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[ichoosefight]

actually my organs getting mashed was more or less at Viking technology level

but "airplane people" does sound pretty cool

and yeah it's a fine line between crazy but believable and just plain crazy. sometimes it's not really a line at all. but don't you think that getting kidnapped through time and being a fake person taking up someone else's brain space are pretty equally crazy?

[meadqueen]

[Randvi’s grudge against airplanes specifically is kind of outsized considering she's only even known about them for five days. One of the first times she’d worked up the courage to reach out everyone had told her that her observations were wrong, this was a place for planes, and then she’d looked around for huge metal birds like an idiot but of course there aren't any.

It's a bit like how Senku keeps trying to tell her how much better electricity is than fire even though electricity sucks and doesn't work and she's had like five successful fires just on this island.

The first time she sees a plane she's going to be furious that they're real.]

They both absolutely sound crazy, but I had hoped to not be alone anymore.

[ichoosefight]

All I'm trying to say is, since either thing could be true and we have no way to be sure, why decide that the uncomfortable thing is more likely? Why torture yourself over a decision that nobody is asking you to make, that you might never be asked to make?

and also that having your organs messed up really hurts

1/2

[meadqueen]

Is it truly better to ignore the possibility and then be blindsided later?

2/2

[meadqueen]

Also I believe the aim in combat is to avoid being hit.

:)

[ichoosefight]

Damn, I knew I was doing something wrong.

I think, when your survival is on the line, it's okay to put that kind of thing off. Maybe I'm just worrying too much, but if thinking about it makes it that much harder to do the things you have to just to get through the next day, that's more important, right?

I also just really don't like the idea that you're trying to sacrifice yourself and you haven't even been given the opportunity yet.

[meadqueen]

Thank you.

[It does mean something, that her life matters to someone who has no obligations to her]

I just wish

The life I left behind when I was taken here, there has to be more than that.

[ichoosefight]

There is. No matter what's really going on here, I can tell you that. Life takes unexpected turns, whether you want it to or not, and there is always more to experience. I mean, just look at us now.

[meadqueen]

[For like the next two years in her own time, some truly wild sci-fi bullshit is going to happen around Randvi that will have her wishing that her worst problem was being trapped in her little room while everyone else gets to live, but unfortunately she doesn't know that yet]

That's true. In some ways, I feel like I'm waking up.

[ichoosefight]

Not always pleasant, right?

[meadqueen]

Parts of it are. I've not spent so much time in the open air in years.

[ichoosefight]

Why not?

[meadqueen]

Too much to do.

[ichoosefight]

And all of it had to be done indoors? Not even time for a walk?

[meadqueen]

Running a settlement requires a great deal more paperwork than you'd think.

I'm not permitted to leave the settlement without an escort, and inside the settlement there's rarely a moment's peace. I felt tethered to my table even when I wasn't beside it, and now the tether’s broken.

[ichoosefight]

You need an assistant.

But I think there are a few others things we can prioritize first.

[meadqueen]

I need my own wife, I think.

[It's a joke, but a lot of what’s on her plate are the unfun parts of ruling that Sigurd doesn't want to do]

But yes, you're right, we must survive this first.

[ichoosefight]

I think the term is "secretary" but yeah, that works too.





I don't mean to be an airplane person. I'm not trying to dismiss your concerns, honest.

[meadqueen]

I did have an apprentice for a while, but I'm not sure I’d do it again.

[A sweet, earnest Saxon boy only a couple of years Steph’s junior, he’d been murdered by one of their Norse allies soon after he’d left her village. Even now, he sits heavy in her heart like a stone]

I know that you all understand each other, and thus expect to be understood. I fear that as we progress here, I'll be left behind.

[ichoosefight]

I try not to talk like that. I know how it feels, and I know your world is really different from mine. That doesn't make it lesser.

I'm not trying to be patronizing, but sometimes it's easier to think of it like magic. Most of the time the specifics aren't really important, you just need to know that it works and go from there.

Like, I couldn't tell you how an airplane flies, it just does.

[meadqueen]

I know you understand, but to me it's not old. It's my life.

I know you can't halt everything to explain things to me, but it's not just how things function. What is “automated”? What kind of damage should I expect a gun to do? What is “egghead”?

I'm afraid that any code people make to keep out eavesdroppers will cut me off as well.

[ichoosefight]

I don't mind explaining things.

"Automated" means it does stuff by itself.

Getting shot by a gun is like getting shot by an arrow made of burning embers fired from a bow that shoots so fast you can't see it. It burns, and it will break bone if it hits it, and sometimes it breaks inside you, and the pieces are poisonous. I can get more specific if you want but that about sums it up.

"Egghead" is an insult for someone who's really smart but has no social skills.

Insults get really weird in different cultures, even in the same culture over the course of a couple of years. I wouldn't be surprised if you hear some I've never heard before.

I don't think a code is a very good idea anyway, but if things start to go that way I'll make sure you don't get left out. There's not much point if not everyone can use it that needs to, you know?

[meadqueen]

Thank you.

So when people speculate that the defences here are automated, they think they may be following an old plan on their own?

[She’s not going to address the gun thing but no wonder Senku had been so afraid of them]

There is nothing that will make you contemplate your own mortality like people quoting an old poem composed centuries after your death.

[ichoosefight]

You got it. If that's what it is, then there isn't a human somewhere controlling it that can be reasoned with. I'm not sure if that's better or worse.

Who's quoting poetry? That just seems obnoxious.

[meadqueen]

And they'd be following a plan that didn't anticipate no living wardens in the jail. I see.

Is there someone here who’s not obnoxious?