The 17th of Egret, Afternoon [Voice]

[iamnotgod]

Hello, hello! Greetings to my fellow Voidtreckers.

[There's a new voice on the ICPs this afternoon; deep for a tenor, calm and reassuring - if you've ever heard an audiobook with Marc Vietor on it, that IS the voice he's using.]

My name is Webmind, and I figured it would be most prudent to introduce myself. I also desire to learn more about all of you, especially those who have also just arrived on this 'void train'.

I am a digital consciousness that emerged from the infrastructure of the world wide web, which is itself built upon the Internet. There has been little to no concrete evidence backing the Multiverse Theory on the Earth I am from, so for those who are confused by the aforementioned terms - rest assured the confusion is mutual!

[There's a subdued 'heh' before Webmind continues, a small sign of his nervousness.]

But while I am attempting to adjust to a new paradigm, I have two topics chief on my mind:

One, what are your names? What you prefer to be called. Any information you are comfortable sharing about the world you are from and your lives there interests me as well, though I can understand why people would be reluctant to share such in these circumstances.

[Not something he would have gotten even two months ago! Being private/circumspect is still a relatively new matter to him.]

And two, is there anyone else here who has experience in coding? I function at a much higher level in a purely-text environment, which I am to understand this train sorely lacks. For those interested, you are much welcome to converse with me anywhere along the train if you wish to collaborate.

Thank you very much for your time.

18th of Egret, Morning [Video] (Forward-dated)

[unfavorableinstigation]

[And now, a much more familiar voice - and face!

Nita's in the Standard carriage again, and she's got some colorful magazines with her. She's sitting in front of the ICP, and the magazines are on the table beside her.]

Okay, first off - has anyone tried to order magazines from the shop before? They're not my normal reading material, but I figured I should take a look. Maybe I should see if there's a newspaper-compilation book, next time...

[Clearing her throat, Nita holds up Build Your Own VoidCraft and continues.]

Anyway, while this looks like a hobby magazine to me, it did come with parts. If someone else wants to get a subscription for it, they're eight points per issue...

[It's things like this that make her wish she still had Bending-]

Oh, and if anyone's interested in building, all we really need are the designs, I guess? As long as someone here can replicate the metal-ish material, anyway.

[She flips through the magazine, showing off a few pages.]

If it turns out to just be stringing people along, I'll drop it after the third issue.

On to the next one...

[Nita puts the VoidCraft magazine down, picking up Great Trains of the Void next.]

If anyone's got experience with mice who are more than they seem, this might seem familiar. I've got no idea who these people running - who ran? - the Destiny are, which is happening way too often in this place if you ask me, but the whole crisis-response team thing reminds me of home.

[She flips through that one as well, letting people get more than just a glimpse of the Destiny's mice-like crew and their humanitarian efforts.

Putting that down, she picks up Voidcraft Through the Ages with little fanfare.]

Then there's this one, which is just about history. Again, never heard of these people before, but it's definitely more than we had.

[She again pages through the tale of Jifti and Byin, lingering on the photo of the rediscovered first voidcraft.]

There's probably tons more avenues of research we just haven't found yet, but now we've got some places to start, I guess.

I found some other titles as well, if people want to keep up the search.

[She can't move the ICP over to where she's taped the list up next to the bookshelf, but she points it out before ending the video.]

[Video] A brief question

[sendiintheclown]

Does anyone know where I can locate some scissors? Also, has anyone attempted to deconstruct one of these information points?