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genessia2015-05-17 04:52 pm
notatriangle) wrote in genessia2015-05-17 04:52 pm
[Video] RIP welcoming hologram
[The video clicks on to show Pascal standing just outside the Bay. She waves at the camera.]
Hey! So, I saw the hologram already. Blah blah abduction, trapped forever, get a job, blah blah. Got a question, though!
[The camera swivels to the hologram stand-- or what was the hologram stand. It's lying in pieces now with all the circuit boards exposed. Pascal continues in the same cheery tone as if this was a totally normal and acceptable thing for her to do. She waves a screwdriver at various parts of the circuitry as she talks.]
I can see that the zippy bit goes to that lump-thing there and I'm guessing that click-click is what's making the projection, but what's the power source? I thought it might be that thing--[She points at an empty container, which anyone from Remnant might recognize it as a dust cartridge.] but when I popped it open to take a look, it was just like-- FWOOSH! And then, uh, that happened.
[She swivels the camera to show that a sizeable chunk of the Bay around her has frozen solid. This includes the water she's standing in. She doesn't seem too concerned about the fact that she's frozen to the floor though. When she turns the camera back to her face, she's beaming.]
It was kinda like the stuff you can do with eleth, but I'm absolutely sure it wasn't eleth. So if you know what it was, help a girl out! Thanks!
[And the video clicks off without so much as an introduction.]
Hey! So, I saw the hologram already. Blah blah abduction, trapped forever, get a job, blah blah. Got a question, though!
[The camera swivels to the hologram stand-- or what was the hologram stand. It's lying in pieces now with all the circuit boards exposed. Pascal continues in the same cheery tone as if this was a totally normal and acceptable thing for her to do. She waves a screwdriver at various parts of the circuitry as she talks.]
I can see that the zippy bit goes to that lump-thing there and I'm guessing that click-click is what's making the projection, but what's the power source? I thought it might be that thing--[She points at an empty container, which anyone from Remnant might recognize it as a dust cartridge.] but when I popped it open to take a look, it was just like-- FWOOSH! And then, uh, that happened.
[She swivels the camera to show that a sizeable chunk of the Bay around her has frozen solid. This includes the water she's standing in. She doesn't seem too concerned about the fact that she's frozen to the floor though. When she turns the camera back to her face, she's beaming.]
It was kinda like the stuff you can do with eleth, but I'm absolutely sure it wasn't eleth. So if you know what it was, help a girl out! Thanks!
[And the video clicks off without so much as an introduction.]
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[She sounds more excited about temperature control than world peace, but hey, at least she's not thinking about weaponizing it.]
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[ Then again, Weiss was a little more keen on fashion. ] That would be useful for making sure that people being sent into harsh environments didn't succumb to the weather regardless, though. It could certainly help improve survivability during missions and explorations.
[ World peace isn't something Weiss thinks is even possible. Their "time of peace" in Remnant is a time she's known as a period during which the White Fang hunted down her family. What people accept as "peace" is just a matter of things not being their direct problem. So she doesn't harp on the emphasis on the temperature conversation over world peace. It makes more sense to her anyway.
Honestly, if they find a way out of Genessia, bringing home an invention that could do that could probably improve work conditions in some of the Schnee quarries. Not that it's the most pressing thing that needs improving in the quarries.. but it'd certainly be something to check off the list. ]
..Are you capable of doing something like that?
[ The way she was talking about it, she seemed way too enthusiastic about inventions to just be fantasizing. Combined with the interest in Dust and the clear intent to experiment on her hologram, it's entirely possible that this person could be useful. ]
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[An immediate answer. She's enthusiastic about the idea, mind you. Changing clothes, like most aspects of personal hygiene, is just a tedious distraction from the important things in life. The pursuit of knowledge. Family and friends. Banana pies. But when she considers the time and effort it would take, it seems pretty trivial compared to... y'know... getting home before the impending apocalypse.]
I'd need something to keep the air in so I'd need like, a giant hamster ball or something, and I bet people would get tired of that. [She tilts her head to the side.] Unless I put it on wheels... of course if I did that it would have trouble getting over sand and snow so I'd have to make some kinda special treads...
[Wait! Stop! Focus!]
Buuuut forget about it for now. I'd rather figure this place out so I can get home while home's still a thing.
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Anyway, even if you can't do something like that, you certainly sound like you've got some experience with inventions. What kind of job did you have back home?
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[She didn't look especially tense before, but her relief is obvious.]
Whew! Well, that's one less thing to think about.
Back home I was a self-employed researcher engineer archaeologist kinda thing.
[In other words, a wandering bum.]
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It sounds like you have no credentials or actual job description when you put it that way.
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[Wow Weiss, why are you saying that like it's a bad thing?]
See, all those academic guys who give credentials are super boring when you're as awesome as I am. And I've been all over the world, so I'm worldly to boot!
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[ Weiss isn't sure if she wants to engage this person in an idea or not. Maybe there's some way to test her. ]
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Nah. My hometown's famous for its engineers, and my work kinda speaks for itself. If someone's going to ignore me cause I don't have credentials, they're probably too dumb to boss me around anyway.
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[Pascal is a genius in certain areas, but reading people isn't one of them. Besides, why should she think about getting a job? She can if she wants one, but she did pretty ok without one back on Ephinea! Well- okayish.]
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[She has to think about that for a second. It sounds cool, but she's never been real good at the whole 'gainful employment' thing. Mostly because they want you to sit still and do what they tell you, and who's got time for that?]
Welllll, I'm probably gonna work on that anyway so I may as well make some moolah doing it.
What kind of test did ya have in mind? Oooh, wait, I've got it-- I can make you a little robot Weiss to do the spiel since the hologram's down!
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[She salutes and cuts the feed.
Weiss will get a call back maybe 30 minutes later. Pascal is drenched but smiling.]
Ok, are you ready to be impressed? Dun-dun-da-daaaaaaaah!
[With a flourish, she holds up... a notebook. It's covered in scribbly near-illegible handwriting and a very precise illustration of the bay, including the hammocks and hologram, but with a few extra devices sketched out around the walls. She's a surprisingly good artist.]
So it's not a real device, but it'd be kinda rough to build that cause I'd need to cannibalize this communicat-y thing for parts, but this schematic oughta do.
It's a thing to tell you when someone arrives and send you a photo as they come in! This little beam goes pew pew and when it's interrupted, yknow by a weird hammock thing or someone walking around, it'll be like WOAH RED ALERT! and send a thing to the camera up there so it'll flash real bright so they look up and then SNAP!
Pretty cool, huh?
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[ It sounds like a traffic light camera that snaps your photo when you run the light. It isn't exactly new and innovative by Remnant standards, but she knows most worlds have different tech levels. ]
How about this? Don't take apart anything here and head over to Nova City and buy the parts. I'll reimburse you, and you build that for me. If you build it and it works, you've got a job.
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[She echoes the phrase slowly as if she's testing it out-- because she is. Her world's just starting to get the hang of any cameras.]
What a great name for it! Tell you what, when I build this motion sensor camera and you hire me, you get to name all my inventions. See you soon!
[It takes ages for Pascal to call her back this time. Building the device was relatively fast. Her schematics were fine, so she just had to figure out what the parts were actually called. The problem was that Pascal hasn't been to Nova City before, and releasing a technophile into the wilderness of hovercars and holodecks and stores that sold thousands of components that Pascal has never even dreamt of... well. She's like a kid with their first Lego set. By the time she does call back she has the device, but she also has several partially-built machines lying around her. The outer shell for a robot that looks like a cartoon dolphin. Shoes bolted to little scissor lifts. Who needs rent money when you can have a doohickey that plays music with lightning bolts?]
Weiss! Weiss, this place has hovercars! And did you know there's a little shop under that all night diner where they can print stuff in chocolate?!
voice now i'm guessing?
...Which is not what she sees when she hears from Pascal again. ]
Remind me to take you into Vale sometime if you're that impressed with hover cars and chocolate.
Pascal's still video! She got new components instead of taking apart her phone.
I've got the thing though.
[She holds up the device. It's an unpolished prototype so it's all tiny circuit boards and long wires, but it does resemble her schematics.]
It's kinda wonky because apparently stuff here is powered on some kinda packaged lightning, but it'll work as long as we keep it out of the water. You want me to bring it over, or you wanna meet at the bay, or what?
Roger! video it is then.
Meet me at the Schnee Company building just outside of the Bay.
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[She's practically hyperventilating. Yeah, Weiss, you're not getting out of that offer now.]
Ok, right, Schnee Company building outside the bay! I'll be there in a flash!
[Spoiler alert: she's not there in a flash. She used all her money on gadgets and components so she has to go on foot, and before she can start walking she has to
bullyconvince a shopkeep to hold some of her works in progress behind the counter for a bit. She probably should've had the foresight to rent a locker or something before she made all this stuff, but hey, it worked out!She takes one extra invention with her, though. When she shows up at the Schnee Company building, she's gained a few inches thanks to her scissor-lift shoes. She's got them collapsed because it's just not practical to walk around on two-foot tall platforms, but now if she needs to be super tall she can! You know, in case she needs to make herself look big to scare off a wild animal, or reach something on the top shelf as part of the job interview. She's not really sure what a job interview entails so she figures she'll just be prepared for anything!
She clunks her way into the lobby with the wires of the motion sensor camera draped across her shoulders like an avant garde necklace and pauses just inside the doorway, searching for Weiss.]
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