Intro Log - December 2011

[daddyscythe]

Characters: OPEN to new arrivals and NPCS.
Where: En route to Casualty Communal
Rating: Gen
Time: January 9 onwards [forward dated]
Description: Whoa, it’s been a while!

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Soul Perception“Hello, everyone

[faintly_smiles]

After years upon years of being told that she was nothing more than a monster serving the Organization, it seemed a twisted irony that she apparently had a soul. The best that they had been allowed to think was that they had the mind of a human, but they had sold their souls when the flesh of youma had been forced in their bodies

[blue_wayfinder]

Aqua noticed the woman turn to leave, "Wait." She stepped away from the machine she'd been left in charge of and walked towards the blonde woman.

"Don't you want to know what you are?"

[faintly_smiles]

She stopped from walking away at the call and glanced over her shoulder at the approaching woman. She still wore a faint smile on her lips regardless of the distasteful situation that she found herself in.

"A wayward weapon to be feared and used as always," she replied simply, shrugging her shoulders. "It's a common story it seems. Why else would anyone be summoned here?"

Her silver eyes moved beyond the woman to the machine, and she was less trustful of it than something in the flesh. "What sort of fire makes those lights blink like that in different colours, I wonder?"

[blue_wayfinder]

"People have been surprised before by what BREW made them before. So even if you think you'll be a Weapon that might not be e case." But if the other woman had made up her mind to not be scanned, Aqua wasn't planning on pushing.

She turned back to the x-ray, "As for that...I'm not sure if I'm the best person to explain it." This wasn't the sort of subject she was very knowledgable about, "But it's not fire. The lights and a lot of the technology here run on electricity."

[faintly_smiles]

"I doubt I can be anything more than what I've been deemed to be," she remarked with a bored casualness. There was no point in seeing if she could intimidate or terrorize someone trying to help. She wasn't in the mood for it anyway. "Besides, did that man make that device," she asked, pointing a finger at Stein.

Raising an eyebrow at the foreign word, she mulled it over silently for a few moment. Perhaps it was something akin to youki? No, she couldn't sense anything from that device. "Electricity?"

[blue_wayfinder]

"If that's how you feel I won't stop you. But if you change your mind later on, just ask for someone with Soul Perception over the network."

Though she did raise a good question. Aqua looked between the machine and Stein, "I don't know. I think you'd have to ask someone from Shibusen about that."

But how does she explain what electricity is? She thought about it for a moment.

"Do you have storms where you come from? The kind with lightning and thunder?"

[faintly_smiles]

Soul perception? She supposed that was possible, but she hadn't yet figured out how this communicator was supposed to communicate. It simply made a noise when she tapped it on walls and the like. That was hardly useful.

"Someone who stitches their face up like that probably can't be trusted to build devices like that..." she said with a matter-of-fact tone. She had seen retainers in better condition, but they were never to be trusted either.

Nodding her head at the mention of lightning and thunder, she wasn't sure how flashes in the sky causing fires related to this. "Yes, they cause fires, but you said there is no fire in there."

[blue_wayfinder]

"No there isn't. Lightning is basically uncontrolled electricity." She paused, thinking about it. She could make technology work well enough, explaining how it worked was a whole other matter.

"The amount of electricity used to make this machine run is a lot less than you'd find in a bolt of lightning, but it's pretty much the same thing, just smaller in scale and it's been controlled."

[faintly_smiles]

"I see," she murmured and rested a hand against her cheek as she considered the implications of that. It seemed like such a novel concept, yet she still didn't entirely understand.

She looked at the device a little more closely, trying to determine how lightning managed to get into the metal. "How does one control something the comes from the sky like that? And where does the small lightning get in?"

[OOC: Wow... this went from soul perception to a physics lesson ._.;; I'm sorry XD]

[blue_wayfinder]

"We don't need to control the kind that comes from the sky, because we can reproduce the same thing using machines. That's how we can get a smaller aunt of electricity because the creation of it is controlled."

She peered around e machine. There should be...ah. Spotting what she was looking for, she crouched down, waving the other woman over, before pulling the wire connecting the machine to the wall.

"The electricty passes through wires like these." And then she gestures towards to wall, "From what we call a socket and then into the machine. The inside of this wire is made of metal which conducts electricity. The outside is made of rubber so the electricity can't get out."

((OOC: It's fine! Her understanding is probably around the same as mine, so I don't actually have to look anything up. If it had been my other character, I would have been in trouble! XD and now watch as I make up stuff about SE vere tech.))

[faintly_smiles]

"Machine?" She looked at the creation that this woman was showing her, following along because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Was this a machine? She had heard of war engines that launched stones great distances, but they were made of wood mostly.

Reaching down, she pushed her fingers against the strange vein on the floor that connected the strange machine to the wall nearby. "Wires," she repeated, correcting herself on thinking they were veins. "So the electricity is in here, and it flows to this," she said, setting a hand on the x-ray machine. "Is it like water then? Flowing?" She didn't know what rubber was, but too many questions were inappropriate.

[blue_wayfinder]

"Like water..." She mused, "Yes, that's one way of thinking about it. But unlike water it moves best through metal."

Aqua gave her a sheepish smile, "I'm sorry. I'm not sure if I'm really the best person to be explaining this. Technology isn't something I'm very good with."

[faintly_smiles]

It moved through metal, which was surrounded by this rubber and it went to that 'machine' to make the lights blink. There was no fire involved by electricity, which flowed. "If this vein... er, wire, is cut, will the electricity escape?"

The explanation was good enough for her, though she still didn't entirely understand it. It would take time no doubt to grasp these new... things. "Your explanation was satisfactory. I understand how the lights work without fire now."

[blue_wayfinder]

She nodded. "That's why it's important that we don't use damaged wires."

"I'm glad to hear that." And indeed, she does sound relieved. "I've never actually thought a lot about how these things worked. I guess I just took it for granted that it did."

[swordofswans]

"Tell me, then, what I shall be."

This particular arrival has no hesitation, he strides easily forward and takes a bold stance. He may not be fond of this, but he is not intimidated by it, either. This fight may not be his choice, but he can choose to meet it without faltering, and here seems to be the first step to doing so. That, after all, appears to be the only way to return to his proper kingdom.