IV.

[sistagonist]

[Video]

Hey...sorry if anyone was looking for me for the last couple of weeks. I only meant that to be like a three hour trip, but I'm back now.

So, those robots on the island are pretty friendly, and I see some managed to get over here. Has anyone been able to communicate? I can't make heads or tails, personally.

Comments

[notvitiligo]

You kind of have to play charades with them, but yeah, it's not too hard. They're pretty visually-oriented.

[sistagonist]

Hm. I guess that would work best. Do you think they process sound, even?

[notvitiligo]

Most of them seem to, they just have a completely different language. It's like trying to talk to a fax machine.

[sistagonist]

...I wonder if my phone...well, it's been out of charge for months now...

[notvitiligo]

I'd assume that'd be like trying to talk to someone from another country or something. Then again, maybe the super-translation here would compensate... although that wouldn't explain why it doesn't work on the robots themselves...

[Wait wait we are getting distracted here!]

Uh, anyway, I'm not sure that'd work either, since I'm pretty sure the most they'd get from a cell phone would be like "I am here, are there any messages?" or something.

[sistagonist]

Probably. Electronics aren't really my strong suit...

[notvitiligo]

I'm okay with them, but, y'know, I'm not exactly building my own groundbreaking robotics technology or anything.

Though these guys are kind of... not quite electronics. They LOOK like robots, but once you get past the surface, they don't make a lot of sense.

[sistagonist]

Hm. So they're in the shape of machines without really being machines?

[notvitiligo]

Yup. Just like everything mechanical here. I don't think the Queen (or whoever it is actually runs this stuff) really cares about making things that could actually work. [Ignoring the fact that, in the Gardens, they DO work. Jessica refuses to go happily along with the total breakdown of physics.]

[sistagonist]

I guess stuff just works here because someone wants it to. That explains the magic construction dirt, too.

[notvitiligo]

Yeah, pretty much. It's annoying.

[sistagonist]

Oh, I don't know. I've been in a world like that before and this one is way less trouble.

[notvitiligo]

Wait, seriously?

[sistagonist]

Seriously. I'll take the Queen's rules over Ame-no-Sagiri and Izanami's any day.

[notvitiligo]

I... have no idea what those are.

How'd you get out?

[sistagonist]

Well, in that place, there was a door, and a friendly native to show us how to use it.