OFFICE HOURS

[didntgetdadslooks]

Got something you want to say to your good friend The Professor's Assistant? Come on in, don't be shy! Her official hours are daylight hours - girl has to sleep? after all, probably - but if you knock on the door at night she'll generally answer. Please just make sure to leave the in-game date and time in the header of your toplevel!

All comments are screened for confidentiality during the course of the experiment.

Comments

[didntgetdadslooks]

Yeah, well. Hopefully it'll make sense eventually.

[ Can't see it, knew there were trapdoors but assumed cleaners
What was down there? ]

[nothingcanstop]

Like with your memory. It came back, after all.

[ Many tunnels I couldn't go down without a keycard
A desk with rules about a "Failsafe" which I can relay to you shortly
Swords, a lot of swords
Carving tools and some woodwork material
A training dummy made up to look like that mask that belonged to your old boss ]

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ At least one of those things gives Angel serious pause. ]

Exactly. It's hard for things to stay secret forever.

[ I'd love to see the rules.

She moves a hand over to hold the owl on her desk.

So she likes carving, huh? ]

[nothingcanstop]

...It's inevitable that secrets come out, I'd say.

[ She flips through her notebook. Quietly, as she can. Until she gets to the Failsafe rules page. She'll just...gently slide that across, after nodding. ]

[didntgetdadslooks]

They all kind of tend to, in the end.

[ She looks through them.

Guess that last one explains the name. ]

[nothingcanstop]

Don't suppose I could pick your brain a bit about the uh, the Professor's proposed technology, huh? The kind of stuff that lets him tell the future?

[ She appears a lot less disturbed this week, more wry.

But, in her notebook, her tone tells a different story.

We are not letting that happen ]

[didntgetdadslooks]

Uh... I can't exactly tell you a lot of the specifics, but I can talk a little about it, sure. What do you want to know?

[ She doesn't exactly seem like the type to help you guys out right now, no. ]

[nothingcanstop]

How accurate they are. How the Professor was able to determine them.

[ That's not why I'm saying this and you know it ]

[didntgetdadslooks]

He has technology to make some really accurate models, basically. Not 100%, but... I wouldn't bet against them.

[ I know. I just... I'm trying to figure out how I feel about this whole thing, mostly. I sure didn't get the memo on there BEING a Failsafe. ]

[nothingcanstop]

Are they guaranteed to happen without his intervention? ...I don't want what he says. I want your opinion.

[ I didn't think you had
Honestly I'm more surprised by what he DOES tell you
Try not to give him a reason to use this rule, okay? ]

[didntgetdadslooks]

I... think there has to be a way to change it if you guys know already just from him telling you. But... I don't know, maybe that's meddling with fate or death or something.

[ I'll do my best to keep him from having an excuse. ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ thank you for pointing out the reference to my favorite movie im sorry its a thursday and im stressed ]

Pshh. There hasn't been a god or force of nature that's been able to stop me when I want something bad enough. Fate, shmate, you can quote me on that.

[ Good
There are some of us who don't want any more bad things to happen to you ]

[didntgetdadslooks]

I mean I've only read about you guys, but that seems like your family's whole thing.

[ Thanks, Della ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ She has...an agenda here, but-- but William told her not to worry about him, so... ]

How much...do you know about the Duck-McDuck Clan?

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ haha unfortunately that dang assistant-patient confidentiality ]

Uh... there's a writeup on your adventures, that's pretty much it. I don't know a whole lot about Scrooge or your kids or anything, other than what's in there.

[nothingcanstop]

...That's a shame. I mean- not that I want information about my family out there, for anyone to see. But, they've all got some interesting stories about them too. I guess I'll have to tell you about them, some day.

[didntgetdadslooks]

That'd be cool. I uh... didn't really get out a lot before this, either, that didn't change. But I got to talk to some pretty cool treasure hunters, sometimes.

[ angel the absolute queen of misrepresenting her own backstory ig ]

[nothingcanstop]

[ angel swear the fuck to god ]

Yeah? What were they like?

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ look sometimes a cool treasure hunter friend is someone your dad makes you manipulate until you manipulate them yourself into killing you it's FINE ]

Well... Pandora isn't usually exactly where the nice treasure hunters come to, it's a really tough planet, but if you know where to look you can find the good ones. I mean... they're all a little more violent than your family, but you can trust them. I did, and things mostly worked out. Wonder if they beat Jack yet without me there.

[nothingcanstop]

Beat? Like...in a bet, or... Oh, you don't mean a bet. You were friends with the people trying to uh, take down your employer?

[ An eyebrow raise. ]

[didntgetdadslooks]

Someone had to. Take him down, I mean. They had plenty of other friends to help more with that than me.

[nothingcanstop]

That's not... [ What she was asking, really. Della chooses her words carefully. ]

You...really weren't kidding. When you said that was a lot like here.

[didntgetdadslooks]

[ Angel laughs a little, but there's no humor at all in this one. ]

I get jerked around by guys with big egos a lot, I guess.

[nothingcanstop]

[ ... ]

I hope they beat him too, then.

[didntgetdadslooks]

I'm sure they can. It gets a lot easier without me around, the idea of beating him.