TECHNOEXPLORATION, open to all this weekend!

[rootandbranch]

IT'S ME AGAIN; just wanted to update everyone on the exploratory trip to the center of the Hub that's upcoming this weekend! As a note to new players, this is perfectly open to you if you'd like to hop in!

Plot Summary: 9S (deem) is leading an IC effort to create monitoring technology on the Hub, which will give IC bulletins on upcoming weather, magical vibes, and natural resources on the island. The mods will OOCly incorporate this into their weekly posts when characters are on the Hub. Characters will need to troop up to the ??? on the Hub mountain for installation.

Previous posts on this topic were here (IC) and here (OOC).

Here's the timeline:

• Starting on Day 120 (Nov 4), any characters who were interested started working together under 9S's direction to make a bunch of technological components. In the end these will be combined to make a monitoring station and a cute lil monitoring robot.
• On Day 122, newbies arrived, everyone got flooded into the mansion, and there was a temporary time and parts shortage while everyone got situated!
• On Day 123, the parts shortage was resolved, and everyone in the mansion could begin a nerd slumber party to plan and build in addition to the ongoing general slumber party. 9S was on site to help direct things! Any character who wanted to get involved and hadn't previously had an opportunity was free to pitch in from this point on.
• On Day 128 (Sunday), a log will go up for everyone to see what the ??? on the Hub is and install things! THIS IS UP GO TAG IT

Obviously we will be handwaving construction a bit since everyone is occupied with the new character intro log, but that's what this post is for! Please just comment to the HELPFUL SUBHEADERS if you want to plot with us about how your character pitched in to help or learn to help build robots, or if they'll be seeing what's on the mountain this weekend. If you want to help but don't know what your character could do, comment anyway and we'll think of something.

Comments

BUILD-A-BEAR TEAM

[rootandbranch]

Comment here if your character would have helped build robots during the week trapped in the mansion! Feel free to list your character's skills and plot with each other about who helped who, who your character taught to use a screwdriver, who annoyed who by arguing, etc. If you would like your character to be involved but they can't build robots, note that here -- fetching and carrying still counts, or 9S's player will help you come up with something they could have learned or assisted with!

[splinten]

-builds lots of robots
-good at programming the AIs for these
-may teach others but is an awkward loser in his efforts
-may or may not put red-tinted triangle shades on all the robots he makes

[deem]

If the sunglasses don't happen I would personally feel like something was missing.

Seeing what the results of cooperative programming would be is fun too. Like what would Dirk consider important to include aside from The Basics?

[splinten]

The ability to rap, for one thing. Also extensive knowledge of irony and memes.

Also he'd program it to protect the lives of coven members.

[deem]

Both great choices in my opinion. 9S definitely wouldn't argue against protecting the coven members... Although he has no earthly idea what rap is.

Obviously if Dirk thinks it's important it must be.

[splinten]

Rap is a beautiful artform that 9S should also be taught. Everyone should learn rap.

[deem]

Dirk, please help the sadroids learn this essential skill.

[oneandmikleonly]

Mikleo would fetch and carry, and would help tinker if there was something more basic he could help with/learn wrt robot building/progamming!

[deem]

Mikleo, the most helpful part-time dragon.

9S could definitely show him information about technology and useful resources using his monitors. It's a lot of information, but Alphonse and Riku got him accustomed to teaching people for whom his kind of tech is just a little insane.

Plus I think it'd be pretty cool to see what Mikleo would do with that information.

[oneandmikleonly]

I'm not gonna lie he would start messing around almost immediately on his own time to see if 9S's tech COULD be tweaked to work with magic, too; that sort of stuff fascinates him.

[deem]

A seraph after his own black box. 9S can totally relate to an interest in tinkering, although he naturally lacks the knowledge to do so with magic.

Mikleo should totally do that, it could be pretty darn cool.

[alphonse]

Yeeeeeah, let's be nerds.

[deem]

Team nerds! Do you wanna discuss anything general about how much Alphonse would've picked up by now or anything, in terms of tech info? Anything you feel is reasonable for his time and interest since they first discussed it works with me.

[alphonse]

Tech's never gonna be his area of expertise, so it's probably a fairly general overview! He can follow along as long as 9S is giving him direct input, but on his own he's probably pretty useless.

[deem]

He's happy to help! Al's a good friend after all.

So nuts and bolts sorts of things would suit him best so they could've focused on construction, which goes in-line with their original discussion of android maintenance. And has Al met Dirk before? Sort of an aside but gosh I'm curious.

[alphonse]

That sounds about right! And yeah, he's talked to Dirk a couple times. Dirk knows he's armor and offered to help with soul problems, so all clear on the needless secrecy front.

[deem]

Awesome. Al's the best armor.

Team nerd will truly be a mighty force.

[antemeridian]

all aboard team nerd

i don't know what practical skills from mass assembling timer bombs from scratch would transfer over and apply here but you know if nothing else you know she can sit down at a desk and just. work with her hands for hours on end with fiddly small things. on the floor is fine too.

teach her all the things. or just tell her what to do while you do your own thing. better yet shove ikea style assembly instructions in her face and leave her there with them, ey

[deem]

I think we've got at least a few people who are robotics-inclined and can help get her some instruction/information, and among that 9S can use his holographic screens to give her very detailed assembly data. Androids make pods after all, though I imagine this'll be something with some differences in design due to different minds contributing to it. Should be helpful for nuts and bolts all the same.

And since it's a very technical sort of project, being able to hunker down and piece things together would be very helpful.

[antemeridian]

Given that she's worked through more of 9S's data in the past this is a perfectly acceptable arrangement, thanks Nines.

She's probably not going to be too helpful for much more than the nuts and bolts herself at this point, not trusting herself to tinker too much outside of her breadth of knowledge especially given that there are much more capable sorts for that already within the coven, but hey who knows in the future what with the other folks currently around. She's intuitive and flexible enough, it's just a matter of the information she has access to and practical experience/understanding. But at the very least, she'll free up some of the busywork for the programmer and engineer sorts to have more time to do their thing.

[deem]

Sounds like excellent help, especially since they have to improvise with whatever parts they have. And it sounds like there's potential for Homura to build in her technical knowledge and skill over time for other things too, so anytime 9S can help her with that I'm 100% for it.

[deem]

I love this, build-a-bear.

Also occurs to me late that I should throw down a comment here too. Been responding to everybody but please don't let that discourage other interactions or cooperation on this since it's a team effort.

9S comes from a background of being technology used for a similar purpose and with the technical knowledge to match. His kind build pods which is what he's proposed as the basic template for mobile data-gathering. This said! He's got some parts handy and the ability to display construction data/information on holographic monitors for others. And he's pretty excited to collaborate so changes, innovations, or programming people pitch in are all very good so far as he's concerned.

Mostly I want to lend him as a support/helping presence on this to facilitate participation. So if he can be used to that end either in threads or a handwave capacity hit me right on up.

late, spilled the starbucks, etc.

[reckoner]

I'M STILL TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT (finally having time to stare helplessly at damn gundam episodes), you didn't ask for this tl;dr but here i go

like. he 's. not a mechanic. he spends like 90% of his screentime just staring at his gundam while actual mechanics work on it, but he's a) shown once sitting in the cockpit working on a tablet/interface, b) spoken to as if he's doing the adjusting himself, c) in such a tech heavy world with so much dependent on that stuff, i feel like it's reasonably to assume some basic competence should parts fall off and all that?

SO UH weakly justifying the following list

- experience programming and helping with some extremely fucking weird AI (based on and actually using his subordinate's remnant brain haha gundam)
- MAYBE some basic actual hands on maintenance/building/knowing where shit could go??? is it fair to say if you spend 24/7 watching it you pick something up plus basic back in the day classes????
- by all means he'll fetch and carry plz.

x2

[finagles]

just gonna piggyback on this and say mcgillis can and will do the same things as gaelio lmfao

seems to know a lot about gundam mechanics idk not a mechanic but a nerd

/neglected ic duties but icly he into it

[reckoner]

it had to have been part of coursework...gazes into the gundam void...

[finagles]

handwaves into eternity

[deem]

Gundam pilots are beautiful, majestic beings.

Please help make the pod's programming weird, and also! 9S hates fetch-quests so please be welcomed to them. While they're on the hub I think this essentially boils down to scraping together whatever they can and then moving parts between people working assembly, which these guys are welcome to do if they're so inclined. 9S can display relevant data on holographic monitors and uh. Also yammer a lot. He's a boss at talking.

There's a log up now that gives us some room for pod work here!

/slides in days late but hey

[equivalence]

So Ed would be all over this.

Not the most helpful, mind you. But all over this.

He at least knows he's not technologically savvy at this level enough to be a good little gopher and grunt and do what he's instructed to do. He can carry stuff or do anything he's shown how.

[sharpestsword]

Julieta has been around robots so she's familiar with the technology enough to pilot one. Also she has the ability to manipulate metal. Between the two of them they should be able to accomplish something!

[equivalence]

Sounds good to me! :D Ed's quick enough to catch on if he can work with someone who actually knows what's going on.

He'll also be very interested in her ability too (unrelatedly)

[sharpestsword]

I have tagged into the log here!

[deem]

Just nobody call him little, right? 9S can provide visual data via his monitors if needed (which naturally can be handwaved).

And Julieta and Edward sounds like such a cool team-up.

[equivalence]

Heaven help anyone who does :D

And yes excellent. Handwaved or not, Ed'll make good use of any info. That's perfect. :D

[argenteums]

Late, but Prompto would totally help with any crafting/building and such!

[deem]

Please teach the pod the chocobo song Prompto.

Be the hero we need.

[argenteums]

They're gonna ride a chocobo a~l~l d~a~y~~~

[deem]

Just imagine tinny mechanical whistling as it explores the countryside collecting data.

EVEN MORE LATER-est

[sopherias]

Hi I want Sophie to be part of the Build-A-Bear team even if she can't build robots! So she'll just stand and stare at everyone WITH GREAT INTEREST.

Jk... sort of. - she can fetch and carry things! She'll probably enjoy watching people too though... she's also a fast learner, so she might be able to mimic and put together some simple parts. Teach her things :')

[deem]

Let 9S be her tech support senpai...

Although I'd totally love to see her imitate Dirk too.

EXPLORE TEAM

[rootandbranch]

Comment here if your character doesn't know anything about robots but would still like to come see what's up on top of the Hub mountain! Everyone on the robot team can be auto-invited if they want, so robot-builders don't need to reply. But if you just want to explore, we can handwave that Geir sent out a network call for people to help carry stuff and look around the area.

[rebells]

JAY WOULD GO HERE, hello.

[rootbound]

ok

[stripartist]

Mostly because I want to get Yusuke involved in stuff and he's no good for tech stuff but good for being an extra body for exploring. Good for maybe drawing a map if the team needs one?

[rootandbranch]

I SHOULD ALSO COMMENT TO THE ORG POST Geir goes here he is enthusiastic but useless

[allconsumed]

Late, but Velvet would be interested in tagging along!

Even if, y'know, she just stalks behind and doesn't cooperate.

QUESTIONS

[rootandbranch]

If you have any questions not covered by the above, let Ren and I know here!