{VOICE OTA}

[rootandbranch]

[Today you feel a few strange pulses in your signets before you hear anything over Qri's network. It's fairly pleasant, exactly as the signet communications tend to be, and fortunately doesn't at all resemble the strange fluctuations that plagued everyone back on days 103-105. It's more like someone poking at the network to be sure it's stable and not going to do any more of that before they speak. They seem to conclude it's safe after all.]

Hello? Oh, hi-- hi, everybody. It's Geir. If you don't know me, I'm the dragon.

[He's very matter of fact about it. He's the dragon. You're probably aware, his tone seems to say.]

Listen, I don't actually care if you know me, you should just help me and Nines out! He knows all kinds of technology things, so I asked him what we could find out about the Hub with them. But the question is really, what does everyone want to find out? There's been a lot of weird to chew on!

Chew...on? [9S echoes this thought quizzically, for an instant quite distracted. But right, right, the matter at hand—] Er, anyway, like Geir said we’re lacking data on our surroundings. And to know what we’re dealing with, gathering more would be best, so I was thinking I can probably scrape enough parts together to build a pod for that job, once we know what kind of information it should collect. I mean, unless we want everything...

[Geir's tone is still bright and interested. he loves hearing about this, even if part of him is still skeptical.]

Nines isn't even the only person who knows how to build... robots. I know a bunch of you build stuff. Who wants to help?

[9S clears his throat, quietly tacking a little disclaimer on:]

...Not that pods should be mistaken for machines or anything.

[When your kind’s fought machines for millennia certain lines get drawn. Thin, confusing grey lines. (Geir doesn’t know what to say to that, so he just lets it stand.)]


((both 9S and Geir may reply to your toplevels, and also feel free to jump each other! this is the start of a player plot to get a little more technology on the island. ♥ more details here!))

Comments

[sopherias]

Hmm...

[ All she can respond with is a thoughtful hum. It's a mystery. He'll at least not have to worry about strange expressions from Sophie.

Though, she starts to focus on the more important subject on the signet communication... in a way.]

9S, I want to help with the pod. [ Whatever that is... but it sounds like a very useful device. ] Can a pod find out about "expressions"?

[deem]

I'd be happy for the help.

[Or any collaboration, really. He's been so accustomed to solo projects or being discouraged from tinkering that his experience in the coven has been vastly different, in a good way]

And...I bet a pod could. Mine learned how to use greetings, and things like that.

[sopherias]

I don't know much about technology things... but I can help find parts.

[ At times like this, she's missing Pascal. She'd know how to help. And she'd probably take a huge interest in the YoRHa units... ]

...Greetings? So it can say "hello"?

[deem]

I could use all the parts I can get. I'm used to having an abundance, and that's...not really how it is, around here.

[So he'll welcome anything at all.

And someday they really should get on the subject of Pascals]

But yeah, things like that. "Nice to meet you" was one of them.

[sopherias]

Are there any specific parts that you really need?

[ Asking to be sure, but she can certainly keep an eye out for anything that does look useful. She used to have to fill a lot of inn requests back where she came from, for the extra money and useful rewards.

She will very likely engage in a conversation of Pascals someday... ]

Oh. What a nice pod. I want to help build a pod that knows greetings and expressions! [ As long as it explains the expressions! She'd probably get carried away talking to a pod. ] And... I want to know more about the flowers on this island. Is that possible for a pod, too?

[deem]

Next time we're in the same place, I can show you with my monitors. I've got all kinds of data on that sort of thing... Come to think of it, where do you stay anyway, Sophie?

[Maybe she's got friends in this place from her home, like Jude does?]

Pod 153's the best. And I'm pretty sure all that's well within a pod's means. Are you fond of flowers?

[sopherias]

One of the beach huts.

[ It's small and cramped. She still has some flowers growing around it, at least. Strange no longer staying in some place as big as the Lhant Manor, or Asbel.

Then, she beams at the mention of flowers. ]

Yes, I love flowers! I want to be able to grow all kinds! Seeing them bloom makes me happy.

[deem]

2B and I have been working on a house out in the west, if you ever want more room. A2 stays at night too, so it's... [Less lonesome than living alone would be, in his opinion] There's space, if you like. The land's pretty fertile there too.

[So even if she didn't want to live out there, it might be worth noting that planting there might be viable all the same]

Somebody I know likes flowers a lot too. I was thinking I'd try to plant some, from the place I was brought from.

[sopherias]

Hmm... may I come see the place some time?

[ Not exactly a "yes", just yet. She does like being with all of them though, whenever she has the moment... 2B, 9S, and A2. It's like having some family from another world. ]

So you have seeds from home? I can help you plant them!

[deem]

Course you can. Stop by anytime you like.

[Because why wouldn't Sophie be welcome?

9S can only imagine she'd get along with anybody]

You'd want to help though?

[She may know more about flowers than he does, like Julius did...]