Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 12:54 am

"No, it's... it's a joke. Anyway, forget I said anything, past is in the past, right?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Apr 03, 2017 12:58 am

Nailah Weaver wrote:"No, it's... it's a joke. Anyway, forget I said anything, past is in the past, right?"


"That's usually how it works, though not a hard limit."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:08 am

"Like, what, time travel?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:11 am

"It is at least theoretically possible, though normally only in one direction."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:15 am

"Like a one way ticket to the past?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Apr 03, 2017 1:32 am

"No, I mean forward. That's the normal way people go, right?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:25 am

Shari blinks once. Twice. "Okay fine, I guess that's technically correct."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:36 am

"So, the key is just stopping that forward momentum, or re-directing it."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:56 am

"And you think you could do something like that?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Apr 03, 2017 2:57 am

"It's exceedingly simple, in principle."

That was a non-answer if Shari had ever heard one.
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:08 am

"So's flying, but I still haven't managed." she nods.
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:22 am

"Well, we can work on that, if you'd like."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:23 am

"Sure! Uhm... you're not planning on strapping me to a rocket, are you?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:38 am

"It would be a very effective method of forward propulsion, though I can understand your concerns. Until we make you fireproof, at least."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:42 am

"Let's stick to the less explody things." she nods.
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:48 am

"Hmm. Well, that limits options, but we can work with that."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 4:03 am

"Good. I'm not entirely sure I can regrow bits and I'm not super keen on finding out." she chuckles.
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:47 am

"Well, that's boring. Why wouldn't you be keen on finding things out? It's always good to learn new things. If you don't learn two new things a day, the day's been wasted."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Mon Apr 03, 2017 3:02 pm

"I mean, you're not wrong. But there's plenty of stuff I don't know yet, so let's just put that somewhere at the bottom of the list."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Mon Apr 03, 2017 6:22 pm

"Pfft," Cam said, dismissively. "Fine, if you say so."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Tue Apr 04, 2017 12:11 am

"Good. Now let's make a wifi!"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Tue Apr 04, 2017 12:24 am

"Let's...make a wifi," he blinked. "I...that is to say...grammatically....


...alright, fine, let's make a wifi. First thing we need to figure out is what, precisely, counts as my attention for something to stay shrunk. If we don't know what to remotely set up, it's not particularly useful, would you agree?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Tue Apr 04, 2017 2:44 pm

"Makes sense! So, like, some kinda monitor? Like a medical one maybe?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Tue Apr 04, 2017 7:12 pm

"Talk me through that," he said, standing up and digging under his bed for something.
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Tue Apr 04, 2017 7:34 pm

"Uh... okay. So just have like one of those beep-beep heartbeat monitors on you and then we'll have the spiky line thing in a different room with one of your other things aaand we'll see if it keeps working!"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Tue Apr 04, 2017 7:59 pm

"Very technical explanation.

Two flaws, which we'll have to overcome. One -- the monitor is just showing physical signs, and not actively replicating them in some way; we'd have to hook the monitors up to something else; something a bit more active.

Secondly, by definition, I can't be in the room to monitor when and if it stops working, so that's another hurdle. That one, at least, is easy enough to solve."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Tue Apr 04, 2017 10:10 pm

"I can carry around a thing. But how are you gonna get something more active than your heart?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:19 pm

"Not on me, on the other end. I hardly think a computer monitor would count for presence, wouldn't you say?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:33 pm

"If it's showing your heartbeat that's a kind of presence, right?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:45 pm

"OK, you've got a poster of, say, Leonardo DiCaprio on your wall. Does that mean that Leo is present in your room?"
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Tue Apr 04, 2017 11:57 pm

"I mean, kind of..." she says despite the fact that Cam is obviously going the other direction on this.
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:06 am

"'Kind of'? Please explain to me the sorts of actions that would be the same with both a poster representation of DiCaprio and having the actual man in your bedroom."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:27 am

"Man I don't even... Okay, you can look at his face for starters. If I was one of your doodads and I was getting anxious I might look over and go 'Oh hey, it's Cam's face. Now I can keep working'."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Wed Apr 05, 2017 12:31 am

"You're anthropomorphizing. Most shrunken things aren't conscious; they can't respond in that sort of manner. No, it's more likely to be some sort of reaction down on the atomic level, with the shrunken atomic nuclei interacting with my X-Gene's morphogenic field. Or it could be a biochemical reaction; some sort of biological signal I release which allows the laws of physics to continue to bend."
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Shari » Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:15 am

"Have you tried talking to things through a microphone?" Shari tries again.
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Re: Room 106 - Reporting for Duty

Postby Cam Beckett » Wed Apr 05, 2017 4:45 am

"Again; talking TO things is a waste of time, but I suppose sound waves could be an integral part of the reaction."
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