What the hell?

[KiaKat]

An odd scraping sound is in the edge of your hearing. Oddly, it seems to be coming from down the hallway that leads to the forum Labs. Even more strangely, the little tiny KiaKat is dragging it slowly, but steadily. As she moves further into your line of sight, you realize she's pulling a large, sheet-covered object. The sheet is large enough to obscure most of the object, and the fluttering of the edges serves to never give you a clear look at what might be hiding under there.

With good reason, you get up and move out of the room quickly, concerned for your safety, remembering what happened the *last* time someone showed up with a sheet-covered object. This forum is known for chaos, and anything looking like it's been hidden by a mad-scientist is likely to build on the constant low-level havoc that is constantly being wreaked on Raps' servers.

Kia finally gets the large object into the room and collapses for a minute to catch her breath. She might be in decent shape, but that was a damned heavy machine. One last big sigh, and she stands up to start working the sheet off the top of the machine - it being nearly twice her height, this makes things difficult.

'Hey, some help here? It's caught on one of the antennae on the top.' She calls to the forum. Maybe one of the taller guys could help? Kia could probably tug the sheet harder, but that would rip it, and it's from her favourite Rainbow Brite sheet set.

[Ecchi_Kitty]

"Sure, just a sec."

Ecchi_Kitty is known for many things, but his survival instinct isn't high on the list.

Taking the edge of the sheet, Ecchi_Kitty carefully flips it over the top of the machine, stepping to the side to catch and fold the sheet as he eyes what was underneath.

[KiaKat]

Kia sidles up to the machine carefully, eyeing it like it might explode, or eat her, or throw catnip-laced toys at her.

'Ah, here we go. Let me just...uh huh. Yup. Everything works. Stand back...' Kia starts tapping away at the keyboard set into the side of the machine.

It's huge. How a sheet covered it, no one has any idea. But it isn't perfectly symmetrical, either. One side has what looks like an old fashioned elevator door, the kind you have to pull open yourself. The top has antennas and other, dangerous-looking spirals that seem to have been pulled straight from a Douglas Adams book. The side that Kia is tapping away at has LCD readouts, the keyboard, a couple of dials, and a closed slot that has signs plastered all over, reading 'radioactive' and 'caution.' The side opposite that is blank, as is the back. The whole thing is painted lime green with cherry red highlights.

Kia is muttering to herself, complaining about whoever programmed the spellchecker. 'Damned Maastrichtian Period.' Finally she finishes, pushes her hair out of her eyes, and hits a large neon blue button.

'There. Just give it a few seconds, and we'll see what we caught.'

Suddenly a loud 'SQUAWK' comes from inside the device.

'Oooo! Looks like we got a hit on our very first try!'

Kia opens the door, and a large, prehistoric-looking turkey comes shooting out, dropping feathers everywhere.

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Ecchi_Kitty eeps, steping back from the unexpected turky thing, unthinking snapping the sheet at it like a whip to keep the creature back.

".......o-kay...... time machine?" he inquires, slowly edgeing towards the door, trying to keep an eye on both the machine and the rather confused 'bird'.

[KiaKat]

'Sort of. One sec...'

Kia wanders back over to the machine, pausing to snare her beloved sheet from Ecchi_Kitty. She starts tapping away at the keyboard, this time muttering about 'wooden objects' and 'fire.' After a short moment, she steps back, hits the blue button again, and opens the door to the machine.

Out rolls a trebuchet. An authentic one, looking like it just came from a fairly nasty fight.

'It's a specialized time machine. Can only look back in time, and can only grab one thing from that time period. So no herds of T-Rex's running around, which makes things a bit safer. Here. Let me show you.'

Kia proceeds to demonstrate how you pick an era, choose an object, and then bring it back.

'Well, have at it! I have a trebuchet and a turkey to play with.'

And with that, she starts trying to figure out how to attach the turkey to the trebuchet.

[DrT]

DocT pots his head inside the lab and takes in the situation

"is it dinnertime already?"

[Ecchi_Kitty]

With great power comes great responcibility. And in Ecchi_Kitty's case, that means a responcibility to abuse that power.

"Era, modern.... item... traq gun..."

This is not to say he is utterly without caution, just not as much as perhaps he might....

"Cool, safety first.... now... Era, Stone.... item....... Hey, is 'SaberTooth' one word or two? And long as I'm thinking of it, what other limits are there? Size seems fairly obvious.... have to assume can track some thru space as the earth moves position.... it work off general objects or will it recognize Proper Nouns? 'Abe Lincoln's Hat' for example."

[KiaKat]

Kia looks up from the rope she's tying around the turkey.

'It recognizes proper nouns, though it won't grab people or pets. Still haven't worked out that bug. And it's Sabretooth...unless you're talking about SK, in which case I hope you're not trying to grab one of her stripper outfits. Wouldn't work anyway...I can't seem to get it to pull anything from post World War 2.'

Kia gives up on trying to tie the rope around the turkey and starts looking around for some way to create a turkey-holder.

[Ecchi_Kitty]

Ecchi_Kitty sighs and nods, absently backspacing the entry of 'Kia's clothing'.

"Guess that answers the question about anything from the future... ah well."

A little more tinkering, and Ecchi_Kitty stands back. A moment later a rather susprised, and worringly deep 'meow' sounds from inside in machine.

"Hrmmm.... wonder if modern citnip works on ancient big cats..... ah well, one way to find out....."

A few minutes later, the humanoid Kitty lays on the floor with the Stoen Age tiger, the later stoned to sleepy complacience, though if that has to do with the catnip mousy or the tranq gun is a bit uncertain....

[sableagle]

I'll be staying out of the way up here, but just a thought: 11th September 1936, any time during the working day, German time ... Hitler's clothes.

[KiaKat]

Kia stretches, remembers why she's laying curled around a gigantic prehistoric kitten, and glares at Ecchi_Kitty.

'Do that again and I'll take away your privilege to use the toy. I was in the middle of something.' She wanders back over to her makeshift net and grabs the turkey, binding it in and figuring out how to attach the net to the trebuchet. Having figured that out, she putters around, tightening ropes and aiming it carefully.

'Oh, Sable, that's an interesting idea. I haven't really tested to see if this thing affects history, and that might be a good test. Not terribly destructive, but certainly embarrassing.'

[Ecchi_Kitty]

"Feh, you kept your clothes on the entire time...."

Carefully scritching the tiger behind it's ears, Ecchi_Kitty leaves the time machine alone, focusing on tameing his new 'pet'.

[KiaKat]

'That's true. Guess I have to give you some leeway. And it's not like I didn't contribute to the Wearing-Out of the Kia.'

She carefully takes measurements one last time, tightens all the ropes, and then grabs the release cord and yells 'WATCH OUT!' before using her entire body weight to pull.

The turkey goes flying with a squawk and a load of feathers floating down on the observers.

[Sehson]

*Watches prehistoric turkey fly over head and into the distance*

Well thats one way to tenderize the turkey before cooking...

*starts typing away at the keyboard and pushes the button*

opens the door to sever clay jars. *giggling madly starts heading to the library*

We'll see what the bible had to say before all the freeks stared editing...Shit can anyone read arimayic???

[sableagle]

Possibly yes, actually. Erm ... I haven't had the opportunity to try.

[Evandril]

Drawn by the chaos, and backtracking the flying turkey, Evandril finds the latest toy of the forums.

"Interesting machine there...Mind if I take a look?" he says, as he starts digging into the machinery. "Interesting design...but no reverse function?? We can't have that!" Parts fly, with new ones shimmering into existance as he reaches for them.

"There we go! Now it's a time tosser, as well!"

[asianmommy]

Time tosser? Like i can send things back into time???

::pulls out several shiny vibrating objects and sets the date for sometime in the past::

Let's see what they make of this... o.O

[Evandril]

ANd just think...Send it back far enough, the fetcher can reclaim them....

[MNsane]

and MN yells out from the forum library " DAMMIT, keep it down out there, i'm reading".
.o0 (fetcher eh ? wonder if it can bring back a BAR, a M1921 Thompson SMG, & a case of absinthe ?)

[asianmommy]

O.O

*Is cooking a chicken on a spit*

[KiaKat]

'Damnit, Ev! Why'd you go and mess with my machine?' Kia dives back into the guts of it, muttering about those darned AF people and threatening them with sugar-hyped kids.

'Grr. This is going to take forever to fix.' She starts reworking the wiring and applying judicious use of her hammer.

'Ok, well, it's somewhat fixed, for now, but it seems to be stuck on Victorian-era London. Have some fun with it while I check the version notes and find out what went wrong.'

[sableagle]

*grabs small rodent*

Erm, I think you uninstalled its mouse.

[Evandril]

*sighs* I knew I should have put in a failsafe with that thing...'tis ok, we still have that cloning machine around here someplace, I wonder what would happen if we combined 'em...