[OPEN] Death rays are a girl's best friend....

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Who: Agatha Heterodyne and you
Where: Sagittarius Ward
What: A new arrival in the city takes charge of her situation
Warnings: SCIENCE! (Also action brackets because I am the laziest ever.)



[Agatha is blaming the strange dream on a side effect of lack of sleep and suddenly being shoved through Tweedle's ridiculous door. Right now the question is where that door has taken her. And what happened to the other three people who fell through it with her. Tweedle could be lost in time and space forever and she wouldn't care, but Violetta and Krosp she was a little concerned about. Not to mention the state of things in Mechanicsburg. But there wasn't much she could do about that now. First things first though, she needed a weapon....

So people who happen to be near some of the darkened warehouses may hear strange sounds coming from one of the alleyways. Clanking metal, odd whirring noises, crashing sounds. Those that dare to venture closer will find a woman holding what appears to be some sort of gun made from various bits of scrapped machinery. Her back is to the mouth of the alley, so she hasn't noticed anyone yet. She twists a small dial on the side of the gun and fire it at the trash dumpster. The alley is bathed in a bright flash of light, and when it fades the dumpster is nowhere to be found. Agatha nods in satisfaction.]

Could use some work, but it'll do for now.

Comments

[electricyousei]

"I know. I'm close, well, we can handle it with severe limitations back home. I think here I may have come across some tools to perfect that though."

She nods a bit.

"Still, separating the science from what the locals call magic has been a headache."

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[Hmm, she's heard of people from smaller villages confusing tech with magic before, but here?]

You'd think that in a city this big the people would be a little more.....

[What's a nice way to say this?]

...cosmopolitan.

[electricyousei]

"I think its more that the persona system works, so no one has bothered classifying it. That and its a bit outside of my area of expertise so every attempt I have made at it tends to end in failure."

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Hmm... someone else I talked to mentioned persona... I have to admit, I'm curious.

[electricyousei]

"I will admit, I am not a fan of using them as I do not want to become reliant on a system that I do not understand."

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[She shrugs.]

In that case, isn't it better to use them more often? That might help you figure out how they work.

[electricyousei]

"Those are things that test subjects are for."

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Ah, I see. I think I'm just used to being a lot more hands on in my experiments....

[It's only very recently that she's even had minions.]

[electricyousei]

"Most of the theory I work in tends to be too dangerous or improbable to do that with, and back home I knew enough heroes of justice that would try nonsense like that powered by guts alone."

She sighs and shakes her head.

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I think you find that type everywhere.

[She may be thinking of a certain ~GENTLEMAN ADVENTURER~ from back home.]

[electricyousei]

"Half the time they're trying to adopt people as what did Shiro-san call it? It was so long ago. Their plucky girl sidekick?"

She just shakes her head.

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[Yep, just like Othar. Although she may be just slightly amused at the thought of 'gentleman adventurers' in alternate universes.]

You have my sympathy. Dealing with people like that is enough to drive a person crazy.

[electricyousei]

"I haven't seen him since he died when I was 12, but there were a lot of people like him in the space force."

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Oh, I'm so sorry.

[Well that conversation just took an awkward turn.]

Were the two of you close?

[electricyousei]

"No, but he was close to people that were close to me. It was more a matter of an idiot went out stupidly and hurt friends. I think I was the only one who knew his real name instead of the one he gave people but that was it, and that was because I read the crew logs."

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Still.... I am sorry to hear that he died. I'm guessing revivification wasn't possible?

[For a moment, she wonders how she would feel if Othar died. She didn't exactly like him, but it would still be just a little sad. Then again, with the number of times he's been hurled out of airships, she's not entirely sure how anyone would actually do him in anyway.]

[electricyousei]

"I've actually never heard of a process called revivification. Perhaps it is something your world has uncovered that mine has not."

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Maybe you have a different name for it? It's the process of restoring life to the deceased.

[It's common enough in Agatha's world for laws to have been written regarding the use and abuse of the process.]

[electricyousei]

She shakes her head.

"No, we don't have that technology. There are too many issues involving the breakdown of brain material."

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Yeah, that can be a problem. If you aren't careful, it can cause severe memory loss.

[electricyousei]

"If you have the schematics to set something like that up perhaps we could create a lab for it on the Nadesico. It'd be too late for home, but I could see uses for it here."

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Well.... I've got a good grasp of the theories and techniques involved, but to be honest I've only ever participated in a single revivification. And it wasn't under normal circumstances.

[electricyousei]

"Most of my work is in theory. At least most of the work I can talk about in pleasant company."

She shrugs a bit.

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It's been a while since I've had the luxury of working in theory. Lately I've had to put ideas into practice almost as soon as they occur to me.

[electricyousei]

"When I was 12 I had to do that a lot. The principles of teleportation using time travel as a means were exceptionally irritating to figure the bases of."