after the Waking World log

[claudiometer]

Hoo boy. I realise this phrasing may be treading on thin ice right now, but strange things are afoot at the Aratta Skyhook.

First things first. Leah took the news that she was chosen to be the first Conductor deliberately... about as well as we figured she would. She has a theory as to why and asked me to run it by you guys. [And so she does, letting the memory play out from the linked point until Leah says she'd like to talk to the Oracle who uncovered this.]

So yeah, Thace, if she hasn't found you already, find her.

Second. I made sure to get a planetside view while I was out and about. Alexandra had never bothered before, and apparently wouldn't have understood what she was looking at anyway, and for an uninhabitable planet there's a shitton happening on the surface. And, uh, I found the source of the mysterious ticking noise, probably.

They're building a computer chip the size of fucking WYOMING.

Comments

[Private]

[helborn]

[Yeah he's immediately filtering this because it's no one's business.]

Look, I... it was only here that I really heard much about that kind of thing? I was still struggling with 'it's okay to be gay', that was kind of a step I didn't even know I had to take in learning about this stuff.

That's not me trying to excuse my ignorance, just kind of... explain? It was early 2006 when I got pulled to here.

[Private]

[eldritchwheelies]

You don't have to explain it to me, my dude. Maybe to her. And just from my experience being flagrantly bi and uninto sex, I can tell when people are being ignorant and when people are being stupid, yannow?

This applies equally to Leah and to Deedee.

[Private]

[helborn]

... Thanks. I won't bring it up unless she does. It's not my thing to bring up.

[Private]

[eldritchwheelies]

Probably wise, yeah.

Even odds that Deedee will bring it up after the Jaunt's over, though. At least to anyone who's interacted with her IRL.