Day 219 [Open]

[daughterofursa]

Who: Zuko and anyone
Open: Open!
When: Day 219, morning
Where: By the lake
What: Being Paar's secretary
Format: I'll match
Warnings: Honor

Zuko can be found by the lake shore, on the Dragonfield side, with a few piles of stone slabs nearby. Many here should clearly recognize the marks carved into the stone as Dovahzul, and some of Paarthurnax's students might pick out the names and skills of those in the Bastion. Zuko has a stack of paper in her lap and is transcribing them with a writing brush. For the ones she understands, she's also adding a line in her own language (traditional Chinese to any Earth folk), and for the ones she doesn't, she's leaving space until she can ask Paarthurnax. Every now and again she makes a note aside on a separate sheet, more for herself.

Some of the turtle ducks are milling around in the water nearby. One particularly curious one is hanging around by her inkstone and probably in need of being shooed away before it gets ink on itself.

Comments

[littlerat]

It's normal where I'm from. [ a small, friendly shrug. ] If you meet trainers from the same world with me, they'll have balls like these too.

[ Back to Lapras again, quickly speaking to the creature: ] Can you let them know I'm bringing out more? I'll let out Blastoise next. [ he motions towards a direction in the water ] Around there.

[ The pokémon nods, then turns to face the lake and all those in it before closing his eyes. Even Zuko will pick up on the message, soothing and masculine though spoken telepathically - 'another will join us in the water; please do not be alarmed. He will stay close to me.'

A pause.

'...and we have food to share, too, if you are all hungry.' ]

[daughterofursa]

[Between Skysong and Tobias, Zuko is no stranger to mind-speak by now, but the turtle ducks still find this all very strange and they'll be keeping their distance, thanks.]

I'm not sure they can really understand that. They're just animals.

[littlerat]

So are pokémon. [ He takes the bread again, separating it into chunks. ] But it was worth trying.

[ At least there was plenty of lake for them all. From under the bread he takes up another ball, and from inside in the same fashion as Pikachu and Lapras comes out another creature, a much larger and less fuzzy turtle thing. The waters around him move as his presence comes into being, and he's less quiet as Lapras yawning loudly and deeply, and then flopping his body down onto the water, all of his limbs disappearing inside. Yeah, five more minutes guys.

But for all this commotion, Red will break up some more bread just for the turtle ducks, throwing it with a decent enough aim towards where they're keeping back, a few small handfuls at a time. He claps his hands to brush off the crumbs that still stick. ]

Anyway, sorry, I interrupted you before. You were speaking about an inventory.

[daughterofursa]

That one spoke.

[Animals don't generally speak, as far as Zuko is concerned. And Pikachu seems to understand human speech well, even better than animals like Appa. But, these pokemon are clearly very different animals, so maybe that's normal for them.

The turtle ducks seem to be calming down a bit, pecking at the bread in the water and cautiously meandering closer to these large animals. At least they are all turtle things?]

Inventory? Oh, right. Well- you're right that there's nothing all of us are going to understand. Some people here can't read at all. But there's technology that can record voices, right? Like that screen play last week. [She means "movie."]

[littlerat]

[ Getting into explanations is perhaps... for a later time, and a different discussion. For now, Red looks curious at her description. ]

Screen play?

[daughterofursa]

You didn't see it? The one with the space ships and the metal people.

[littlerat]

No... [ uhh ] But I guess it was a TV show or a movie?

[daughterofursa]

Is that what they're called?

[littlerat]

I'm guessing. How was it set up?

[daughterofursa]

...well, there was a big screen set up here in the field, with images projected onto it. And sound coming out of these boxes.

[She feels like she has all the wrong words for this, but they just don't have these things where she's from.]

[littlerat]

[ But he thinks he's getting it! ]

Was there like a box pointed to the big screen? And how long did the story go on for?

[ Also Pikachu is going to BRB off to somewhereeee. ]

[daughterofursa]

Yeah, I think there was. And it was only a couple hours.

[Glancing at Pikachu but not thinking anything of it.]

[littlerat]

The box was called a projector. I'm going to say what you watched was a movie; it sounds like it was.

[ Or just watching something on a big screen like that screams movie more than TV soap drama. ]

But your idea sounds good. There's ways of recording your voice, and there's also programmes where you can select and choose what you want to listen about. Something like that would make it more organised, but it depends on what Colin can do.

[daughterofursa]

Really? Like it could recognize what you say to it?

[littlerat]

If you wanted to record your message? Yeah. You select a record option on whatever it is you're recording with and then you say what want to keep. It then picks that up and saves it onto the machine. That's how a recording works.

[daughterofursa]

You say all that like it's so simple...

[littlerat]

It's normal to me. I mean, it's everyday technology back where I'm from. I couldn't tell you how any of it actually works, but I know how to use some of it.

[daughterofursa]

The most advanced technology back home was all created for war. We didn't have the things I see around here, that don't do any harm.

[littlerat]

[ Well, that's something to be silent for a moment for. ]

...A recording machine at least won't hurt you. [ Physically, anyway. ] People use them for keeping notes. Things are more advanced on my world than here as far as I've seen - we don't have a Monument that can make doughnut trees, but we've got more- well, more of different things. It's hard to think up examples off the top of my head. [ hm ] Vehicles?

[daughterofursa]

We had tanks and airships, but you probably mean ones that aren't equipped with weapons. Like... cars. I think that's what they were called.

[littlerat]

Yeah, cars -- and trucks. We've had wars in my world as well but [ he shakes his head ] it's nothing how it sounds for you.

[ ... ] Have you ever heard of a travelling carnival?

[daughterofursa]

Sure. I never went to any, but we had them.

[littlerat]

The kind with ferris wheels and mechanical rides?

[daughterofursa]

Uh... no.

What are those?

[littlerat]

Ferris wheels are rides in a large circular shape - you know, like a wheel - with small boxed shaped rooms at the ends. It goes round in a circle, slowly - it's kind of a relaxing ride that lets you go high up than a roller-coaster, those are way faster.

Couples usually go on them I think, but friends or a single person can. [ He shrugs a little. ] I haven't actually been on one.