(OPEN) COMMUNITY MESSAGE BOARD @ STARTER BASE

[shuckit]

▶ WHO: Everyone!!
▶ DATE: July 9th 2015
▶ WARNINGS: none thus far
▶ SUMMARY: A place to share your ic infos, if you please! Thomas is a freaking busy body, and he wants to get all the clues about this place gathered up, so he's going to start writing stuff he's found/woke up with onto a wall in one of the labs, and leave notes around the compound for others to do the same.



[ in one of the lab rooms, you'll find a message (possibly with more messages) scrawled on one of the walls (literally ON TO it, with either pen or a marker). it reads: ]



[ because thomas is super good about being specific. and communicative. but basically, that's what he's posting here - notes. clues, useful information, curious things - information. the advantage the gladers had in getting out of the maze was that they were united, and cooperating for the same goal. thomas doesn't know anyone here, and only has maybe two pieces of what's a much larger puzzle. he needs the rest.

so, around the compound, you'll find scraps of paper that have been taped or pinned to walls (or written directly onto them) that read in the same handwriting: ]

SEE LAB ROOM [[ ROOM NUMBER HERE ]] FOR INFO

IF YOU FOUND SOMETHING, WRITE IT DOWN

[ again, he is awesome at being verbose. if your character decides to investigate the room, they'll find thomas's notes already pinned or written onto the wall, plus whatever is left in the comments below. thomas himself will likely be around more often than not, reading things, scrawling stuff of paper, looking contemplative, or being passed the fuck out in a corner, if they want to bug him. ]


[[ ooc; okay so thomas is a nut, and also i thought we could use an icly set up means for characters to share the clues they woke up with/stuff they found/whatever other information about stuff going down. if you want, put up a top level for the actual note your dude/dudette is leaving, and idk people can tag into it if they want to seek your character out and bug them? or write notes under the note you left? idefk, let's do stuff, go wild???


PS, IF YOU WANT THE TL;DR VERSION OF THIS, i tried organizing an IC list that Thomas would have made over here. It's not perfect, so don't consider that like end all be all, but thought it might help. ]]

Comments

[oplourgia]

[Halsey can't identify the game just yet, but she will. She does spot the likely King's Gambit immediately.]

e5

[debts]

p to f4

[oplourgia]

exf4

[King's Gambit Accepted. The opening is considered absolutely antiquated in Halsey's time, but she'll see where White is taking it from here. She already suspects Natasha is trying to recreate a master game.]

[debts]

bishop to c4.

[ Go on, Halsey, get that respect. ]

i specifically asked a tournament chess player if id'ing the game so quickly was legit >_>

[oplourgia]

[Suspicion confirmed: someone's recreating the most famous chess game in history...or they could just have an incredibly dated play style, she supposes. Either way, Halsey's not interested in continuing to engage with what she regards as a solved problem.]

Anderssen vs. Kieseritzky, 1851. "The Immortal Game."

DEDICATION TO THE CRAFT.

[debts]

[ She's surprised. But pleasantly so. ]

You know your gambits. :)

[oplourgia]

Brilliancy or not, I simply couldn't bear to respond to the Bishop's Gambit as poorly as Kieseritzky did.

[AIs are pretty much the only ones who can beat Halsey at chess. She's not going to play the loser's part in a master game.]

[debts]

Who are you?

[ No mess, no fuss. ]

[oplourgia]

Dr. Catherine Halsey

[It's very impressive being her, trust her.

She's already seen the other note to Kal, so she doesn't ask her opponent's identity. Assuming Natasha is even her real name, the odds it's a Natasha Halsey knows are vanishingly slight. The odds it's a Natasha who knows her--or that another person who knows her will see the conversation--are somewhat higher, but still not worth worrying about, especially since Halsey doesn't plan on keeping a low profile.]

[debts]

MD?

[ And a little drawing below that: one of Shroedinger's equations, the first part filled in, the =, then left blank.

It's not really a test, because Natasha actually memorized this over understanding it. But, well. She's not about to say that. ]

[oplourgia]

Yes.

[Nat's half of the Schrodinger equation is crossed out and beneath it is written the Dirac equation for curved spacetime, which is a generalization of the Schrodinger equation that accounts for relativity.

(Sorry about my handwriting and questionable photography; I had to copy it out of a quantum textbook because I don't have math display software on this computer. ...And it just occurred to me it's probably on Wolfram. Sigh.)]

If you need a physical, or a physics lesson, I'm afraid this is the wrong forum.

and here i just googled whispers what have i unleashed.

[debts]

[ Well. ]

Have you heard of the name Tony Stark?

...oops

[oplourgia]

I have not, but under the circumstances it's hardly surprising.

[They are going to hate each other Natasha turn back before it's too late.]

[debts]

[ Not from her own— what. History? World? Then. ]

You'd be surprised.
I don't suppose you're a virologist?

[oplourgia]

Not as a specialization, but I am a biochemist and medical researcher.

[Unfortunately she's a medical researcher who's used to the tools of 500 years from now so she'll spend about half her "research" time complaining.]

[debts]

Any chance you've looked into what's outside?

[ Worth a shot. ]

[oplourgia]

Only to confirm it's not what I thought it was.

Be glad of that.

[Halo problems, man.]