OOM: Delivery
Oct. 24th, 2009 07:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fowl_beastScene: Professor Oddenstein and his assistant are in the laboratory. Oddenstein is an old man with wild, white hair and wears a white labcoat. Typical mad scientist look. Penny, his assistant, is a young, red haired woman. She wears a plain brown set of monks' robes and multiple silver necklaces, each one with a different pendant, one for each god of the realm. They are at a desk. Penny is writing on a peice of parchment. Oddenstein is holding a vacuum tube.
Oddenstein: "I better replace this part, have you finished drawing it?"
Oddenstein: "I better replace this part, have you finished drawing it?"
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Date: 2009-10-25 03:06 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-10-25 03:40 am (UTC)Oddenstein finished replacing the part in the machine and walked over toward its controls.
"More convenient, anyhow."
He flipped a switch, and the machine hummed to life. The portal to the killerwatt plane opened up. Thankfully, there was enough energy stored in the Leyden jars downstairs to open up the portal again. The instrument panel on the machine showed that the jars were being recharged. A sigh of relief came from the professor.
"Looks like the couple is still functioning. We won't have to use the generator to recharge."
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Date: 2009-10-25 04:22 am (UTC)She got up to flip the switch that would allow electricity coming from the killerwatt plane to power the modified Dorgeshuun light orbs around the room. The Dorgeshuun used some odd combination of electricity and magic to power their city. They mass produced light orb filaments, but the alloy of tungsten they used burned up to fast when the light orbs were connected to a purely electrical power source.
Luckily they had found a source of wolframite and came up with a better alloy. Hah, she thought as she turned off the oil lamp that was lighting the room before. There has got to be the other metals hiding somewhere in this world if there is tungsten lying about.
"I have not heard much from you about our fund-"
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Date: 2009-10-25 04:32 am (UTC)Out of the portal stepped a turkey sized rooster.
"I needed to take out a part so that I could look at it. I had some notes on the part but there were some things about the part that I didn't write down. I needed to run some tests on it to remind myself of a few details. And so I could get a better drawing of it made."
There were actually quite a few parts he needed a refresher on. He wasn't going to admit to that in front of his primary source of funding, though.
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Date: 2009-10-25 04:42 am (UTC)The chicken wasn't attacking her, though. Or the professor. Odd.
"You are funding our research?"
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Date: 2009-10-25 04:54 am (UTC)Evil Chicken glanced at the professor and then turned to face the assistant again. Wait, there was something familiar about her.
"Penny Drakis," he said in a predatory tone, "haven't I killed you before?"
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Date: 2009-10-25 05:01 am (UTC)She had been fishing when he took her by surprise. He had tried before, but she had always been paying attention, and had been able to get away. She was... distracted... that day.
"You bastard, have you come here to try again? What's with the polite conversation?"
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Date: 2009-10-25 05:09 am (UTC)"You were a tasty morsel, a divine delicacy. Hahahaha! And now I know why. HAHAHAHAHA!"
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Date: 2009-10-25 05:14 am (UTC)The professor stood, astonished, as the drama between his assistant and his funder unfolded. Oh, this was going to end in disaster, wasn't it?
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Date: 2009-10-25 05:37 am (UTC)After his laughter died down, he spoke again. "Relax, you two are being very useful to me. I am not going to try to eat you."
Pause. "Infact, there is something you can do to be even more useful." Evil Chicken turned and walked back out the portal. He returned a few moments later, dragging what looked like a sack full of round objects in his beak. "A little help here?" The professor took the sack and examined its contents.
"More apples?" the professor was curious. All this trouble over apples.
"Yes, more apples. Penny, could you take these apples somewhere out way out west and hide them where people won't find them?"
"Try planting the seeds from one and see if a tree will sprout as well."
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Date: 2009-10-25 05:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-10-25 05:56 am (UTC)Evil Chicken turned toward the professor. "There is enough on the list to keep me busy for a while, right?"
Keep Evil Chicken busy. What an odd idea, Why does he want to be kept busy? The professor answered after a while. "Yes, it is certainly a long list."
"Good," responded Evil Chicken, "give me what you have and I will go hunting for parts. In the mean while, you can finish up the parts list. You know, Penny, if I get lucky, I might just be able to bring back those corrupted crystals you have been telling the professor about. You might have a big pile of them to study when you get back."
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Date: 2009-10-25 06:02 am (UTC)So that was why they were compiling the list. Oddenstein wasn't usually that forgetful.
"Excuse me, I have to prepare for a long journey."
Penny exited the laboratory, mumbling.
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Date: 2009-10-25 06:36 am (UTC)Hopefully, she would drop more than a few.
Oddenstein brought a small book of bound together notes to Evil Chicken and laid them on the the ground. "Here is what I have so far that I am willing to part with."
"You two have certainly been busy," quipped Evil Chicken.
"Yes, well, Penny, despite her crazy ideas has been a great help. She actually understands enough about electricity so that I can bounce ideas off her. It's as if she grew up somewhere where electricity is used instead of magic."
"Hmm, that is odd. She doesn't sound like a barbarian or look at all like one of the Dorgeshuun. Have you asked her?"
"At first she said she didn't remember and now she just talks about that craziness with the magic boxes I told you about before."
"Interesting." Evil Chicken looked at the book of the floor. "Could you put the book through the portal for me? I can take it from there."
"Sure." Professor Oddenstein picked up the notebook and carefully tossed it through the portal. "Try to bring it back in one piece, it might come in handy some day."
"I will. Good luck on your end." Evil Chicken stepped through the portal.
Professor Oddenstein checked the instrument panel to check the charge on the Leyden jars and shut down the portal machine. The lights, which drew their power directly from the portal and not the jars, thankfully, went out.
"Oh, darn" the professor stumbled his way to the laboratory door and started searching the house for a lamp or candle he could borrow.
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Date: 2009-10-25 07:57 pm (UTC)