{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

[deem]

The way it's explained to us, if you want to call it an explanation... the kind Qri's after is energy at least.

[So it stands to reason there must be a way to detect it]

Probably just need someone more familiar with it than I am.

[reckoner]

I don't suppose Genette would help?

[ Mustn't she be the most familiar? Maybe they'd need both familiarity and an understanding of machinery. ]

[deem]

It's possible, although I haven't really gotten a hold of her.

[Though it's true she ought to be the most well-informed of the lot of them]

[reckoner]

That might be the next step. Unless someone with familiarity with magic generally could do it.

[ knowing nothing about magic, he's not sure how that would work, but some had already possessed it before coming here, so... ]

In any case, let me know when I'm needed.

[deem]

I'll do that. The sooner we get to work, the better, since we don't know how long we'll have here.

[And that's always the situation they face, under their current circumstances]

[reckoner]

Right. Talk to you soon, then.

[ Data collected while away, too, would be interesting... but that might be a topic for another time. ]