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Plan 2 → [video]

[ Have one demigoddess daughter of Athena, Vatheon.

She's a little shaken up after her first curse week because she's not one to open up to people too quickly, even at the best of times. Her strategic warrior mind says that is a nono. However, the tell-no-lies curse had quickly put an end to that.

And how. This last week she has given away her demigoddess heritage (another nono), her thoughts on the attractiveness of others (boyfriend equals a nono here too), her night-time activities with said boyfriend (BIG NONO) and what colour panties she is wearing (…does she even have to say it?).

As a result, this post will be short, sharp and to the point. In the name of ~~science~~ research. ]

Hey bubble. I notice that the items in Nostalgia Nook actually cost something when everything else round here is free. Even housing and such. Any idea why?

[ She won’t mention the experiments that the scientists are doing on the captives here in her initial post as they are monitoring the network, but she strongly suspects the two topics are linked. She’s keen to talk about them if she gets a more secure line of communication though. ]

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Nostalgia Nook shit is from out of this world, literally. Makes sense that it'd be restricted, though depending on what you're looking for, you can get plenty of the same things here in Vatheon for free. As long as you don't mind a nautical theme.

[Cultural sensitivity to trolls, what is that, he doesn't care. He is totally willing to help in the name of ~~science~~ research, though.]

Jobs ain't hard to find around, though, so if you're that determined to get shit from home, you won't have too much trouble.

[ Annabeth totally appreciates any and all ~~science~~ research bros. They make things easier all round. ]

I suppose you're right but. I can't shake this lingering feeling I have that they're holding our stuff for ransom. You really don't think it's related to the emotional experiments they're doing on us?

Could be. But if that were the case, they'd be more likely to either not provide us with things from our world at all, or make us do something more significant than simply get a job, in order to get them back.

Hmm true. They might provide us with tasks or something instead of just letting us earn money to buy them back.

I'm still learning about this place I guess!

There's plenty of shit to learn. Doesn't help that the people in charge around here are close-mouthed fucks, and we don't know all there is to find out. Breaking the bubble got us plenty more deets, but I'm not about to suggest it every time we want to learn one little thing.

[ Annabeth lets out a laugh. This guy seems smart and she likes that. ]

Yeah no, that'd be kinda drastic. What did you manage to learn from the breakage this time?

All fucking sorts of things, about the nature of this place and the technology that runs it. We harpooned ourselves a regular goddamn Moby Dick on this one.

[ Annabeth curses in ancient Greek, eyes lighting up. ] Wow. I'd love to sit down and talk to you about it sometime. This place is unlike anything I've ever seen before. And I've seen a lot.

[ Being the daughter of a goddess accounts for a lot. ]

I'm Annabeth, by the way.

Whenever you're open for it. One of the benefits of having almost everything here free is that it tends to result in a very flexible schedule.

Dirk Strider.

Thanks. You got that right! The most I'm busying myself with is designing a house for us to live in, in between bouts of furious research on how to get us all out of here. But as I'm discovering, that's not as likely as I first thought.

Ah, I think you know a friend of mine. Leo talks about you sometimes.

Everyone makes that discovery sooner or later. Doesn't mean we don't try, just means that we don't obsess over it until we're presented with a legitimate opportunity.

[He raises an eyebrow.] That so? Yeah, I know him. We've been talking, mostly about robots and shit.

That seems like a wise course of action. I mean, they keep us pretty comfortably here. It'll just be hard for me to turn my brain off in those quiet moments.

Meeting people like you helps though, especially knowing that people aren't just sitting on their laurels. I was afraid that everyone here had just accepted their fate.

[ she smiles ] Heh, sounds about right. He didn't shut up about them back home either.

Don't try. Just channel it into something productive. Borrow someone's SFC and scan the old shit on the network. Examine the parts of the bubble where old shit went down. There's plenty of reminders of how things have changed since us foreigners arrived. Because of us, or otherwise.

That's my kind of guy. It's damn hard to find people who'll keep up when I start talking about power sources and joints.

Tips from experience hey? Thanks, they sound like really good ideas. I hadn't thought about scrolling back on the network at all, but of course that'd be one of the better ways to research.

Oh then Leo is definitely your guy. He can't sit down for five minutes without making something or cooking up a new blueprint in his head. Are robots your main interest, or do you build other things too?

My entire goddamn life has been staving off boredom. I'm an expert, by now. If you're that interested, I could lend mine.

Robots are the main thing I build, and largely humanoid ones, at that. It's not my only interest, just the one that tends to be physically manifested most often.

That'd be great, thanks. Seems like mine only goes back about five days before I arrived here.

Sounds interesting. I assume you have yourself a pretty decent workshop then? I tend more towards engineering and architecture myself.

Call me up and I can deliver it.

Yeah, one of the reasons me and Roxy grabbed the house we did. The other was the number of bedrooms. [Which has seemed largely irrelevant for most of the time they've been in the bubble, but hey, they had their friends here once, surely it can happen again.] I can't say I'm the biggest fan of architecture myself, but hell, I'm willing to get schoolfed.

Will do! Yeah that's actually why we grabbed our place here in Coral Corral too, both the garage and the bedrooms.

...you don't happen to live here too do you? It looked like the best area for that sort of thing.

Tell you what. Let me chat to you about architecture and I'll show you what I have about automatons and robots on this thing. [ She takes an object the size of an SFC out of her back pocket and begins to unfold it, first into a tablet computer and eventually into a full-sized laptop with a large blue Δ on the lid. After typing in a few commands, the schematics for a human-shaped statue-robot begin to float in 3D above the keyboard. ]

This may shock you to discover, but I do. I'm over at Six with a friend from home. Been here since we got here.

[Dirk actually leans toward his screen when she pulls it out and starts fiddling with it.]

Holy shit, you've got yourself a deal. What is it, anyway? That looks advanced as shit.

...get out. We're at number Eight. Who would've guessed we'd be neighbours?

[ Who indeed!

Annabeth grins, pleased he likes her favourite toy. She's also pleased she gets to share it with someone who might actually understand some of the stuff that's on it. ]

You know Leo's magic toolbelt? This is my magic laptop. If you know anything about Greek Mythology, it was created by Daedalus, who I actually met in person once. Long story short, he was an inventor of machines and stuff. He stored all of his blueprints and ideas on here over thousands of years, a lot of it for stuff he couldn't even make yet because it was too advanced for the time. For example, half the statues in our version of New York were automaton robots made by him, and all the plans for those are on here.

[ She presses another few buttons and a couple of famous Central Park statues float next to the screen. ] By my reckoning it's about fifty years ahead of its time?

That doesn't sound magic so much as advanced, and those two get edgy at some point anyway. I'll take your word for it.

[He's still leaning forward to catch what glimpses he can.]

At least. Can't say I'd be a good judge for things relative to your time, but fully functioning automatons take a while to develop, and if they can work even after sitting around exposed for years, I'd sure as hell like to see how he built them.

[ Annabeth nods. ] Mm. Magic seems to be used a lot when they mean 'advanced' in my world. You're right though.

[ She sets the laptop on the bed and tilts the SFC so Dirk can get a better look. ] That was my thought too. We managed to set the NYC automatons in motion though and they were damn good in a fight.

Anyway, you're welcome to check this baby out if you want. I'd trust a friend of Leo's with it. Maybe when you bring your SFC around? And I can tell you more about the automatons in the war then.

Hell fucking yes. [He even grins briefly. Looking at new automatons, even when he doesn't have them here in person, are one of his favorite things.]

We're doing it. We're making it happen.

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