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bakerstreet2015-09-01 02:07 pm
abyss_also_gazed) wrote in bakerstreet2015-09-01 02:07 pm
we're all a little MAD here
They say there's a fine line between genius and madness; you say that, in the pursuit of scientific inquiry, there are often times when one has no choice but to approach that line, and take a flying leap over it. They laughed at your ideas (or perhaps threw you out for your total disregard of all ethical principles of experiment design), but now you'll show them! You'll show them all! You'll take your results back to wipe the smug looks off the faces of those peons you used to call colleagues, and make sure their last few moments on this earth are spent praising your genius!
Put on your lab coat and goggles, because it's time to do some...
MAD SCIENCE
1. New Specimen - maybe something has fallen into your hands that's exactly what you were looking for, or maybe it's like nothing you've ever seen before; either way, you have a new object or a new lifeform (thinking of them as a person just complicates things far too much) to begin experiments on, and it's time to begin its intake assessment.
2. Welcome to my secret lair on Skullcrusher Mountain - they say that a madman falling in love with you is a scarier situation than a madman wanting to kill you. But surely your love has nothing to fear from you! Perhaps a little transparency about your work will help them to feel more -- no, no, darling, why are you screaming? The shoggoths are just as harmless as kittens, I assure you!
3. Pygmalion - Finally, your creation is perfect - your experiment has been a total success, and the specimen it produced is everything you hoped it would be. In fact, its perfection is intoxicating, and no matter what your detractors may say, you knew from the moment you set eyes on the finished product that this is the pinnacle of your work in this world. And you can't help loving what you've made in the creepiest way possible.
4. Lab Assistant - Whether you're the comic foil to your master's straight man or the PFY to their BOFH, you need this job for reasons far beyond what you can articulate to laypeople. But will your master lead you to unexpected wisdom, or will they strip away your conscience along with your sanity?
5. Henchman - Despite the fact that the local medical center/drug testing facility/volcano lair/etc. offers excellent benefits and competitive pay, it always seems to be hiring, no matter how many people you know who have recently gone on to the final stage of the "onboarding" process. Maybe it's time you checked it out yourself. Maybe it's time to prove that you're better than all those who have come before you in protecting your new boss's... assets.
6. Running the Experiment - Finally, all the preparations are complete for your latest stroke of genius. All the equipment is set up, you've acquired the necessary specimens (some of whom, perhaps, are sapient and aware enough of their surroundings to be terrified), and it's time to begin gathering data.
7. Sharing Your Findings - This was a triumph (you're making a note here: huge success) and it's hard to overstate your satisfaction. This is something you can't just keep to yourself - it deserves to be shared with someone, whether it's a close associate who understands your work, a conference ofhorrified thoroughly impressed colleagues, or maybe even the specimen you're in the process of vivisecting. Talking about it makes it real, after all.
8. Experiment Gone Awry - Not every experiment goes according to design; sometimes, your initial assumptions are mistaken, or there's a slight error in your calculations, or your experimental subject lurches off into the night to terrorize the villagers the very moment you turn your back... And sometimes, those failures are exciting, but in your line of work, more often they are outright terrifying.
9. Torches and Pitchforks - Maybe one too many of your experiments has escaped into the night to terrorize the villagers. Maybe the villagers have just found out about the real nature of your experiments and are callously slinging around words like "unethical" and "blasphemous" and "evil" without even attempting to understand your vision. Either way, it's clear that this time, they mean to do more than picket your laboratory.
10. Other - Experiment design is what science is all about, especially mad science. If the above scenarios don't suit your fancy, create your own, and don't forget to record your results for posterity.
Put on your lab coat and goggles, because it's time to do some...
MAD SCIENCE
1. New Specimen - maybe something has fallen into your hands that's exactly what you were looking for, or maybe it's like nothing you've ever seen before; either way, you have a new object or a new lifeform (thinking of them as a person just complicates things far too much) to begin experiments on, and it's time to begin its intake assessment.
2. Welcome to my secret lair on Skullcrusher Mountain - they say that a madman falling in love with you is a scarier situation than a madman wanting to kill you. But surely your love has nothing to fear from you! Perhaps a little transparency about your work will help them to feel more -- no, no, darling, why are you screaming? The shoggoths are just as harmless as kittens, I assure you!
3. Pygmalion - Finally, your creation is perfect - your experiment has been a total success, and the specimen it produced is everything you hoped it would be. In fact, its perfection is intoxicating, and no matter what your detractors may say, you knew from the moment you set eyes on the finished product that this is the pinnacle of your work in this world. And you can't help loving what you've made in the creepiest way possible.
4. Lab Assistant - Whether you're the comic foil to your master's straight man or the PFY to their BOFH, you need this job for reasons far beyond what you can articulate to laypeople. But will your master lead you to unexpected wisdom, or will they strip away your conscience along with your sanity?
5. Henchman - Despite the fact that the local medical center/drug testing facility/volcano lair/etc. offers excellent benefits and competitive pay, it always seems to be hiring, no matter how many people you know who have recently gone on to the final stage of the "onboarding" process. Maybe it's time you checked it out yourself. Maybe it's time to prove that you're better than all those who have come before you in protecting your new boss's... assets.
6. Running the Experiment - Finally, all the preparations are complete for your latest stroke of genius. All the equipment is set up, you've acquired the necessary specimens (some of whom, perhaps, are sapient and aware enough of their surroundings to be terrified), and it's time to begin gathering data.
7. Sharing Your Findings - This was a triumph (you're making a note here: huge success) and it's hard to overstate your satisfaction. This is something you can't just keep to yourself - it deserves to be shared with someone, whether it's a close associate who understands your work, a conference of
8. Experiment Gone Awry - Not every experiment goes according to design; sometimes, your initial assumptions are mistaken, or there's a slight error in your calculations, or your experimental subject lurches off into the night to terrorize the villagers the very moment you turn your back... And sometimes, those failures are exciting, but in your line of work, more often they are outright terrifying.
9. Torches and Pitchforks - Maybe one too many of your experiments has escaped into the night to terrorize the villagers. Maybe the villagers have just found out about the real nature of your experiments and are callously slinging around words like "unethical" and "blasphemous" and "evil" without even attempting to understand your vision. Either way, it's clear that this time, they mean to do more than picket your laboratory.
10. Other - Experiment design is what science is all about, especially mad science. If the above scenarios don't suit your fancy, create your own, and don't forget to record your results for posterity.
Ral Zarek | Magic: The Gathering
Elesh Norn | Magic: The Gathering
Khanon | Valkyrie Profile II: Silmeria
enter | go-busters
ryoma sengoku | kamen rider gaim
no subject
Mason Masters | OC
Comes in
All of whom answers both questions of can we and should we with 'of course' followed by maniacal laughter.
Sah'ot | Uplift
Liir Thropp | The Wicked Years
The Biologist | The Southern Reach trilogy
Jane Alderberry | The Iron Dragon's Daughter
Shin Naohisa | original character | m/m pref, OTA
[That said, he's not a nice guy. Not really. All prompts sound good! Please note that this character was initiallymade with non-seriousness/smut in mind, so there may be some plot holes at the moment!]
Dr. Pamela Isley | DCU | OTA
Re: Dr. Pamela Isley | DCU | OTA
Who does Pammy need in her life the most tonight?]
Re: Dr. Pamela Isley | DCU | OTA
The answer is always Harley.]
Darcy Lewis | MCU | OTA
tom & hyde | jekyll
milner | utopia
mina murray | (nbc's) dracula
Wilson Percival Higgsbury | Don't Starve | OTA
Dr. K | OC | OTA
She also comes with an optional M1A18-verse Gauron, who is not her henchman - if they were part of the same chain of command, he would outrank her - but he kind of does the same job, in terms of helping her acquire new experimental subjects and keeping her safe from the ones she's got, and on occasion he does help her carry out experiments on them.))
7
It is a mess. Even on a good day, every surface is littered with books and papers and bottles and ephemera. Human skulls. Any organization which exists within the space exists only in Victor's mind. He has had to make due with what equipment he can scrounge or create himself. There is no beauty in it. And after Lily's...birth, much of it has failed: burnt out, come loose, broken. He had not bothered or been able to afford to replace it.
But perhaps most importantly: he is entirely unaware exactly how much she knows of his work. He is, despite his young age, a respected anatomist and surgeon, and it is this work he assumes she has heard of and wishes to discuss. Not even Professor Van Helsing knew the extend to which he pursued his most unconventional passions.
It is for these reasons that he instructs her to meet him deep within the bowels of the medical college, where the bulk of his research is conducted, and where fresh specimens are frequently available.
no subject
cockblockaccompany her, she's here alone. It isn't like she's unarmed (hurr), and though she doesn't know her way around a firearm quite as well as he does (hell, even some of the other containment specialists don't), it isn't like she's out of practice, either; she can see to her own protection perfectly well.Besides, she doubts that she and the younger doctor will get into any dissections complex enough to require Gauron's admittedly much finer knife work. Gauron might only be qualified as a field surgeon, but with the other kinds of practice he's gotten, he's better at cutting up human beings than any of her interns are. Putting them back together, somewhat less so, but his skills suffice.
Moreover, she figures conversation might flow a little easier without the presence of the man that the rest of her colleagues just call "that goddamned land shark," and she's brought along a few particular pieces of equipment to help move it in the right direction - finding out more about Victor's personal research really is her primary goal, no matter what other directions she might be interested to see the evening take, after all. Among the items tucked into her bag is a variant of a neural bridge she's working on; given the state of the technology she can flash around here without compounding the anomaly, the thing is far too bulky to have any actual practical application - not that the state of the art in the '70s is that much better. Still, all she needs for now is for it to be an interesting conversation piece.
It isn't too long before she finds her way to Victor's lab; there's a certain internal logic - or lack thereof - to these old campuses that she is intimately familiar with, and once she's got the right building there aren't too many choices of rooms that are still occupied this late in the day. Most slightly less mad scientists and their pupils tend to prefer not to work through dinner, where avoidable. "Dr. Frankenstein?" she calls, pushing open the door to the laboratory. Instead of her usual split hook, the prosthetic she's wearing today is less utilitarian, one that actually resembles and functions rather clumsily like a hand, a chamois glove over it to hide the metal workings, and the rest of her attire is simple, practical,
easy to get out of.Lucrecia Crescent | Final Fantasy VII
Doctor Doom | Marvel Comics
Curie (Plague Doctor) {} The Darkest Dungeon
And we can absolutely crank that shit up to 11.]
Mind an OC? Willing to be either helpful assistant or test subject!
Victor "This Meme Is About Me" Frankenstein | Penny Dreadful | ota
Peter Quill || Guardians of the Galaxy
Matt Murdock || Daredevil
Zexion | Kingdom Hearts
Dr. Cidolfus Demen Bunansa | Final Fantasy 12
Doctor Horrible || His sing-along blog || m/f
Patchouli Knowledge | Touhou Project
Rick Sanchez / Rick & Morty
literally why
Blake just stares at some random beakers and some random mush that she swears moved more than a few times, before glancing up at her-- uh, counterpart.]
What is this.
why not
He does mind stupid questions, though, and there is a long-suffering sigh as he glances over his shoulder.] Yeah. G-gonna need more specifics. Your slow, inevitable journey towards the obsolescence of death? Or -- oh, that.
[He assumes she means the mushy... thing. He hands her a flyswatter.]
There. Go nuts.
why u
So, it being alive wasn't part of your plan?
[Did it just move more? Yeah, Blake's giving it a thwack.
...to which it might have just grown ever so slightly bigger.]
why us
He does look a little put off by the growing ball of mush. That's not conducive to anything!!!]
Oh my g-- [Urp.] god. Move.
[Maybe he takes out a laser gun from inside his lab coat. Maybe he shoots at the blob without waiting for Blake to move. Maybe the thing just splits into two to avoid the laser beam.] No... what?
no subject
While lasers don't phase her, the fact that strange little blobs are spawning from what was once one giant mush makes her step back to her... er, partner's side.]
No flyswatters, no lasers... [Something tells her this thing is going to keep splitting the more they mess with it. And like hell is she about to pick it up.]
Do you have something around here we can contain this thing?
no subject
Rick looks around quickly, then shuffles over to a pile of random science-looking debris and starts constructing something that is probably very stupid and scifi.] If I can make a containment box before we're ass-deep in goop, maybe. Make sure it doesn't touch anything.
[He has the feeling it's just going to keep multiplying the more objects it comes into contact with.]
no subject
...Okay, so that likely doesn't count. She's sure he means the expensive... ish... lab equipment!]
Fine.
[Blake clenches her fists as she looks around-- ah, okay. The flyswatter. Okay. Maybe she can maneuver one of the blobs onto the length, like a spatula. Okay. Yes. She's got this... just ease the flat part under one of the blobs...
Well, she's got one to approach...]
8
What the fuck did you do?
no subject
Still, he's going to pretend like he meant for this to happen, while maybe discretely moving to knock the beaker off the table.]
Look, if I wanted your opinion on kicking guys in the dick, I'll let you know. But this is science, and -- [Rick's bullshitting is cut short as the thing rising out of the beaker grabs him around the neck, lifting him into the air. It's a sludge monster.]
no subject
However, he's also a pretty big fucking moron, so this might have been his plan all along.]
Think it has a dick I can kick it in?
Erik | Phantom of the Opera | OTA
Hange Zoe | Attack on Titan