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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's all right. Edward puts "magic" in quotes still. Always will. NEVER GONNA STOP. It's a familiar term, he's just personally opposed to it on every conceivable level. And stubborn.]
For one thing, how it even works. It shouldn't be able to exist like it does. And who the hell used to live here, before all us kidnapped refugees wound up colonizing?
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["how would you rate your world on x" questions always sort of amuse Geir -- what does he have to compare his own world to, after all?]
It's less than Aimintas -- I don't know how much Alphonse told you about that, but they had strange screens with figures on them. All the complicated works of the dwarves at home were magical, so I don't think that's the same. Their smiths made wonderful swords and armor, too... and strange little devices. I'm not sure what the humans could do.
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Okay well, this place sucks technologically, as far as I can tell. There's no infrastructure at all. No trains, no electricity. Just... boars and potatoes.
[But yeah okay Aimintas. Al has mentioned that, though mostly in regard to what they were tasked with doing there.]
Sounds like Aimintas would've been way more than what I'm used to anyway.
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[Geir gives a little snort of amusement at Edward's dismissal of the Hub's infrastructure. he's never needed technology, and he's fine without it, as far as he's concerned. which doesn't make it uncool, but...]
Aimintas was weird for everybody. But anyway... you're not the first person to say they wanted to know what the people who lived here before were like. I wonder how technology could even find something like that out? That's history, isn't it? And there's no one around to tell it...
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[Eerie in a way that Edward can't put his finger on.]
It's history, but you'd think there'd be some trace of them, right? Some evidence of what happened?
[Maybe? He's no archaeologist but still.]
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[he realizes that some of the newer arrivals don't know this, though, so it's worth pointing out:]
Everything on the island that you haven't seen people building themselves is from whoever used to be here, though. You're living in all their broken-down stuff.
[Geir is prosaic about it, but that's potentially a very creepy thought in and of itself.]
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[Where are the builders? There should be some evidence of their passing, right? It's a disturbing thought somehow.]
But hey, before I forget, thanks for looking into all this. You and Nines both.
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[the pleased embarrassment comes through clearly in Geir's tone. unseen by Edward, he ducks his head, abashed.]
I just said I'd help him talk to people about it. It's really all him... he's the one who knows about this stuff. So...!
[you've managed to thoroughly fluster a dragon, Edward Elric. congratulations.]
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There's a mental laugh.]
Hey, helping is helping. No matter what part you're playing.
[Edward is apparently in a decent enough mood at the moment -- a rare thing sometimes.]
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[the statement is almost shy. Geir is very touched by the compliment.]
Me or Nines will let you know when he gets parts together, okay?
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[Edward, well, he's been nothing but frustrated by this place. So the chance to maybe help do something productive is exciting. Feels good.]