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Background Scientist #37

Background Scientist #37

@rejectalien 2 years ago

So I was just brainstorming over the past week, and I don't really know what one would do with this but I thought of a small AU!

So it would be set in modern times, or in the future, I'm not really sure yet. The basic setting would be that non government funded science is outlawed. But people still practice it, and there is a website called "thesocietyforarcanesciences" where they go to get information. Members are called "Rouge Scientist's" by the general public, and are both feared and respected. People on this site live so called "normal lives" but if they need ingredients or anything else, they can go to the Society and ask around.

As for characters, the sites main admins would be Jekyll and Hyde, who never seem to be online at the same time.

Rachel (going by some other name on the website), and other cooks, would be travelers. They would mail ingredients and break the Rouge Scientists out of jail if needed.

Everyone else would fall under the general "Rouge Scientist" with usernames relating to their field of study.

I dunno. It was just a random idea, figured I'd share it. I don't know much about how websites work so feel free to add things.

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Mz.Hyde Mod • 2 years ago

This sounds really cool!~

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Miss-Dreamerkat • 2 years ago

This is really awesome!

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Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

Great idea, have no idea how it would apply to Griffin or Ariadne?

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Background Scientist #37  Dr. H. Griffin • 2 years ago

Well the Scientists, or whatever you want to be, go on the site to get information. Griffin might go to try and get materials for his invisibility experiment. I'm not sure what Ariadne would do, but probably something to the same effect.

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Wizardblizzard  Background Scientist #37 • 2 years ago • edited

Ariadne would be a bit of a celebrity on the site, constantly poating asking for surces for chemicals that make everyone on the site gaps and go " are you insane... that stuff could get you arrested for terrosrim, never mind unlicenesd experinenting... oh well, it's your funeral".

Griffin would be regarded as a nuisame by the other scientists, a facelss user who keeps wanting answens to apparently random tehcnical questions but refusing to tell anyone anything, and posting occasional snippy answers to other people who he thinks are asking stupid amateur questions. If he doesn't think Netspeak is undignified I can see him calling everyone "noobs". People would be constantly saying "Why don't the admins do something about that guy?" (Either A: because Jekyll thinks the poor fellow needs people to talk to or B: because he knows something. Or both.) It's perfect for Griffin; if the character lived in the 21st century then that would be exacly wht he'd be dping anyway, making things in his garage and posting anonymously on websites like that and everyone saying "Whois this person?" Now he has company...

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Setae • 2 years ago

Sounds like fun!

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chatterghosts • 2 years ago • edited

And now, a frantic DM on thesocietyforarcanesciences, between a certain bitter freckled boy and an orange...

interstellar_binaries: DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY

interstellar_binaries: UH

interstellar_binaries: LIKE, A REALLY HUGE SOUNDING ROCKET

interstellar_binaries: ... FOR SCIENCE ?????????? ALSO LIVES ARE AT RIS K SOMEONE RESPOND FAST

orangechemicalstains: a

orangechemicalstains: are you okay oh my god who's gonna die

interstellar_binaries: ME

orangechemicalstains: i

orangechemicalstains: okay, what the actual fuck is going on right now

interstellar_binaries: I MADE A MAKESHIFT SOUNDING ROCKET

interstellar_binaries: IT

interstellar_binaries: DID N OT WORK AS PL A N N ED

interstellar_binaries: My leg is on fire. I have ascended to the final plane of existence. Remember me.

orangechemicalstains:

orangechemicalstains:

orangechemicalstains: are you being dramatic or did you die

orangechemicalstains: w

orangechemicalstains: holy shit are you there

orangechemicalstains: d

orangechemicalstains: did you die

orangechemicalstains: i'm pretty sure you died

orangechemicalstains: im gonna forget this ever happened

[ orangechemicalstains has ended this chat. ]

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Wizardblizzard • 2 years ago

I've hung around a lot of Web forums, and I think this would be perfect! :-D I can imagine exactly how that would play out!

If the Society has field agents, then it's evidently not JUST a webstie. Hyde would be one of the field agensts too, jiust because you couldn't stop him, so much more exciting than staying at his desl the whole time. In fact, now I think about it, Hyde would never be at a desk at all, all the modeerating he does would be done from a smartphone while he sits on a roof somewhere waiting for something more exciting to hapen. And people would be constantly posting, "Jekyll, Hyde is totally out of line, he banned three people for no reasos at all and then unbanned them again, cna't you do soemthing about him?" And Jekyll would post something evasive and curse because he knows if he logs intp Hyde's account and reverses it then Hyde will just change it stragiht back agaon next time, there is no possible way they could keep each other from knowing eah oher's passwords.

The ones who are good with computers wiuld be posting over heavily encrypted and anonymous connections. I can't remember anything about how this is done beyond the words "Tor" and "remailer" and "proxy server" and "military-grade encryption" (ALL encryption sytsme seem to like to call themselves "miltray-grade"!), and I may be maistekn about "proxy server". But that's the idea and we can wave the words around :-D

I remember once seeing a site selling cannabis seeds (I was looking for something else, I hasten to add!), which had a ridiculous disclaie aon the bootm of the page: "These seeds are supplied as botanical specimne only. Cultivation of cannabis is illegal in the United Kingodm". Apparently, this being done, let the law go whislte. I thought it was hilarious. The Society site woild have a disclaimer about "This site is for educational purposes only", and piously qoute the regulationg about performing experiments without a license.

REminder: Rogue, not Rouge. Rouge mean red.

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