OOM: Delivery

[fowl_beast]

Scene: 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?"

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[pennied-to.livejournal.com]

"What?! That will take several days! I am still needed here, we were in the middle of putting together a list of parts needed to build a second machine. Why are you trying to get rid of me?"

[fowl_beast]

"I am not trying to get rid of you, I am just telling you to do something that needs to be done."

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."

[pennied-to.livejournal.com]

"Semiconductors. They are called semiconductors."

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.

[fowl_beast]

This was perfect. Hopefully she would drop a few apples on her way west. Just to spite him.

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.