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[gundamofthedesert]

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[The video opens with very excited Quatre, quite clearly trying to keep from bouncing excitedly]

Fellow passengers of the train, good morning! I made a request for an item and I wasn't actually sure if I'd get it or what it would be if I did, but...

[And he shows off what arrived for him... which just basically looks like a large box]

It is mobile suit cockpit simulator! So it's like piloting a mobile suit without actually piloting one!

[He very briefly showed off the inside of it, which looked like a cockpit]

Once I get it to the games carriage, I'm going to take a look at the options already programmed and add as many as I remember. It'll be available for anyone to try out. Also if you have one that would be piloted like that, I can try to add yours.

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Quatre can either be found in the luggage carriage, trying to figure out to move this very large object... or he can be found in the games carriage once it has been moved, checking what has already been programmed into the system.

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[subcircuits]

A mobile suit-- wait, those are big exos, right? Augmentative mobile exoskeletons?

[gundamofthedesert]

I think so. Are exos like giant suits of armor that you sit in and pilot them? That's general idea of what mobile suits are.

[subcircuits]

I wouldn't say giant, at least not where I come from, but otherwise, yes!

[gundamofthedesert]

Ah, then yes, I would say they are big exos. We had smaller suits, mainly used for construction where the bigger ones wouldn't do so those would probably be similar to exos.

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[pleple]

[ Ple Two takes a bit to get around to showing up, but she pops in while Quatre is working on what the options are. Her concern is that will only have mobile suits from his world - the controls probably aren't horribly different, but she'd like to see if she can still manage the machines she's familiar with. ]

How is the simulator going?

[gundamofthedesert]

[Quatre had taken the small computer out of it so that he could look through all of the information without having to search it on the cockpit. Also that way he could add and modify things if he wanted to. He still remembered the basic information of how his and the other Gundams handled so he should - in theory - be able to add them in if they weren't there.

Also he could definitely play around with this and see if he could add other suits not from his world.

Everything was still connected at least so all he had to do was put it back when he was done playing around with it.

He looked up as she came in and smiled]

It is going well. Already tested it so it does what it is supposed to do. Checking some of the programming now so I can see how this thing works. Interested in taking a look?

[pleple]

[ Ple Two would be picky about specs... assuming her memory of them was good enough. It's been over a year. ]

I'm curious at least. I haven't been in a mobile suit since I arrived, of course, but this is interestingt.

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[yondu]

I ain't ever driven one, but I'm interested in seein' what ya got. 'Could always use some new skills. [He's decently enthusiastic, in that way that he's not doing an exaggerated frown that he usually does for general reactions, both positive and negative. Good news! A thing he'd like to learn? Have an actual smile.]

...You want me to help set ya up? I had to with my flight sim when I picked that up.

[gundamofthedesert]

Of course. I'd be happy to show you. They are quite common in my world. Hence why there is a simulator for someone to practice piloting.

[He's glad that Yondu is excited for it. Good, it was not just him and Tidus who wanted to try this thing out]

Sure, that would be a lot of help. Thanks.

[yondu]

How about I come by and help ya with it?

Who knows, we might get the chance to do that one day. [But if this is the closest he'll get? He'll absolutely try.]

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[blitzcheer]

Heyy, hey!

[ Listen to this excited start of the feed from Tidus! A big grin, and some laughter following! ]

You got it! Hey, I'll be right over! Help you move it!

[ Heheh! ] Remember you owe me first game!

[gundamofthedesert]

Hello!

[He chuckled. Good they were both excited for it]

Sounds good. I could definitely use some help moving it.

[He grinned] Of course. You get the first shot at it.

[blitzcheer]

[ A grin, and wink! ]

On my way!

[ And that'll be his very clear warning that he's coming, Quatre! Tidus promised to help with the relocation, but he's excited too to see this thing in person.

An 'in person' he'll be very soon, cheating by using the transgate set inside the luggage carriage to make his appearance. It opens up wider, and Tidus steps out, shapes from the device fizzling away he looks around and spots Quatre. And the goods!

Aha, there he is! ]

So this was what you were talking about? It's the same type?

[ Nothing odd or different about it from first looks? ]

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[flatteries]

[ The moment Quatre says what it is, Inigo just instantly knows that it's one of these things he just wouldn't be able to grasp. These newfangled people and their newfangled technology..

.. though it's at least kind of nice to see Quatre so happy about it. They all deserve some good stuff while being stuck in such a crappy place. ]

Is.. that a game? [ Apparently Inigo is at least making an effort to try and understand it, if it's something that's so important to Quatre.

But boy, oh boy, does he ever not get it. ]

[gundamofthedesert]

Kind of. Back home, it would be used to train pilots how to pilot mobile suits. Here, it can definitely be a game. You can use it to fly a mobile suit through space or at least I'm assuming that it will do that. That's fairly standard.

[flatteries]

Hey, Quatre..

[ Inigo pauses for the briefest moment, his expression a tad awkward. ]

.. you realise that I hardly understood quite some words you were saying there, right? [ P-Please, slow down for the technologically challenged people among us! ]

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[onehandsomeslickninja]

Wait, aren't all suits mobile? They'd be very hard to wear otherwise.

[gundamofthedesert]

[Quatre smiled. Ah, someone else maybe needed a bit more information]

So, in my world, we have large machines that are basically a giant suit of armor. They are so large that people have to practice using them before actually using them. That's what this thing is for.

[onehandsomeslickninja]

Ah.

[Edge lets out a long, slow sigh.]

I suppose it would be absolutely futile to hope they're used for peaceful purposes.

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[averyusefultray]

[Given that she basically haunts the flight simulator some days, it's only natural that Hera comes by to investigate.]

I've been curious about mobile suits for a while now.

[Ple Two's told her a fair bit after all]

[gundamofthedesert]

[Quatre was currently poking at the information in the simulator's computer when Hera came up. He looked up and smiled]

I'd be happy to show you more about them.

[He replaced the computer in the machine - no messing with it while it was being used before moving to show her to the entrance]

This is the cockpit. It is fairly standard for mobile suits from my world. Some have better viewing screens, but mostly the same. At the moment, it is only Federation mobile suits, which makes sense since this is their simulator, but I'm going to see about adding at the Gundams in, at least in terms of getting the feeling of piloting them. But there are all types - land, air, space... water.

[averyusefultray]

If it functions anything like the flight simulator, it should be simple to order additional modules.

[She peers in, assessing the control schemes]

Ple Two's told me about the space ones, I hadn't heard about the others.

[It makes sense that they would exist though]

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[storms_eye]

[It's hard not to get caught up in the guy's enthusiasm.. it reminds her of when she got her duel disk back]

A... Mobile suit? Is that... like a mecha or something?

[The mecha genre was quite popular in her dimension, and it had numerous titles to choose from... or was a mobile suit some kind of aircraft? It was hard to tell from what she was peering at on the screen]

[gundamofthedesert]

[He nods]

Yes. It is a large robot many times the size of a person that you sit in and pilot.

[storms_eye]

Oh wow! I know that anything is possible with all the mutliverses and everything, but it's still crazy to think that something like that actually exists somewhere!