{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

[rootandbranch]

[Geir can certainly sympathize with not understanding words and phrases. there's a tremendous amount he doesn't understand, either -- he might know some phrases, but there are whole realms of normal-person interaction that he's still picking up on.

and Sophie's point about powers really strikes a chord...]

Maybe we'd have to ask Qri for that one. I'd... like to know why mine was picked, too. It's not very like anything I do at home.

[more like the opposite, really -- life instead of destruction. did Qri mean it that way?]

[sopherias]

Hm? What did you do at home, Geir?

[ She asks, sounding genuinely curious. Granted, she doesn't know every single coven member's magic... but so far, most people she met seemed to match up with the magic they were given. ]

[rootandbranch]

Um... well, you could say, the opposite of that. I'm very strong, and a hunter, and I have venom in my teeth that can eat through almost anything. I was born with it.

[Geir figures that mentioning his eitr makes "what he's supposed to destroy" seem a little more... topical, or narrowly focused. he wants to answer Sophie's question, but he's gotten enough bad reactions to telling people that he was born to destroy his entire world that he doesn't want to bring it up when he's asking for help, at least not till he gets a better sense of Sophie. just being a venemous serpent is safer; it doesn't take much looking at him to know that he's meant to be dangerous.]

So bringing life to things instead is very weird! That's all.