. "As a class, we shall now travel through this portal to a private lab I have built. There, you will have the opportunity to work."

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Sign In

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In another place.

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[dollpocalypse]

Topher Brink

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[solarhippie]

Karolina Dean

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[pursuedthestars]

Jim Kirk

Listen to the Lecture

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From calling out students to in-depth explanations of interdimensional travel, it's a packed day!

Oh, and he's serious about the food thing. If any food comes to the class, you will get detention. Only warning!

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[pursuedthestars]

With another professor, Jim might have been tempted to test that order against having food brought to the classroom but with this guy?

Nah, he was just going to let it be. He'd eat later. Besides, he actually paid attention in this class.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil had only been trying to be nice! Doom never would've known if they hadn't bought him one, too. Honestly, there was no pleasing some people.

Though given the nature of their assignments, that was sort of a given. Cecil sighed and did his best to take notes again.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[ultron_junior]

Victor went pink at the mention of his name, and slunk even further in his seat when Cecil got called out.

If he wasn't learning some amazing things, he would completely hate this class.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil sent Victor a little grin and shrug. No hard feelings on his part, anyway.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[ultron_junior]

Victor glanced up from his notes for just long enough to smile and shrug back at Cecil.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[tigerundercover]

Raven's takeaway from the lecture was that she had clearly gone with the less interesting group in last week's class.

Also, she was totally thinking about how she might be able to sneak food into class.

It was possible she wasn't real good with overbearing authority.

Cross the Bridge: Enter Doom's Lab

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If you were somehow attuned to dimensional harmonics, you might realize that you were actually still in Fandom. Doom wasn't taking you across the true Bridge to the Citadel. If you believed that, you were a fool. You had, however, still traveled through space into a lab Doom had originally set up years ago. This particular lab was hidden under the duck pond in the park. It was generically metallic everywhere with lots of equipment scattered about.

Once all the students crossed through, Doom touched the control panel on his gauntlet again and the yellow light in the portal disappeared.

"There are two possible portals back to the school science lab. The pieces for the first one are all in that corner of the lab. Like last week and every week for the rest of the semester, you may choose to start the process with that portal. You WILL NOT COMPLETE IT. It took me three days to complete the portal we just used," Doom said.

"Although one day of that was admittedly spent creating parts that would disintegrate upon use. Which means that the portal we used needs repair should you desire returning at the end of the period. All of the parts you will need are next to the portal. You know the theory. You saw the blueprints during the lecture. The parts are labeled. You have 25 minutes to repair it as a group. It is up to you to decide if you trust your classmates enough to allow them to handle the working portal while you learn more from the full build. Decide quickly and get to work."

Cross the Bridge: Fix the Portal

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The portal needs to be fixed to get back to the science lab. Working as a reasonably efficient team, you should be able to get it done with five minutes to spare. Even the people who aren't as hands on with science can help out, as the portal is large and some of the parts are heavy. So the inventors in the group will need helping hands.

Re: Cross the Bridge: Fix the Portal

[pursuedthestars]

Jim thought himself a pretty smart guy but even this was a little daunting for him. He was taking a few really quick moments to scan the portal, look over the parts and familiarize himself with everything before he got to work on putting it back together.

Re: Cross the Bridge: Fix the Portal

[solarhippie]

Yeah, Karolina wasn't sciencey enough for this. So, she was back in her Majesdanian form, glowing as she hovered a foot or two off the floor.

"I can lift stuff!"

Re: Cross the Bridge: Fix the Portal

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil grinned up at her. "I love your colors!"

Re: Cross the Bridge: Fix the Portal

[selfhelphero]

It wasn't that Billy didn't trust his classmates. It was more that he didn't trust Doom and wanted to make sure everyone got back when class was over. He wasn't as technically minded as some people, but he was still able to sift out useful pieces.

Cross the Bridge: Start a New Build

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If you have confidence in your classmates, you can start work on a new portal. With a team and general knowledge of what you're doing, you'd be able to finish it in four days, three if you worked very fast. With 25 minutes, it's a matter of figuring out how to start the puzzle off.

Re: Cross the Bridge: Start a New Build

[dollpocalypse]

"Just so everyone knows, I'm literally a professional in this field," Topher announced, before taking a seat on the floor to work alone.

Oh, people were welcome to approach him. He'd take it as a compliment. But he just wanted to make sure that everyone knew that he was legit a professional, okay.

Cross the Bridge: Back to School

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"Congratulations. You have succeeded," Doom said, once everyone was back in the school lab. "If you wish to discuss anything about traveling through space, speak up in these last few minutes. If you merely desire to complain about my methods, please hold onto your whining until after class. I will make time for anything you wish to discuss, but I do not want pointless whining to detract from your classmates' time to learn more than it already has."

Speak to Loki

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Who gets around dimensions without mechanical assistance. WHICH HE HAD BEST NOT MENTION UNTIL THE END OF CLASS.

Re: Speak to Loki

[abitlowkey]

EXCUSE YOU, LOKI DID WHAT HE WANTED. DEAL WITH IT, DOOM.

DEAL WITH IT.

But Loki did hold his tongue, watching his classmate with avid fascination.

Speak to Doom

[allhopeliesinme.livejournal.com]

Especially if you have complaints about being potentially stranded in another dimension. Which wasn't actually true, for one. And for two, worst case, he could have used magic to create a portal.

OOC

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Seriously, though, Doom wasn't going to let anything happen to anyone.

But boy is it fun to write these classes. :D

Re: OOC

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil would totally try calling for food again if I had the time for detention. *G*