ProfessorP.Hardraad
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I'm sorry but the only way I can see Elise is as:She grins and grabs my arm, leaning into me. "Deal! Now c'mon, I wanna see lava go all FWOOOOSH!"
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I'm sorry but the only way I can see Elise is as:She grins and grabs my arm, leaning into me. "Deal! Now c'mon, I wanna see lava go all FWOOOOSH!"
I think the dating start around the point of doing all activies together, kissing, and the utter degeneracy of handholding.I have a sneaking suspicion that Blue is going to wake up one day a few years now and wonder when him and Elise started dating, let alone got married.
Elise meanwhile will just be saying "all according to keikaku"
I think the dating start around the point of doing all activies together, kissing, and the utter degeneracy of handholding.
Also two nice new chapters, is the castle getting blue glowy crystal lights? Ooh perhaps and anti-matter battery trebuchet?
Blue wood?Haha, he doesn't even have those. The whole thing will have power based on those AM battery designs but it's mostly gray-with-slightly-blue tinted stone with basalt and quartz worked into the design and wood finishing for inside.
In my head it looks like Casa Loma inside, basically. That's the location they used to film inside Xavier's school in the X-men movies.
Nah, regular wood. Mostly oak and birch.Blue wood?
Also why no anti matter trebuchets? A fusion of old and new goes down like rum and coke.
Uh new chapter. Will read now.
Oh.... his poor innocence. This definitely is a QQ story, a innocent pure soul corrupted by an assertive furry girl.Too late, she pulled that when she first met him and he never even realized. Mwahahahaha.
I noticed!Too late, she pulled that when she first met him and he never even realized. Mwahahahaha.
Can't his ring just make him a mirror? I'm not sure what limitations Blue light has but I assumed there was probably a mirror included in the new bathroom he's made for himself.Remind me to introduce you to a mirror someday when I find one.
Can't his ring just make him a mirror? I'm not sure what limitations Blue light has but I assumed there was probably a mirror included in the new bathroom he's made for himself.
Interesting. So, his (and thus your) memories are still in his head somewhere? But locked away, coming to the fore only when something nudges them? Fascinating."Yes. You called us here. Some place you felt safe in instinctually. What is it?"
"A house. I lived here as a child." Where dreams tend to flow from one thing into another, her being here is stabilizing this, somehow. I've become aware that I'm dreaming, something that's never happened to me before. Despite that, I don't feel like I really control anything. Powerless.
Suggesting whatever brought him here sealed them away. To allow him to find a new self on his own, perhaps... Without the weight of a past that may make hope harder.The television against the kitchen wall, the couch she's sitting on... the rocking chair. That belonged to my great-grandmother and was kept by my mother. So was the cabinet in the dining room. The oval table next to it, the stereo...
She's right. In the time I've been here, I've never thought of these things.
I suspect the Skal tribes will take to it quite well. More as decorations and jewellery, though. But it's something you can found in Durjak, which will have the infrastructure for more developed industries soon enough."No, just glass. It's made from melted sand."
"It would be useful to us."
"Yeah. And I never thought of how to try making it before this." Hm. "Is it you doing this? Making me aware of this?"
...I suspect, from that burst of anger... Things were not fun for you, growing up. I know it's a hollow sentiment on the internet, but... You have my sympathies."I never really studied it. That was my dads thing. Not mine."
"I felt that. A strong emotional resonance."
Heh. That's a child's thinking there. When a thing is always The thing. For instance, your family's car is always The Car. This farm must have been important."Does it? I think of this place as The Farm when I look at it, but..."
"No crops, yes. Animals, though." She points to the hay bales. "And a barn. You're not entirely off the mark."
And that's an interesting idea there. People in modern cultures never think about how complex, how rich our lives are. Especially in comparison to less developed places... Most of us live lives of unimaginable leisure, with conveniences unheard of in the pseudo-medieval world Durjak and the Skal have found themselves in..."Give it time, Ainsley. There will be other nights." She drops down to sit in the grass, plucking at it and chewing thoughtfully. "Your clothes are different. The quality is impressive. Not just of your clothes, but all of what I saw. You lived like a tiny prince and I thought you might be rich until we stepped out and saw so many other houses just like yours."
"No, not rich. What you saw was just stuff my mom had accumulated."
Given that you can see Durjak, you can legitimately say, "I can see my house from here!" And it's more than likely going to be visible from each of the realms you've found allies in...The rock face I'm working on has quite the view, actually. It's on the border between Durjak's lands - I really need to think of a region name for this area - and Skal, on the western side of the range. I can just about see Durjak if I use the ring to enhance my vision so I'm not too far, but high up enough to limit access and still give a beautiful view of the valley below stretching out to the horizon. Not all of the trees are the same uniform green either. Some are darker, some lighter, some with various kinds of purple leaves and some with bright gold ones. Some of the trees have flowers in them ranging from blue to purple to bright yellow. The area is gorgeous, really.
Aw, you missed her flirting."Shu-werrrrr." She hops up, shifting her weight to her hands and leaning forward and the rock, balancing her center of weight on her wrists while moving her legs behind her so she can kneel and stretch while standing up. She kind of eyeballs me when she realizes I'm not looking and hops down off the rock, sliding down on her feet and walking over to me. "So this is gonna be your secret hideout, huh? You gonna make the mountain into a skull? You should totally do that, it'd look so cool."
No doubt in a few years, this place will be called the Blue Tower of Hope, or something similar. Got to love Elise's earnest joy for life, too."I didn't actually plan that, interesting. I wonder if I can find some marble or basalt to work into the design here?"
"Yes! You should totally make the castle in your colors. Oh! If you go to a volcano can I come with you? I wannaseeavolcanosobad."
It's almost like someone designed it that way... One more mystery to look into as you go.Basalt acquired. Elise did a little tribal whooping dance at the craters rim while I collected lava samples next to her. The only reason we could get so close was the environmental shield but she really had a blast even though all we did was kind of stand there while I used constructs. I thought it would be hard to find a volcano with an open, exposed lava lake like that but it turns out a number of the mountains along the northern ridge are volcanically active or at least sort of active. Something I'll probably have to keep an eye on the future.
Hint, hint, huh? But that is a good point."No, I don't have a filter pump designed yet. But this isn't much more than an elaborate house right now. Adding on new sections as I need them is something I figured I'd probably have to do at some point but I can fly, so building them slightly apart from each other and linking them isn't so much of a problem."
She stops, folding her arms under her breasts and frowning. "Well, not everyone can. You're gonna have people living here with you, right?"
And who knows, maybe he doesn't mind the boys, either?"Gonna fill your place with cute, scantily clad girls, huh?"
"If I find any who want to stick around, sure, why not." I make a flippant gesture.
Interesting insight. I suppose Ren enjoys scaring people? But yeah, Yellow rings.. don't generally end up in the hands of good people... Though 'I want to play a game' is a good depiction of a heroic Yellow Lantern...I blink, looking at her. "You'd probably make a good fit for hope." ... "I got news that there is another like me. Someone of a different color. Yellow rings run on fear and -"
"Ren."
"-Ren would-. Yeah. Exactly. But that's only if they turn out to be somebody I can't work with. If they're brutalizing people... I have to stop them."
'Again'? Yeah, there's history there. I hope Ainsley thinks to ask a little further, somewhere down the line."Yeah. After the Purity War, one of our stipulations was getting territory. No one wanted to give any up, so we took Antarctica. Obviously they all thought we were crazy but nope. City Zero is built under Mt. Erebus, wrapped around the magma chamber. We use geothermal power for everything and the mountain on top of us ensures that no one will ever take us out with a nuclear strike again."
Who doesn't?"Ooh, good. Good. I haven't had one of those in ages. I'll have to find a double bed for it."
"Why? You like to sprawl out?"
Yeah, I'm definitely thinking she'll move in someday, and Ainsley won't even notice that they're together together for a while... He strikes me as a little oblivious in that area...She nods firmly. "Yeah. I do. This place is interesting. You're way cooler than anyone I left back home." She thumps her tail on the floor behind her. "No, I wouldn't go back."
"Good. Then you can help me pick out the furniture for this place."
...And they do make such a nice couple. Though Kuri's probably planning to stake a claim too... I'll laugh if he realises one day that he's built himself a harem without even noticing it..."For the last time, not going for the evil overlord theme here, Elise."
"Not with that attitude, you're not."
Oooh, she's practically a princess. Seriously, the emphasis on his role makes me think he's got quite a bit of influence in the government.Nodding but not speaking she followed him down the hall, trying not to stare at his butt on the way. Eyes firmly ahead, that's the ticket. With mild relief he stepped into the room ahead of her and held the door open, stepping back out once she'd entered the room and leaving her with The General.
AKA Dad.
And I can already tell he's not entirely happy about it."You're not answering me~" She singsonged it, tilting her head back. "Must be serious if you're trying this hard to beat around the bush."
He rumbled, pouring himself a glass of scotch. "You've been chosen for a small team being sent through an experimental gateway to explore the other side."
Smart. Very smart. Not only the hopeful image of human and genkit kids playing together.. You also have the knowledge that only a total bastard would try something violent with women and children present."Instead of negotiating like it was a business deal, the way they set it up gave them better odds. Most political negotiations happen between state heads or diplomats in closed room sessions. Taking all of them to a park and having families there playing while they talked changed the whole thing from a big serious affair to an informal meeting between equals and friends. Inviting them to bring their families and having a bunch of genkit kids there was what made it work, though. A bunch of people they didn't know and it would've just looked like we weren't taking it seriously."
Man, someone with a sense of humour named him."Kiiiind of an exaggeration, there. I mean, she listens to me, but it's only 'cuz the whole squad listens to me and she never has to yell at them. You remember Lieutenant Dingher?"
"I remember the court martial. And the cat jokes. Who the fuck is Schrödinger, anyways?"
Ah, yes. The classic parental fear. Knowing his child will be going somewhere he can't help her... I can't imagine he's in a good shape in the present day."I don't want you to go."
She turned and sat up properly in the seat, really looking at him for the first time. The tinges of gray at his ears and nose, the way he kept staring at the desk. This was a man she'd seen actually fighting, covered in crap, shooting at assholes in underdeveloped backwaters and having the time of his life doing it. Now here he was, refusing to look her in the eye.
Boy, Humanity really leaned hard on the 'hate and fear the different' button in this world, didn't they?"They're worried because all our eggs are in one basket, here."
"That's not true? There's genkits living in 23 different countries around the world, now. A single massive strike doesn't risk taking us all out anymore. They had one chance at the bio-domes and they failed, now we're entrenched and they'll never be rid of us."
Surprised there wasn't a little love in there. But then, they're both military folks. I can see them being reserved even at the most tender of moments... Which makes her father's visible fear all the more significant in that light."No, I guess not. This is really important to you, isn't it?"
"Important enough to send my daughter and not pull rank to get her reassigned, yes."
"Then I won't disappoint you, dad."
"You never have, Elise. You never have."
Hmm... Caught on tree roots or bushes? Or some enforced incompatibility in technologies? But we've seen more advanced tech functioning... Or maybe I'm overthinking it, and the driver just hit the brakes.It was the wildest ride she'd ever been on. The moment they stepped through the gate the phase shields protecting their carrier were nearly overloaded, the power systems going into critical as they struggled with herculean effort to try and compensate for the sudden drain on the shields as whatever existed between worlds ate and chewed and tore at them. When they got through to the other side the vehicle just quit, rolling three feet before stopping.
Surprised the bandits did as well as they managed against modern/near-future weaponry. Guess magic and the element of surprise made a big impact.Elise was one of the ones moving to the left, hitting the trees and getting into them. Dense clusters of objects made it impossible to use the skids to full effectiveness but that just meant that going up gave her an advantage. She could climb easily due to the gloves and boots where their enemies seemed to be ground based fighters. Since ground based fighters rarely look up, she got herself up high in a tree and started to take aim.
And a good look at Elise's priorities. No wonder the troops like her so much. She probably saved a few lives here."Keep pushing! Send them running home to momma!" She could hear Ren screaming from across the battlefield but she seemed to have things in hand so she didn't pay her Colonel any mind for now. Instead she pulled out her hand scanner, pointing it at a wounded genkit. Safe to move? Good show. Picking them up as best she could she started rolling towards the medical carrier as fast as she could.
...Well, shit. Hey, maybe Ainsley could help with that. If there's enough left to analyse, he could maybe rebuild it... If Elise thinks of that possibility.It wasn't until nearly an hour later that they realized the carrier with the parts for the gate had been destroyed.
They were stranded.
Which would probably discourage manned missions. And now I'm imagining their initial telemetry came from sensors stuck through on poles."We're not getting backup?"
"Maybe." She says it quietly, glancing around. "There's nothing stopping Zero from sending more aside from the fact that from their end, it probably looks like we all died."
Good plan. Survive, then worry about ever seeing home again.Dad's going to flip his shit when he finds out.
One problem at a time.
Smart. Very smart. Not only the hopeful image of human and genkit kids playing together.. You also have the knowledge that only a total bastard would try something violent with women and children present.
Hmm... Caught on tree roots or bushes? Or some enforced incompatibility in technologies? But we've seen more advanced tech functioning... Or maybe I'm overthinking it, and the driver just hit the brakes.
...I suspect, from that burst of anger... Things were not fun for you, growing up. I know it's a hollow sentiment on the internet, but... You have my sympathies.
proper -> prosper (I think that's what you meant)
QUEST ACCEPTED!"Let's just say that when yeh get down deep enough, yeh run into all manner of critters and not all of 'em are inclined to go running off when they see you."
Oh boy, here we go.