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driftfleet2018-10-18 06:23 pm
padadin) wrote in driftfleet2018-10-18 06:23 pm
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[Mingle] Suck it, Atroma
Who: Anyone involved in the new network plot.
Broadcast: If you want, but try to keep this off the Atroma network as much as possible.
Action: Whenever you want. Planet? Ships? Iskaulit? Space is the limit.
When: During their stay on the Baruut System (9/25 to 10/27)
[The Baruut System has given them a chance they never thought possible: modifications of their own for their ships. Guns and shields, everyone thinks of those, but there also are donut machines and slot car tracks. It feels like everything is possible!
So... is it?
The need for a safer way to share information and talk to the other crews (including the Interceptors) has been in Shiro's mind for a while now. Atroma took care of the communication options in his armor when he arrived, and the tablet he bought on a planet can't be used for this either. Only the apps work.
Could this finally be their chance? Time for gather people and find out.
TIME FOR TEAMWORK!
So where do you come in, fellow fleeter~?
1. The talk! Maybe you're being informed of the idea, or maybe you're informing someone else. Or you wanna discuss the options? The possible dangers? What we need to do this? (The Power of Teamwork, that's what!)
2. Asking for donations! Looking for parts in the planet! Arguing prices with the locals! Not everyone is a nerdy builder, but you can help in other ways.
3. Building! Bring your parts, pass the screwdriver to an engineer, help keep track of the screws. Is that a five or an S on the blueprints? Someone please feed these nerds, they've been in their labs for a while.
4. Installing and testing! Time to go for it! Bring your tablet, your phone, your personal computer, your Tetris machine- ok no. Send a message, check this works. Hope your selfie game is on point! Are you hacker and/or communications officer? Then help test the security! Send a cat meme to someone using someone's else number. A classic.
5. Wildcard! Those were just summaries of what goes through the month. Bring your own adventure!]
Broadcast: If you want, but try to keep this off the Atroma network as much as possible.
Action: Whenever you want. Planet? Ships? Iskaulit? Space is the limit.
When: During their stay on the Baruut System (9/25 to 10/27)
[The Baruut System has given them a chance they never thought possible: modifications of their own for their ships. Guns and shields, everyone thinks of those, but there also are donut machines and slot car tracks. It feels like everything is possible!
So... is it?
The need for a safer way to share information and talk to the other crews (including the Interceptors) has been in Shiro's mind for a while now. Atroma took care of the communication options in his armor when he arrived, and the tablet he bought on a planet can't be used for this either. Only the apps work.
Could this finally be their chance? Time for gather people and find out.
TIME FOR TEAMWORK!
So where do you come in, fellow fleeter~?
1. The talk! Maybe you're being informed of the idea, or maybe you're informing someone else. Or you wanna discuss the options? The possible dangers? What we need to do this? (The Power of Teamwork, that's what!)
2. Asking for donations! Looking for parts in the planet! Arguing prices with the locals! Not everyone is a nerdy builder, but you can help in other ways.
3. Building! Bring your parts, pass the screwdriver to an engineer, help keep track of the screws. Is that a five or an S on the blueprints? Someone please feed these nerds, they've been in their labs for a while.
4. Installing and testing! Time to go for it! Bring your tablet, your phone, your personal computer, your Tetris machine- ok no. Send a message, check this works. Hope your selfie game is on point! Are you hacker and/or communications officer? Then help test the security! Send a cat meme to someone using someone's else number. A classic.
5. Wildcard! Those were just summaries of what goes through the month. Bring your own adventure!]
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[Lup is 1000% in favour of this. Secret meetings have been her jam for years, ever since the old IPRE crew figured out that they were being stalked by scouts of the Hunger. With the Atroma, it isn't as simple as getting Taako to Blink and scare them off, so they need to get a bit more creative with it. Thankfully, that's where magic comes into play. Hopefully the Atroma can't get into their heads willynilly, or this is a waste of time, but here goes.]
What's up, everybody, wizard here. Just gonna address the elephant in the room- anybody have plans on how exactly to organize a secret you-know-what when our lovely captors are always creepin' on us? Because I've got a couple of ideas, but they have limits, and I need some help with it.
[She holds up a hand, counting off.]
First, Message. I send a thought to your noggin, you send one back. I can do this all day, but it starts and ends with me, which makes for a long and slow conversation. Not ideal.
Second, Telepathic Bond. All our brains link up and we can share thoughts freely. Limitation is it only works between eight people at once, for one hour, three times a day. Also I need eggs. Like, literally, I need eggs to cast it.
Third, and my personal fave, I can make an interdimensional house for us to pile into and hash this shit out. Lots of space, plenty of privacy, free food. Lasts a full day, too. Downside? I don't have the components for it. Anyone happen to find any ivory on the planet, or know where to get some?
[She's hoping that getting all hands on deck will help her, especially with the materials.]
( 4 - artificing: it's literally an art! )
[The planning, tweaking, funding, and material-gathering has more or less been settled, which means it's down to the really tricky part- putting all of the components together and making it work. Lup's been spending most of her prep time researching the equipment they have to work with, studying her old articifing notes, trying to get herself back in the mindset of something she hasn't done for over a decade- enchant an artefact with long-term magic, and communicative abilities at that. Not exactly her main speciality.
Currently she's leaning over the Stone of Far Speech she'd gotten from Taako (now modified to carry a screen, similar to the communicators in the fleet), sitting next to a small tablet she'd claimed for herself, a cat head with the screen in its jaws. She flips a few pages in her spellbook, scrutinizing her scribbled handwriting, looking from the devices to her book, then back again. She checks the jerry-rigged cable linking the two together, then gestures to summon her spectral Mage Hand to lift her spell book and hold it over the whole set up, so she can read and deliberate at the same time.]
Let's see... Sending would be easiest, and I could give it multiple charges... dual Scrying spells would be better if we wanted a video function, but we don't have components for that... can Sending convert into text when working in conjunction with the network? [She scratches at her hair, mumbling irritably.] Goooooods, this is harder than I thought!
[Ugh, ugh. Whatever! All she can do is try!]
Hey, someone pass me that coil of copper wire?
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The first two are too limited. [And he doesn't like the idea of someone in his head.] An interdimensional house sounds incredibly useful. What materials do you need? Only the ivory? I can help with the search.
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The other requirements are a silver spoon and some marble. I got the spoon easily enough, and I've scouted out a place to grab some marble in a construction zone. Broken countertops, stuff like that. Ivory's tricky. Not really the kind of thing that people throw away that much.
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Do you need a big amount of it? I suppose we could search for broken decorations, or some kind of music store. Ivory is used a lot for instruments, if I remember correctly.
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[She holds up her hands to demonstrate the size: about a large cell phone, maybe.]
It doesn't have to all be in one piece, either- if we can get a bunch of little bits that would add up to the same amount, they can be transmuted together.
[Wait, hang on.]
Have you seen a music store around? Because I'm real interested in that.
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[He takes a moment to remember the shops he's seen around before answering her question. Music store? Mmh.]
I remember seeing a string-less guitar and a flute taller than me. I'm not sure if it was a true music store, but I would bet there is one somewhere. This planet seems to have a shop for everything just to classify all the things they salvage. But if you can't find what you need, you could always pay for something customized.
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[It's not what's important here and now, considering what they're working on, but it's important to her, dammit.]
That's if I have any money left after all of this. Between the funding and the materials required for all these spells, your project is robbing me blind, and I only just got here.
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I really appreciate your help - sorry my project is emptying your wallet. But choose an instrument, any instrument, and you can have it. It's on me, as thanks. It's the least I can do.
[And he has more money than he knows what to do with. Every time he and Keith say each other's names, his account gets another zero.]
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[And she will absolutely take him up on that to the full extent that she can manage, have no doubt.]
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[She huffs out of the corner of her mouth, blowing a bit of her out of her face. Money isn't a concern? What an unfamiliar luxury that is.]
Well, I'm on the market for a violin, so if you spot anywhere I might get that, then you know who to call.
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[Don't let him take out the motivational speeches, he'll be here all day.]
A violin, understood. I take it it's not something you can just magic up from some wood?
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[It's just how she grew up. This place will probably be worlds better than what she's used to, money-wise. It's fine.]
You can't magic up a musical instrument, my dude, it'll sound like hot garbage. Creating one that can resonate with someone, hum just the right way in the air, vibrate against your hands as you play- that's the work of a real craftsman.
Anyway, even if I could technically just magic one into existence, it isn't as simple as that sounds. To make something with magic, you first have to know how it's made for real, so what's in here- [She taps her head,] -Can come out here. [And she wiggles her fingers.] That's why wizards need so many books. We can only carry so much information in our noggins.
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That makes perfect sense. You're not making something appear out of nowhere, but building it from its core. It has more in common with what engineers do than I would've imagined.
[Sure, Allura's alchemy is very magical too... but Lup and Taako seem to be more traditional wizards that remind Shiro of fantasy stories.]
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What kind of support do wizards usually need? It almost sounds like your magic can do everything, but obviously a "balanced party" requires variety.
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Even if it means just handing over the coil of wire to the wizard. Which is cool, just for the record. ]
Yeah, no problem.
[ Curiously - ]
Do you want to talk through anything? Not that I understand much of that, but if you think it'd help to bounce your thoughts off someone else...
[ A small shrug - he's willing to listen, at least. ]
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Uhhh, yeah, sure. I'm basically using this as proof of concept before I waste any big spells on the real deal, I'm just trying to decide what actual concept I want to work with. It's not my usual MO, but I think it'd be wisest to start small and work my way up.
[She's used to having actual magic users to bounce her theories off of - and it would be ideal to have Taako here, but he hadn't wanted to get involved - so having at least a listening ear is helpful, even if he can't provide much else.]
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[ He gives a little lopsided smile, perfectly aware he's not the most helpful here but trying with what he can. ]
So can I ask how the spells work? As long as that's not a super annoying question, anyway.
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[They've done a lot of that already, but trying to marry magic with technology is something she doesn't have much experience with, at least not on this scale. She knows some things about fixing a magic spaceship, and a hefty part of being a wizard is connecting ethereal power with a science of arrays, materials, and solid math, but this is so... intricate. It's tricky.]
Sending is a simple message spell, verbal, directly to a person's head. They're usually short, but if I can set the enchantment up to have multiple uses, that shouldn't be an issue. Range is no problem either, so that'll be good for a network that spans the entire fleet. My biggest issue is getting this- [She points to one communicator, then to the next-] To send the message to this, instead of to a person. Scrying is a method of observing someone- both verbally and visually, so it can function as a the communicator's video option if we can get it working properly as a two-way street. I'm not hurting for options, here. There's multiple spells for communicating with people, just...
[She gestures at the mess on the table in front of her.]
It's complicated when you want it to work like this, is all.