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Forty-Seventh Theory [Voice]

Jul 17, 2011 15:38

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meditation is good for the soul, don't worry i'm not going far, other people invent things too i guess, c: mccoy, unpleasant business

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lists_to_port July 17 2011, 19:55:19 UTC

What need you with a ship, Smart Turtle?

i_speak_softly July 17 2011, 20:04:23 UTC

I was just curious.

lists_to_port July 17 2011, 20:06:56 UTC

I'm not sure anything like a proper ship could be built, here. You'd need a shipyard. And a proper ropewalk. And sailmakers. And great thick straight trees for the masts, and some way of movin' all that timber down to the sea.

i_speak_softly July 17 2011, 20:17:36 UTC

[You've lost him. He has very little idea how to build something as large and yet technologically-simple as a sailing ship.]

Why couldn't you build those things first?

lists_to_port July 17 2011, 20:19:13 UTC

You COULD, were there a proper lumber mill in this place. When I built my Joanna Joyce, I had to plane all the wood by hand. It took a very long time, mate.

i_speak_softly July 17 2011, 20:38:18 UTC

[It vaguely occurs to him that most people don't build their own laboratories from scrap.]

Weren't you working on a ship a year ago?

lists_to_port July 17 2011, 20:43:40 UTC

Aye; a boat! The Joanna Joyce. She's moored out by the point, son. She might be small-ish but she carries a lot of sail. Fast.

i_speak_softly July 17 2011, 21:00:09 UTC

[... He guesses that's useful if you need to transport sails?]

Why are you telling me you can't build a ship if you've already done it?

lists_to_port July 17 2011, 22:05:01 UTC

Well what sort of vessel were you WANTING? She's just a sailboat; she carries no cannon or anything like that. I could live on her if I chose, but it gets lonesome.

i_speak_softly July 17 2011, 22:32:25 UTC

What do you need cannons for?

[Usually Don is in favor of weaponry, but he can't imagine what there is to shoot at on Luceti's newly-minted ocean.]

lists_to_port July 17 2011, 22:35:31 UTC

You don't. That's why I don't have them. There's not even any other ships out there, much less a port.

We need a port. And a pier.

i_speak_softly July 17 2011, 22:39:00 UTC

... Where did you say your boat was docked?

lists_to_port July 17 2011, 22:42:50 UTC

She's not docked, mate. There IS no dock. She's on a mooring about a quarter mile from shore in the cove. We NEED a dock, is my humble opinion.

i_speak_softly July 17 2011, 23:12:18 UTC

What's a mooring, then?

lists_to_port July 18 2011, 02:52:16 UTC

Big block of concrete, sunk to the bottom, with a rope attached. Very simple, a mooring, Smart Turtle.

i_speak_softly July 18 2011, 11:43:55 UTC

[He considers this momentarily.] What is the rope attached to at the other end?

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