Concluding his flash-backy presentation, the Professor caps the whole exercise with a quick summary of the administrative processes that got them from there to here.
I didn’t include that in the flashback because filling out paperwork is even more boring than all of the other things that happened in the flashback…and because I needed to be sketchy on the details. It’s probably pretty hard to enroll in a high school without showing some kind of birth certificate and some kind of certificate of primary education…and in the case of our heroes, the dates on those documents would have clashed very obviously with their physical appearance. And I didn’t want to get into the details of how they got around that…although my best guess would be either falsification of documents (which probably wouldn’t have been much of a challenge for Snuka) or outright bribery. Neither of which would look perfectly heroic on their record. >_>
The only one who wouldn’t have faced the problem is the Professor, of course, since he could have benefited from the usual 2-digit-problem of old administrative IT-systems, who can’t really distinguish between 14-year-olds and 114-year-olds to begin with.
And then the Professor also mentions, in passing, a circumstance that definitely isn’t going to play any major role in upcoming events: the fact that they took over a pre-existing, abandoned club as a front for their research work, without even checking what kind of club it originally was. I mean, how could a detail like that ever really become meaningful? The Professor, for one, shows a great deal of conviction that it won’t ever matter…either because he feels a great deal of conviction on that, or because he wants to set the stage for pretending to be surprised later…>_>
As an aside, this is one of the few little issues the Professor has with his restored youth. All in all, he thinks being young again is awesome, but it comes with occasionally having spontaneous ideas, accompanied with an irresistible bout of energy to put them into action right away. The outcomes sometimes make the Professor pine a tiny bit for the days when he was operating solely on well-considered, rational plans.
More on Monday.
Imagine this coming to bite them in EXACTLY one hundred years.
(BTW, I’m still waiting for robot vampire dinosaurs from the future).
At the glacial pace at which I’m progressing with this plot, it might actually turn out to take a century – but in theory, I’m planning for this to come back and bite them much, much sooner. And the robot vampire dinosaurs from the future will come in a while after that… XD