02 - video

[winn]

Who: Winn
Broadcast: Fleetwide video
Action: the Tourist
When: now!

[ last time he posted anything, he was a nervous wreck and kind of nauseous. the changes the past two months have left in him are impossible to miss; winn is smiling, upbeat, and almost comfortable. the nervous energy that is there has more to do with his addressing a bunch of strangers than the constant fear of death by space-stuff that overshadowed his first feed. ]

Hi, if we don't know each other - I'm Winn Schott. If we do know each other...I'm still Winn Schott - [ shaking his head, why hasn't he learned from the last time? prepare a script! ]

Anyway! I've been here for a couple months now, and it's been interesting - and I mean that in the original sense of the word. Think about it - not only are we in outer space [ there's only a slight wince at that, and even a lot of excitement. space is terrifying - but it's also really cool ] - but we have a once in a lifetime opportunity to reach across the multiverse and learn things that haven't even been dreamed up in our worlds yet. I've been learning - a ton from just casually talking to people, but there is a much better way to do this if we all cooperate, [ open source. it's the way of the future! ] and I know I'm not the only one out there who's interested!

So, I've got a suggestion for anyone who thinks that's really cool - and - pity for anyone who doesn't [ and by pity, he means judgment. he gestures excitedly with his hands as he introduces his brilliant concept ] - 2016: A Space-Time Odyssey - a series of free weekly lectures about anything and everything we've got here. Talks about different worlds, science, history, art lessons, concerts - I know we've got some musicians here - basically anything anyone signs up to talk about, teach, perform, or however you communicate things where you're from. Since we don't have a lecture hall we can broadcast the talks - give ourselves a fun routine....and if that doesn't work for someone, I can post the notes I'm so gonna take of all of these. Who's in? Who wants to go first?

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[winn]

No, no - that - was a joke. [ awkward smile is awkward. ] Postcards are just a thing people send home when they're on vacation - it's got a picture of wherever they are on the front and space on the back to write some personalized note.

[ although!! if vampires are real, and shapeshifting wolves are real, and aliens are real, and banshees are real, and magic is real, and elves are real - why shouldn't ghosts be real? ] Though, ghost lore is actually pretty extensive, so yeah - maybe not as much of a joke.

[ he shrugs. he'll believe it! ]

Like what?

[bythewaves]

Ah... I had not thought Men were permitted such acts! But then my folk are not technically supposed to either.

Well - the concept of running water the elves in Tirion where I was born, had certainly begun, and some of those concepts have been carried forward by others. Electricity I do not know, but I know some of the dwarves were experimenting with ways of moving things via water and steam.

[winn]

Men in general aren't particularly good at the whole 'waiting for permission' thing...

[ theirs is an impatient immature species, and all. ]

So you're -- actually going through the same technological revolutions we did? [ that is as fascinating as it is unlikely - vision was right, their worlds have to be connected somehow. ]

[bythewaves]

You do tend to be bolder and more like to rush into things.

[ Maglor observes fondly ]

I would not call them revolutions? Bear in mind - in Middle-earth we have been in various stages of war for several thousand years - there has been little time nor inclination to look into many of these things, but perhaps in the peace of Valinor... I do not know.

[winn]

That's our motto -

[ nodding ]

I'm sorry -- [ war. again. why are all these worlds at war. why is this the universal common ground? ] but, hey, in my world -- a lot of the advancements came from war, and were just - developed and modified for civilian uses during peace times. So, something may come out of it?

[bythewaves]

Do not be.

[ Maglor shakes his head ]

War comes to all who would stand in the path of Shadow. I suppose we can but see where Men will take the future too.

[winn]

Or -- you can take it with them?

[bythewaves]

[ Another shake of his head ]

I will be there to watch, I think - but the time of the Elves is over. We are leaving, my people. Only a few of us will remain. It is for Men to shape the future.