Mel spent all morning working with Arthur, pouring over ideas and looking at this rift from every possible angle.
Despite being fairly engrossed in her work she does takes a moment here and there to just admire Arthur's abilities as well as how well everyone seems to be working together. (but mostly watching Arthur work)
ya know, I still have this feeling that this rift is being controlled by someone or something. I just can't prove it, but I fear that the best place to activate the device would be inside the rift. all my calculations give that the best chance of success.
"I'm not sure if a rift like this can be controlled. Someone or something could be trying for all we know, but the most important thing is that we close this thing. We can worry about assigning blame later when our universe isn't in danger of destruction."
"Are you going to be able to get out of the rift after activating the device?" she asked, concerned.
Lucas sends a quick telepathic projection to ardente telling him they'd meet up later before he follows the the others to the food, hoping they knew where it was so his own ignorance would not be revealed, this being mostly a force of habit.
Elektra used the wall arrow trick and the group was soon headed to the cafeteria along with most of the rest of the crowd.
"So am I allowed to join you, or are you enjoying alone time? I promise not to be offended if you tell me that you're kinda over the whole family time thing," Solas said as he approached his sister.
Cindra looks up at Solas and the smile grows across her face, "Of course you can join me, I am not intentionally trying to sit alone. It just worked out that way." She pauses for a bite, then continues, "Are you enjoying your classes?"
Keme carefully and thoroughly went through the video footage. That was the fifth time he'd seen that strange skip. He sighed.
"Professor, I apologize for interrupting the universe saving operations, but may I ask a quick question? Is it possible that someone could effect the nanite security system via telepathy? Like, changing its memory?"
When both firebird girls walk into the cafeteria, they see a very strange sight indeed: a tall elven boy with black hair and an Avalon-school uniform-with the strange accompaniment of a green blindfold with the Avalon symbol-walks in, guided by a winged cat you may recognize as Ruji. He gives a respectful bow, and then goes to fetch some food from the elven cuisine. He also makes a stop by the catfolk section to grab some fish-and then proceeds, after some consideration, to sit down where you, Sadie, Ginni, and Tami usually sit.
He eats efficiently-with exactly 27 bites per mouthful, if she notices such things-but not quickly. Every once in a while, he cocks his head, as if listening to something, and throws one of the sardines in the air. They go up, but they don't come down...
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She was kinda shocked to see someone sitting in Rodhas's spot....well, it wasn't like he was using it anymore. She blinked away tears and tried to think about something else, anything else. The new guy made her almost motion sick looking at him he had such a difficult pattern. She shook her head and looked away, trying to be patient as she waited in line to get food.
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Mel spent all morning working with Arthur, pouring over ideas and looking at this rift from every possible angle.
Despite being fairly engrossed in her work she does takes a moment here and there to just admire Arthur's abilities as well as how well everyone seems to be working together. (but mostly watching Arthur work)
ya know, I still have this feeling that this rift is being controlled by someone or something. I just can't prove it, but I fear that the best place to activate the device would be inside the rift. all my calculations give that the best chance of success.
"I'm not sure if a rift like this can be controlled. Someone or something could be trying for all we know, but the most important thing is that we close this thing. We can worry about assigning blame later when our universe isn't in danger of destruction."
"Are you going to be able to get out of the rift after activating the device?" she asked, concerned.
"That's what I'm working on, my simulations show that most power sources would be depleted too quickly in such a storm, and most of what remained would either not have enough output, or explode, trying to find something that works without doing that one by one would take forever, needle, haystack, you know? But then I figured, the rift itself is a huge source of energy, I just need to build a collector, that was relatively easy the problem I'm facing now is trying to find something that conducts that energy without degrading, gold conducts best but degrades really quick, on the opposite end adamanite doesn't degrade hardly at all but seems to actually repel the energy in low concentrations, still trying to figure the why's on that, I've run simulations on cold iron, platinum, iron, copper, various grades of steel, silver, blood crystals, Siccatite, deep crystal, heck even dragon bones, no idea where we'd find some of this stuff if it did work but I'm running the simulations anyway, so far mithril world the best of what I've tested, it stands up to degradation fairly well while being an excellent conductor right now I'm running a simulation on Horacalcum, it's a sky metal said to bend time, so worth a shot, though I don't have a lot of data on it, it's rather rare, if that doesn't work I'll start looking into alloys" he sighs rather frustrated "I've got schematics on every safety feature I can think of, mechanical armor release fail safe, a light padded under armor, multiple heat sinks, a force field generators, redundant circuitry, battery backups, mithril composition for light weight...but it doesn't feel like enough..." He pounds the table with his fist "Damn it! What am I missing!"
vis sits in the corner of the younger kid's lunchroom, quietly drawing.
"You should eat." His big sisters tells him, putting a plate next to his drawing. "Every burgeoning priest of extraplanar stuff only he understands needs to eat."
"Stay calm, Arthur. Any of those materials can be assembled as long as we have the molecular structure model to work from. Let me see your designs. Send them to my console here. I'll look them over and see if I can help."
"Keme....ordinarily no, but the whole system is full of glitches since the reboot. It's kind of like a hive intelligence in some ways...an extremely powerful telepath might be able to exploit that if the failsafes are disengaged....I take it this is what you're telling me has happened?"
vis sits in the corner of the younger kid's lunchroom, quietly drawing."You should eat." His big sisters tells him, putting a plate next to his drawing. "Every burgeoning priest of extraplanar stuff only he understands needs to eat."
"Alright, alright."
vis gets up and comes back with a small plate of food. He goes back to drawing without even touching it.
"Vissy, come on, actually eat." She sighs, messing up his air. "You know you don't ike being fed and I don't really like being the one to do it..."
Janie twirled her drumsticks and beat out a rhythm only she could hear as she stood in the lunch line.
"Vissy, come on, actually eat." She sighs, messing up his air. "You know you don't ike being fed and I don't really like being the one to do it..."
Vis sighs and eats, pushing his drawing out of the way.
He shrugged and sat down. "Meditation was kinda boring, but I enjoyed light blades okay. It was better than meditation anyways," he said, rolling his eyes. "How about you?"
"Alchemy was pretty weird, I think that Professor Yrrum is more than a little insane. I liked it though. History made me almost fall asleep. Twice. I have something called "gunkata" after lunch. That should be interesting. So far I like it here."
Pyrrhos leaves his class to go to the cafeteria and looks around briefly. So many... refugees from the firebird camp wouldn't be kept secret by the families for long. What would happen then?
What would happen if it didn't?
Tyrrin stretches all her limbs out, sitting at the desk in her classroom. It had been a long time since she'd taxed her body and magic as she had over the weekend and it was a pleasant feeling to stretch away the stiffness.
Once the last of her students filed out, Tyrrin stood and placed a hand on the wall, calling forth the arrows to find Jaiye. She was still seriously lacking on information of what had occurred over the weekend.
He shrugged and sat down. "Meditation was kinda boring, but I enjoyed light blades okay. It was better than meditation anyways," he said, rolling his eyes. "How about you?""Alchemy was pretty weird, I think that Professor Yrrum is more than a little insane. I liked it though. History made me almost fall asleep. Twice. I have something called "gunkata" after lunch. That should be interesting. So far I like it here."
"Vissy, come on, actually eat." She sighs, messing up his air. "You know you don't ike being fed and I don't really like being the one to do it..."Vis sighs and eats, pushing his drawing out of the way.
"See? Not so bad. I even burned it just how you like!" She says as she starts eating her own food. "Make any friends yet?"
"No."
vis says, rather plainly.
Ace wanders into the lunchroom looking rather despondent, avoiding any of this friends and not bothering to even say hi. Those who have befriended him or even been around him enough know that this is a drastic out of character change in behavior.
He stands in line, silently waiting for his food.
Ace may notice that there's some new elf guy sitting where Rodhas used to sit and throwing sardines to Ruji.
"Stay calm, Arthur. Any of those materials can be assembled as long as we have the molecular structure model to work from. Let me see your designs. Send them to my console here. I'll look them over and see if I can help."
"Keme....ordinarily no, but the whole system is full of glitches since the reboot. It's kind of like a hive intelligence in some ways...an extremely powerful telepath might be able to exploit that if the failsafes are disengaged....I take it this is what you're telling me has happened?"
He shrugged. "It's a theory. I keep finding these weird skips in the recordings. The times line up."
He shrugged. "It's a theory. I keep finding these weird skips in the recordings. The times line up.""Stay calm, Arthur. Any of those materials can be assembled as long as we have the molecular structure model to work from. Let me see your designs. Send them to my console here. I'll look them over and see if I can help."
"Keme....ordinarily no, but the whole system is full of glitches since the reboot. It's kind of like a hive intelligence in some ways...an extremely powerful telepath might be able to exploit that if the failsafes are disengaged....I take it this is what you're telling me has happened?"
"Okay, leave me a log of the times and I'll see if I can't figure out what caused the skips. In the meantime, you should go eat." Her stomach growled. "And ask at the cafeteria if they can send lunches for us here. Universe saving can't be interrupted, but we need to eat too."
Tyrrin stretches all her limbs out, sitting at the desk in her classroom. It had been a long time since she'd taxed her body and magic as she had over the weekend and it was a pleasant feeling to stretch away the stiffness.
Once the last of her students filed out, Tyrrin stood and placed a hand on the wall, calling forth the arrows to find Jaiye. She was still seriously lacking on information of what had occurred over the weekend.
Jaiye intercepts her in the hallway, clearly looking for Tyrrin. "Hey....I....don't know quite where to start. I have so much to tell you," Jaiye blurted out. "Ummm....we're gonna need some privacy. Some of this is not stuff I wanna talk about in public."
Jessa looks at the ice wall, then back to Nala speaking loud enough to be heard, "Thank you. this place is going to be more than a little overwhelming."
Ace wanders into the lunchroom looking rather despondent, avoiding any of this friends and not bothering to even say hi. Those who have befriended him or even been around him enough know that this is a drastic out of character change in behavior.
He stands in line, silently waiting for his food.
Spotting Ace entering the cafeteria, Repp breaks away from the conversation he was having and walks slowly over to him, dodging the bigger folks crowding the place. He's obviously fairly subdued himself.
"Any improvement?" he asks quietly as he slides in next to Ace.
Ardiente acknowledges Lucas' telepathic communication and gives Elektra a nervous grin, overhearing her as the group heads out.
"Erm... Professor, can I talk to you?" Ardiente asks, feeling a rush of nerves. Despite that, he's standing prim and proper with his hands clasped behind his back.
Jessa looks at the ice wall, then back to Nala speaking loud enough to be heard, "Thank you. this place is going to be more than a little overwhelming."
"Um. You're welcome. Um. I didn't do it on purpose. Sometimes I still get a little overwhelmed by the crowds myself. It would seem," she said, somewhat uncomfortably.
Jaiye intercepts her in the hallway, clearly looking for Tyrrin. "Hey....I....don't know quite where to start. I have so much to tell you," Jaiye blurted out. "Ummm....we're gonna need some privacy. Some of this is not stuff I wanna talk about in public."
Tyrrin raises an eyebrow and glances around at the busy hallway. "My room, yours, or the observatory?"
Ardiente acknowledges Lucas' telepathic communication and gives Elektra a nervous grin, overhearing her as the group heads out.
"Erm... Professor, can I talk to you?" Ardiente asks, feeling a rush of nerves. Despite that, he's standing prim and proper with his hands clasped behind his back.
"Hmm?" Sorchan looked up from updating his lesson plans. "Yes, of course. What's on your mind?" he asked, setting aside the grade book and sitting on the edge of his desk.
Jaiye intercepts her in the hallway, clearly looking for Tyrrin. "Hey....I....don't know quite where to start. I have so much to tell you," Jaiye blurted out. "Ummm....we're gonna need some privacy. Some of this is not stuff I wanna talk about in public."Tyrrin raises an eyebrow and glances around at the busy hallway. "My room, yours, or the observatory?"
"I'm thinking we're less likely to be interrupted in the observatory."
::She blushed at the boy. I hope that's a good sign...:: Ryuzo sends to Nala.
Janie twirled her drumsticks and beat out a rhythm only she could hear as she stood in the lunch line.
"Hey!" he says walking up to Janie. "How's your day going?"
::She blushed at the boy. I hope that's a good sign...:: Ryuzo sends to Nala.
::I think it probably is. Connections with other people will help her gain the motivation and strength to keep the other at bay. She needs to know that she is not alone.::
Archena had gotten there fairly ahead of the crowd and had already taken a seat.
She waves to Raelle with a smile.
Janie twirled her drumsticks and beat out a rhythm only she could hear as she stood in the lunch line."Hey!" he says walking up to Janie. "How's your day going?"
"Well, I got detention for 'disrupting class' so could be better. But nothing too awful," she said with an irrepressible grin.
Hermes stands to the side of Arthur's station, ready to receive commands.
::Sounds like it. When you say wish, you mean the lower kind, right? Not the big reality altering kind, right? That would be... illadvised...::
He follows through the portal, nodding good luck to the angels.
"Well, I got detention for 'disrupting class' so could be better. But nothing too awful," she said with an irrepressible grin.Janie twirled her drumsticks and beat out a rhythm only she could hear as she stood in the lunch line."Hey!" he says walking up to Janie. "How's your day going?"
Gets a serious look, but her grin is semi-infectous. "Oh my gosh! What did you do?"
Lewis continues to cower...
::I think it probably is. Connections with other people will help her gain the motivation and strength to keep the other at bay. She needs to know that she is not alone.::::She blushed at the boy. I hope that's a good sign...:: Ryuzo sends to Nala.
::Good! ...and don't fret about the ice. It seems normal around here anymore, and you are getting better.::
Grim, still somewhat out of breath from his early activity is is also given some significant pause, though is not effected quite as much as his friend and retains some measure of speech as he leans on his friend " you look nice Mindori... Not that you don't always look nice... Just.. Yeah, nice"
Midori is suddenly extremely glad that Ignace didn't come with them, with the way Grim and Lang were reacting. A similar reaction from Ignace - or even the lack of such a reaction - would probably make Midori all flustered and unable to focus.
Instead she just grins at Grim happily. "Thank you, Grim-kun."
already set with food more accustom to each guest's tastes.
Lewis continues to cower...
"Lois. It's just me."
Sara quietly and happily sits besides Lang.
She turns down anything with meat politely.
"Oh..."
He relaxes.
"I knew that..."
Dave's mental voice sounds mildly annoyed ::yes yes, the lesser version, genes why I'm not sure it would work, I know the greater wish would work, what I would be worried about in casting that would be it working too well,::
Alys' eyes go very wide and her head snaps up to meet Ehos' gaze. Unable to speak for several moments, Alys is snapped out of her shock by the ringing of the bell. As she follows Ehos to the racks where the practice weapons are stored she speaks again, more quietly this time. Anyone near enough to hear her speak can feel the shivers as her words pluck at the fabric of reality, and are overwhelmed by feelings of loneliness.
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Again Ehos seems momentarily taken by a fit as Alys speaks, recovering a little more quickly this time and not losing his grip on anything. He does seem to absent rub at his temple afterwards though.
The datapad flashes up once again: 'Er... A name would be a pretty specific thing to guess, wouldn't it?'
The arrows will lead him to the infirmary. You may also pass Jericho, the hedgehog he had with him dragging an indigo t-shirt behind him towards the infirmary.