Skullcrusher Mountain Whiteboard!

[fh_bde]

A large whiteboard has been set up in the Fandom High library, for those researchers who find something to write it down.

Please leave your notes and discoveries here - and if someone would like to add a written comment/note on someone else's clue, just reply to their comment!

Actual RP'd discussion should happen in the library post itself.

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[thatsamilkshake]

Francine's notes were neatly-written but kind of... notey -- she was only using the whiteboard near her table because she'd forgotten to bring an actual notebook with her to class today. She figured she could come back with one a bit later; for now, there was a box in blue that said PLEASE SAVE in the top left corner of the board, then:

Were-dinosaurs? -- no, they wouldn't just suddenly change without warning
Curse?
Hallucinations? Fear spell? Got panicky.
Other weird stuff: FOG! Poisoned? Magic? Actually losing my mind?

* Mentions airborne hallucinogens and panic: http://ontd_madscience.livejournal.com/323.html (Can't find article it's talking about though.)

[she_sheds]

Joolushko, eventually after some rather creative internet searches if she did say so herself (and she did), had managed to build off of her discussion with Francine and what Francine had previously written on the board and found new information.

Unfortunately her new information was...a profile page on Last.fm?

I am not convinced of the relevance of this material but something is likely better than nothing.

Person mentioned in previously noted link perhaps? A Dr Clancy Nipplewitz von Slaptyback? http://www.last.fm/user/drvonslaptyback
And the other person in the conversation is perhaps the same as originated the first link? http://www.last.fm/user/drvonslaptyback/shoutbox

[eyebrowgoesup]

I am likewise not convinced of the relevance of this material, Spock wrote below Joolushko's contribution to the discussion on the whiteboard. However, one Clancy Nipplewitz maintains a 'Twitter' in which he references West, leading me to conclude there is a strong probability it is the same person:

Nipplewitz, Clancy. 2010. "Clancy Nipplewitz (toomanymonkeys) on Twitter." Accessed 23 March, 2010 at http://twitter.com/toomanymonkeys.

While his location is given as "Skull Crusher Mountain" he appears to have recently relocated, and perhaps has not updated his 'profile.' The area he has relocated to is possessed of "oddly colored" deer; I am given to understand that Fandom's teal deer are considered unusual by Terran standards. Perhaps there is some relevance after all?

Yes. Spock's whiteboard note included a semicolon and proper citation of his source. Because that was just how he rolled.

[bitten_notshy]

The fourth note on the board was written in a very precise, if slightly old-fashioned, hand.

Assuming that all of this is relevant: von Slaptyback and West were cited in Scientific American in 2002 during a debate over cloning 'gorosaurs' from 'DNA.' They'd cloned cells at the time. West didn't think it possible to get a full creature, von S. did. Picture of creature on magazine cover -- and here Jack helpfully appended an arrow to the margins, where he'd drawn a neat sketch of the thing -- looked a bit like monster I believed I saw last night. Not sure why hallucinations would relate to this work. - J. Priest

[death_of_hope]

Yeah, this isn't disturbing at all, Anemone's scrawling handwriting added, with a notice taped on the board next to her notes. It fits with the 'madscience' post, and it doesn't sound like they managed happily ever after.