Who Says The Best Ideas Come From Movies? [Open]

[bonnypiperlad]

Despite having traveled with the Doctor and having been awake on Stacy for however long now, there's still certain aspects of 'modern' life that Jamie often finds himself fascinated by - even if it's something he's experienced before. Watching the moving pictures in the media library is definitely one of those things. There's so many to choose from

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[zouichi]

"What are you doing?" Zouichi asked, glancing at the wheel-less skateboard. "...an antigravity device? I didn't know you were a boarder."

Zouichi has never seen Back to the Future II, but it's pretty obvious what Jamie's trying to do.

[bonnypiperlad]

"Aye, well, Morgan showed me how to use one of those snowboard things a while back," he replies. Which doesn't make him a boarder by any stretch of the imagination, but he's at least not completely out of his element here.

Just mostly.

"I thought if we could figure a way to make these it could be useful to get around the ship a little easier. Or maybe go to the parts of the city we've not been to yet."

[zouichi]

"Aha. Testing out a new design, then." Zouichi frowned a little at the board. "Useful, but I'm not sure it'd work out for everyone, especially nonhumanoids... or just people with bad balance."

"I've been exploring a little of the City myself. You know, I'm surprised they haven't gotten a teleportation system set up to get around. It seems like that would be much more convenient than the tram."

[bonnypiperlad]

"Aye, well, when ye first saw the board there were these handlebars on the front ye could hang on to, but they were taken off." So there are options, at least for the people with bad balance. Non-humans, however, could be tricky, and he's not really sure how to compensate for that. "I suppose ye have a point, though."

While he had clearly hasn't considered the idea of teleportation devices before, judging by the expression on his face, not only is something that's very appealing, it's something he's marginally more familiar with. Marginally. "Hey, yes! That would be a good idea if ye could set it up. The problem is, how would ye go about building such a thing?"

[zouichi]

Zouichi blinked. "First saw it where? So this was originally a... scooter?" Strange. Why would anyone want to make it less stable?

"I'm not sure, but weren't there teleportation devices on use during the Lirath battle? I believe Infrastructure was involved in setting that up. There might also be some texts on the basic principles in the Media Library..." Zouichi was all up for learning about technology his own world didn't have access to. It could come in handy sometime.

[bonnypiperlad]

"In the Media Library. I was watching one of those moving pictures ye can bring up in there. And there was a part where the one character took the scooter from a wee lassie and did that to it for some reason." Why that is, he has no idea. It doesn't make much sense...but he has to admit, it looks much better without the handlebars. He shrugs.

"There might have been, now that ye mention it, but I was with the other Rangers at that time. I'm afraid I don't recall much about what they were doing." To be honest, he hadn't paid too much attention, being rather more focused on the fighting aspect of things. "Although if they were the ones setting it up, that could come in useful. Assuming we've even got the right materials to build one. There were these things I used once, called a T-Mat, and I remember there was an awful lot of equipment they needed in order to work."

[zouichi]

"He took a scooter from a little girl? Was he a villain?" Why else would he have taken a toy from a child and vandalized it?

He nodded. "I'm sure it would require some expertise and a fair amount of resources, but I'd argue it would be well worth it. Especially if there were some emergency in which people had to get to one end of the ship to the other in a hurry. What, exactly, is a T-Mat?"

[bonnypiperlad]

"Well, it's a teleporter, like ye said. Had a set up on the moon and on a few cities on Earth, so things could go back and forth to those places."

Technically, it's a transmat system, but Jamie doesn't know the difference. All he knows is that he hadn't quite trusted it at the time, but it did work - eventually - so maybe it could be used here as well. And while he doesn't have enough knowledge to break it down into greater detail, there is someone who might.

"I'll bet the Doctor remembers enough about it that he could maybe see what could be worked into something here!" he says, a note of conviction in his voice. "We could always ask him if he'd be willing to help."

[zouichi]

"On the moon? Was there an atmosphere capable of supporting life there?" Perhaps they'd pursued lunar colonies rather than martian ones where Jamie came from.

He nodded. "Perhaps we should. I wasn't aware his knowledge base encompassed teleportation devices." In fact, he wasn't sure exactly what the Doctor was a doctor of. Or if he was even really a doctor in the first place.

[bonnypiperlad]

"Not outside, no, but the bases they built there had air ye could breathe." So long as they didn't get holes shot into them, that is. That tends to make things a bit problematic. However, he supposes it's a bit of a moot point now.

He nods as well. "Oh, aye, the Doctor's a we..." Luckily, Jamie manages to check himself before saying 'wee'. He's not so wee anymore, no matter which of the Doctors that are currently awake one takes into consideration. "Er, a clever chap. He knows a lot about all sorts of things."

[zouichi]

"Bases? Are we still talking about your timeline?" Because Zouichi was pretty sure there hadn't been any moon bases from the point in the past Jamie was supposed to be from. Especially not any with moon Nazis. Yep, definitely no moon Nazis.

He glanced at Jamie briefly. "It does seem that way, doesn't it? Nanotechology, teleportation, biotech..." Kind of made you wonder exactly what the Doctor's deal was.

[bonnypiperlad]

"My timeline?" Jamie asks, not quite getting why Zouichi's asking the question. "What do ye mean my...oh. Er, I suppose that would depend on how ye figure out that sort of thing."

Part of him wonders what that would look like if someone tried to draw it out on a piece of paper. It'd likely wind up looking like a bit of a mess given all the times and places he's been to.

"I've, ah, not exactly led the most normal of lives, ye see. At least, not for the last few years."

[zouichi]

Zouichi raised an eyebrow. "Don't tell me. Time travel." He's been watching some movies and apparently this sort of thing was common in fiction. Which meant that, if you believed the explanations, it was a common theme in many different worlds.

[bonnypiperlad]

"Um...well, yes," Jamie admits, maybe just a touch surprised Zouichi's figured it out that quickly. Then again, it's not as though he was overly subtle about the whole thing, and he supposes given his general reactions to most things, with enough clues people could figure it out.

It doesn't matter so much here as it would back home, though. After all, they are on a ship that does the exact same thing as far as he's concerned.

"But like I said, it was only the last few years that things changed. Before then, I was a piper, living a perfectly ordinary life in Scotland."

[zouichi]

Zouichi was getting the hang of this multiverse thing. Although if he really had the hang of it, perhaps he'd suspect Jamie was from some kind of steampunk fantasy world where there was horseback riding AND moon bases with teleporters. Small steps.

"It must have been quite a shock. I still haven't quite got the hang of this whole magic thing." In fact, Zouichi still kept wanting to say that such-and-such a thing didn't exist. Because it didn't; not in his world, anyway. "Do you regret the change?"

[bonnypiperlad]

"Och, no. No regrets," Jamie says, almost immediately. "It's been great. I'd not change a thing