Hououin Kyouma
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Okabe Rintaro, also known as Hououin Kyouma

Mad scientist. Founder of the Future Gadget Laboratory. Lab Mem 001.

I'm eighteen, a first-year at Tokyo Denki University. The mad scientist is a character I play.

In the lab. Akihabara, August 2010.

Future Gadgets, Things I built

Eight inventions from the Future Gadget Laboratory. The world is not ready for them.

Eight things we made in the lab. Most of them only half work.

  2. No. 2: Bamboo Helicam

    A camera on a bamboo toy copter with no stabiliser, so the picture spins.

    Image rotates

    Blueprint of Future Gadget No. 2, Bamboo Helicam, drawn as a technical line drawing.

  4. No. 4: Moad Snake

    An instant humidifier. It fills a room with steam in seconds.

    Steam in seconds

    Blueprint of Future Gadget No. 4, Moad Snake, drawn as a technical line drawing.

  6. No. 6: Cyalume Saber

    A glow stick with a handle. It's a copy of the swords in Spark Wars.

    Imitation

    Blueprint of Future Gadget No. 6, Cyalume Saber, drawn as a technical line drawing.

Transmissions, The calls

Field reports to my contact inside the Organization. Every call is encrypted. Every call ends the same way.

I call the Organization when things go badly. There is no Organization, and my phone is off.

His bar-type feature phone, front and side, drawn as a technical line drawing.

  1. 1:52

    1. It's me.
    2. I have infiltrated the time travel conference at Radio Kaikan.
    3. The lecture was a fraud. Agents of the Organization sat in the second row.
    4. Something has crashed into the roof. I am withdrawing to the lab.
    5. El Psy Kongroo.

    Mayuri and I went to a press conference, and I left early. Nobody picked up.

  2. 2:07

    1. Status report.
    2. Future Gadget No. 8 has turned a banana into green gel.
    3. The Organization will want this. They will not have it.
    4. El Psy Kongroo.

    Our microwave turned a banana into jelly. I was excited and had nobody to tell.

  3. 1:31

    1. Listen carefully.
    2. A genius of eighteen has entered the lab. I have appointed her my assistant.
    3. She rejects the appointment. This was foreseen.
    4. El Psy Kongroo.

    Kurisu started coming to the lab. She is smarter than me, and I didn't know what to say to her.

  4. 0:58

    1. Emergency.
    2. Our reserve of the intellectual drink is down to two bottles.
    3. If supplies are not restored by dawn, the lab will fall.
    4. El Psy Kongroo.

    We ran out of Dr Pepper. It was two in the morning.

  5. 2:36

    1. Operation report.
    2. We have sent a message into the past. The lottery numbers came back wrong by one.
    3. The Organization has not noticed. Yet.
    4. It's the choice of Steins Gate.
    5. El Psy Kongroo.

    We tried to win the lottery by texting the past. One number was off, so we won nothing.

Classified: the late calls. Spoilers: how my summer really went

From here the calls stop being a performance.

These calls cover the second half of the story. The whole account, told properly, is on WORLD LINE.

Read the full account on WORLD LINE

  1. 0:41

    1. It's me.
    2. Mayuri died at the party tonight. I went back two days to stop it.
    3. She dies anyway. A different way, every time I go back.
    4. I don't have a plan.

    I kept leaping back to save her, and I kept failing.

  2. 1:12

    1. Status report.
    2. Every message we sent into the past was somebody's wish.
    3. To save her, I have to take each one back. In person.
    4. El Psy Kongroo.

    Each D-mail had granted a friend something. I undid them one by one.

  3. 0:33

    1. One message is left. It is the one that saved Kurisu.
    2. If I erase it, Mayuri lives and Kurisu does not.
    3. I erased it.

    I chose Mayuri, and I lost Kurisu.

  4. 1:45

    1. Operation Skuld. I am going back to July 28 to deceive the world.
    2. My past self has to see exactly what he saw. Only the ending may change.
    3. El Psy Kongroo.

    I went back to the first day and changed what happened without changing what I saw.

  5. 0:27

    1. The meter reads 1.048596.
    2. Neither of them dies on this world line.
    3. This is the choice of Steins Gate.

    It worked. They are both alive.

  6. Weeks later 0:09

    1. Akihabara. A crowd. Someone I have never met on this world line.
    2. She stopped. So did I.
    3. El Psy Kongroo.

    Weeks later I ran into Kurisu on the street. She almost remembered me.

The Lab, Come by the lab

Future Gadget Laboratory. Second floor, above a cathode ray tube shop in Akihabara. Established March 2010.

One room on the second floor, above Mr. Braun's CRT shop in Akihabara. I founded it in mid-March 2010.

The Round Table, Members, in the order they joined

  1. 001 Hououin Kyouma Okabe Rintaro. The founder. That's me.
  2. 002 Hostage Mayuri Shiina. My childhood friend. She makes the costumes.
  3. 003 Super Hacker Itaru, called Daru. My best friend. He can get into anything.
  4. 004 Assistant Kurisu Makise. Neuroscience researcher, eighteen. She hates being called Christina.
  5. 005 Lab Mem 005 Moeka Kiryu. Quiet. Always texting.
  6. 006 Disciple Luka Urushibara. The shrine keeper's child. Practises with a sword.
  7. 007 Faris NyanNyan The star of the maid café MayQueen+Nyan².
  8. 008 Part-Time Warrior Suzuha Amane. Works part-time at Mr. Braun's shop downstairs.

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