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 Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:37 pm
Studies in: Rocket science, space travel, aerodynamics, flight studies, or anything else relating to flight or travel from rockets and fueled propulsion goes on here. Despite the name, the class can be pretty entertaining.
The club is held Wednesdays, but the club room is open for students on Monday, Wednesday, and Fridays.
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 2:50 pm
[Arriving from the cafeteria] "Science may set limits to knowledge,"
Getting at work as soon as she had gotten here, Satomi skipped most of the formalities, not really conversing much with the other students, finding that she never really did talk to the older students all that much. They always looked at her as an oddity anyway, after all they were University level students, and she was still in Junior High, so they found her presence insulting, but most of all, they found her ridiculously ingenious ideas and IQ to be just plain embarrassing. She would show them up and make them all look like idiots! She didn't seem to notice though, and only put her care in her creations, research, and experiments, only speaking to the other students if she needed assistance or on the rarest occasions, had a question.
The day went on without a hitch, and for the most part, Satomi put her time into her research and earlier experiments on her newest creation: A Jetpack. She tried making one before last year, but needless to say after crashing into a tree with control failures, that didn't go so well... But after her dream last night and writing down all of her ideas in her book this morning and her thoughts and formulas throughout the afternoon as the day went by, she felt that this year she was really on to something. And so, she spent most of her club time in creating the early stages and running tests for her prototype.
"But should not set limits to imagination."
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:04 pm
Raine walked into the room a bit shyly. She was startled when the other students saw her. "College students? What am I doing here?" she thought. When she saw Satomi, she relaxed a bit. "At least there's someone my age," she thought. She walked up to Satomi shyly. "Hello," she said. "I'm Raine. What are you making?" she asked. Her curiosity got the better of her, or she wouldn't have asked that last piece. "And aren't you a bit worried that the rest of the group seems to be College students?" she asked, stealing a glance around. She was relieved to see they weren't looking over at them. When she turned back, she caught her reflection in a metal object. Her eyes opened a bit, then relaxed. "My eyes are blue... that's rare. I wonder why they are," she thought to herself.
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Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2008 4:21 pm
Busy with her prototype, going back and forth between a pencil and paper with her blueprints, and the outer metal frame that made up the basics to her jetpack she was attempting to build, Satomi hardly seemed to get distracted at the noise around her, not even turning to face the person who introduced herself at first. It seemed that once she was focused on her work, it was hard to break her away from it.
"Ah, hi there." She said rather quickly with little care in her words as she never once turned away from her project, hard at work with it as she spoke. "Hakase, Satomi Hakase." She said as a follow up, taking a screwdriver and beginning to fasten a metal plate around the outer shell of her creation. "And don't mind those students, they're inferior really." Not even realizing her insult, or the fact that several college students were looking her way with angry eyes, grinding there teeth, Satomi was still at work with a pretty cold outlook right now.
But a rumbling sound coming from the propulsion pack caused her to stop, and she moved closer to it so she could get a better inspection. Only to have moments later a large cloud of smog explode on her, covering her face in a thick black dirt and dust. Blinking a few times when this happened, she slowly backed away, turning to finally look towards Raine, giving a rather sheepish grin over her mistake. "Oh, sorry about that, I didn't see you there." She said with a nervous laugh, as if she didn't even realize she was talking to this girl seconds ago.
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:14 pm
[Xenon arrives in... A jet? o.0 Yes, a Harrier Jump Jet, in fact]
A deafening roar echoes throughout the club room as outside, a Harrier jump jet lands almost directly outside of the building. Both of the wings are rather badly damaged, but fortunately there doesn't appear to be any risk of fire or explosion. The cockpit opens, and out jumps Xenon. Yes. Jumps. She jumps from the cockpit, landing on her feet. If a human had tried that, they'd probably shatter their legs.
It didn't take Xenon long to enter the Club Room. As she did, she waved towards Raine, smiling wearily. "Ah, hey there, Fox. I took a couple o' hits, but I reckon it'll be okay. You coulda helped out when I had that bogey on my tail, though." She looked towards Satomi, pointing outside towards the jet. Her expression looked a lot less happy to see Satomi."ROB, get that Arwing back in fighting condition - and don't forget the bombs this time! I ran out right in the middle o' a firefight, and they nearly got me! If I hadn't done a barrel roll, I'd be gone!" She looked around at the other students, and scratched her chin, as if she was specifically looking for something - or someone. "Say, where's Slip? He not make it back yet?" Apparently, Xenon had acquired this jet whilst not herself. Anyone who ever played one of the games in the series would realize that she is actually talking about characters from the Starfox series.
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 12:23 pm
Raine could feel the glares from the older students on her back, but she didn't show it. "It's fine, Satomi-chan. And I don't mean to tell you your work, but I think the machine you're working on needs a vent."
She heard a noise behind her. She turned around and saw Xenon. "Did she just call me Fox?" she thought. "Xenon-chan, what are you doing?" she asked. "Crap! I don't remember the password to make her stop! Is this some sort of virus, or did she come in contact with a non-compatible game?!" she thought frantically. "Satomi-chan, we need to find a way to stop her. There's something wrong," she said. She was now oblivious even of the college students, who were staring with curiosity and a bit of fear.
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 1:06 pm
Satomi would receive a text message from Regan:
Satomi big ugly orc help! Fighting Negi! DO SOMETHING! Im following them now.
It looks like it's been hastily put together...
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:08 pm
Unfortunately for Regan, her text may have gone through, but during club activities or her studies where she needed to maintain her focus, she kept her cell phone on silent. For now, she didn't notice the urgent message, and as she spoke with Raine, she seemed awfully calm but distracted for the time being, most of her attention focused on her creation right now. "Oh I know, it's no where close to done, this is model 0.3, still in the need of a lot of things really. But you can't judge someone's work until they say it's finished, right~?" She said in a kinder tone, but with a focused gaze as she was about to go back to her work. That is, until someone else caused quite a stir.
After the familiar roaring sound of jet engines came to a stop, most of the students, Satomi included came to a halt in whatever they were doing as some of them gathered to the doorway, trying to see what the source was. Most of the students were in disbelief in seeing a jet like this, and in such condition just come to the outside of the club like this, but for Satomi Hakase, such things were quite mundane and typical to her. After all, whenever she spent time with Chao-san, something like this was normal to a certain degree.
"Ah... Xenon-san, you know I can't just fix that without... I mean.. that's not really what we do here and..." Honestly, despite how much this site didn't faze her, Xenon's request was a bit unorthodox, there was no way she could fix this by herself. And it's not like she would do this without getting a favor in return. Then Raine came up with a pretty good idea. "I'm on it." She answered, typing something on her laptop real quick which was actually an e-mail to a certain someone before she began retrieving a few tools as she thought of the best way to deactivate Xenon. She kept the tools hidden behind her back though, both hands behind her as she walked up to Xenon, trying to act inconspicuous as to trick her perhaps. "Hey, why don't you rest though? I'm sure you're tired after that firefight." If Xenon dropped her guard, then she could easily deactivate her without such a risk of causing her to go insane like last time.
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:16 pm
The next thing Satomi's phone would receive would be a picture message from Regan. Just the picture. Of 'Cassy' in her 'doctor' getup. Including a needle in the mouth like a cigarette and a bloodied up apron. She would have included some snarky subject, but she didn't think she had the time to title it. She might recall all of Regan's mistrust of the little girl... saying she was drunk, etc... When viewed, of course.
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 3:17 pm
Xenon leaned forward and sort of squinted at Satomi. "You feelin' alright there, ROB? You're talking mighty strange." She leaned back again and shrugged, folding her arms. "Tell ya what, soon as Slip gets back in, I'll get him te' take a good look at you." She walks over to a desk, and jumps up backwards, hauling herself up to sit on it, groaning slightly as she did so. "Ah... Reckon' I won't be doin' that much longer." She said with a light laugh. "Hold on, I'll try to contact him now, see where he is." Xenon put her hand up to her ear, as if talking on a headset microphone. "Hey Slip, if you're out there, come in!"
At that moment, every mobile phone in the club receives a text message and every computer receives a system pop-up message:
'Hey Slip, if you're out there, come in!'
Xenon sat there expectantly for a few moments, before shaking her head and sighing. "Dammit! Where did he go?!" She mutters, punching the desk, leaving just a slight dent in it.
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:01 pm
After hearing Xenon's reply, still failing to notice her phone since it was on silent, she began to understand what was going on. She may not have known some of the older games since she only recently gotten into gaming a few years ago (and would never admit it), but she could tell that Xenon was having the same behavioral patterns as she did last time her personality swapped to a gaming character. So, making the logical assumption, she knew just what was wrong, but still wasn't sure about the cure. If only she had Chisame here to help her hack Xenon's personal files to find out...
Fortunately, she sent out a mail to her just moments ago, and really, it was all about the waiting game now, hoping she would actually come. Fat chance that she would since Chisame wasn't the type to get involved with others, but she did reluctantly accept her request earlier, so then just maybe.
"Um... thanks?" She said towards Xenon, not wanting to even say her name, assuming she would only respond to a certain one now judging by her character persona which she didn't know at all. "Actually, I already contacted Slip, he'll be here soon enough." She said, just winging it and guessing really as she tried to play her unknown role known as ROB. She did just send Chisame an email, so maybe Xenon will think that was intended for retrieving this 'Slip' person?
((As a huge fan of Star Fox, I got to say, I love this. xD ))
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Posted: Sat Jun 14, 2008 4:08 pm
Xenon nodded, and folded her arms, looking a little irritated. "Well, that's all fine an' all, but it ain't fixin' my arwing up, is it?" She pointed outside where she had parked her jet. "Both the wings are busted up, an' unless you fix it up, that thing'll be more of a deathtrap than a ship." She stood up, looking towards Raine. "Fox, have you been messin' around with ROB when I weren't here? I never heard him acting like this before."
It should be noted that around this time, news reports were going out about a stolen Jump Jet that had collided with a mountain twice as it was being flown away. Although there were no photos, there was an artists rendition of Xenon - which wasn't particularly accurate, but then she's not the most easy to describe of people. It appears that Xenon had just climbed into the jet and flown off with it.
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:48 am
"Go along with this. It might help," Raine thought frantically. "No, I was just wandering through," Raine said. "I hope that's satisfactory. I have no idea what game she came in contact with," she thought. She wasn't much of a gamer, didn't have a cell as of yet, and possessed no computer. She was mainly into fixing and creating the things, not using them.
((This is getting confusing for the person who isn't very experienced in video games. I'm going along as best I can.))
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 10:56 am
[That is precisely the point. I didn't expect everyone to know the references - in fact, I counted on it!
No IC stuff here because I'm waiting for ShadowOfIce to post.
That is all.]
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Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 12:56 pm
((I know all the references since I'm a big gamer/tester, but to keep from metagaming, Hakase-chan doesn't. ^^; )) 'This isn't good... I can't work like this with all of these distractions. And look at the time too! This is just a mess..' As much as she wanted to help, she was extremely dissatisfied with how things were going. Time was against her, and she couldn't do anything to Xenon without an assistant, preferably Chisame since she was a skilled enough hacker for this job. And she was having such a good turn out with her newest project too…
But with all of these unexpected inconveniences, what more could she do? And worst of all, with the current state Xenon was in, she didn't want to risk causing a problem and making her go berserk like she did before. Then again if she did, that was another opportunity to test her hypothesis of the Berserker Theory, but not here, not now. It was just too risky...
"I'll get to work on it right away." She said rather bluntly, for once her smile seeming to fade as she made her way outside to where the jet would be. Of course she was lying, there was no way she would actually work on this jet when she had so much to do, but it gave her an opportunity to get away from all of these... distractions. Grabbing her latest work on the prototype jetpack, she hurried out the door without any more than a wave goodbye. At first she looked like she was heading for the jet, but as soon as she was out of site, she turned and ran, looking to get some time to herself now.[Satomi Leaves for the Engineering Department] ((I'm going to be gone for the rest of today, so I had to dismiss myself like this. Sorry, I was hoping we could have done more. D: ))
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