[anonymous text]

[imperfect]

[This message is pretty easy to trace all the way back to Ed's tablet, but he doesn't particularly care. As long as this looks like an unbiased survey, it's good enough for him.]

Roll call, everyone. Raise your hand if you're a scientist. If you think of yourself as one, you count. Go.

And keep it raised if you think you could be making better use of it than the Initiative is right now.

If you feel like trumpeting your credentials while you're at it, go ahead, share them with the class. If you don't, don't. I'm just wondering.

Comments

[acemedium]

Well, if you were plotting some evil scheme, I'd just give you a Maya Chop!

And I wouldn't be able to tell without learning more about it, right?

[imperfect]

What are you, five?

[It's that or an honest-to-god superhero, and although it occurs to him he can't actually rule out either possibility under the circumstances, neither of them would make that not a stupid name. Sheesh, he could come up with a cooler one in his sleep.]

[acemedium]

What are you, jealous? [LOOK AT HER SHE'S SO WITTY.]

[Not]

So, what's the scheme already?

probably is jealous tbh

[imperfect]

Not a scheme so much as an idea. Not yet, anyway. I guess whether it's evil depends on your perspective.

naturally

[acemedium]

....

Okay, so what's the idea already?

[imperfect]

Rounding up all the scientists in this place who don't argue back too loud and making them do what I want.

[acemedium]

Which iiiiiis?

[imperfect]

If I already got that far, don't you think it'd count as a scheme?

[acemedium]

Quit stalling and tell me already!

[imperfect]

Sorry, that's all I have for now.

[It totally isn't.]

But once I figure the rest out, I'm pretty sure you'll hear about it.

[acemedium]

I don't buy it! You're hiding something, shady texty... guy!

...Or girl.

[imperfect]

No, not a girl.

[So much for anonymity.]

[acemedium]

..Shady text guy, then!

Don't think you can weasel your way out of this one!

[imperfect]

Who's trying to weasel here? If I had enough of a scheme in the works to start chasing down volunteers right away, I'd be doing that, not tossing out vague questions on the network for no reason. We've already got plenty of those.

[acemedium]

[Point, but...]

You've got to have something! What are you trying to do with all the sciency types, anyway?

[imperfect]

Didn't I just finish telling you I didn't get to that part yet? Just something that's better than all of them just sitting around, or a single lab getting a monopoly on them. It'd be a waste.

[acemedium]

It sounded to me like you were just hiding something.... [But hm, that does make sense] I don't think there are labs here, anyway.

[imperfect]

There's the Initiative's science team, at least. It's just not exactly what I had in mind. And I haven't heard about any organised alternatives so far if they are out there, it's true.

[acemedium]

Well, you could always infiltrate it and find out what they're up to....

A science club of our own would be cool, though.

[imperfect]

I had a look. That's how I know it's not what I had in mind.

Although neither is a club. We're not all a bunch of schoolkids here.