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

[eldritchwheelies]

Early twenty-first century should be late enough!

public -> private

[youandyoualone]

'Twould be in the 2010s, I believe, yes!

[Going to switch this to private:]

I wonder why it is that Thorne does not take pills or potions against her mind's weasels, for her brother says she has been to the shrinks and does have a diagnosis. Indeed it seems to me that she and little Maria are subtly alike, only that Thorne has been taught better to mimic others around her.

private

[eldritchwheelies]

Vampire.

Depending on how vampires process things, and how technically alive they are, they might not be able to get any damn benefit from human medication.

Re: private

[youandyoualone]

Ah. True. Though she does prefer to wear her human form as often as she might and indeed, will often wear it for days upon end.