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spellminders2017-11-04 10:02 pm
rootandbranch) wrote in spellminders2017-11-04 10:02 pm
{VOICE OTA}
[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!))
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!))
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[that reminds him -- his original question was about what people think is important to monitor about this strange, irrational little island in space that they're perching on. Gaelio still hasn't quite answered that question, so he returns to it, genuinely interested in his response.]
Is that what you think it's most important that it be able to pick up? Energy?
[it does check out as a priority. if magic is something that can be monitored, it would certainly help to understand the fluctuations of this world's power.]
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[ The boars and other hostile wildlife they seem familiar enough with by now. Weather wouldn't be a bad thing to keep abreast of
especially once his cabin washes away, r.i.p., but insofar as the expected and unexpected, in a place that seems to exist and be possible because of Qri's magic ---Energy should rank. More might come monthly, but -- ]
For example, if we can track Qri's usage, we might know when and where new arrivals are taken. Once we know that, we might also know when and where one of us disappears.
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Ah-- ah. Yeah. Do you know anyone who's missing? I've been wondering-- I haven't seen Julius for a while. I knew that sometimes people seemed to disappear for a while, but--
[but he hasn't been keeping track of the people who are gone, and if he's starting now, it might make all the difference. Geir is a hoarding creature. the idea that something as important as a person might disappear when he's not looking is extremely unsettling.]
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[ Whether from the beginning, or in the last month. Are they keeping a list? If someone was determined to keep away from the group, the "coven," it would be difficult to keep track. ]
It might be a matter of tracking the signets. If they're connected to the telepathy, they should have traces of energy.
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[Gaelio has probably talked to Geir in person enough to imagine the expression on his face: wide-eyed and genuine appreciation. it's not dignified for something so large and alien-looking to be so vocally and physically expressive. it's like watching an elephant do a little happy dance. for Geir's part, even the prospect of being able to track arrivals and departures makes him feel a little better, despite the solution not actually materializing yet.]
We'll see what Nines says.
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[ Someone will have thought of it already, as it's a common thing to be concerned with here. Which isn't to disparage the dragon, unaccustomed to the variety of uses to which technology could be put.
Instead, the enthusiasm in his voice does prompt a striking mental image. Dignity's over-rated. ]
Right. Are there other things you'd like to keep track of?
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[he hasn't forgotten how close that moon came to the island. would it be possible to reach it next time? how does this strange floating little scrap of rock work?]
A lot of people have asked about the history of this place, too. It's all of a piece.
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On a small strip of land thrust improbably into the stars, how could they possibly function? Simply magic? If so, there should be energy to it. ]
The history... what would the pods look for, to help divulge that?
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[whether or not such remains lead them to understanding more about the Hub's history, they might have useful supplies that the coven can still put back to work. Geir has to admit, now that so many people have brought it up, that the idea of finding out more about whoever used to live here is something worthy of curiosity. he doesn't personally care much, but...
he wonders if they were human, and if all human civilizations are more or less the same? from the variety of people staying in the coven, he doesn't think they can be.]
...it's amazing that a device can go do something on its own like that. I never heard of anything like it till I came here.
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[ Musing. He doesn't know too much about the mechanics of archaeology, unearthing ancient civilizations. If the mansion had been built by the same (and if so, despite the improbability of them being human, the furnishings and equipment in the mansion suggest it), then likely it is inapplicable. The previous inhabitants could not be called ancient, the dirt wouldn't have had the time to accumulate into smothering layers.
Had they lived here before or after the land was strewn into space? Maybe-- ]
If only how far it goes.
[ If they dug, what would they reach? Was the land flat? ]
Mm. It might be a cliche, but stories rarely mixed dragons and machines of that level.
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[Geir can't help but wonder. it seems as if people have a large number of expectations about what dragons should be like, up to and including how they breathed and what they did in their spare time. was this just the work of a few famous dragons whose preferences got popular? and if so, why isn't heone?]
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[ But, as to what they were like... ]
Varying levels of intelligence and ability to communicate. I didn't read too much fantasy, but I think they tended to be very large, fly, breathe fire, accumulate and guard hordes of gold, and sometimes kidnap princesses.
[ which really makes this unavoidable, jest tinging his tone. ]
How do you feel about royalty?
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[it's obviously a rhetorical question, Geir musing out loud with a comical sort of "why me?!" tone. isn't venom enough for these otherworldly skalds? who really needs to turn their dinner into charcoal before they eat it?!
he shifts his attention to Gaelio's next question with mild bemusement: Geir knows that kings are warlords among humans, probably, but he hasn't personally met one.]
Aaaaand... I don't think I have an opinion yet. Do you know any?
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[ Mildly, but Geir might be able to tell that, no, Gaelio doesn't think the dragon is in fact envious of abilities other similar if fictitious creatures purportedly have. ]
Not really.
[ Whatever the hierarchies in Gjallarhorn, though the Seven Star families had ruled the organization for hundreds of years and power passed through inheritance, it was not technically royalty. They were not monarchs, not kings. ]
It was an archaic, no longer used form of governance in my world. But, it's surprising if there aren't any here.
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I'm not jealous! Tasting charcoal all the time sounds like a pain. And I would probably like royalty if they were nice. That's my final word on it!
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[ But there probably would be... some sort of aftertaste? Difficult to imagine, but chemical.
As Geir's closed the topic, he doesn't push it.
As entertaining as it might have been to suggestDespite the possibility that it would be an instinctive response to royal blood. Not much of one, really. Even if he could claim to know how dragons of myth functioned, this one clearly diverged.More than a bit off topic. ]
So, you'll be moving materials?
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[that much, Geir knows he can do, even if he doesn't understand the intricacies of the world of robotics. he can carry things! carrying things is a thing he can do!]
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[ Though what he could assist a dragon with he's less certain of -- loading? Unloading? ]