Brand New Day

Have a comment, a question, a critique?  Burning to share a plot idea you have for your character and Dr. Horrible? Wish to spam me with amusing pictures of kittens?  This is the place.

~Tam (also available on AIM as tmartian42 and by emailing tmartian42@yahoo.com)

ETA:  Anonymous comments are now screened so you can contact me private-like.  PMs to this journal are also an excellent way to reach me.

[Locked from Penny and Hammer//Hackable]

Okay. So. I bought a Christmas present and I think jewelry was the right idea because that's what you get a girl you really care about right? I found something really awesome, or at least I think it's pretty cool. But that probably means it's a little weird and I should just go with a normal heart-shaped heart. By which I mean a symbolically-shaped heart rather than an anatomically correct heart.

Christmas is in two days I should not still be worrying about this. Help?

[link IC]

( Private//Unhackable )

[Locked to 4th Wallers]

I'm open for comments, you know the deal.

And I actually do have some questions for those of you who know...stuff.

[ooc: anything goes, he's being updates soon so telling him stuff about his future is A-OK]

[Voice]

I need at least two volunteers with a sense of rhythm.

[muffled as if he's turned away from the communicator.]

Yeah, I have some canes already.  Are the steps of the Library public enough?

[clearly now]

Okay, meet me at the steps of the library.  I promise you will get ice cream for this.  Oh, and I suggest you wear a hat.

[ooc: Public dance number for Klondike bars.  Feel free to your char participated or watched.  Or heard Dr. Horrible sing as he's probably going to do, though I'm not sure if I'm up for improvisational lyrical roleplay tonight ;)]

[Video]

[The footage is somewhat dizzying.  Look at this and this for reference.  A duck seems to be running across a landing--no, sideways across part of the wall.  He's finally turns the camera on himself.]

So, apparently I'm stuck in an M.C. Escher drawing.  Through which I am chasing a duck.  Not very successfully, at the moment, I admit.

Um...would it really be such a bad thing if I let it go off on it's own.  I mean, it's not like it's a little duckling anymore.  Plus I'm starting to get a headache. 

[The angle of everything switches suddenly.  Also there are random doors that don't lead to anything that makes sense.]

I like the laws of physics.  I mean, I particularly like breaking them, but I do like them to be there, in general.  Geometry.  I am a huge fan of geometry.  I would especially like that to start working again.  Anyway, I know I've been uncharacteristically quiet lately.  And I haven't really been that hard at work lately unless you count those ridiculous schematics but everything's fine.  In case you were wondering.  Which, why would you be?  Since there's no reason anything would be wrong, as long as I can find that stupid duck.

Not that I don't like the ducks!  The ducks are nice, just...oh, god, now there are bug-eyed segmented monsters.

[He groans, more annoyed then frightened, and the video ends.]

[Voice]

[This is the voice of someone who has had too much caffeine, too little sleep, and has been cackling madly a little to often.  It is unbalanced in the sense that a two-legged stool with an elephant on it is unbalanced.  But it is not unhappy, even if it does seem inclined to mania.]

You know, normally the curses tend to interrupt my work, but this past week I've been make tremendous progress considering it's not like I sleep much anyway lately and I can focus so much better when there's no one else around.  Yeah, I'm still trying to make some Wonderflonium.  I've come to the conclusion that it's not only doable, but that it's doable soon, as long as I can get the right ingredients.  I'm not 100% sure what those ingredients are, but that's only a minor problem.  Look at Edison, testing all kinds of metal for his lightbulb.  He knew it would work he just didn't know he needed tungsten.  Of course, I'm sure it helped that he had lackeys--I could really use some henchmen right now.  I wonder if I should put up some flyers,  that worked pretty well last time.  Henchmen would make everything so much easier, but I don't think there's a union here, which is unfortunate.  If I had a henchman he could go pick up some Chinese food right now.  I can't exactly get deliveries here.  Chicken and broccoli.  Maybe I should go somewhere that is not here where I could get that delivered to me.  And wonton soup.  What was I talking about again?

Anyway, doesn't matter.  I'm back, I never really went anywhere.  I was just--well, it doesn't matter.  I'm here and I'm on my way to becoming a major player, this time.  And there's nothing Captain Hammer, shiller of useless junk you don't need, can do about it.

By the way, the next person who asks what Wonderflonium is just gets inarticulate growling noises in reply.

[Video//Public//Same attempts to disguise the Network ID as being Billy not Dr. Horrible as last time]

[Yes, it's a talking frog.  In a crown.]

Today, I realized I'd been in the City for six months.  I did not realize there was a curse.  I also accidentally pissed off a wicked witch, and now I'm a frog.

Look, whoever you are, I'm sorry I didn't see you there and knocked you over.  It was an accident.  Turn me back.  Now.

[ETA//Still video]

I didn't mean to sound so demanding either.  Please turn me back?  It would be really awesome if you did.

[ooc: link not ic.  He's stuck in the Grimm version of the story, so kisses will not actually help (his princess needs to throw him against a wall), but your character is free to try.  Action replies are a go--he's sitting in the square in a flowerbed.

As for the ETA, see conversation with Dawn below.]

[Video]

[Dr. Horrible, goggles pulled down over his eyes, is sitting in front of his computer  with a lab bench behind him.  There are a lot of glass tubes, one filled with a green liquid, beginning to bubble over.  There also appears to be a Tesla coil, three containers of Silly Putty, and...is that a tentacle?]

A lot of you have been asking about Wonderflonium.  I still haven't found any, but after some arduous preliminary research, I've come to believe that it is going to be possible for me to synthesize some of my own.  And you, loyal viewers, will be getting to see some of the first steps of this unprecedented work of scientific ingenuity.  Don't worry if this is the last you hear from me for a long time.  I'll be hard at work and all that. 

[He moves over to give a view of his latest experiment.]

Oh, oops.  [Turns down the bunsen burner under the green stuff.]  With the addition of this catalytic compound, the polymer base will begin to solidify and turn blue--[He pours the green stuff into a beaker with a viscous orange substace]--at which point I can begin the next phase of creation by--[the beaker is suddenly filled with something pink.  And unaccountably sparkly.  And expanding.]--That's not supposed to--

[The beaker bursts, setting off several other small explosions, and blobs of the sparkly stuff bounce off, rather than entirely stick to, the surfaces they hit.  Dr. Horrible dives under the table.  Shortly thereafter, the camera is obscured by goop].

AAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaggggggggggggh!

[/Video]

[Text//Filtered to Friends//Unhackable]

I'll be around, but I'm giving up the outfit, the name, the evil--I mean, evil image that I sometimes project right now.  The situation changed, I'm trying to change with it.

[Filtered to Rosella//Unhackable]

You're going to the swing dance thing, right?  I'll probably be there with my friend...if you see us, can you call me Billy.  Please?  I'll owe you one.  You'll probably be pleased to know it's because I'm turning over a new leaf, I guess.  Seeing what it's like not to be horrible...

[Private//Unhackable]

I can stop this any time.  I totally can.  This is my last post like this.  And not telling her isn't lying if there isn't something to tell her about anymore. 

[ooc: Friends in this case are ones he knows in real life (member of ARTEMIS can assume this if they really want) and includes Carl, Solomon, Rain, and Rosella (oh, and I guess Data.  Um.)...I think that's it at this point.  Basically, Billy is going to stop being Dr. Horrible for a few weeks in June.  Posts and comments will be made by *Billy* and heavily filtered.  He's trying to give up villainy cold-turkey.  He'll still be doing work for AREMIS but the--despite evidence in this video--very promising work on Wonderflonium will grind to a halt because something is just missing.  Eventually this will all come to a head and Dr. Horrible will be back, but I just wanted to give you a heads up that this is not a permanent change by any means.

Oh, also, bed soon, so tagbacks mostly tomorrow.]

Yesterday was inconvenient, but gave me the chance to test some equipment.  When I was wearing the heat vision goggles, I thought I saw some really huge heat source thing go by being hot and--thingish.  Anyway, I haven't posted in a while, have I?  Sorry about that...especially since my last post was...unbelievably out of character.  But hey, while I was buried in my laboratory I finished up one project.

[Filtered to ARTEMIS]

Attached please find my full report on arrivals to the city.  I employed several methods in my research such as making observations in areas known for a high density of new arrivals (Misery Square), interviewing citizens about their own arrivals, and looking through the Network archives for "arrival posts."  More details are included in the method section.  Though these methods did not allow me to get a random or exhaustive sample, I think I have enough data to make some generalizations.  Unfortunately, the only major patterns in arrival seem to be geographic--most arrivals occur in Misery Square, and a surprisingly high percentage of new arrivals find themselves dumped into the fountain.  Most arrive at ground level, but some have been known to arrive by falling from the sky.  In at least one case the individual who arrived this was was capable of flight.  Arrivals come with their clothes and occasionally a few moderately sized items that they were holding. 

I was able to observe a few arrivals for myself, and there was no discernible pattern.  I never observed a gateway, but sometimes there was a flash of light.  I also took EMF readings and occasionally found spikes on several frequencies, but not the same ones, and not ever time.  Again, the full data is attached.  The readings on my Magnificometer were also random.  For the most part, there was nothing out of the ordinary besides a person suddenly appearing.  I don't think it's likely that this will be a productive line of inquiry, at least for a scientist.  Perhaps someone working from the magical side of things would have more luck. 

[ooc:  So--the report will have a lot of stick figure drawings substituted for portions of equations, but at least some of it will be comprehensible.  Only Dr. Horrible actually knows what a Magnificometer does.  You can ask him, but his explanations will not actually be helpful.  Also, mods were consulted on the nature of arrivals.]

[Voice]

[Singing, sounding better than yesterday though not quite up to par]

Today's forecast--cloudy with a chance of weird
Just another of the city's games
Filling our journals with trolls and flames
Will it bring you what you hoped or what you feeeaaaaaaaared?

[Speaking normally]

Well, it looks like the city has decided to play an April Fool's Day joke on us.  Somehow, I'm not surprised.  Still, this one's not so bad.  In fact, it would be the perfect opportunity to study any phenomena related to the arrival of newcomers.  HOWEVER, a certain lunk-headed interfering tool damaged all my shiny new custom-built instruments.  I WILL GET YOU FOR THAT.

Anyway, while I doubt I'll be making any public appearances today, this blog is always open for comments and questions.  But first, I need your help--can someone please tell me what they know about the TV show "Doogie Howser"?

[ooc: Go wild, 4th wallers.  No restrictions.  He'll forget anything really weird or spoilery by tomorrow.  I'm about to start working, so replies will be coming on my lunch break, a dinner time, and once I get out of class tonight.  I'm willing to backdate.]