TEST DRIVE MEME #5

[fairyfoes]

TEST DRIVE MEME

Considering apping to EACHDRAIDH? Why not give the setting a test run here! OPTIONAL SCENARIOS 01. ARRIVING IN THE DRABWURLD. The Seelie and Unseelie courts welcome you with mirthful revelry and hearty food. After you have been briefed on your purpose here, you will find an endless feast and a night filled with entertainment to placate your concerns. Mingle with new arrivals, sneak down the castle halls and make sure your eyes are always on your glass; fairies and imps have no bias when it comes to tricks! 02. THE STATION. Looking for a little slice of home? The Station gives you all that and more. Take advantage of the wifi, have a cup of fairy-brewed coffee (the one they didn't spit in) or sit back and relax on the patio. You can even move your things into one of the available rooms! 03. WILDCARD. Your own scenario! Explore the Drabwurld or simply take advantage of your Locket!

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oh no i can't handle him

[showmeyourwreath]

[She dips her head.] Flora. It's very nice to meet you, Dorian.

[Oh wow, but he's so unwittingly charming. She very much understands, though. Technology is forbidden at home, so there was time where she didn't know much of anything.] The faithfulness, in this case, is more about accuracy. The point of it is to faithfully replicate the conditions that facilitate a certain means of communication that can and does use wires, wirelessly. That's more or less how it's explained, at least. On Ear--uh, I mean, to the people who are familiar with this sort of thing "wi-fi" was just something someone made up, the definition came after, but it works.

[Someone probably came up with wireless fidelity on Zenith first, though.]

If that makes a little bit of sense at all.

the dumbest baby

[depicted]

[A lot of those things are words he knows but that he can't understand in these circumstances. He tries to puzzle through it, and while he can get some, it will take a little bit.] A . . . little.

What kind of communication?

[showmeyourwreath]

It's alright, I didn't grow up with this stuff at home, myself. I was introduced to it a lot later than some people.

[Okay, the tricky part, how does one explain the internet. Where is Tecna--Flora is the Fairy of Nature, this is like the other end of the spectrum.

Okay, but she does use it, and Tecna has talked about things, naturally, to let her just take a moment.]

The internet. It's this system that connects networked computers on an incredible scale. Global, at the very least. The tablet in your hand is a computer, though they come in all shapes.

[depicted]

[Witness: Dorian Gray is a huge fucking nerd, and he is instinctively curious about this thing and wants to know about it.] What do 'computers' do? [He laughs self-consciously and quickly amends] That is, of course they must compute, I know that, but—but what do they computer?

[showmeyourwreath]

[It's okay, Flora is also a huge nerd, but she only wishes that her friend were here because she would certainly answer his questions much more thoroughly.]

Arithmetic or logical operations, but I think that's how it always works, when you get down to the bottom of it. Everything it can do it does by processing instructions that a user gives it in the form of data.

[Is that right, it sounds right. Maybe?]

What that translates to, though, is a lot. And you can use them as calculators, but they have so many other uses.

[depicted]

[He can follow that idea—he loves arithmetic and logical operations. He thinks about all the many brilliant inventions of their time that show just what can be do with simple mathematics.] I would like to see what it might do, if you would not object to showing me—but oh, first I shall need to find one who could fix this.

[showmeyourwreath]

Sure! And I think I could fix it. The damage looks like it's cosmetic, anyway, so it should still work.

[If it was more than that, it might be trickier.]

[depicted]

[IT IS LIKE HOPE AND LIGHT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BACK INTO HIS LIFE] Then—please! By all means!

[showmeyourwreath]

Oh, um, I was going to use magic to fix it. [You know, as a warning.]

Just thought I should mention that in case you don't have it back where you come from.

[depicted]

Oh. [Clearly, he doesn't. But he puts on a brave smile.] If I cannot get used to magic, I imagine I will not get very far here, will I? [And there is a little laugh to try to smooth over his discomfort and uncertainty.]

[showmeyourwreath]

That is very fair to say. [No use sugarcoating it, but she does try to smile reassuringly.] It's really everywhere around here. The Station's the only place technology works, and it's only about a mile wide..

[depicted]

Even with the devices at the station, a fair number of them are strange to what I know. [Although the station itself looks all right.] I think I may prefer the magic.