week 2, tuesday

[seaclipsed]

[ katara is seated in front of the bonfire, cooking... well, fish. fish is probably like 90% of everyone's diet at this point honestly.

anyway, this is a good opportunity for anyone to come by. it's almost midnight don't expect me to write anything more eloquent than this dammit. ]

Comments

[vipmix]

Hmmm... Isn't insulting others her default? So long as she's not threatening murder, I think she's still pretty neutral.

[seaclipsed]

... she does threaten to do that a lot doesn't she.

[ and this takes place before she almost burns them all alive so ha ha ]

[vipmix]

[she threatened to burn josh but like. shrug emoji he can do that himself]

So far, yes. But who knows? Maybe she's all bark and no bite.

[seaclipsed]

[ it must be nice to be able to make those kinds of jokes now ]

Anyone here could be like that, honestly.

[vipmix]

[ITD BE NICER IF THIS THREAD STOPPED]

That's true enough... but I wouldn't count on it.

[seaclipsed]

[ no ]

So you think they're going to bite.

[vipmix]

Like cornered animals.

[seaclipsed]

Is that how it went in your game? From what you've played so far.

[vipmix]

Players weren't pitted against each other. [ ... well, not that they knew of :'') ] Winning wasn't as much of a zero sum game.

[seaclipsed]

Huh... so what did you go against, then?

[vipmix]

Hmmm, well... The people who run the game, creatures called Noise who can erase Players... And a deadline. There's a mission every day, and failure to complete it within the given time means erasure. That's about it, I believe.

[he says. like he doesn't run it.]

[seaclipsed]

Huh... what kind of missions are they? Are they difficult?

[ it does sound pretty different from this, yes. ]

[vipmix]

It varies. [wow. such detail. much explain.] Why? Interested in playing?

[seaclipsed]

Hm, I think I've had enough games here.

[vipmix]

I thought so. [shrugs] There's really nothing for you to gain from it, anyway.

[seaclipsed]

Except for a knowledge of technology that is absent from my world, I guess.

[ computers............. ]

[vipmix]

The variation in technology across the board is rather fascinating, isn't it?

[...that's not what she said at all]

[seaclipsed]

Most of it is going straight over my head, if I'm honest.

[vipmix]

Well, of course. You don't have any example of it... or anything to compare it to.

[seaclipsed]

I would say I could go home and help make technical advances with all this information, but I don't even know what most of this stuff even looks like.

[ all she's seen is a mp3 player and it just looks like a tiny box that makes sounds. ]

[vipmix]

Even if you did, it's difficult to say whether you could replicate it, since you said there wasn't much in the way of machinery in your universe. You're probably better off not trying.

[seaclipsed]

I guess... I could tell people about it though. I know some inventors, maybe they can make something even better.

[vipmix]

"Even better"... That's a bit of a leap, isn't it? If they've never heard of anything like that before, saying you've heard of "a small box that can play music" isn't going to do much for them.

[seaclipsed]

It wouldn't kill you to be supportive for once in your life.

[vipmix]

[no but fire might]

Hee hee... Did I offend you? Inventions like that are tricky to replicate even with the proper technology, and it's likely to cause all sorts of trouble if you try to bypass the normal learning curve.