Waystation Mingle Log!

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Who: GAME-WIDE MINGLE aka everyone
Broadcast: If you want
Action: The Stations!
When: From 04/05 through the month of April.

[Well, that all sure happened. But at least you have the waystations! Whether you want to stock up on supplies, work, trade, or visit the very fancy Virtual Reality Dome, it's bound to be a nice break from the attacks of the 5th.

Make your own prompts, set up your own Virtual Realities, etc! For reference, the OOC post with info is over here!]

Comments

[dancingmd]

[Don't worry, Beverly is suitably impressed, clapping her hands together as she exclaims.]

How wonderful! We never had any airships like this on Earth! Though, it looks kind of like the ancient ships we used to sail on the ocean in.

[paeon]

Of course they would. [ She seems amused, but the excitement catches and she isn't very put out at all. ] They are both a manner of ship, are they not?

[dancingmd]

True. I suppose I'm just surprised since that's not how things progressed in my world. Even our early aircraft looked nothing like ships you'd find on the ocean.

[Fortunately, the VRD already has a couple of Earth-style airplanes in its banks, so Beverly brings up small models of them to demonstrate.]

They looked more like this!

[paeon]

[ O'danya considers them for a moment... then it clicks. ]

Like cloudkin! And those are strong enough to carry passengers?

[dancingmd]

Mm hmm, though, [she eyes the model that resembles on of the Wright Brothers' early creations] maybe not that particular one. Too lightweight and only good for short distances.

Now, of course, we mostly use transporters for long distance travel on a planet.

[paeon]

[ O'danya considers the early plane and has to admit it does look rather flimsy. Ah well. Nothing has ever been made perfect on the first attempt. ]

Transporters?

[dancingmd]

Remember when you were first moved from the Marsiva to your current ship? They were using transporter technology there.

[paeon]

Oh! An aetherical transference!

[ If Beverly hasn't guessed, there's a lot of this "aether" where O'danya's from. ]

Yes, we use such in my realm as well.

[dancingmd]

Fascinating, how our worlds have so many parallels to one another! Tell me, do your people travel to other planets as well?

[paeon]

Hardly. [ She shakes her head, smiling ruefully. ] If it were not for the augment and its information, I'm quite sure I would be much less settled about our current predicament. The stars remain wholly untraveled in Eorzea.

[dancingmd]

[She nods thoughtfully.] That seems to be the case for most people in the fleet. Or if their cultures have developed space flight, it still isn't an every day sort of thing. I wonder how it is they choose who comes here... and why from so many pre-spaceflight cultures.

[paeon]

One would guess for the value of our entertainment. However, for such foreign people... perhaps they take pleasure in things we would normally find mundane or abhorrent.

[dancingmd]

Oh, I'm sure they do. The presence of so many children here is evidence enough of their differing values. I just wish I could ascertain exactly what it is that they are after, beyond just generic entertainment. We're not likely to get out of here unless we can understand our captors better.