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subnautica2016-05-04 08:42 pm
maserannas) wrote in subnautica2016-05-04 08:42 pm
telepathic network
Two questions for anyone with the attention to spare. First, is anyone here capable and willing to create some sort of sensor system or device to install further afield for better tracking movements of large bodies through the water? As a type of early warning and defense system, like wards.
Second, any volunteers for gathering supplies or assisting in fermentation of alcohol for the base? The offer's open to anyone with an interest in the process, if not the end result.
Second, any volunteers for gathering supplies or assisting in fermentation of alcohol for the base? The offer's open to anyone with an interest in the process, if not the end result.
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Also maybe the fermentation thing? Because who doesn't want to be able to say they made alcohol. Can we have a speak easy. With like, juice options.
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Consider yourself signed up. I have no idea what a speak easy is, but I approve of juice options. More variety in what we can drink as a whole would be welcomed by everyone, I believe.
Either way, if you're antsy, we can get moving on this tomorrow morning.
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I mean, it probs won't make sense without a bunch of context, but basically in America which is a country which I used to live in there was a time when alcohol was made illegal? Apparently real speakeasies weren't entirely like what the movies made them out to be but the movie version is awesome so I'm askin' if we can do that. Badass secret bar with like, ridiculous passwords and cloak and dagger shit and also we can use 1920s slang that again you probably don't know but whatever I will use it and everyone else can suck it.
Fuck yes to the moving on it thing. I like having shit to do and apparently I spent more time mixing music and fucking around with people who aren't here than I thought, soooo.
[ he's thinking he should do things OTHER than bother his sister, brother, and mom. maybe. which is what he has mostly been doing. ]
I'm Dave Strider, bee tee dubs.
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[ is it better or worse when literally everyone is dead, because this is a possible reality for her world so... ]
Right. Well, if nothing else, we can use Speak Easy as a label?
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Also, hell yes I'm all about that. As soon as someone with magical plant powers or science powers to grow plants fast is located, we can have apple juice and alcohol - well the alcohol will be a thing way before the apple juice, probably, because for some reason it's easier to make no matter where the fuck I am - and it will be the best. End story.
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In fairness, alcohol can be creative scavenging from what's here per what Ursula and I were discussing, where we're at a remarkable lack of apple trees underwater. Or even apple-substitutes, but that might be a good place to begin. Do trees do well growing only in water, or should we see about what kind of soil we can generate to be functional?
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[ dave, get better priorities ]
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["HELLO MY NAME IS DIRK STRIDER AND I AM A CONCERNED FRIEND OF AN ALCOHOLIC"]
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[ Hello Dirk Strider this is Ms. Personal Responsibility calling — ]
Not outside of not allowing anyone to get the brilliant idea of taking it all outside of an emergency situation. At least not at the outset. If people have difficulty keeping to reasonable levels for themselves, or display a tendency toward intolerable behaviours, then yes. Is there someone you're worried about, or are you more generally concerned?
[ There's a lot of opportunity to meet shitty drunks, and she wouldn't want to support the unfortunate side of this particular social hobby. ]
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[yes there's someone he's worried about no he doesn't want to talk about them]
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Each person has to fight their own battles, even and especially on the subject of addiction. Habits are formed because we keep repeating a behaviour. When we have ones we're trying to break away from, looking to friends for support is one of the most brave, most frightening steps to take.
Alcohol, lyrium, whatever it might be is going to be part of the world they live in. It's going to be close at hand sometimes, or far away at others, but it isn't the world who thinks of us and guards us from our own worst temptations.
Which is to say I won't be walking around and handing out glasses of ale, mead, or whatever we end up with — you will rather need to voluntarily come collect your own — and that relies on people making individual decisions along the way. If you're concerned about someone in particular, I suggest speaking with them. Or, for example, if it were a personal concern, ask someone you feel will be able to be responsible to help you resist the bad habit.
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The world may not think of us, but the world is pretty fucking cold and uncaring. We're in an isolated environment down here. We don't have to be the world.
[He won't argue with it more than that. He just finds the entire notion frustrating and irritating.]
I'm glad to hear you aren't going to be reckless. But don't worry about my end; I'll take care of it.
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[ she wants None of that of course, she has seen the ins and outs of alcoholism no ty. she's just here to be a little bit of a shit and psychoanalyze people as a hobby. ]
Or do you intend it for a medical use? I don't mean to be presumptuous, of course.
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[ In what world — there's a sense of amusement to her mental voice when she responds, largely for knowing she's not dependent, and that it says interesting things to her that this is a new voice's first line of thought.
Three months stuck under the ocean with all it's oddities and vagrancies is more than enough time to long for alcohol... and friends. Drinking alone wouldn't solve anything, but commiserating... ]
The benefit to having it on hand is being able to use it for whatever needs are most pressing. Leaves the options of using something distilled for cleaning or medical purposes, as well as drinking, burning at high enough proof, or whatever else people come up with on their own.
Myself, mostly I'd like something like ale or mead to drink every so often. Starting on month three here and it feels no more natural than month one living under the sea.
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Still, he sounds a liiiiittle wary, though still interested. ]
Gathering supplies? You mean ... out in the water, right?
[ He did not have the best introduction to the waters here. ]
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[ Reapers were almost cuddly if you... defined cuddly as "liable to take your head off. And your everything off. And actually they'll just make you dead by but the Maker or the Creators will you be cuddled out by then!" ]
Much as I'd love it to be gathering supplies on dry land, you're correct. I do mean out in the water. Willing to chance it with me? I wouldn't suggest people going out alone, especially if they're not familiar with the area around the base.
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But hmmhmmm. He feels he should ask a question or two before he agrees to this. ]
What kind of supplies would we be looking for? Like, food and stuff? [ A pause. ] And you're sure it's safe out there, right?
[ Just. Checking. ]
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So okay, he'll suddenly sound a lot more perky and adorable. She said some good words there. ]
Uh huh! I'll come along! So long as I can try one of those fish the second we get back!
[ Well, that was easy. ]
The fish in a place like this have gotta be really tasty!
[ Can you tell what's most important here. ]
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Drunk storytime seemed like it was paired with playing a few rounds of Wicked Grace whenever my friends got together. Mixed with storytelling as a whole, drunk or otherwise, it might be entertaining for those willing to participate.
[ Mai might appreciate it, she thinks, though she won't say as much right now. ]
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[Or well at least Fenris and Anders seemed to have fun one-upping each other in card games while drinking and isn't that proof that it's a perfect bonding tool?]
Do you know how to make it?
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And I'll definitely do the second one whole heartedly. Definitely time for me to find a new vice to replace my old one until a new source of nicotine can be found down here.
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The right tools might be a matter of scavenging, pooling resources, and building what we can. What "tools" will you need?
Haven't heard of nicotine, but outside of one warning about moderation, glad to hear you're on board for both missions.
[ Almost, almost a feeling of being upbeat, but really. Really. They can use some alcohol to cope some of these days down here on the ocean floor. ]
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For the wards, we definitely need to first get a base reading of the animals round these parks. That way we can encode it into the system so it knows what's supposed to be natural and what's supposed to be iffy enough to give us a heads up.
The alcohol is kinda trickier. I know a recipe for moonshine and I think I can jimmy some of our things to make the machine for safe distillation and fermentation. It's the ingredients or substitutes of it that are going to be a headache since we're under the sea.
[ he clearly put a lot of thought into this already. ] Got an idea where we can find seven pounds of cane sugar or ten pounds of corn meal?
Distiller’s Yeast,
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Ursula had pointers on what will work compared to what those of us land dwellers are used to using. If you can manage the machine for distillation, it broadens what we'll be able to ferment, though my own preference is leaning toward this promise of something mead-like Ursula made.
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[ since, you know, he didn't think she liked him being near all that much for his smell.
his cigarette stash officially gone for good, though, so maybe that'll make URSULA like him more as he'll no longer be a walking ashtray. hooray for that, he reckons. ] Guess she has a database of sort for emergencies. Maybe we could tap into that too for the cataloguing of movements too. That'll make feeding the data to the system much easier.
And hey- If this all goes according to plan, both plans, we can make your mead as our very first swing down here as celebration. Sounds pretty good to get smashed on.
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Booze can wait.
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It'd take some work.
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If we fitted a set of buoys with offset inclinometers and accelerometers, and anchored them somewhere stable, we could relay the signals back wirelessly to URSULA. Then we could set them at angles to each other, to triangulate the signals so that we'd know the rough volume of anything passing through - but then we'd have to coordinate those, and someone would need to swim out to anchor the buoy ends or get some robotics to do it, or -
[... he's rambling in his head again. This is terrible, he already rambles aloud enough.]
Sorry. I'm still learning how to control my thoughts like this.
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Nothing to apologise for. We've all had our own interesting occurrences when it comes to speaking in this manner, outside of the handful who already possessed a form of mind speak.
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[Don's telepathy tone gives away his excitement easily. Seems like he really would be interested to start working on this project.]
Back on my home planet, Earth, scientists use buoy arrays like that to study ocean currents. Our oceans cover about seventy-one percent of our planet's surface, give or take, so we kind of needed to know what we could about them.
[His thoughts jar at that latter statement, though -]
Other people here had telepathy before they showed up? That's fascinating! I wonder how that interacts with this kind of induced telepathy? I've been meaning to take a look at my brain structure, but my labs at home never really could cobble together a working CAT scan anyway, so I wouldn't be sure what to look for.
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You're gonna make booze?