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daybreakacademy2019-08-12 06:22 pm
hatesdeerstalkers) wrote in daybreakacademy2019-08-12 06:22 pm
You hung your coat on the back door; Intended to stay
Who: Moriarty and you!
What: Settling into the Academy...and maybe spooking an old rival.
When: August 13th, though mostly in the afternoon / night.
Where: All over!
Warnings: Nothing's coming to mind rn.
Outside the Savant Apartments and room 107
[If you're outside and near the apartments around 2-3pm, you'll catch sight of a Ulysses Butterfly fluttering around, almost looking as if it's searching for help.
Coming close enough will cause the butterfly - which is almost faintly glowing, and certainly feels magical - to fly over and tug on the nearest item of clothing on you, apparently trying to get you to follow it inside the Faculty apartments.
Will you follow it inside?]
Campus grounds
[Those who are eagle-eyed enough might have noticed the older looking man who's wandering on campus - he did show up briefly on the 12th, though he didn't wander. Today, though - around 5 or 6pm - he's clearly walking around, taking in the sights with those sharp blue eyes of his.
Coming close will have him give a friendly smile, and extend his hand out in a greeting.]
Hello! A pleasure meeting you - I am James Moriarty, the new Mathematics Professor. Might I learn your name?
On the Network
UN: 128Nemesis
Hello! Allow me to introduce myself - I am your recently hired Mathematics Professor, James Moriarty! I will be teaching class in the fall, from elementary math to college-grade. I also have some qualifications in Astronomy, though I won't be teaching that - but if you need someone to look at the stars for a bit, I suppose I wouldn't mind assisting! :)
I will also be available for help or tutoring if students need - though I merely ask you schedule at least 24 hours in advance in order to make sure there are no scheduling conflicts.
Speaking of Schedules, I am not a morning person - thus, all classes will most likely be in the afternoon or night, and on breaks, I will most likely be asleep until noon. I ask for your understanding in this.
My faculty apartment is 107, if you ever have any need to see me in person, and I will post my office hours after I have fully plotted out my class periods.
I look forward to this next school year!
-ps. If you happen to see blue butterflies on campus, do not be alarmed. They belong to me, and will not bring anyone harm.
Locked to Sherlock - night of the 13th
[Surely, he must have seen the network post - a James Moriarty, teaching Mathematics and having knowledge of Astronomy? It could be a massive coincidence, but...
His office has been fully moved into, things in their places - and the door is locked, lights off. No one's in this wing of the college, and though it seems empty and devoid of life...
...Why does it feel like someone's watching...?]
What: Settling into the Academy...and maybe spooking an old rival.
When: August 13th, though mostly in the afternoon / night.
Where: All over!
Warnings: Nothing's coming to mind rn.
Outside the Savant Apartments and room 107
[If you're outside and near the apartments around 2-3pm, you'll catch sight of a Ulysses Butterfly fluttering around, almost looking as if it's searching for help.
Coming close enough will cause the butterfly - which is almost faintly glowing, and certainly feels magical - to fly over and tug on the nearest item of clothing on you, apparently trying to get you to follow it inside the Faculty apartments.
Will you follow it inside?]
Campus grounds
[Those who are eagle-eyed enough might have noticed the older looking man who's wandering on campus - he did show up briefly on the 12th, though he didn't wander. Today, though - around 5 or 6pm - he's clearly walking around, taking in the sights with those sharp blue eyes of his.
Coming close will have him give a friendly smile, and extend his hand out in a greeting.]
Hello! A pleasure meeting you - I am James Moriarty, the new Mathematics Professor. Might I learn your name?
On the Network
UN: 128Nemesis
Hello! Allow me to introduce myself - I am your recently hired Mathematics Professor, James Moriarty! I will be teaching class in the fall, from elementary math to college-grade. I also have some qualifications in Astronomy, though I won't be teaching that - but if you need someone to look at the stars for a bit, I suppose I wouldn't mind assisting! :)
I will also be available for help or tutoring if students need - though I merely ask you schedule at least 24 hours in advance in order to make sure there are no scheduling conflicts.
Speaking of Schedules, I am not a morning person - thus, all classes will most likely be in the afternoon or night, and on breaks, I will most likely be asleep until noon. I ask for your understanding in this.
My faculty apartment is 107, if you ever have any need to see me in person, and I will post my office hours after I have fully plotted out my class periods.
I look forward to this next school year!
-ps. If you happen to see blue butterflies on campus, do not be alarmed. They belong to me, and will not bring anyone harm.
Locked to Sherlock - night of the 13th
[Surely, he must have seen the network post - a James Moriarty, teaching Mathematics and having knowledge of Astronomy? It could be a massive coincidence, but...
His office has been fully moved into, things in their places - and the door is locked, lights off. No one's in this wing of the college, and though it seems empty and devoid of life...
...Why does it feel like someone's watching...?]
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[It's a more hesitant handshake this time.]
Uhh...
[He doesn't know what to talk about now. Back to math, apparently.]
What classes are you going to teach next semester?
THANKS GMAIL
Oh, what's needed - I'm able to teach the wide spectrum of mathematics, from the basics to more advanced coursework. I even have a little dabbling in Astrology, though that is definitely not going to be one of my classes, haha!
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I hope to be able to attend one in the near future~!
[Then there's a pause, and a look of vague curiosity as opposed to solid interest.]
Astrology is like fortune telling stuff, right? Is that something I should look into? I'm a Seer.
tfw you, the player, fucks up in a past tag
[He suddenly pauses, then slaps his forehead.]
Astronomy, my apologies - I often get the two mixed up. No, it's nothing as glamorous - more based on tracking and figuring out the path of planets, stars, and asteroids.
[...Also, the two were synonymous back in the day when he actually studied, oops.]
oh no
Astronomy is way more interesting! Oh! Oh! An astronomy question! Okay, so like, my friend launched a rocket thing into space that ran on air and I said wouldn't it just stop when it got to space air because space air is made of different things and he said no, because it was still running on the previous propulsion and wouldn't stop once it broke through the atmosphere, but I think it would because like the change in gases would cause some kind of shift in the velocity and okay, maybe it might just deviate from the planned trajectory a little bit or something, but really, it would definitely have an effect on the rocket's general mechanisms if it ran on Earth air to begin with, right!?
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hm.
How does he answer this.]
....That sounds more in the field of Astrophysics than Astronomy, my boy.
[Aka 'please leave me alone with this, I am but a mere professor of maths']
no subject
[He's a little disappointed, but it's not like he'd ever use astrophysics in his future janitorial career, if he survives Nightfall to begin with.]
That's okay!
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[He's so upset by this that he suddenly whips out a smart phone, quickly opening the memo function and taking out a stylus.
YOU HAVE INSULTED HIS HONOR.]
Explain it again, but more in depth this time! I assure you, I can easily solve anything that's set in front of me!
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My friend Rex is a really smart guy, he is, but like sometimes he dismisses any of my questions, my legitimate questions, about his projects or his ideas as meaningless or having no value because he thinks I'm a child, or like a dog or something, and anyway, Rex is the guy who has the rocket and to be accurate, it's less of a rocket and more a model for what he called a dual-purpose dropship and mobile command centre and he has two more models of different designs that he didn't send into space, but this one he did and like I said, it runs on air, or like technically, the design of the engine turns air into fuel, he said, and that as it increases in velocity and gets more air inside the engine quicker, it just keeps accelerating and because there's no friction it wouldn't stop and then once it got to space, it would keep going until it hit something, but then I said that doesn't make sense because space air is composed of different elements than Earth air and so really, air itself can't be a fuel because there are different types of air and it's really not a scientific quantification when you think about it, and Rex said that once the model actually got into space that it wouldn't need fuel to continue traveling and somehow that was meant to state that my hypothesis was wrong, in the way he phrased it, but it actually confirms what I said by the model not being able to use space air as fuel and he said it would like eventually decelerate and like all these things about how my perspective was wrong on these technical points, while actually being in agreement with me, but he wouldn't admit it and I just figured that out right now, so nevermind, Professor! Rex was just embarrassed that someone he considers of lower intelligence proved him wrong, I guess~! I should go apologize for wounding his pride maybe, do you think so? Would that make him feel better or worse?
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Also, space air oh my god. This boy sure is...something.]
...You are correct on plain air not really being much of a proper fuel, but I'd have to actually see the other's - Rex? - his model and blueprints for this, provided this isn't completely hypothetical.
[Because listen, magic can do some crazy shit.]
But...I actually do believe you're mistaken on a few things. 'Space air' is impossible - the entirety of space is actually an airless vacuum, and once this model broke free of the earth's atmosphere, it could, indeed, float on until something got in its way. This is because space itself is merely a cold void with no gravity to hinder it.
It would also, eventually decelerate if there were no other sources of fuel to propel it forward. In that sense, you are correct.
...However, I would not apologize. Regardless if he is correct or not, I believe it would not be received well.
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[He listens to Moriarty's explanation with confusion.]
It's not impossible because like the universe is made up of atoms, right, so like space air can't be nothing; it has to be something even if it's not anything like our air, or maybe even shouldn't be called air, but it's like... not nothing, is it? Can there be nothing!?
[He's questioning the basic laws of matter at this point. Maybe he doesn't understand science at all either, and he just thinks he does, which makes him even more dumb than he thought.]
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[Toki, what kind of schooling did you have???]
Outer space does have a few gasses and particles, but a vacuum itself comes from being a space devoid of matter - it is the root of the word. 'Vacuus', vacant or void.
However, that does not mean the same is true of Earth - indeed, it is due to that protective encasing that we were able to flourish and thrive.
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So... it's- it's... something and nothing? The root of nothing? Why doesn't earth... get sucked into the vacuum?
[He's extremely confused, nothing makes sense anymore. What happened?]
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[He makes a quiet noise, then lifts up a finger.]
Think of it like this - there are the numbers we all know, yes? But there are also Negative and Imaginary numbers as well.
Think of Earth as the 'normal' numbers, and space as those negative and imaginary numbers. The absence of one does not cancel out the other, you see?
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[Toki's eyes glaze over and he spends two minutes alternatively looking like he wants to say something, then stopping and reconsidering something else. He bites his lip and frowns, contemplating this information. Finally, he snaps his fingers, because he's got this.]
Imaginary numbers are from space!
[He's entirely forgotten they were talking about the vacuum.]
So... if I'm imaginary or unreal, does that mean I'm from space and I'm an alien? That makes so much sense!
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He's tired and he still needs to look around the campus and the city.
So he's just....going to slowly nod.]
...I suppose.
[Please learn math easier than this, Toki. For his sanity.]
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I don't exist here, but like in space I do. A not completely corporeal projection of an alien presence...
[Luckily for Moriarty, Marcel has had enough of this as well. He pulls on the leash while Toki is distracted and trying to conceptualize his "existence". The guard nods respectfully and starts making his way back to the Lumiere Dorm.]
"Welcome to Daybreak, Professor."
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[That was to the guard, but -
Well.
That certainly was...a strange way to learn what this place is like.]