Dairine Regan Callahan (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
wizard_redfive) wrote in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
voidtreckernet2020-04-17 06:27 pm
wizard_redfive) wrote in voidtreckernet2020-04-17 06:27 pm
[Video] Egret Day 24, Afternoon
Hey, fellow passengers.
So I've got a look inside these ICP monitors. [She taps the screen.] Remotely, of course.
Its parts are about what you'd expect from similar technology. Not quite Earth tech, but close enough to make comparisons. What's really unique are the materials making up those parts. I've seen some off world metals in my day, but these are new. Some of their compounds aren't even on the periodic table! ...Yet.
[Dairine grins smugly.]
Has anyone looked into the metal that makes up other parts of the train? Maybe we could compare notes.
[She doesn't bring up the system or programming discoveries. Those Dairine wants to save for people she trusts.]
So I've got a look inside these ICP monitors. [She taps the screen.] Remotely, of course.
Its parts are about what you'd expect from similar technology. Not quite Earth tech, but close enough to make comparisons. What's really unique are the materials making up those parts. I've seen some off world metals in my day, but these are new. Some of their compounds aren't even on the periodic table! ...Yet.
[Dairine grins smugly.]
Has anyone looked into the metal that makes up other parts of the train? Maybe we could compare notes.
[She doesn't bring up the system or programming discoveries. Those Dairine wants to save for people she trusts.]
Video
Yeah, I've done a good bit of space travel myself. Seeing off-world metals isn't entirely surprising, but new ones? That's pretty strange. Usually there's a least some pre-existing information about them.
You got a pretty in depth look at it though, huh?
no subject
I'd like to take another look at some point, maybe ask if it'll let me take a sample, but I think it'll have to be after more sweet-talking, honestly.
[Though he grins there.]
no subject
[That is wild! And also exciting]
I imagine it'll take more than just sweet-talking to get the train to agree to that.
no subject
[She may be right, but Xander will do his best, anyway...]
Worst I can do is try and then the train says no, but if it's something that's been broken or torn apart anyway, and I take it from that? It should be less upsetting...
I hope, anyway.
no subject
...So whenever someone ends up throwing a tantrum and trashing the place. Got it.
[Dairine makes a face.]
Actually, would the train just repair itself in that case? [Cair Paradisa would, though it wasn't instantaneous.]
no subject
I'm an Earth mage, so you could say that. I'm a bit better with plants, but I did pick up a few things from my twin, too, so that helps.
[But he shakes his head when Dairine talks about the train repairing itself.]
I don't think so. Someone took apart part of one of the standard cars, and it hasn't fixed itself, or even tried, from what I can tell. Made my life easier, though, since I used that to get as close as I could to try to talk to it. Though maybe it has other systems that take priority?
[He scrunches his face up a little, then.] Though as an empath, it wasn't really talking I was doing. More like projecting emotions and trying to get some response from the train. It didn't get very far, even with Nita helping.
no subject
Sounds like my sis with her partner. I'm more of a space and tech wizard myself. [Literally.]
[Dairine looks thoughtful for a moment.]
Huh. I wonder... If the train hasn't fixed itself, maybe it would be more inclined to talk if we helped with repairs? Build some trust and all.
[Then the second part of that story hits her.]
Oh! So you've met Neets already?
I mean, projecting emotions happens more often than not with mental communication. Part of the risks.
no subject
[Not that that wasn't kind of necessary, but really, Xander realizes that he'd probably bore most people if he nerded out about it too hard. Unlike his twin, who goes Brainy Smurf about such things...
But regarding Nita, he grins.]
Yeah, she's one of the first people I met when I came on! She's nice. And yeah...there is that, but I can't project words. I've got empathy, not telepathy. The one's enough of a pain in the butt as it is. And it weirds people out easily.
[But Xander shrugs. He is who he is, he's done with apologizing for it.]
no subject
[Nita was big with plants, and she's got more experience with healing spells than Dair. She wonders how her big sister feels about another rock expert around, what with her not-quite boyfriend still at home.]
Seems she's been making the rounds as train greeter.
[Dairine isn't surprised. Nita is personable and keen to help others. If school wasn't such a minefield of bullies, she probably would have made loads of friends. (Not that she needed them—the few they already had were a thousand times better than those cliques.)]
Yeah, Nita's nice... even if she is a complete nerd. [Little sister gotta tease.]
Empathy, huh? I guess it could get annoying. Admittedly, I rarely use my brand of telepathy with folks who aren't accustomed to it? But I've met other telepaths who've had a rougher time with the public.
no subject
[He snorts at that a little, especially since he knows they're both pains to each other, he and Alex.]
Some people don't like psychics, since some of the less ethical ones think it's cool to go rifling through people's brains. [Xander pauses, there.] Though most of the time I've got issues enough without unearthing other people's problems, if you ask me.
no subject
[Dairine had gotten by, as usual, but those years had worn on her more than she'd let on.]
For sure. [Wizardry might be about fixing problems, but as a result it gave Dair plenty of her own.] That's the kind of behavior that'd get a wizard in trouble with the Seniors. And the Powers that Be. Folks take infractions on the mind very seriously.