Drizzt Asks Important Questions

[naturaltwohands]

This is Drizzt Do'Urden, and I have a simple question: what does one do in Liminal Space beside read books? It is too small to have anything left to explore, unless one tries to scale the wall.

[He does not sound frustrated, but in a good general mood. Drizzt seems more amused about it than anything, and he figures someone will have a good answer for him.]

I ask because I am afraid boredom begins to strike at my heart with my blades still for so long, and I need something more to combat it properly. Perhaps one of you has advice?

Comments

[failgoyle]

"With a few electrodes in the right places, maybe I could rig something..." Jules trails off thoughtfully.

Drizzt, what have you done?

[naturaltwohands]

Drizzt doesn't know what electrodes are, but he can figure that out later. "If you need some sort of harness, I am good with ropes and knots. I've been on a sailing ship for six years."

What else?

SCIENCE!

[failgoyle]

"You never know, I might need to take you up on that!" He has no idea what he's doing and how, so options always work!

[naturaltwohands]

"Where would you even wish for it to be attached to your body?" Drizzt asks, glancing at Jules. "I've seen extra arms attached near the ribcage before."

[failgoyle]

"You know," Jules says, "I hadn't even gotten that far, I was just trying to see if I could get it to run well first."

[naturaltwohands]

"Ah!" Drizzt pauses, then laughs. "You do not want to attach a broken arm to yourself?"

[failgoyle]

Jules laughs. "Nah, been there, done that. I'll have to try it out when it works just for something different."

[naturaltwohands]

Drizzt just continues grinning wide. "I'm sure you will find use for a third arm. But how will you make it move?"

[failgoyle]

"Oh, that's easy," Jules says, "I'll just get a battery!" Yep, simple, super simple. Jules pauses. "...think of it like a magic power source."

[naturaltwohands]

"Ah," Drizzt had been about ready to ask. "... I wish to ask more questions, but I realize I must be making myself a nuisance."

[failgoyle]

"Nah, you're fine." Jules waves the thought off with the mechanical arm. "People usually aren't interested in what I'm doing, anyway."

[naturaltwohands]

The waving motion with the arm makes him snicker, and he's going to scoot closer to where he's sitting now to get a better look at things. Drizzt's father might have saved him from becoming a wizard, but he could not save Drizzt from becoming a nerd. Jules is making that nerdy part of him flood out of him.

"Then I am not most people," Drizzt comments with a smirk. "I'm very interested."

[failgoyle]

Most people don't really care when Jules gets excited about this sort of thing, so this is nice for him. "Hey, man, stick with me, and I can get you up to speed on all sorts of science and stuff they don't have where you're from."

[naturaltwohands]

Drizzt is delighted by that. "I would love to learn more."

He actually peeks at Jules screen then but has to squint at the brightness. Only, he stops after a moment and grins, pulling out the sunglasses that Daneel made for him and putting them over his eyes. That is far better, and—

A hesitation, and then Drizzt leans his head right, then leans it left, and gasps. "The screen changes brightness if I move my head! It even goes entirely dark!"

Guess who just discovered polarized lenses?

[failgoyle]

Jules looks back at Drizzt. "Oh, yeah, those are probably polarized. With a screen like this, it gets weird. Filters different wavelengths of light, I think."

[naturaltwohands]

"Oh," Drizzt blinks a few times in confusion before he lets out a chuckle. "I am afraid you lost me once more."

[failgoyle]

"Light is energy that travels in waves, pretty much." Jules attempts to illustrate this with his hands.

This is not something that can be easily illustrated with one's hands.

[naturaltwohands]

Drizzt stares at his hand in confusion. "Like the water in the ocean? But whenever I have been able to observe the passage of light, through holes in clouds or other things, it goes straight and true." He pauses for a moment in thought. "Except through water, in which it seems to bend."

[failgoyle]

"That's why it bends! Because the water bends the waves," Jules says sagely. "Some stuff bends it, other stuff lets it pass through just fine."

[naturaltwohands]

The young ranger's brows furrow in confusion and stay there. "... But I see no waves in light?"

[failgoyle]

"You can't see 'em," Jules points out. "That's because they're like...really small and hard to see with the naked eye. You need equipment and stuff to really get a sense of it."

[naturaltwohands]

"They must be very small," Drizzt states after a long moment, squinting at the screen again. "I wonder if wizards and scholars back home know of this."

[failgoyle]

"I dunno," Jules says, "I'm not really sure how that sort of thing gets discovered in the first place."

[naturaltwohands]

"If only the Workshop's library covered such things," Drizzt muses for a moment, then looks at Jules instead of the screen. "... do you think it may?"

[failgoyle]

"You know," Jules says, "it might. It's not like I've needed to look anything up there before."