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reefnet2023-05-16 07:50 am
aluminumandash) wrote in reefnet2023-05-16 07:50 am
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[ After the message (warning?) has blared two successive times, Rust waits about an hour and sends: ] Progress on locating unauthorized transport?
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[ After the message (warning?) has blared two successive times, Rust waits about an hour and sends: ] Progress on locating unauthorized transport?
[ OOC: Threadjack to your heart's content! ]
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If there's a middle to meet in.
[ In other words: he, too, thinks it's likely there's only one island. He starts with that first because it's the easiest. ]
Doesn't mean there can't be more than one, but a big island looks the most likely. If you ask me.
If there's more than one island, then at least one of them can't be too small.
[ It does occur to him that he's not just being mocked, though. Even without being able to hear them, he can tell the person on the other side of the walkie talkie believes what they are saying. This person is serious about this. They mean it.
20 and "a scientist" registers to him as odd, but not as odd as all of this "when" shit. ]
Yeah, I'm a cop. But I was just shitting you, kid. I don't care how old you are. As long as you obey all local age-restricted alcohol laws wherever you're from.
[ Lalo hesitates before he types the next part, unsure if maybe it's a bridge too far for someone who is supposed to be "nice". But it's genuinely the first thing he can think of to say. ]
Hey, don't take this wrong way or anything, but what are you on and where can I get some? Kidding, kidding! Don't actually give me anything. Please.
[ He continues typing. ]
You sure you're okay, though? Didn't hit your head when you washed up here, did you? You said nothing from the '70s could've survived, soooooo. ..
What year do YOU think it is?
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But those are good points. So we'll stick with the only one island theory until we know better.
[ Senku is a very serious person all the time — ten billion percent serious — even when he sounds like a lunatic. He sometimes forgets that other people are like ?!?!?!? in his general direction. Even at home that was true for most of his life. ]
There aren't any laws like that anymore and I don't drink.
[ See, too serious! ]
[ He's just going to roll his eyes and ignore that drug comment. ]
I'm completely fine. You didn't answer my question but extrapolating from what you've said, I would assume you're from somewhere in the early 21st century. You're older than I am based on the comment about me being 20, old enough that you might have lived in the 1970s yourself. I'm assuming you come from before 2019 but I might be colouring that with my own experience. I do know better than to do that but I have to start somewhere.
To answer YOUR question, it's 5749 WHEN I come from. The where isn't entirely relevant at the moment, but we can get to that eventually. I can already guess how you're going to take that, and I am NOT confused, hallucinating, or bullshitting you.
Go ahead, ask whatever you're gonna ask and get it over with.
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[ About the island. The easy part. If they were speaking over voice, he'd insert a slightly nervous laugh there.
The things Senku is saying are... well, they're are all correct, but they're also obvious statements to throw out, if you're also from 2004 -- like everybody else here, ofc -- and want to convince somebody you're a time traveler. For some reason.
He considers how to react to this. It would be easy to dismiss this person as crazy or a charlatan, and he considers doing just that. He still gets the impression that this person is extremely serious but can't fully get away from how much the way this person lays out how they knew his age and "when" he lived feels like a ploy.
After some thought, he offers one question and two statements. ]
How do I know you're not bullshitting me? Prove it. Prove you're from 5749.
[ Will that even be possible here? Lalo isn't sure. He can't imagine what this person could say that will definitively prove to him that they're from so far in the future. ]
wow i'm so sorry for all of this text
[ That went better than he expected, but he's also operating only on text here. Oh well. All he can do is answer. ]
Prove to me you're from whenever you're from. You can't, right? How can you do that with letters on a screen? I can't do it any more than you can. You knew that when you asked me though, right?
But the way you answered gave ME some answers. I'll share.
One. You're definitely not from when I am or what I said wouldn't have surprised you. You'd have treated me like some kind of idiot for saying what you already knew to be true. We had already pretty much established that but it was confirming it.
Two. No argument about the 21st century thing which doesn't make me spot on but makes whatever time period you're from far enough away from 5749 that you find what I said totally unbelievable.
If you saw me in person you might have an easier time of this but I wasn't born in 5729 or anything. I was born in 2004. All of humanity was petrified by an unknown event in 2019. It took me 117,354,893,870 seconds to revive. That's 3,700 years and change if you're doing the math. I woke up a few years ago now, but a lot happened since that doesn't matter in the current conversation. Most people from my time have yet to wake up, though my plan has always been to revive everyone. Obviously I've been waylaid by being here.
Before you think you've found a flaw in my story, if you're following along mathwise and you think my age doesn't add up, I'll clear it up for you. We spent another 7 years petrified recently. I do know what caused that to happen, and it was necessary. Again, not relevant to the current convo but I want to give you as much context as I can that provides as much "proof" as I can give you in text alone that you can't come up with some annoying argument for.
We now know what device caused the petrification, though not its origin, not yet. I could show it to you if we weren't however far apart on this island, though the battery is burned out now and without both a very fine craftsman to replace it and that power source itself, I couldn't make it work. But the tech is ten billion percent guaranteed to be unlike anything you've ever seen.
[ He would definitely laugh if this was an out loud conversation, because he has sort of a habit of doing that when he feels awkward or nervous or excited or anything. He just does that. ]
That's a lot of info to dump on you. I'll give you a minute.
And I know what it probably sounds like, but again I'm not crazy or screwing with you. I'm a scientist. I'm only interested in facts.
nooooo don't be sorry! <3 <3 <3
There is a long, long, long time before Lalo responds. It might seem like he's not going to respond at all, until finally a single sentence pops up. ]
It's 2004. May of 2004.
[ Then another, longer text. ]
Look, I don't want to doubt you. You seem like a very kind and erudite young man. And I believe that you believe everything you're saying to me right now.
But you have to think about how this sounds from my perspective. The time I met someone who said they were from the future and something happened to wipe out most of humanity, it was because I was taking them in on a 5150.
So. How about this. Show me your... tech... thingy... and if it really is unlike anything I've ever seen, then I will owe you an apology. Sound fair?
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He has about given up on getting a response, but then. ]
In May 2004 I wasn't even a year old. But I had guessed you were a little further on than that, so I was off. Not too far off though, huh?
I don't know what a 5150 is but I can guess what it sounds like to you, yeah. If we figure out how to cross this island, I'll show you the Medusa. I don't need an apology or anything like that. I just want you to believe I know what I'm talking about. If you can't trust me, it's a pain in my ass trying to solve the answers that will get us out of here. I can't do it totally alone. Too much island to cover.
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He's tempted to latch onto that one word — trust — and lose himself in a rage-fueled tangent of torrent of thoughts about how trust is bullshit, how trusting anyone gets your house burned down and anyone you care about killed.
But he doesn't. Can't get distracted. Gotta stay focused.
He has an idea. ]
Actually, there might be something you can do. Might not prove anything but it'll make you more, let's call it, credible.
I like to cook. Not professionally. Just a hobby.
You said you're a scientist, right? So. Explain the maillard reaction to me. Break it down the way a scientist would. I'll know if you're shitting me.
It won't prove you're who you say you are, but if you can't do it, I'll know you're lying about at least one thing.
[ Lying or crazy, but he doesn't say that second part. He doesn't think Senku is lying anyway.
Crazy, though? Probably, although Shaw's response gives him some room for doubt. ]
not me having to google the actual chemical steps lmao
[ He could do it, or he could be a brat about it. ]
I'm going to do this out loud since I don't know if the voice to text will get this correct.
[ After a minute, he does switch to voice: ]
This is a little simplified, since there are some other small things that can happen, but...one, formation of N-substituted glycosamine from amino acid group and carbonyl group in the food sugars.
Two, glycosamine becomes ketosamines, which can form different compounds including butanedione or melanoidins.
Generally these are what give brown colour to foods, like the outside of meat or brown crust on bread.
lol i've had to google so many crazy things for rp, i feel your pain <3
The unknown event in 2019. The one that you said "petrified" everyone. What month did that occur?
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It happened on 3 June.
[ But he's also reading the network, so... ]
Do you want my theory on this, or do you just want to dismiss what I'm saying because there are some very conflicting accounts of time going on here?
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No, no. Truth be told, I'd like you to hear my theory first.
You can tell me if you think I'm right. I trust your judgement, Mr. Scientist.
[ Lalo isn't a scientist the way that Senku is; he doesn't have quite the same depth of understanding of things like chemistry or quantum physics. Truthfully, he only understand the over-simplified text portion of the Maillard reaction, which he knows to be correct; the second half, the voice part, made his eyes briefly glaze over.
But he's bright and sharp and well-educated; he has a layman's understanding of a wide variety of topics.
So he suspects, maybe hopes, they could be coming rapidly to the same conclusion. ]
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But by all means, tell me what you think.
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But you've heard of parallel universes. Right? Different timelines, alternate dimensions, blah blah blah. All that!
I think we're dealing with that right now.
Was that your theory too, Senku?
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But you're right. That was more or less what I was going to say. Ten billion points to you.
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It's my lucky day! What can I buy with ten billion points?
[ Because Lalo is both a deranged maniac and an eternal optimist, the shock and "what the fuck" feeling that had permeated him earlier is wearing off quickly; in its place, possibilities emerge. Endless possibilities.
Gotta get off the island first though. ]
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Not a hell of a lot right now, looks like.
But this place just got pretty exciting.
[ Someone has his priorities all screwed up. ]
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[ That hero type optimism just kicks in sometimes. ]
I wonder if we can figure out how to cross barriers between worlds, though. We have to eventually to get everyone home but in the meantime, do we HAVE to go back to our own worlds? I already want to learn everything in my world. To be able to learn things in other ones, I could ten billion percent never pass that up.
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Haha. Don't know about "we", but I certainly have to! I've got a wife and two stepkids. I can't imagine abandoning them permanently. I miss them more than I know how to say already. [ Lies. But he does have unfinished business in his own world; Lalo is curious about what other worlds hold, but until he's able to take bloody revenge on Fring and expose all of Fring's lies, he can't let himself get distracted by anything else.
He does contemplate, though, that if they're able to cross between worlds... then he can go somewhere that has monsters, dragons, weapons his world has never seen. He'd have to be careful about it; couldn't rush into it; would need a plan; would need to be careful who he took; but if he could bring back something like that, from another world to his world, and use them again Fring...
The Chicken Man wouldn't stand a chance. Lalo almost has a revenge boner just thinking about the things he might be able to do.
He can't tell anyone that either, though. None of their business anyway. ]
Your zest for knowledge is admirable, though! Is "ten billion" your favorite number?
But maybe we should worry about keeping ourselves alive first. Then we can worry about traveling to other worlds.
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[ BORING but f i n e. ]
My favourite number? Sure, I guess. It's a play on words. Oh but this is auto-translated or whatever, isn't it…
[ He has to think of how to do this. ]
You're American or English or something, right? With a name like Ben. But in Japanese, 100 in 100% is hyaku. Ten billion is hyaku-oku. So it's just an emphasis kind of.
[ He's just a huge nerd who likes to sound like he extra knows what he's talking about; it's a childhood habit he never grew out of. ]
Science is about understanding where we are now and figuring out where we go next so I'm thinking about both. I don't plan to die here or anything. And I don't plan to let everyone else die either.
[ Chronic hero disease. ]
TO994M; text
[what the fuuuuuuuck]
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Haha. Very funny.
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LO431Y; text - threadjacking
[The last time there had been time. Martin had expected, if they were jumping to some sort of other universe, that the year might be different, but this is... on another level. This seems like whatever they did just broke... multiple universes and jumbled a bunch of people together all at once.
Bloody hell.]
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