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Morty knows he shouldn't be screwing around with multidimensional shit. It's dangerous, it's impractical, it's blah blah blah. But it's a potential key to unlimited energy, how does nobody see that? He's built a dimensional siphon (it kind of looks like a cardboard box with a funnel and a TI-84 taped to it, but it damn well works), keyed in the dimensional coordinates to a random plane, and by God he's going to use it.
He flips the switch and waits for the energy bar to fill up.
It does! It fills up very rapidly. Then it explodes, along with the box. There's rather more smoke than there should be, and once the smoke clears someone is standing there.
"Oh dear," Morty says faintly.
Flicker at Whateley
Ms. Hartford continues to sit behind her desk and continues to glare at her computer. "Circe called and said you'd be coming in to register. Congratulations. Mrs. Carson is ready with paperwork in her office."
There is paperwork! There is paperwork for enrollment, there is paperwork for the Circe scholarship, etcetera etcetera.
"We're probably going to list your parents as 'unavailable to offer consent'. Since our only source for their opinions right now is you, it's roughly the same either way, it just looks a little bit less... weird. We try to keep the weird to a minimum, since it's in such steady supply anyway."
"We're probably going to list your parents as 'unavailable to offer consent'. Since our only source for their opinions right now is you, it's roughly the same either way, it just looks a little bit less... weird. We try to keep the weird to a minimum, since it's in such steady supply anyway."
point_b
"That works for me. I might need copies of some of this so I can have my sister draft a petition to excuse me from regular school when it starts back up - it's currently looking like they're not going to pick it up until fall, which gives me a while, but Gemini schooling requirements are strict under most circumstances."
"Certainly. But if you're planning to send those over, we might as well send a representative to explain things in person. It seems as though that might smooth things over a bit, and the energy barrier is roughly the same."
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"I don't mean I'll send them the physical paperwork - that would bring up a lot of questions I don't particularly want them asking. I'm planning to tell them that I've gotten a generous scholarship for superpowered teenagers in a distant locale and that I have the commute handled. It will just probably sound more convincing if I have selected facts about the school to relay to Alli when she writes the letter."
"Certainly."
Mrs. Carson produces such a catalogue. In addition to classes such as "Languages: Mandarin intensive study" and "Social Studies: The 'Mutant Threat'", there are options ranging from "Special Topics: Lair design" to "Special Topics: Team Tactics in the Combat Sims" to "Special Topics: The Whateley Academy firing range (death rays allowed!)"
Including Circe's recommendation, Bella's schedule includes room for seven courses. The catalogue notes that only four should be taken by anyone below Exemplar-3 mental abilities.
Mrs. Carson produces such a catalogue. In addition to classes such as "Languages: Mandarin intensive study" and "Social Studies: The 'Mutant Threat'", there are options ranging from "Special Topics: Lair design" to "Special Topics: Team Tactics in the Combat Sims" to "Special Topics: The Whateley Academy firing range (death rays allowed!)"
Including Circe's recommendation, Bella's schedule includes room for seven courses. The catalogue notes that only four should be taken by anyone below Exemplar-3 mental abilities.
point_b
"...So, I know in local terms I rate an Exemplar number, but gemini basics do not include a mental boost and I don't even know what numerical rating my physical basics net me. Does this add up to 'I definitely positively don't have mental abilities that can keep up with an Exemplar-3', or 'I should take a standardized test'? I'm expecting the former, but just to be sure."
"Your memory and processing speed almost certainly don't match, but the guideline is there for casual students; if you believe that you can keep up with five full classes, it's entirely possible that you can. I'd still recommend only taking four so that you have some semblance of free time, but I won't stop you."
point_b
"It's not so much that I want to overload on classes as that I wonder how many other general guidelines are going to refer to that sort of thing and wish to know where I stand." Bella marks Circe's recommendation, a mutant history overview, an econ survey, and a theoretical seminar on magic-in-general.
"The relevant proctors are devisors who spend most if not all of their time prodding students' powers to see if they do interesting things. They can fit you in tomorrow. Just the Exemplar mental tests would take an hour or so; a full powers diagnostic would be three to five."
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"When do classes start?" asks Bella, pulling a notebook and starting to sketch out her schedule.
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"Works fine." Bella writes this down, and the timings of the classes she picked out in a sort of a chart for the following week, including her session with Circe. "Oh, rats, forgot to tell my sister - Alli, I'm out of my lesson now, I'm enrolling in some other stuff, everything is still fine. Well, do your best. At least I won't keep you up, huh? Yeah."
point_b
"Sorry about that. Anything else to take care of here before I go take Ariel up on her offer to bring me clothes shopping?"
"No trouble. And I don't think there's anything else until your testing. Unless you'd like a specially issued student ID without powers classification, for whatever reason."