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.
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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?
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You told me your parents took you there. What is there to see?
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Well, my parents took me to the Institute, and the various museums and other such buildings in Linden, multiple times.
... But in the Institute's museum, the exhibits change on a relatively frequent basis, due to the fact they are the ones undergoing active analysis. The analysis results are often real-time and open to public viewing...
... I remember that I first saw a book in the Institute's museum, actually. [Robert smiles almost wryly.] It was... well, dreadfully old looking and in an advanced state of decay, compared to the books here in the library. It was being analyzed to find out its specific age, I recall, from sampling taken of the wood decay state and the age of the inks used...
... I found it such a disturbing thing at the time. That somebody could kill trees and blend them down just to write text that could be so much more efficiently stored in a computer seemed a travesty...
[Quietly:] But... I have... c-come some ways from that in Luceti, I ( ... )
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The exhibits are... objects?
[For a minute there, it almost sounded like they were - aliens. People.]
Did the book turn out to predate computers?
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Awkwardly:] I should hope that they were the only exhibits.
... I mean, there are exhibits of formerly-living organisms, depending on whether one goes to a natural history museum or not... skeletons, perhaps, or other parts. But certainly nothing alive. That would be absolutely barbaric, what with the conditions... completely unsuitable for a living organism. The consent forms alone would take months to sign, even assuming everybody involved wanted to consent in the first place, and that it did not violate privacy laws...
[Terra may have its very creepy moments, but people as exhibits are not one of them.]
It did not, though it was of significant age... The book was so damaged, though, that it was nearly impossible to tell what sort of book it had been before. Even image reconstruction technology can only help so much in some cases.
[Thoughtfully:] Though it is likely it was some kind of non-fiction book, judging that it was found preserved in ruins of what had probably been a ( ... )
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There's still overlap in my time. Some people are stubborn about change.
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Giles' and Helios' times both seem to be in that stage...
... Neither of them are particularly amicable towards technology, either. [Though that won't stop Robert from trying to show it to them.]
But it was also practicality, in Terra's case. A nearly-two-thirds drop in tree cover tends to be a good reason to put tree-destruction quotas up immediately if not sooner.
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... [Quietly:] Pollution and climate change may become a severe problem for your multiversion soon, then.
It is... a pity that the information cannot be relayed. It would save your world much in the way of death and destruction.
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