week one

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Week 1

[After the initial introduction of the Overseers, the Champions were left to their own devices in investigating the part of the ship they have access to to their hearts' content. However, the doors that Blaze Dudely and Rox came through are locked tight and cannot be unlocked via PIP.

On Wednesday morning, the same voice that awakened them the previous morning chirps at them again from their PIPs at 7 am on the dot.



Enjoy your week, Champions.]

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Comments

[batfortheprincess]

[Something something proper respect to royalty etc etc!! Still, at the same time if she's insisting he... mgrrhhrrhh. He doesn't want her to feel uncomfortable either though.]

T-that's true, but... [Coughs lightly.] Then, um, L-Lucina. Did you... did you require any assistance?

[He's. He's trying.]

[challengesfate]

[That gets her to smile slightly. Oh thank Gods, he's...actually making an attempt, that's good.]

Well...there are quite a lot of things I don't understand about this realm. I've been talking to many of the others and asking questions, but, I'm sure there are things you understand better than I. Would you mind if I asked you some questions?

[batfortheprincess]

[Questions, huh. It reminds him a little of how Princess Asseylum asked him all sorts of things about Earth.]

Oh, of course. I'll answer what I can. [Lightbulb.] Is that what you were writing down?

[challengesfate]

That's right. [Here, she'll turn the sketchbook around so he can see that...long, long list.] There is much I don't understand, and I want to change that while I'm here.

[batfortheprincess]

[Yeah that... that sure is a list. He can answer some questions about how space works and generalities of space travel and stuff like that, so those sorts of questions would catch his eye. Anything about modern technology (as of present-day Earth-ish, anyways) would also be fair game.]

That's an admirable outlook, Pr- er. L-Lucina. Is there anything in particular that you were interested in?

[There's a slight smile on his face because infodumping is a thing he knows how to do!!]

[challengesfate]

Well...perhaps...

[She brings a hand to her chin and thinks. There are a couple of things not on the list yet, but...not the kind of things you ask a young man.]

...I have been experimenting with the PIP device, but I'm sure there are things about it I still don't understand. Besides the doors, do you think there's anything worthy of note that they can do?

[batfortheprincess]

[The PIPs, huh... He takes a glimpse back down at his own. Honestly, nothing positive really comes to mind.]

Considering the rules, I could see them using these as a way to track our location around the ship. It would be easier than keeping watch constant watch over us using the cameras.

[challengesfate]

But...they cannot see us through the devices, can they? Or is it tracking by some other means?

[batfortheprincess]

I... don't think so, no. Otherwise it seems like there would be little point in installing external cameras. I am no expert in tracking devices, but... if all of our PIPs send out a signal periodically, they would only need some receivers to relay that information back to them. So if we assume it can work like that, there would need to be a receiver hidden in this room for them to detect us in here.

[challengesfate]

A signal...

[Wouldn't they be able to see signals if they were being sent out? Or are the signals not visible by normal means? Lucina looks down at her own PIP and hums.]

...Truly the technology here is...well beyond my understanding, but, this is much more than I thought possible.

[batfortheprincess]

What sort of technology are you used to, if I may ask? It seems as if many here are accustomed to the idea of being in space, but everyone's understanding seems to vary to degrees.

[challengesfate]

Um...hm. Well, for travel, we often use wagons or horses...

[batfortheprincess]

[Ah. That's pretty different...]

I see... this would be quite the adjustment to make, coming from somewhere like that. You have my sympathies.

Um, is there anything you would like me to clarify, then...?

[challengesfate]

...Yes. How...how would one be able to travel into space to begin with?

[batfortheprincess]

[Hmm... how to tailor this explanation to her? Well, first...]

Prin-- ah, Lucina. Are you familiar with explosives or cannons?

[challengesfate]

I am familiar with explosive materials - not in using them, but I've seen explosions before.

[Who knows if she knows what a cannon is.]

[batfortheprincess]

[That's honestly good enough for him, so he won't pursue it.]

I see. There are many ways of travelling to space, but you can think of it as a controlled explosion that pushes the ship upwards. The ship has to be built very strongly to handle the strain, but it can be perfectly safe for those on board.

[And he'll just... grab a sheet of paper to doodle a really crude rocket and a launchpad.]

[challengesfate]

[And she will watch him doodle that because that doesn't sound safe at all.]

You're sure? Generally explosions...do a lot more harm than they do good.

[batfortheprincess]

Ordinarily, it would be dangerous, yes. But the explosion itself is contained very carefully so that it only exits out one end and is blocked off from coming close to the passengers. The engineers that build them include safety measures in place as well.

[pchoo look at that shitty rocket with flames out one end]

[challengesfate]

That's...really quite incredible! I can't imagine how much time it must have taken for the engineers to get it to work like that.