"You call yourself a mad scientist? Where's your mad control group? Where's your mad lab manual? There's not even a mad fire extinguisher here, where are your mad safety protocols?"
@troubleMoney That's actually exactly the context in which I came up with that. It was @Terrana@tootplanet.space saying "Most fictional "mad scientists" are actually mad engineers."
@Felthry Obviously these protocols need to be documented on the mad wiki. https://iseeamess.com/wiki/Main_Page
Most of them are just mad engineers anyway.
Okay? I mean congratulations to them for thinking of it first, but I didn't realize it was a race.
@Nezchan I just meant to point to my response to the other person rather than repeating it.
@Felthry Oh, I see. Sorry, I get that kinda stuff in the "you repeated this person" sense sometimes so I thought it was more of that.
But really, where are the mad astronomers? The mad historians? Life's not all death rays and city-killing robots, you know!
@Nezchan Sorry about that!
That would be a good story prompt...
Story prompt:
Lightning strikes over a large castle on an island, all your typical mad-scientist stuff, then...
"So you're not going to dissect me and turn me into some kind of monster?"
"Oh heavens no, I'm a mad astronomer, not a mad biologist. I just wanted someone to help me take notes."
Then it turns into a master-apprentice romance.
Actually mad astronomer and large castle on an island would describe Tycho Brahe pretty well. That's where I got the 'help take notes' thing from.
I want a mad scientist who's actually got a reason to have a Jacob's ladder, beyond just decor.
@Nezchan You don't need a reason to have a Jacob's ladder.
If anyone's going to invent a working time machine, it's going to be a mad historian.
@Nezchan That's the problem! The mad historians have the motivation, but it's the mad physicists who have the means.
I smell collab!
I'm oddly reminded of this from Andy Weir, author of The Martian.
Looking at his Wikipedia page, i was surprised to see that Sarah Anderson of Sarah's Scribbles is working on a new version of Cheshire Crossing. I haven't read it yet but apparently it's being posted over at Taptastic.
@Felthry This whole thread is very much up my Mad Lutrine alley. Lai tends towards more engineering, but it behaves more like magic than anything else.
More like..."science" is his paradigm with which strange and mysterious things happen.
(See also Mage: The Ascension's concept of Society of Ether, which is Very Me. http://whitewolf.wikia.com/wiki/Sons_of_Ether )
@Felthry "Admit it, you're really a mad engineer"