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[tinflower]

WHO: gorgug thistlespring & you!
WHEN: late last month and first half of this month!
WHERE: around etraya, and even outside it!
WHAT: bots, music, available for plotting
NOTES\WARNINGS:

1; outside the bubble

[ There aren't many reasons to lurk around the border between Etraya and outside. There isn't a lot to see, except for the very odd tree, a large rock here and there, and also a green guy from time to time wearing a tin can on his head.

--wait now.

It's not really a tin can, but it might as well be. Close to a welders' mask, a particular half-orc takes Aurora-approved trips outside the barrier that keeps everyone safe, to do maintenance on those very innocuous rocks spaced out around different parts outside. Sometimes he has them flipped over, cross-legged and inspecting whatever the interior is inside; or maybe, he's even setting up a new one, and the 'boulder' can be seen standing on otherwise hidden legs, scuttling like a lobster, while Gorgug watches. If it has a head, it can't be seen.

And Gorgug, he doesn't know if he's being seen from the inside. But then, it's pretty weird to be outside, and maybe he will catch if he's being watched.

You know, unless someone wants to call out the weird, 6'7" lanky figure just hanging out around outside. ]

2; sneaky bot training

[ Other times, Gorgug is dealing with his projects inside Etraya. One such project is training his sneaky chameleon by going to different parts of Etraya with the 1 foot bot.

Most of the time, it's invisible, and it doesn't thrum with motor noise like an electronic creation. But perhaps your character has a sense for magic or unseen beings, or just feels like something is off in that cereal aisle or the Kwik Trip, or they heard something scuttling under their table inside the many cafes.

Or it could even be that you were moving through Nova City, filled as it is with cats, but there seems to be some other presence... a little scurrying thing, usually invisible, but sometimes coming out of invisibility to let it recharge that setting. But coming out at the wrong time, and a glint of something small but animal-shaped catches your attention. Thinking it's being sneaky behind a wall or trash can, but is it? ]

3; music/dance studio

[ Not too far from the hospital is a large boat--a building in the shape of a boat, to be exact, and titled 'the MAXIMUM' on the map on the earpiece. It's probably a weird enough sight whether you know what it is or not, worth checking out, or maybe even making use of its facilities inside: dance rooms on the first floor, an unmanned bar, and music rooms on the second.

And up on the second floor, in the open practice room, is sometimes Gorgug. Some days, he's practising on the drums; others, he's going through the music library available from consoles in the wall, which can be found in a few of the different rooms to play music.

He likes his rock, he likes his emo, and he lets the music play for the most part, a notepad on his knee as he lets it play. Head bopping, his expression inquisitive, thoughtful. Truly, listening to music is serious.

The problem is, the music is set to shuffle at random, and when Gorgug doesn't close the door to the room properly, sometimes the choices sure are choices.

(In Gorgug's defence, he is too confused to change the tracks immediately. What is this.) ]

4; wildcard

[ Want to investigate the set of buildings surrounded by a large, golden fence? There might be the sound of quacking coming from the inside, or the sight through the left open gate of Gorgug chasing after a robotic duck in a vest and propeller hat (a sad sight, as he keeps going "Noooo, stop running, come onnn", and doesn't actually speed up to catch it; or he can be found at the junkyard, making a trip out with his blue van to check for any new and useful junk.

Feel free to message me privately if you would like to make plans! ]

Comments

[tinflower]

[ Huh. Hmm- Gorgug knows he's got plenty of materials from his time on Earth-2, and it's just a case then of building it. On his own? He furrows his brain, thinking; maybe there's some people who could help him, but.. ]

Okay. [ Okay... slowly does it. ] I'll-- see what I can do. I might need to change some settings on the van when we launch it. [ Launching a satellite, Gorgug's van = both related. Obviously. ] If we don't use it for finding people, maybe we can do something else with it. Start a-- network?

[reincarnesiac]

An emergency network would be great. I'm not going to bother being worried that Aurora's network is monitoring us, that's... kind of normal back home. But having our own dark network for emergency purposes? Seems important. We don't want to be going in blind if anything incapacitates Aurora out of nowhere.

( She says all of this while musing out loud and tapping her chin. She is not even wondering how the van's involved. Maybe Gorgug monitors everything from a van. They do that in media all the time! )

[tinflower]

[ Gorgug nods, since it makes sense. The work would be a lot, on top of his other projects. If Riz was here...

It's a thought that makes him sad for a moment, but let's keep that inside. ]

I'll see if anyone can help. I know some stuff from making a cell tower, but I, I had help. And some of my friends have disappeared that would've helped. [ Unfortunately... Still, he nods again with some space for thought. ]

If we want it to be really good, we should order some parts. And, maybe... we can keep anything connected to it stored outside the barrier? [ He pauses, looks at Alex with some wonder, uncertainty. ] --Do you think people will fuck with a network?

[reincarnesiac]

I don't know. Why would they bother? Do people get that kind of bored in here?

( Alex frowns, trying to decide one way or the other. )

I'm fine ordering parts and the rest. Keeping stuff outside is also fine, as long as we can get to it again, or the stuff outside doesn't uh... Corrode it all?

[tinflower]

[ Gorgug considers the measures they could take, but the more that he thinks about it, the efforts it would take... ]

...somewhere inside would be easier, [ he reasons, not actually about that life of Making Things Hard. Not unless they really need to be. ] Some people are weird here, but you're always going to have weird people around. You just have to... Aurora said that if she knows about a network, she has to get inside it, so. I don't know what that would do, or if we want to keep it separate from her. But you can't let her know if you want her out of it.

[ So, that's one thing they should probably think about. ]