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bixing the science king ([personal profile] engineers) wrote2023-02-07 06:49 am
forefall: (where the torches of evening kindle a da)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-08 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ this catchall image hurts me.

four returns the smile although it's a big more restrained. ]


Hello. I'm slowly adapting. I'm not used to most of the things offered to us.

[ outside of how things are out of her time, hell quality is hell.

she moves closer to the books. ]


I see you've taken a great number of books.
forefall: (that you are a semblance)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-08 05:50 am (UTC)(link)
[ what a nerd! not that four can judge because she wants to be a nerd.

she hesitates for a second, but she does sit in the chair indicated. she looks over the titles with interest. ]


There are a lot of strange things. There's much I'm unfamiliar with.

[ and it's setting her more on edge than giving her comfort in more than one way. ]

Is that... something you wrote?

[ she gestures at a historical treaty on the eden system. ]
forefall: (of short-lived summers)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-09 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Everything else may be strange and new and out there, but reading is the same no matter where or when you go.

[ the way she has had to acknowledge how people are from different worlds and times is too wild for her brain to process.

she wrinkles her nose at the drawn dick, her brows furrowing. she's scandalized. ]


Hell makes even books crude. Will you tell me about the Eden System?

[ sounds like something that'll be way over her head. ]
forefall: (of short-lived summers)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-10 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ this is almost sensory overload. if modern twenty-first century tech takes four storm, the tech from lbx's world makes her gape. it's a lot to process, and she can't quite imagine simply thinking to operate anything like the phone.

even with her own kind of magic in her fantasy world, that's not quite possible. her brows furrow, after her astonishment begins to fade. ]


I don't think I can understand fully because of how much I still have to learn about how some technology works, but it sounds like this Eden System was as out of reach of its goal as what it was named after.

What problems made it unusable?
forefall: (soon we shall plunge)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-10 08:39 pm (UTC)(link)
[ four is unfortunately a sunflower to the sun of approval, so she preens a little, in her own way, in the way she looks a little livelier with brighter eyes. ]

... So it was for the elite and the privilege, and it was abused in the worst ways. I'm glad it was shut down, then. It's all right to rely on something and ask for and receive help, but a dependency like that sounds like a disease.

[ four can't imagine what a perfect life is like. ]

Why did you write a book about the Eden System, if you lived somewhere where no one could use it?
forefall: (like a stormy night)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-10 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
[ four is visibly distressed. She didn't think you can get murdered if you're already murdered. ]

It could be some silly but terrible joke message, right? Poor demon or Hell humor in bad taste?
forefall: (pours out confusedly)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-10 11:55 pm (UTC)(link)
I thought.... I thought being locked up was the demons upping our suffering... I did see fire before...

[ this is confusing. ]

Did it happen to all of us? I'm not hurt. Are you all right?
forefall: (you scatter perfumes)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-11 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
[ her anxiety has her wringing her gloved hands, as if she can remain calm if she can keep her hands from moving too much. ]

I'm glad nothing too terrible happened to you other than the unexpected lock down. I was trapped in the library.
forefall: (divine and infernal)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-11 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
[ she stills, tenses for a long a moment, but she doesn't withdraw or push his hand away. ]

No. There were four others with me.
forefall: (you contain in your eyes)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-11 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
[ she doesn't really know how to take how positive he's been towards her. it's been near constant, and it's a little weird. it's not like she hasn't been given love or support in her life, but they are in Hell. or it's supposed to be Hell. ]

None of us could get the door open, no matter how much we tried. Misery loves company, but I'd think less of myself I let it get to me too much.

[ she tries to smile, but it's a little more like a grimace. ]

Do you think we can find out what happened and why?
forefall: (o heavens!)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-11 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
[ she doesn't quite understand how neural networks work, but the though of connecting her brain to anything is a bit alarming. maybe that's how his society has grown to accept what's best, but four, in her ye olde fantasy mindset, finds it a bit scary. ]

So people only have to think to defend themselves in the end? It'd be an easier or simpler way to survive?

[ she isn't going to mention how she doesn't know what mechs are. ]
forefall: (perfume that makes one dream of distant)

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-11 04:47 pm (UTC)(link)
If or when they decide to be reachable again.

[ she sounds a little petulant about that. ]

That they'd disappear today when we all received that message doesn't bode well.
forefall: (emptier and deeper than you are)

week 0, saturday

[personal profile] forefall 2023-02-12 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[ four is sitting somewhere lbx will go, looking something between incensed and pitiful. she's holding her head in her hands before lets go to punch the ground.

she lifts her head. ]


He only made things worse.

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