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caughtinanetwork2012-03-12 06:37 pm
aim_exorable) wrote in caughtinanetwork2012-03-12 06:37 pm
5 ♐ Video ♐ Serious McSeriousface
[Well, that certainly is Darkleer appearing on the screen today. You would think him of all people would want to avoid showing up on the network with the thought bubbles running about. His is even right behind him, floating serenely. It's not shaped like some others may be. In fact, it's square, relatively flat, and almost seems like a window of some sort. Huh.]
[It soon becomes obvious that he's not worried because the thought window is certainly a busy little bee. Even as he pulls away from the SFC he's placed on his workbench, it's already flashing with images, all crowded against one another. Wires, motors, gears and pistons and mathematical equations of all sorts. They're stringed and pulled together, solving more than just one invention, more than one idea that he is mulling over and trying to piece together in his mind. Schematics. It's all schematics.]
[Settling himself, Darkleer adjusts his shades- still the same cheap ones he's been wearing since he gave the Psiioniic his original pair- and begins to quietly speak.]
I normally do not indulge in video, but something seems that for some reason, the buttons on my communicator have yet to work. It is going to take a while to fix them properly, so I decided that I would simply make a post now.
[In one corner of the thought window, another schematic is being made, the lines in blue. It looks like a large bird of some kind, but it disappears from view quick enough.]
The last time I contacted the network, it was to discuss a way of learning more about this place. In one of the conversations I had, we discussed about the invasions Vatheon is occasionally prone to. It was agreed that multiple safehouses set across the bubble.
[If one is looking closely, behind all the ideas and inventions and schematics that is in Darkleer's mind, they could possibly see a map of Vatheon.]
When I say 'multiple' safehouses, I do not mean every second building, nor do I mean a fortified fortress. But it would be ill advised to have merely one safehouse. What if someone is on an entirely different level of the city, after all?
I would like input on this idea.
[Encrypted to the Vatheon Defense Force]
After recent events that have been occurring, particularly to individuals that I know, I would like to offer some assistance. While normally the residents of this city are more or less... peaceful, I have noticed an increase, however brief, in dangerous individuals coming to the city. Their targets are not always able to use their communication device to contact help.
I'd like to discuss a solution I have in mind. Preferably with those in charge, but I believe the rest of you should have your own say as well.
[Two new images in the thought window: one dissecting an intricate mechanical bug and another of, strangely enough, a bow and arrow.]
[Encrypted to Dualscar.]
[Darkleer pause for a moment, a bit awkward before clearing his throat.]
If you are not busy with other matters, sir, I believe we should speak. Preferably in person.
[The image of the mechanical bug from before is made a bit more obvious amongst everything else, the wings color-coded, strangely enough, in orange as more details are put into them, constantly being rearranged and configured to Darkleer's liking.]
[It soon becomes obvious that he's not worried because the thought window is certainly a busy little bee. Even as he pulls away from the SFC he's placed on his workbench, it's already flashing with images, all crowded against one another. Wires, motors, gears and pistons and mathematical equations of all sorts. They're stringed and pulled together, solving more than just one invention, more than one idea that he is mulling over and trying to piece together in his mind. Schematics. It's all schematics.]
[Settling himself, Darkleer adjusts his shades- still the same cheap ones he's been wearing since he gave the Psiioniic his original pair- and begins to quietly speak.]
I normally do not indulge in video, but something seems that for some reason, the buttons on my communicator have yet to work. It is going to take a while to fix them properly, so I decided that I would simply make a post now.
[In one corner of the thought window, another schematic is being made, the lines in blue. It looks like a large bird of some kind, but it disappears from view quick enough.]
The last time I contacted the network, it was to discuss a way of learning more about this place. In one of the conversations I had, we discussed about the invasions Vatheon is occasionally prone to. It was agreed that multiple safehouses set across the bubble.
[If one is looking closely, behind all the ideas and inventions and schematics that is in Darkleer's mind, they could possibly see a map of Vatheon.]
When I say 'multiple' safehouses, I do not mean every second building, nor do I mean a fortified fortress. But it would be ill advised to have merely one safehouse. What if someone is on an entirely different level of the city, after all?
I would like input on this idea.
[Encrypted to the Vatheon Defense Force]
After recent events that have been occurring, particularly to individuals that I know, I would like to offer some assistance. While normally the residents of this city are more or less... peaceful, I have noticed an increase, however brief, in dangerous individuals coming to the city. Their targets are not always able to use their communication device to contact help.
I'd like to discuss a solution I have in mind. Preferably with those in charge, but I believe the rest of you should have your own say as well.
[Two new images in the thought window: one dissecting an intricate mechanical bug and another of, strangely enough, a bow and arrow.]
[Encrypted to Dualscar.]
[Darkleer pause for a moment, a bit awkward before clearing his throat.]
If you are not busy with other matters, sir, I believe we should speak. Preferably in person.
[The image of the mechanical bug from before is made a bit more obvious amongst everything else, the wings color-coded, strangely enough, in orange as more details are put into them, constantly being rearranged and configured to Darkleer's liking.]
[filtered to Defense Force]
I'm not at all certain that I'm comfortable with such an idea.
[filtered to Defense Force]
[A slight shrug. Darkleer didn't expect to win everyone's approval.]
May I ask why?
[filtered to Defense Force]
[But mostly it's the distrust of technology.]
[filtered to Defense Force]
As for my motivations, well... [Darkleer clasps his hands together on the workbench surface.] As I said. Individuals from my homeworld have found themselves attacked, recently. One, a young boy, was killed by an unstable young woman from elsewhere. Another was a much older adult, a nobleman by our standards, and he was killed by another of our kind.
Those events were what spurred this idea of mine.
[filtered to Defense Force]
[Ky's bubble shows a battlefield littered with both human bodies and mechanical parts.]
I've seen a lot that haven't.
While I regret what seems to have happened, perhaps there is another solution that might actually do more good.
[filtered to Defense Force]
Then our experiences differ.
If you have an alternate suggestion, then I would be willing to hear it.
[filtered to Defense Force]
[filtered to Defense Force]
Are you familiar with the concept of a fire alarm, sir? This will be a metaphor and is not simply something out of the blue, I assure you.
[filtered to Defense Force]
I am.
[filtered to Defense Force]
Imagine a group of dwellings. Unexpectedly, a fire breaks out in one hive- house, I apologize- and kills the inhabitants. Rebuild the home, new inhabitants- and now the question.
The house clearly had no fire alarm before, and neither do any of the others. But, so far, only one of them has caught fire. Using what appears to be your logic, unless I've misunderstood, we should only put a fire alarm in the house that previously experienced difficulties because it's been the only one to do so.
But why not do so for the other houses? Are they not under the same kind of danger, as few can predict what the future holds?
[filtered to Defense Force]
If the infrastructure isn't there for protection, if that fire alarm doesn't do anything more than make a lot of noise, then it might do some incidental good if everyone happened to be asleep, but it won't put out the fire. That's what you need the infrastructure for, and one person who had been awake could have done the same thing.
You need the people who will put out the fire as much if not more than you need the alarm.
Presently I believe that part of the problem is that the Defence Force isn't sufficiently prepared to deal with everything. While punishment after the fact is not to be preferred to preventative measures, it seems as though there isn't any organized structure for either. What we're doing is organizing for an attack, and perhaps what we need is more of a police force.
[filtered to Defense Force]
[C'mon, he expected a bit more out of a group that would give themselves a title like this.]
[filtered to Defense Force]
[He needs a little more time than that.]
[filtered to Defense Force]
[filtered to Darkleer]
In most respects it's simply something that I need to observe further, I'm afraid.
[Guess who only really trusts his own perceptions of people?]
[filtered to Darkleer]
Still, if you need my assistance, I am available and understand the value of secrecy where it is needed.
[filtered to Darkleer]
And the same offer extends back to you, so long as it does not involve technology. That's a more...complicated subject.
[Ky's bubble flashes first an airship and second a robot that's clearly a parody of his appearance.]
I've come to understand that it's one that many people disagree with me on.
[filtered to Darkleer]
[The entire time, Darkleer's mind has been working on and on, determined and rarely straying off course. He has ideas, after all, and can't forget them. But his attention is snared, and the schematics being sketched out come to a pause.]
[filtered to Darkleer]
[filtered]
I suppose that would turn anyone away from it. I admit I feel somewhat sympathetic towards the machines, however, even if I do not know the entire story.
It is, as you said, what your race did. Whatever technology's part in anything is, it was built initially to perform a function. Even if flawed, it will still attempt to do so, until it is unable to. It knows no better, only what is engraved into it so deeply, many could not possibly imagine it. It may not always be right, but it does its best for its purpose, like misguided children.
Just a tool trying to remain useful...
[In the background of his thoughts, behind the machines and individual parts, an impromptu execution appears to be going on, a group of shadowy, sketchy trolls trying to rope a noose around the throat of another.]
Hmm. I apologize. Technology has been a vital part in my life, so I suppose I tend to think too deeply on it.
[filtered]
[ Ky shrugs. An image of Dizzy appears in the bubble for along moment. Ky's face turns wistful and worried for a moment. ]
If anything my concern lies with the people who create such a thing, and in dealing with the unfortunate fallout.
But you have no need to apologize to me for thinking, or for having strong feelings on an issue.