I'm working on a thread idea with Siferous for the NICE Labs (sorry for the long delay, Sif
). It would be separated into two parts. The first would be set up as a prequel of sorts for the return of Sondra and her friends Kat, and Sam. It would sort of explain all, or at least some, of her many 'disappearances' up to and including her more recent absence. I imagine Sondra being abducted by NICE Labs on numerous occasions and used as a human guinea pig for their scientific research. Some of their experiments may be neurologically-related. This could account for Sondra having trouble remembering everything that has happened to her during her many 'absences', her strange dreams about needles, cold tables, and men in white coats and the debilitating headaches she gets whenever she tries to think too hard about the circumstances of her odd dreams and memory loss. Or it could just be the NICE Labs scientists way of covering their tracks before releasing her back onto the campus.
Other experiments could be thought up along the way.
As for Sam and Kat's involvement in this thread...well I suppose that they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I've been looking for some ideas to use in Part Two, which would take place in the present, and would involve a return trip to the Labs. Perhaps something to do with genetics (human cloning, mainly--I saw this sort of thing take place in the labs before, and I thought it might be fun to try out). I was also hoping to come up with something that would sort of give my character an excuse for hanging around the campus, even after she has reached the age where she should have already 'graduated' from Shokushu.
I saw some sites online that had to do with the continual scientific research for potentially halt and even reverse aging, and I thought it would be perfect for providing a way to keep Sondra around for a while longer.
If (and I stress the "if" here) I went with the reverse-aging approach (which I suppose would be sort of a sci-fi take on the "Fountain of Youth, though there could be other ways to do it...I haven't read that far into the subject yet), she wouldn't end up much younger than she is right now. 18 would be the absolute youngest--I know the age-restriction rules
. 23 or 24 might be youngest I would go here. If I went any younger, it may be a little too noticeable, and there would likely be certain...inconvenient questions raised by her peers about the subject. Of course, NICE Labs might find their own ways around that...
For the purposes of role-playing here, merely stopping the aging process may be the safer route.
I wasn't sure whether or not this kind of thing would be allowed for Shokushu role-play, or if it would strictly be an ADD only thing, so I thought I'd mention it to the higher-ups here before I went ahead with it.
