Appointments
For any mundane, non-critical one-on-one interactions with the scientist here, whether it be poking him for whatever reason, maintaining continuity, throwing him an item, or in general doing something that isn't momentous enough to require a whole post or log for it.
Please copy and paste the following for the first comment in any new thread you're ( Read more... )
Please copy and paste the following for the first comment in any new thread you're ( Read more... )
Type of Thread: Voice, probably quickly becoming Action
Location: House 55, Robert's apartment, points between?
[It's been three days since Raphael's return, two since Vivi's disappearance. That's enough time to resume a semblance of normalcy, right? In the confusion, those two things Don meant to give Robert slipped from his mind, but he's remembered them now, and he hopes it isn't too soon, too insensitive, to bring them up again.]
Robert? Can I talk to you?
Reply
Can I have a kiss too?
Reply
But the question takes him by surprise. He looks almost... shy, a moment, before he smiles.]
...
C-Certainly you may. [And Robert puts his little arms around Don's sides and kisses Don's now-familiar smooth beak lovingly, nearly curling into him in the process.
It feels nice to be loved.]
Reply
Reply
... I am glad...
... Thank you. For both listening and... and understanding. [And not condemning him for... something that really wasn't worth condemning him over... yeah, Robert's too hard on himself.]
Reply
Now tell me about her.
Reply
She is a remarkably intelligent person, skillful in the sciences - approximately my age, I would think (OOC: Not sure if she would've mentioned it...) and studying genetics in her multiverse. She is actually doing her thesis on vampires, who are simply hemophagic hominids in her world - quite unlike what Giles described them as.
Additionally, she possesses a sharp and inquisitive mind, and has a penchant for asking bold and insightful questions. [It may be obvious why she fell for Robert in retrospect, actually. Or not.]
... I am still trying to locate her intangibility device so that she may move freely about in Luceti, but so far the Malnosso have not seen fit to yield it.
Reply
Intangibility device?
Reply
Ingrid's intangibility device is a remarkable piece of technology - developed by her father via a combination of magic, which exists in her multiverse, and technology - apparently something rarely attempted by anybody there. It, from what I have learned, essentially displaces Ingrid's constituents partially into another dimension, enough so that solid matter phases entirely through her.
... To combat the problem of being unable to make contact with things, she has items embedded with contact points that she wears to maintain some kind of interactivity with the environment, and a mask that allows her to respire and consume food.
It is not a perfect solution, but it is certainly better than the alternative. [With some anger:] Though her condition would be so easy to treat on Terra... and yet the Malnosso will not allow it.
Reply
Magitechnology.
[He's about to say "You can cure that?" when his thoughts get derailed by something else.]
If the device works on dimensional displacement... couldn't it be modified to transport people out of here?
Reply
Yes, magitechnology. [That word brings up so many awkward things for Robert.]
... You know... I hadn't considered it, but it certainly might be possible...
[This is an incredibly interesting idea.]
Reply
Leo and Master Splinter haven't had any luck opening the portal here. But maybe with a push... with something that was already holding the door half-open, so to speak...
Reply
... The portal? What exactly do you mean? [He looks up questioningly at Don, wondering to himself how exactly the Malnosso allowed a portal to exist in Luceti.]
Reply
Back home we were able to open a portal to another Nexus world. More to the point, if we could open that portal from here, we could go back to our own world. Or anywhere else. [He glances over his shoulder, looking at you meaningfully.]
Reply
A Nexus world...
... One must wonder if the physics would work the same for all of us, but it would certainly be a method of us getting home.
[Even the Malnosso, Robert realizes.
And at that look... ... well, Robert fails at emotion, so it only barely registers, but:] ... Do you perhaps mean going to Terra?
[Sincerely, and with real pain, Robert intones:] I w-would... would not want you to feel like you had to choose between your family and myself.
I want you to... b-be happy, and I am not certain if your family would be comfortable on Terra.
[Honestly... if Robert could be with Don? He'd go back to a violent world with him. The thought terrifies him, but losing Don terrifies him more.]
Reply
[His face falls at the question.] I don't know. [He presses his palm lightly to the blank wall.] But you could go home...
Reply
Leave a comment