Day 137 | Open

[freedom_engineer]

Who: Colin and anyone curious about what he's doing.
Open: Open
When: Day 137, around midday
Where: Northwestern Bastion, open ground
What: Colin's surveying for a new building
Format Can match.
Warnings: Colin's deeply engrossed in his survey. He may be more of a socially impaired derp than usual.

[Colin has been positively hyperactive today. He wolfed down his breakfast like a man possessed, snagged a couple of fruit to eat in the field, and made sure to get his chores done far ahead of schedule. After that, he grabbed several wooden stakes and set himself to the task of analyzing the ground beneath his feet. Unseen, his eye has been taking detailed measurements of all of the buildings in the Bastion, and he's been setting out the stakes to mark an outline of a new building. Anyone feel like approaching him?]

Comments

[freedom_engineer]

Oh, I won't dispute that. People, of all shapes and sizes, are adept at finding their way to survive, and doing so with great aplomb.

Still, there are certain things that I can't help but imagine would be useful. If the shout is dependant upon volume or projection, a vocal amplifier could do amazing things to increase the potency.

And of course, the possiblity of giving you some mechanical digits to allow for mechanical manipulation down the line.

[He chuckles quietly and grins.]

None of this is anything I'd force on you, mind you. Just thinking aloud.

[wayofvoice]

As long as it is remembered that our resources are limited, so your creations must be chosen with care for now. I look forward to what you craft regardless.

[But back to the talk about the Thu'um, since that will forever hold his interest.]

An amplifier... I assume that would make me louder, correct?

[freedom_engineer]

[Colin nods in answer.]

Oh, I know that our resources are limited. A lot of my early creations are going to be along the lines of necessities, and refinements to a couple of older technologies. Older to me, anyway.

Where I'm from, though, we know how to make things only as big as they need to be.

And yeah, an amplifier can boost your volume. There's also systems I can make to enhance the range the sound waves can travel. And of course, speakers can relocate where sounds come from AND amplify them as well.

I'm just wondering how the nature of your voice will respond to technology. It could give you whole new approaches to what you do... or it could horribly destroy the devices in question.

If you're game, I'd LOVE to find out.

[wayofvoice]

Our voice can already travel a long distance. Hopefully I will not make blood flow forth from your ears if we are to use such a system.

[After all, the Greybeards could be to be heard throughout a... decent portion of Skyrim. Paarthurnax is quite certain that even without practice, he could be heard throughout the whole of it.]

Greh, I would be very "game", as you refer to it. We can start with the less... violent aspects of my voice first.

[freedom_engineer]

Ah, well, I won't worry too much about a personal projection unit, then. Although, if I can get a speaker system set up in the Bastion, it would probably be a good thing to let alarms and stuff be heard even out on the Skyway...

[WOO! Tangent!]

But that's much later.

[Colin smiles apologetically.]

For now, I need to get my workshop built first. The extent of what I can do without proper tools is sadly limited. Field repairs and barracks science projects, more or less.

[wayofvoice]

Of course. If there is anyway of which I can be of assistance, let me know.

[He can't do the delicate stuff, but... Y'know, he can move shit.]

[freedom_engineer]

You have been more than enough help already, Paarth. That said, in the next few days, I'm going to be needing to move a lot of salvage... Both from my apartment, and from the skyway.

The workshop's going to have a storage room for things that I can use, and I intend to fill it quickly.

Oh, and maybe in a week, I want to try and go back to the Mancer's facility. That hangar.... I need to do some work there. And we still need to deal with the plant there. I can't think of anyone I'd rather have with me on that than you.

[Some day, SOME DAY, Colin will help make it so he can do delicate shit...]

[wayofvoice]

I will bring back what I can, then.

[Ah yes, the Mancer's facility... Paar has heard about what happened down there where he could not go. He's been thinking about that himself.]

What variety of plant is it? I can breathe frost and fire- either would kill it, if it is not used to such things.

[freedom_engineer]

I'm not sure, actually. I was trying to analyze it, but it attacked us before I could get anything good. The only thing I know for certain is that it's not ambulatory, and that it appears to hunt by touch. We were walking near it, and it didn't react until we touched it. Its attacks were clumsy, like it only had a general idea of where we were.

I suspect that we could hurt it with extreme cold, but without knowing how long it's been growing underground, that's pure conjecture. I have no idea what it's subsisting on, other than whatever meals are stupid enough to get too close to it.

I'm hesitant to use fire on it, since it seems to have taken up residence in the archives. I'm HOPING that some of the files there survived. But I think that's unlikely. Removing that plant would just be a goodwill gesture to whatever's still living there, as well as a safety precaution for us.