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[voice] → "Eagerly I wished the morrow."

May 05, 2011 12:37

[Thursday's shoes have scarcely disturbed the soil of Luceti since its most recent Shifts. Her accustomed jogs around the grounds have wound down. She has not found herself out at the fringes of the forest or stood staring down streams. Her name has not lingered either on the library's ledgers or its logs for countless days ( Read more... )

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[Voice] semper_cogitans May 5 2011, 21:38:01 UTC

[Now this is a voice Robert has heard before, but never spoken to. However, this question is enough to make him think, and certainly enough to make him respond. Being socially withdrawn after the experiment means that, although Robert has been avoiding people, that feeling of loneliness - foreign in the sense that he has never really allowed himself to be lonely until Luceti - has set in.]

What a fascinating question...

... But certainly a complex one. [So complex, in fact, that Robert could think of thousands of separate answers.]

... Is there any reason in particular for the inquiry? Perhaps it could... narrow the criteria, so to speak.

bookworldly May 6 2011, 14:54:03 UTC

It's for a project. I'm working on a painting and I need a little inspiration. There's only so much to see in Luceti, you know? It all gets a little bland after a while.

[Not strictly true - she has lots of ideas. Too many. That's the problem. Still, she puts on a happy face. People are more receptive to the voice that comes out of a happy face.]

semper_cogitans May 6 2011, 20:29:09 UTC

Ah, an artistic sort of person. [Robert has never been good at that sort of thing. He's too concrete a thinker for the abstract.] Well, I could certainly oblige.

Something I cherish...

[Several answers run through his mind. Don. Vivi. Having friends. Not being alone anymore.

But those are things that Luceti brought, and this person is requesting something from outside Luceti. So his mind goes to his work, of course. And what better for it to go to than his beloved Institute?]Picture, if you will, a massive structure - easily several hundred metres tall - of smooth metals... primarily various titanium and iron alloys, so mostly a lustrous silvery colour; worked into the material are trillions of microscopic circuits, and Terran photosynthesis-mimicry solar panels, which are a deep bluish-purple in colour, coat the building's external surfaces ( ... )

bookworldly May 9 2011, 15:05:53 UTC

[The detail provided puts her in mind of her uncle. Circuits and photosynthesis, petabytes, they're all a long way out of her comfort zone. That is not to say, however, that she doesn't find herself drawn to the mystery - the potential of these words. She was one of the few who took an interest in her uncle's work; she had him describe each of his devices to her, demonstrate them. She was proud, even now, just to think of Aunt Polly and him.

It was a pity he never got started on the memory erasure device, though.]

The "Randy Institute of Lindon." - got it. [She'll write the name somewhere - on a banner or a billboard. And she'll do it wrong - but then, she only has what she's hearing to work with.]Are the circuits visible? You said the structures glow blue... Is that because of the circuitry? Microscopic circuitry... so you can't see the circuits but the light that they give off is visible ( ... )

[Voice/Written] semper_cogitans May 9 2011, 20:42:51 UTC

[Her uncle sounds like the kind of person Robert might have taken quite a liking to. He appreciates intelligence, even if it's from a world that feels comparitively backward.

Robert kind of winces at the spelling, and because he can't help himself, he lapses into writing to make sure his intent gets across clearly, writing with a script so precise it might remind Thursday of a typewriter.]

Randi Institute of Linden.

[And then back to his voice.] I apologize, I should have clarified on the spelling.

The circuits, due to being microscopic, are themselves not visible... and the glowing, mostly restricted to the terminals, is actually mostly an aesthetic feature; though it does serve to show when the towers are in use, but it is simply the electrical currents at work.

Ah, not an issue at all. I understand that my world is... a unique one. [Does Robert sound a little proud? Perhaps almost arrogant? Though it's not entirely misplaced... this is his beautiful (to him) home that he's talking about.]They are more stylized; much of Terran ( ... )

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